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Brown Bag Biography Series
Colloquium & Reading
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Fall Celebration of Writers
Joseph
Keene Chadwick
Lecture Series
Marjorie
Putnam Sinclair Edel Reading Series
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Archive of Colloquia
and Readings from past semesters
Fall 2007
Sep 6: Panel: Carmen Nolte, Kristine
Kotecki, Phillip Drake, and Cheryl Naruse (English, UHM); “Identities
in Transition: Interrogating Self/Other Binaries in Popular
Culture”
Sep 12: Evening Reading:
Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, Distinguished Writer in Residence.Co-sponsored
by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and Department of Theatre and Dance
(contact: Mark Heberle) HIG Auditorium, 7:00
pm
Sep 14: Talk: Simon Edwards (Roehampton University) “The Balkanisation
of British Poetry 1950 -1980” ;
(contact: Allison Yap, Study Abroad Adviser)
KUY 410, 1:30 pm
Sep
20: Group Reading: "Undrawn Lines: An Anthology of Fiction" (edited
by Amber Mui Fah Stierli, Monkeypod Ink 2006) with Tamara Pavich, Chris Kelsey,
Michael Tsai, Brenda Kivon, Norm Winter, Feng Hutchins, and Allen Izen.
(contact: Jennifer En Ya Yee)
Oct 3-5: Fall Festival of Writers: WRITE HARD, PLAY
HARD:
Playwriting Across the Pacific; featuring playwriting and the following playwrights:
Alani Apio, Lee Cataluna, Briar Grace-Smith, Vicky Kneubuhl, Darrell
Lum, Edward Sakamoto, Albert Wendt and Y. York.
Oct 9: Reading by Sarona Aiono-Iosefa,
2007 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer, Center
for Pacific Islands Studies: “Shedding Some Light on
the Pou¯liu¯li” ;
Co-sponsored with UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies and Samoan Language
and Culture Program
Oct 15: Talk and discussion on scholarly
publishing by William Germano, Dean and Professor of English
at Cooper Union and former editor-in-chief of Columbia UP
and publishing director at Routledge.
Co-sponsored with UHM Faculty Mentoring and Preparing Future Faculty Programs
(contact: Mark Heberle)
Oct 22: Panel/Talk: Sukrita Paul Kumar
(Zakir Husain College, U of Delhi) author of Narrating
Partition and guest editor of Crossing Over,
the summer 2007 issue of Manoa: “Partition and After:
A Lecture and Discussion.” (Co-sponsored with Manoa
journal and CSAS)
KUY 410 3:00pm
(contact: Frank Stewart, S. Shankar)
Oct 25: Reading: Hershman John, Navaho
poet, and author of I Swallow Turqoise for Courage; (contact: Gary Pak)
Nov 8: Young Poets and Albert Wendt Read: "Lift
the Hale II" Reading. Followed by Graduate Reception
(contact: Mark Heberle, Paul
Lyons)
Nov 15: Talk: Asha Sen (English, U of Wisconsin at Eau
Claire);“Feminist Ethnographies of Desire and Resistance
in Lalithambika Antherjanam’s ‘The
Goddess of Revenge’ and Ismat Chugtai’s ‘Lihaaf.’” Co-sponsored
with CSAS (contact: S. Shankar)
Nov 29: Morgan Cooper (M. A. Candidate in English, UHM);"Palestine, Apartheid, and Ethnic Cleansing: Re-framing Israel's "Security
Fence" and Palestine's "Apartheid Wall." (contact: Mark Heberle).
