Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies. For more information, see links at bottom, or click on the images at right. Aloha friends and colleagues,  Please join us for films and seminars during the final weeks of the semester:  Thursday 4/19  – Pacific Film Series presents   Shiro’s Head   (Guam) 2008 6:30 pm   Tokioka Room, Moore 319 cosponsored by the Pacific Islands Development Program and Pan Pacific Association  Tuesday 4/24 – Marata Tamaira, PhD candidate Australian National University (CPIS MA, 2009), “Visual Sovereignty and Indigenous Countervisuality: Picturing Contemporary Kanaka Maoli Art Practice in Hawai‘i”,   12:00 pm  John Burns Hall room 3121/3125, East-West Center cosponsored by the Pacific Islands Development Program  Wednesday 4/25 – Semir Al Wardi (University of French Polynesia), “Democracy in French Polynesia”  12:00 pm John Burns Ha...

The below is quoted directly from a release circulated by the UH-Manoa Department of English: Announcing the Amos P. and Edna Lee Leib Fellowship for Graduate Study of  Literatures of the Pacific Application Deadline: April 23, 2012 Notification of Award: April 27, 2012 For the next four years, the Amos P. and Edna Lee Leib Memorial Fellowship  for the Graduate Study of Literatures of the Pacific will support one  graduate student  each year pursuing the study of literatures of the Pacific  (defined as Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian) at the graduate-level  through the English Department, the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and  Literatures, or in any graduate program at UHM. Pacific literatures must be  the primary focus of the applicant's studies and special consideration will  be given to those students whose career goals include the teaching and  dissemination of Pacific literary texts within the regions listed above....

The Marshallese poet and writer Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner was featured on ABC Radio Australia yesterday, in an interview timed to World Poetry Day. The interview (which includes Kathy reading from her work), is archived here. Kathy also maintains Iep Jaltok , a blog that includes her poetry and other writings.

The UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies has announced that its Master's Program has been accepted into the Western Regional Graduate Program. This means that students from 15 states in the western U.S. are eligible to pay in-state tuition when enrolling in the Master's degree program. Eligible states include Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. For more information, click here or visit the Center's Facebook page .

Manulani Aluli Meyer will make a presentation on Tuesday, March 20, on the topic of "redefining wealth and community from native perspectives" at the Richards Street YWCA. For more information, click on the poster at right.

The below is quoted directly from an email message circulated by the UH-M Center for Pacific Islands Studies: Aloha friends and colleagues,  Tomorrow, Wednesday March 14 , Fa'anofo Uperesa, Ethnic Studies UHM, presents “Attenuated Sovereignties and Possible Futures: The Case of American Samoa” as part of the ICSCP Spring Speakers Series at 12:00 – 1:15 pm, John Burns Hall 2118, East-West Center. Abstract: Will American Samoans remain U.S.Nationals or opt for U.S. Citizenship?    Would the full application of the U.S. Constitution destroy the communal land system and the indigenous hierarchy of chiefs (matai)?    What is the relative balance of power between the local and the federal governments?    Although the relationship between the islands and the United States remains unresolved and contradictory in the minds of many, current challenges aim to push the ‘unincorporated, unorganized’ territory of the U.S. to resolve the status question.  ...

The below announcement regards a talk about a soon-to-be available manuscript collection in our Hawaiian Collection: the archives of Hawai'i Catholic Women's Guild. "Preserving Local Historical Sources: How it Happens and Why it Needs to Be Done" The Catholic Women’s Guild, Archives Preservation and Access Project Palama Settlement, Dining Room 810 N. Vineyard Blvd. March 3, 2012 11:00 AM Moderator: Dr. Albert W. H. Lum, Professor Emeritus (English), Chaminade University; Curator, Brother Bertram’s Photographs, 1883–1905 Speakers: Sr. William Marie Eleniki, OSF, Chief Administrator, St. Francis Healthcare Foundation of Hawaiʻi Paula Rath, Journalist and Palama Settlement Trustee; and Jacqueline Rath, Archivist, Palama Settlement Archives Ellen Chapman, Archivist, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Dr. Janine Richardson, Historian; Project Director, Catholic Women’s Guild Preservation Project