Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

Volume 48 (2014) of the Hawaiian Journal of History is now available online via eVols , the UH-M Library digital repository devoted to materials produced outside of the UH System. (The Library also maintains a separate digital repository, Scholarspace, for materials produced within the UH system.) Back issues through Volume 1 (1967) are also available in eVols, along with indexes. The Hawaiian Journal of History is also indexed in the Hawaii-Pacific Journal Index . More information on the HJH can be found on its website .

Yosihiko Sinoto: A Life of Research at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Thursday, May 7, 7:30pm Hale ʻŌhia Kapiʻolani Community College A Hawaiian Historical Society event in support of the upcoming publication, Curve of the Hook: An Archaeologist in Polynesia.

The Hawaiian & Pacific Collections will host a walk-through and talk story with Joy Enomoto this Wednesday, 3/18, from 3-4 p.m. in the H&P reading room. Nautilus the Protector , a series of woodblock prints by Enomoto, is currently on exhibit in the H&P reading room. For more information, please click on the image at right.

The Hawaiian & Pacific Collections are currently exhibiting a sculpture titled "snitch," by Aotearoa-based artist Brett Graham. The sculpture is on loan from the UH Art Gallery, which provided the below description: Brett   Graham   (Aotearoa/New Zealand)  snitch, 2014 foam, tar, feathers Different manifestations of binding can involve alienation, appropriation and misappropriation that may result in an integration of sorts. But even when relevant facts are known, integration with a partial or total disconnect can also occur. As a character, Stitch has an alien origin—that is, alien to Earth. The creators of the animation film  Lilo and Stitch originally intended the narrative to be set in Kansas. But the plot was shifted to Hawai‘i where a Hawaiian family adopts Stitch. The family was portrayed as dysfunctional and impoverished by a failing American economy. The long-standing reasons for these conditions—the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, col...

The Hawaiian & Pacific Collections are proud to exhibit Nautilus the Protector , a collection of woodcut prints by Joy Enomoto. The series will be only display through mid-April. Joy's artist statement is below. Joy Enomoto is a UH Mānoa BFA alumni whose work is concerned with decolonizing geography, plantation genealogies and the salt water conversations that occur within the space of the diaspora. She explores the idea of creating and holding onto our own cartographies in a world of rising sea levels and the ongoing destruction of the seabed and ancestral homelands. The Nautilus the Protector series is a response work to a poem by the same name, written by Lyz Soto. Nautilus Minerals Mining Company, based in Canada, has recently received a license to begin deep sea mining in the Bismarck Sea off the coast of Papua New Guinea, seeking minerals found on the seabed growing near the hydrothermal vents. To break the foundation of the earth and to threaten those creature...

The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for the Pacific Islands offers a $15,000 stipend and tuition assistance for graduate recipients as well as $5,000 for undergraduates. The deadline to apply for the 2015-2016 FLAS fellowship was recently extended to February 15, 2015. For more information, click on the flyer at right.

The University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa Library recently coordinated the purchase of a subscription to  Ethnographic Video Online , which provides faculty, staff and students throughout the UH system with online access to  over 1,300 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, feature films and previously unpublished fieldwork.  The collection includes the work of a number of UH faculty members, as well as several highly regarded Hawai'i- and Pacific-based filmmakers, including (among many others) Vilsoni Hereniko, Eddie and Myrna Kamae, Tom Coffman, Stephanie J. Castillo, Peter Rockford Espiritu, Puhipau, Wendy Arbeit. In addition to searching out specific titles, users can browse in a variety of ways, including by Cultural Group, Places Discussed, and People Discussed. The purchase of this collection was made possible in part by a generous donation from Eddie and Myrna Kamae’s Hawaiian Legacy Foundation. Special thanks also go to Kris Anderson, w...

It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Dr. George W. Grace (September 8, 1921 - January 17, 2015). Dr. Grace was a professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where he served on the faculty in the Department of Linguistics from 1964 until 1991. In 1955, while a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, Dr. Grace began work for the Tri-Institutional Pacific Project (TRIPP) — a project of Pacific anthropological research funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and administered by Yale University, the University of Hawaii, and Honolulu's Bernice P. Bishop Museum. His task was to produce a classification of the Austronesian languages of Oceania, with particular attention to the position of Polynesian languages. In 1955, after several months of library research in New York, Dr. Grace departed for Melanesia, and for the next year traveled throughout the region conducting fieldwork. In 2007, Dr. Grace donated his Melanesian field notes, photographs and ...

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Japanese Studies. For more information and a downloadable symposium flyer, click here : Please join us this   Friday, January 16   for an exciting, jointly-hosted symposium on   Human Trafficking in Asia and the Pacific .  This event will be held in the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium.  Panel Presentations will run from   1:00 – 4:35 pm , and refreshments will follow from 4:35 – 5:00 pm . Panel Presentations: Carole Petersen , UHM Prof. of Law and Director of the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution Sex Work, Migration, and the United States Trafficking In Persons Report: A Case Study of the Impact on Law and Policy in Hong Kong                                        ...