Spring 2007
January 22-23:
Translation: Theory, Practice, Trope, An International Symposium at the University
of Hawaii at Manoa Symposium
Poster (pdf file)
--January
22 - Reading in Other Words: A Literary Event
7.30-9.00 Center for Korean Studies Auditorium, UHM
Hosam Aboul-Ela, Yunte Huang, Kamaoli Kuwada, Noelani Losch,
Puakea Nogelmeier, Susan Schultz, S. Shankar, Reina Whaitiri
and others read literature in translation
--January 23 - Roundtable: Translation: Theory, Practice,
Trope 7.30-9.00Art Auditorium, UHM;
Opening Remarks by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,
Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Hosam Aboul-Ela,
Noelani Arista, Yunte Huang
--March 8 Evening Reading: R. Zamora Linmark, Distinguished
Writer in Residence HIG Auditorium, 7:00
--March 22 "Queer Regions: Locating Lesbians in Ligy
Pullapally's The Journey."March 8 Evening Reading:
R. Zamora Linmark, Distinguished Writer in Residence
HIG Auditorium, 7:00
--March 23 March 23 (F) Seminar: Gayatri Gopinath, PhD, Women
and Gener Studies, UC- Davis, KUY 410, 1:30-3:00. (readings
available in the Department office the week before)
--April 5 A Reading By Oscar Kightley, Organized by the Center
for Pacific Islands Studies, co-sponsored by the Department
of English. JAB 3121/3125, 3 pm. (contact person: Tisha
Hickson)
--April 12 ““Pagtatagpo. Filipino Writers Summit” Symposium
organized by the Center for Philippine Studies with the
participation of R. Zamora Linmark, Distinguished Writer
in Residence, English Department. Queen Lili‘uokalanai
Student Service Center 142, 2:00-5:00.
--April 12-14 Roots and Branches: South Asian Articulations
of Longing and Belonging.” Symposium sponsored
by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored
by
the Department of English.
--April 24 “Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize
for Reproductive Justice” Organized by Women’s
Studies. Co-sponsored by Dr. Jael Silliman, Program
Officer for Women's Rights and Gender Equity in the
Human Rights
Unit, Peace and Social Justice Program, Ford Foundation,
NYC. KUY 410, 1:30-2:30, followed by a reception and
opportunity for students to meet with Silliman.
--April 26 Reading: Sage U‘ilani Takehiro (UHM) and Ann
Inoshita (UHM) “go off on Culture and Politics
in their first poetry books.”
--April 30 Tinfish reading: Linh Dinh, author of All Around
What Empties Out and Naomi Long, author of Radiant Field.
Korean Studies Center, 7 pm
Fall 2006
--Colloquium: Jill
Dahlman, “Captain America through the Wars:
A Difference in Perspective”
--
Evening
Reading with Anne Kennedy, Distinguished Writer in
Residence in the English Department for Fall 2006;
author of The Time of the Giants
-- Colloquium: Simon Edwards (Roehampton
University, London) “Dickens and Hyper-realism”
-- Colloquium: Mark
Panek (UH-Hilo), “The Biography of a Biography:
From English 675U to Gaijin Yokozuna”
-- Colloquium: Reina
Whaitiri (UHM), “‘The Power and the Beauty’--The
State of Maori literature in Aotearoa Today”
--Varua
Tupu Tahitian Writers (see separate publicity for detailed
schedule
of events and co-sponsorships)
--
Readings
from Varua Tupu (Manoa summer 2006), first volume of English
translations of contemporary indigenous writers of French Polynesia
-- Colloquium: Gary
Pak (UHM), “Researching My Novel in Korea”
-- Samoan-Palagi
playwright Victor Rodger, from Aotearoa New
Zealand, 2006 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer-in-Residence
at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies
-- Colloquium: Pat
Matsueda (UHM), “Computers and Editing”
-- Panel: Jolivette
Mecenas, Ryan Omizo, and Gina Szabady (UHM), “Inventing
the Public Sphere: Negotiating Identities, Ideologies, and
Ethics in New Media Rhetorics”
