Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

The UH-Manoa Center for Biographical Research has released its fall Brown Bag Biography Series schedule: Brown Bag Biography Series Fall 2014 — Thursdays,   Noon – 1:15 Center for Biographical Research • 1800 East West Road, Henke Hall 325 (unless otherwise noted) August 28: “ I, Too, Am Harvard : Storytelling as Art, Community, Resistance” Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, Activist and Playwright, Harvard University • Please note: this session will be held in Kuykendall 410 • September 4: “Oliver’s Travels: The Making of a Chinese-American Radical” Oliver Lee, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa September 11: “Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History” John P. Rosa, Department of History, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa • Please note: this session will be held in Kuykendall 410  • September 25: “Joseph Moku‘ōhai Poepoe’s Engagements with Language and Law” Noenoe Silva, Indigenous Politics, University of...

The below is reproduced from an email circulated by the Na Pua Noeau Ke Ola Mau Scholars Program: The Na Pua Noeau Ke Ola Mau Scholars Program is now accepting applications for the Fall 2014 semester. The Scholars Program supports Native Hawaiian students attending either the University of Hawaii at Hilo or the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who are currently majoring in or intend to major in a healthcare field. Eligible students may receive stipends to assist with community service or internships and/or research projects in respective healthcare fields. The Fall 2014 application is now available and can be downloaded from the Na Pua Noeau website at   npn.uhh.hawaii.edu . The deadline for the Fall 2014 semester is   Friday, August 29, 2014 . For more information, contact Kehau Bishaw-UH Manoa Program Coordinator at bishawbh@hawaii.edu ,   (808) 956-9410 , or Rachel Hualani Loo-UH Hilo Site Coordinator at   loorache@hawaii.edu ,   (808) 932-7759 .

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 UH-Manoa Library's Desktop Networking Services department recently completed an online collection of images documenting sixty-two types of Hawaiian kalo found at the Lyon Arboretum. The images were collected by Lisa Schattenburg-Raymond in 1983, and are part of a collection of material known as A Pictorial Illustration of Hawaiian Kalo Varieties at Lyon Arboretum with descriptions from Taro Varieties in Hawaii . The original collection is part of the Hawaiian Collection's rare holdings, and so this online version will greatly aid access for interested researchers. For each of the 62 varieties depicted, there are images of the entire plant, the leaf blade and the petiole. Powerpoint presentations that group together various of the varieties are also available in the online collection, as are supporting documentation. To view the online collection, go to: http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.e du/kalo/index.php

Beginning Sunday, May 18, the Library will be upgrading its Voyager online catalog. This upgrade is expected to take several days, though an exact finish date is not yet available. While Hawaiian and Pacific Collection users will still be able to search the Voyager catalog as normal, they will not be able to submit online paging requests for materials. Instead, they will need to fill out a manual paging form for any materials housed in our closed stacks. We apologize in advance for the inconvenience.

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”...

The Below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-M Center for Pacific Islands Studies: The Renee Heyum award is a partial tuition scholarship for Pacific Islanders awarded every spring for the following academic year through the STAR scholarship database application system:   https://www.star.hawaii.edu: 10012/Scholarship_live/login. jsp    While most of the scholarships on STAR have a deadline of Feb. 14 th , the Heyum award’s deadline is  midnight, March 7 th . If you login to the database above and search for HEYUM you’ll find the description of the award. If you click “apply” in the top right hand corner you will see what I have attached here as a PDF. The application requires a couple of PDF documents to be uploaded to the application site, including a 3 page statement (details on the attachment), and scanned unofficial transcripts (STAR transcripts are ok). You will also need the names and email addresses of three people who can write refe...