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Brown Bag Biography Series
Colloquia
Fall Celebration of Writers
Joseph
Keene Chadwick
Lecture Series
Marjorie Putnam Sinclair
Edel Reading Series
Readings
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Brown Bag Biography Series
DISCUSSIONS OF LIFE WRITING BY & FOR
TOWN & GOWN
THURSDAYS, 12:00 NOON -1:15 P.M.
Center
for Biographical Research, University of Hawai'i at Mänoa
Henke Hall 325, 1800 East-West Road 808.956.3774 * biograph@hawaii.edu
FALL SEMESTER
2005
| Sept. 15 |
'Four Boys to Rome: The Japanese Mission to
Europe in the 1580s'
Michael Cooper, historian, author, translator, and editor of Monumenta Nipponica,
19711997 |
| Sept. 22 |
'Alice A. Ball: UH¹s First African American
Chemist, Instructor, and Researcher'
Paul Wermager, Head, Science and Technology Reference Section, HamiltonLibrary, University of Hawai'i at Mänoa |
| Sept. 29 |
'The Writings of Louis Gallet: From the Salpêtrière
Hospital to the Parisian Opera Stage'
Valeria Wenderoth teaches Italian and Music at the University of Hawai'i at Mänoa |
| Oct. 6 |
'Believing the Fiction/Forgetting the Real'
Achy Obejas, novelist, poet, translator, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and
Visiting Professor of English, University of Hawai'i at Mänoa |
| Oct. 13 |
'The Kimmel and Short Controversy'
Daniel Martinez, historian and author, National Park Services, U.S. Arizona Memorial |
| Oct. 20 |
'Looking for Adam Smith'
Jerry Manis, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Western Michigan University |
| Oct. 27 |
'Truly Dually: A Musical about Chronic Homelessness
and Mental Illness'
Michael Ullman, author/playwright and social worker, former Director of Programs,
Institute for Human Services |
| Nov. 3 |
'Listening to How Early America Sounded'
Richard Cullen Rath, Assistant Professor of History, University of Hawai'i at
Mänoa |
| Nov. 10 |
'Life Writing and War': Part of the Vietnam
War in Film and Literature Conference
Jerry Lembcke, Associate Professor of Sociology, Holy Cross University |
| Nov. 17 |
'To Feel as Our Ancestors Did: Collecting
and Performing Oral Histories with Students'
Daniel Kelin, Director of Drama Education, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, and Director
of Theatre Training, Crossroads Theatre for Youth, Pago Pago, American Samoa |
| Dec. 1 |
'Biography and Autobiography: Transition from
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to Pope Benedict XVI'
Fr. John Bolin, S.M., Vicar General of the Diocese of Honolulu |
| Dec. 8 |
'On Conjuring the Ghost of Walter Kupau'
Lori Aquino, author and attorney, and former General Counsel to the Hawai'i Carpenters
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Past Brownbag Lectures
| SPRING
2003 |
Rita Beamish, freelance journlist
and former Associated Press White House, political and
foreign affairs writer. "Beyond
the Spin: Journalistic Challenges from the Beltway and Beyond" | |
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Koreen Nakahodo and Michael Fassiotto,
Chaminade University of Honolulu. "The
Marianist Biography Project: Lessons Learned"
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Harriet Gay, Author. "Paul
Gaugin: The Art of Freedom"
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| FALL
2002 |
Biography Hawai‘i: Five
Lives—Sanford Ballard Dole
Featuring Alfred L. Castle, historian and Executive Director of
the Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation; Tom Coffman, author, media producer, and recipient of
the Hawai‘i Writers Award; David Farmer, attorney, actor, and former Director, State
Foundation on Culture and the Arts; David Hanlon, historian and Director of Pacific Island
Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; and Laura Thompson, grand-daughter of Dole's hanai daughter
Lizzie Napoleon |
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Jeff Carroll, Associate
Professor of English, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Baby Please Don't Go: The Blues as Writing the Underlife
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Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, Hawai‘i
Nei, Island Plays
A Celebration of the University of Hawai‘i Press publication
of Hawai‘i Nei: Island Plays, containing The
Conversion of Ka‘ahumanu, Emmalehua, and Ola
Na Iwi. Featuring readings by the
Author, Special Guests, and the Cast of Kumu
Kahua's Fall 2002 production of The Conversion of Ka‘ahumanu.
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Paul
Schroeder, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department
of Languages and Literatures of Europe
and the Americas, University of Hawai'i at Manoa:Tomás
Gutiérrez Alea: The Life and Films of
a Cuban Revolutionary |
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Melinda Given Guttman,
Professor of Speech, Theatre, and Media Studies, John
Jay
College, City University of New York, and author of _The
Enigma of Anna
O: A Biography of Bertha Pappenheim_Meditation
on Anna O—Bertha Pappenheim
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Ruth Dawson, Professor of Womens
Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Catherine
the Gr eat and the Spectacle of Power
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Biography Hawai‘i:
Five Lives—Maiki
Aiu Lake Remembrances,
Special Guests, and Excerpts from the
Hawai'i Public Television documentary Maiki Aiu Lake
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Louis Baldovi, rifleman with the 45th
Infantry Division in Korea, and a
retired school teacher and principal.
A Foxhole View: Personal
Accounts of Hawai‘ińs Korean War Veterans. A Foxhole View
was published in September by the University of Hawai'i Press.
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Marie-Christine Garneau,
Assistant Professor of French, Department of Languages
and Literatures of Europe and the Americas, University
of Hawai'i
at Manoa Memoirs of a Tourist, or a Tourist of Memoirs
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