-- “Young
Poets with Albert Wendt Lift the Hale: A Poetry Reading” Kuykendall
Auditorium, 3:00–4:30 pm
-- Evening
Reading in the Marjorie Putnam Sinclair Edel Reading Series:
poet Juliana Spahr (Mills College)
-- Colloquium: Carmen
Wickramagamage (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka), “Bearing
Children, Bearing Arms, Bearing Witness: Re-thinking (Women’s)
Rights in a Time of War in Contemporary Sri Lanka”
--Reading: Chris
Kelsey (UHM) |
Spring 2006
--Distinguished Chadwick Lecture: Jonathan Goldberg (Johns
Hopkins U); "Homoeroticism
in Literary History: Some Early Modern Couples”
--Chadwick Seminar: Michael Moon (Johns Hopkins U); “ Insides Out: Contexts
for Darger”
--Panel: A Public Discussion With Patricia Grace, “Indigenizing the Novel
in Aotearoa: The Role of Culture and Identity” (UHM Kuykendall Auditorium
3:00-4:30)
--Co-sponsorship: Aurelio S. Agcaoili, “Kallautang as Ilokano Poetics of
Exile and the Exile of Ilokano Poetics” (Korean Studies Auditorium, 12
noon)
--Kathy Phillips (UHM): “The Naked and the Damned: Dante to Abu Ghraib”
--Co-sponsorship: Aurelio S. Agcaoili, “Redemption: An Ilokano Novel in
English” (Korean
Studies Auditorium, 12 noon)
--Peter Britos (UHM), “Multimedia Scholarship and Interactive Narrative”
--Lynn Z. Bloom (U of Connecticut-Storrs): “The Ethics of Writing Autobiography”
--Bed Prasad Paudyal (UHM): “Jangbahadur, Imperial Fantasy, and Performance”
--Jeff Carroll (UHM): “When Jimi Met Eric: Race, Music, and a Myth about
Love”
--Inaugural Reading of the Marjorie Putnam Sinclair Edel Reading Series: W. S.
Merwin (HIG Auditorium 7:00)
--Purnima Bose (Indiana U): “Organizing and the Ideologies of Individualism” (supported
by the Center for South Asian Studies)
--CSAS Symposium on South Asian Diasporas. Literary Evening: Vijay Seshadri (New-York
based poet) and Mohit Prasad (Fiji); time and place tba (contact: S. Shankar)
Fall 2005
--Roy Kamada, Ph.D., University of California-Davis, “Shards of an Ancient
Pastoral": Hawaiian Landscape,
Mimicry, and Postcolonial Romanticism in Garrett Hongo's Volcano
--Jennifer Burris (University of Cambridge, King's College, Department of Medieval
and Modern Languages), "Echoes of Amnesia: Representations of a Colonized
Africa in Contemporary Italian Visual
Culture"
-- Cindy Ward (UHM) "Minding Realities: Geometries of Cultural Cognition"
--Lecture: Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar N. Katherine Hayles, "The Future
of Literature"
--David Baker (UHM), History of Consumption in Early Modern Britain
--English Department Seventh Fall Festival of Writers: Readings by Wayne Karlin,
Andrew Lam, and Tim O'Brien
-- Tim O'Brien: "The Things They Carried: An Author's Perspective"
--Paul Lyons (UHM) Toward a Revolutionary Travel Writing
-- Michael Neill (UA/NZ), "Othello and Race: Stage, Study, and Classroom"
Spring 2005
--The DVD Revolution in Film. Mark
Parker (University of Virginia).
--Reading: Cathy Bao Bean, author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle, A Memoir
and Manual. Co-sponsored with Women's Studies and the Center for Chinese Studies
--
Lecture and Reading: "Aching for Beauty, " Wang Ping, author of The
Magic Whip. Co-sponsored with Women's Studies and the Center for Chinese Studies
--John Rieder (University of Hawaii), "Colonialism and the Emergence of
Science Fiction"
-- Workshop: Craig Howes (University of Hawaii) with Warren Nishimoto (UH Center
for Oral History) and Bill Dendle (UH Committee on Human Studies), "Oral
History: Methods and History"
--Joseph Keene Chadwick Memorial Lecture: "Depression as Public Feeling" by
Ann Cvetkovich (Univ. ofTexas)
--Reading: Lee Cataluna, author of Folks You Meet in Longs. Co-sponsored
with
Bamboo Ridge Press.
