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THE HAWAIIAN & PACIFIC COLLECTIONS, THE UH-MANOA CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES AND THE UH-MANOA CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES PRESENT: Opeta Alefaio Director of the National Archives of Fiji Girmitya Records at the National Archives of Fiji As part of the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections Occasional Lecture Series, Mr. Opeta Alefaio , Director of the National Archives of Fiji, will discuss histories of migration and diaspora that can be discovered through records held in his institution. These multi-strand histories in turn tell a larger, ongoing story about the evolving Pacific. When: Friday, October 20, 2017. 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Where: UH-Manoa Hamilton Library Room 301 About the presenter: A Pacific islander of Tuvaluan (Nukufetau & Vaitupu) and Fijian (Rewa & Cakaudrove) descent, Opeta Alefaio read History, Politics, and Journalism at the University of the South Pacific, before spending two years at Monash University in Melbo...

Volume 28, no. 2 of  The Contemporary Pacific   is now available in open-access format at:   https://scholarspace.manoa. hawaii.edu/handle/10125/2828   The Contemporary Pacific,   which is co-published by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the University of Hawai'i Press,   is the world's foremost journal of interdisciplinary scholarship relating to Oceania. Back issues, from Volume 1. number 1 (1989) through one year prior to the present are freely available via Scholarspace, the UH-M Library's digital repository. Current issues are available to UH-M students, faculty and staff via   Project Muse  (which houses issues from the year 2000 through the present).

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-M Center for Pacific Islands Studies. Aloha kākou! Hereʻs some of the exciting events/activities happening around campus this week! Please see the attached fliers for more details. Date & Time   Center For Pacific Islands Studies Outreach Events October 27-November 2 Location   Tuesday, October 28 9am-11am All Blacks Workshop New Zealand All Blacks UHM Ka Papa Loʻi ʻO Kānewai Tuesday, October 28 3pm-4:15pm Department of Ethnic Studies Research Event Dr. Karen Suyemoto UHM George Hall 301 Tuesday , October 28 3pm-4pm Binding & Looping: Gallery walk-through With artists Noelle Kahanu & Moana Nepia UHM BusAd D106   Tuesday , October 28 4pm-4:30pm Screening: Ed Wendt: “The Great Heart of Waiokāne” UHM Art Auditorium Tuesday, October 28 5pm-7pm Screening: “E Haku lnoa: To Weave a Name” Q & A to follow UHM ...

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies: We are pleased to announce the Norman Meller Research Award competition for 201 ​4​ . If you or other faculty in your department have Pacific-focused students who completed MAs during the 201 ​3​ -201 ​4​   academic year, we hope you will pass the following announcement on to them. If you have any questions, please contact Terence Wesley-Smith at twsmith[at]hawaii.edu.   NORMAN   MELLER   RESEARCH   AWARD The Norman   Meller   Research   Award   o f $250.00 is given annually to the best MA research paper produced at the University of Hawai'i in the social sciences or humanities and focused on the Pacific Islands. Plan A theses, Plan B papers, or MA portfolios are eligible. Submissions may be made by students or by nominations from the faculty, and are not limited to students in the MA program in Pacific Islands S...

The below is excerpted from an email circulated by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies: Aloha kākou,  Please join us for these events: Three events Tuesday, 2/11   1:30-2:45   Talk story with Dr. Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen, (see bio below) in Hale Pasifika (Henke Hall 308) ​ 3:00-4:15pm   ​ “The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation: From Territorial Subject to American Citizen.”   ​by ​ Dr. Judith Schachter ​ ​ in George Hall 301 Judith Schacter is Professor of Anthropology and History, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has been doing fieldwork in Hawai`i for over two decades, and the material has been published in chapters and essays as well as in her recent book, The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation: From Territorial Subject to American Citizen (Berghahn 2013). Recent publications include:  “Sovereignty, Indigeneity, Identities: Perspectives from Hawai `i”...