Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

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to  over 1,300 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, feature films and previously unpublished fieldwork.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, who recentl

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                                                           Petrice Flowers , UHM Associate Prof., Political Science          Entertainers and Trainees:  Race, Gender, and Visa Status in Human Trafficking to Japan Julie Walsh , UHM Curriculum Specialist, C