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Reading: Tammy Pavich (G.A. and Ph.D. Candidate in English, UHM), "Half
a Heart: Midwest Stories"
--Benilda Santos (Ateneo University, Manila), "Feminist Writings from the
Philippines". Co-sponsored with Filipino and Philippine Literature Program.
-- Theo Garneau, (G.A. and Ph.D. Candidate in English,
UHM), "Orchestrating the Beyond: Philosophical and Literary
Sketches on
the Representation of Music in Utopian Texts"
-- Reading: Samantha Cosentino, Jenny Nakagawa, Nani Ross, Heidi
Sakuma, (M.A. Students
in English, UHM, "Memory, Trauma, and Women: Approaches to Autobiography"
-- Colin Danby (University of Washington), "Is House to
Market as Primitive
Is to Modern?"
Fall
2004
--September 4
(Saturday) When He Became She: Kuan Yin and Gender,
Kathy Phillips (UHM); co-sponsored with Hawai'i Council
for the Humanities. Kapiolani Community College, Ohia Building 118, 2 pm
--September 16
(Tuesday) Joseph K. Chadwick Lecture: Queer Forgetting,
by Judith Halberstam (USC) Queer
Forgetting Poster. Hawai'i
Institute of Geophysics Auditorium 110, 7pm
--September 17
(Friday) Seminar with Judith Halberstam (USC) Kuykendall
410, 1:30 - 3:00 pm
--September 23
(Thursday) Reading: Anne Kennedy, winner of the 2004 Montana
Book Award in New Zealand for her book of poetry, Sing-Song Kuykendall
410
--September 27 (Monday) Scholarly
Publishing at This Moment: A Survival Guide, by William
Germano; co-sponsored
by the Office of
Faculty Development and Academic Support, and the Office
of Research Relations
-- September 28 ( Tuesday) Bringing
Stories to Life on the Screen: Sima Urale Talks about Her Work,
by Sima Urale, Writer in Residence
with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies. Co-sponsored
with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies Hawai'i Institute
for Geophysics Auditorium, 7:00 pm.
--September 30 (Thursday) Working
NIghts in Waikiki: A Reading and Discussion of Literary Motion
Graphics, by John Zuern (UHM)
--October 11 (Monday) Special Lecture.
Rhetorical Agendas: Composition and Rhetoric in the 21st
Century, by Patricia Bizzell (Holy
Cross)
--October 14
(Thursday) Reading: Dan Taulapapa McMullin, writer, filmmaker
and painter
--October 20 (Wednesday) Evening Reading:
Nora Okja Keller, Distinguished Visiting Writer with the
Department of English (UHM), author
of Comfort Woman and Fox Girl Kuykendall 410, 7:00 pm
--October 21
(Thursday) This Islands' Mine: The Politics of Caliban's
Cacophony, by Jodi Byrd (UHM); co-sponsored with the Department
of Political Science
--October 22 (Friday) Reading from
Eat Everything Before You Die: A Chinaman in the Counterculture
with Jeffery Paul Chan (San
Francisco State U), co-sponsored with Bamboo Ridge Press
--October 28 (Thursday) Shakespear's
Dryden, by Robert McHenry (UHM)
--November 4 (Thursday) White Face,
Black Noise: Miles Davis and the Soundtrack, with Krin
Gabbard (SUNY-Stony Brook) (contact:
Glenn Man)
--November 8
( Monday)Fall Festival of Writers:
Islands of Globalization: Keynote Address by George Lamming
(via video), Albert Wendt, & Michelle Cliff,
Program 7pm, Reception at 6pm,
Keoni Auditorium, Imin Conference Center, East-West Center
(Contact for Fall Festival series: Robert Sullivan) Islands
of Globalization Poster
--November 9
(Tuesday)
Fall Festival of Writers:
Reading: by Jully Makini, Rodney Morales, & Albert Wendt
--November 9
(Tuesday) Fall Festival of Writers
Distinguished Lecture Series: Affirming Polynesia by Witi Ihimaera Keoni Auditorium,
Imin Conference Center, East-West Center - 7pm, Reception at 6pm
--November 10 (Wednesday) Fall
Festival of Writers
Book signing by all the festival authors, UH Bookstore,
Manoa Campus Center, 11.30-12.30am
--November 10 (Wednesday) Fall
Festival of Writers
Panel: Sources of the Imagination with Michele Cliff, Nalo Hopkinson, Jully
Makini, Noenoe Silva, Kuykendall Auditorium, 1 - 2:30pm
--November 10
(Wednesday) Discussion: Literatures of
Oceania and the Caribbean: a Retrospective with Albert Wendt
and George Lamming Kuykendall Auditorium,
3 - 4:30pm
--November 10
(Wednesday) Evening Reading: Michelle
Cliff, Nalo Hopkinson, Witi Ihimaera, Art Auditorium, 7:00
pm (Reception at 5:00 pm)
--November 12
(Friday) Fall Festival of Writers
Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar: Remapping the Heart - by Witi Ihimaera, Keoni
Auditorium, Imin Conference Center, East-West Center -
10:30am
--November 12 (Friday) Islands
of Globalization Film Series: "Flying Fox
in a Freedom Tree" — Pre-talk by Albert Wendt, Keoni
Auditorium, Imin Conference Center, East-West Center -
12.00pm
--November 12
(Friday) Post-Festival highlight: Screening
of "Whale Rider" — pre-talk by Witi Ihimaera
Spring 2004
-- Daphne Lamothe (Rutgers U), “Staging
Afro-Caribbean Contexts: The Dance/Anthropology of Katherine Dunham”;
co-sponsored with American Studies, Anthropology, Ethnic Studies, History,
International Cultural Studies, and Women’s Studies.
--Panel: “Publishing a Manuscript” Benjamin Bess, Bess
Press; Masako Ikeda, UH Press; Robert Barclay, author.
--Steve Heller (Antioch U-Los Angeles), “The Changing
Nature of MFA Programs”.
--Panel: “Preventing and Dealing
with Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom” Lori
Ideta, Assistant Dean of Students; Captain Dawson, Campus
Security; Laura Lyons, Associate Chair.
--Murray Edmond, New Zealand poet and
co-editor of the anthology Big Smoke: Reading
--Tia Ballantine-Berger(UHM) and Clint
Frakes (UHM): Poetry Reading
--Monica Ghosh (UHM), “What’s
Eaten You?: Transposing Colonial Anxieties on Tigers.”
--Jane Rawlings, author of The Penelopeia,
a novel in verse; co-sponsored with LLEA
--Morgan Blair (UHM)author of Mixed
Plate: Evening Reading, .
--Ku‘ualoha Ho‘omanawanui (UHM),"He
Lei Ho'oheno no Na Kau a Kau: Performance and Form in
Contemporary Hawaiian Poetry".
--Alice Te Punga Somerville (Cornell
U), “Once Were Pacific: Reading Maori Texts as
Oceanic Literature.”
--Georganne Nordstrom (UHM), title tba.
--Sarah Pardes, Tammy Pavich, and Ian
MacMillan (UHM), Robert Sullivan (UHM),
Fiction Reading: “The English Moko.”
--Deborah Meadows (Cal State Pomona)
poet: Reading
--Barbara Ehrenreich, writer-activist,
political essayist, and social critic, author of Fear
of Falling, Blood Rites, Nickel and
Dimed, among other works. Seminar: "Growing
Inequity and Poverty in the United States and its Causes". Co-sponsored
by the Distinguished Lecture Series, Women's Studies
Program and the Department of Political Science
--David Leiwei Pi, editor of Globalization
and the Humanities: Field Imaginaries, Virtual Worlds,
and Emergent Sensibilities.
Fall 2003
-- Darin Payne: "English Studies
in Suburbia: Assimilation and the Rhetoric of Virtual Space"
--William J. Ridder (Galaxy Press author) will present information about
the "Writers of the Future" contest and scholarship as well as tips
for students writing speculative fiction. Steve Bein, from the UH Philosophy
Department, is a 2003 winner of the contest and will participate in the event.
--Joy Harjo and Robert Sullivan: Evening
Reading (co-sponsored by the Center for Pacific Islands
Studies)
--Paul Lyons: "A Poetics of Relation: Friendships between Pacific
Islanders and Euroamericans in Pre-Clonial Literature"
--Robin Hemley Evening Reading, co-sponsored by HLAC
--Barry Menikoff: "From the Baroque
to the Plain Style; or, How I Lost Henry James and
Found Robert Louis Stevenson"
--Ruth Hsu: "The Concept of
Hybridity and Asian American Cultural Studies"
--Evening Reading:At Home the Green Remains
- Caribbean Writing in Honor of John Figueroa,
a group reading introduced by Esther Figueroa ,
editor of the collection
--Poet Susan Ludwigson and Fiction Writer Scott Ely: Reading(Winthrop
University of South Carolina)
--Irish poet Leland Bardwell will read from her work
and give a presentation about Irish Poetry
--Lee Tonouchi, Reading: "Anykine Identity"
--Fifth Annual Fall Celebration of
Writers - "Visions of (Dis)location: Native, Immigrant,
Settler" .....
Discussion Panel 1: "Who Owns the Past?" Moderator
- Gary Pak, Principal Humanities Scholar. Panelists -
Joy Harjo, Victoria Kneubuhl, and Kathleen Tyau
Discussion Panel 2: "The Stories 'They' Tell About 'Us'" Moderator
- Rodney Morales, Humanities Scholar. Panelists - Tammy Baker,
Lee Cataluna, Martin Espada, and Haunani Kay Trask
Evening Reading by Fall Celebration guest writers Martin Espada, Joy
Harjo, Haunani Kay Trask, and Kathleen Tyau
--Poesie Cinematique by the LitWits Literary Society Showing and Discussion
--Rosaly Roffman (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) talks about the Three
Penny Paper, the first UH student-run literary magazine (co-sponsored
by the UHM Hamilton Library)
Spring
2003
--Christina
Bacchilega, "Out of Place Stories: Emma Nakuina
and the Legendary Imaging of Hawai'i" (co-sponsored
with the Women's Studies Department)
--Ritu Birla"Cultural Politics of
Political Economy in Colonial India"(co-sponsored
with the Center for South Asian Studies)
--Gary Pak, "Ko-Yon Jang: A Glimpse
at Student Life at Korea University"
--Steve Tanaka, "Showtime's
Queer Duck Episode #10-Klu"
--Mark von Hagen, "Borderlands,
Diasporas, Empires: The Place of Russia in Global
and World History"
--Anne Goldman, "Beyond the
Schomburg: The Recovery of 19th Century Mexican
American Narrative"
--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,
Visiting Citizens' Chair, "The Humanities in the 21st Century" (co-sponsored
with the Center for South Asian Studies)
--Gayle Sato, "Mourning
Manzanar: The Politics and Psychology of Cultural
Identity
in Japanese American Literature"
--Tim Brennan, "Imperial Jazz" (co-sponsored
with the Department of Political Science, CSAS,
and the Cultural Studies Certificate Program)
--Matthew Branton, "The New
Puritans"
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