Upcoming Phi Alpha Theta Meeting and Book Sale - December 2014

The next Phi Alpha Theta meeting will be on Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 5:30 – 7:00 in the History Library (SAK A201). Our official Alpha Beta Epsilon t-shirts have been shipped and we should have them at this meeting. Also, we will have certificates for our new members.

Next Book Sale will be on Thursday, Dec. 4 from 8:00 am – 4:00 pm. If you can donate some time on this day, please let us know at patmanoa@hawaii.edu.

Finally, get your holiday shopping done with PAT! Aprons, Guava Jam, and Lilikoʻi Butter sales are continuing through the holiday season.

History Workshop: Prof. Nicholas Breyfogle (Ohio State University) presents on Tuesday, December 2nd

Tuesday, December 2nd we will be hosting our final fall session of the History Workshop series on "Capitalism in Crisis: Development, Sustainability, & Inequality in Global Perspective."

Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle (Associate Professor, Ohio State University), will be speaking on "Protecting the Pearl of Soviet Asia: Post-War Development, Conservation, and Lake Baikal". The talk will be at 2:30 pm, Tuesday December 2nd, in Sakamaki Hall A104.

Full details of Professor Breyfogle's talk are in the flyer below. We hope you can join us!

Talk at Iolani Palace featuring Prof. Kieko Matteson - Monday, November 24

Prof. Kieko Matteson will be delivering a talk entitled "Foundations of Mud and Iron - Environmental Legacies of the Great War", as part of an event sponsored by the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany, Honolulu and the UHM Department of Political Science:

100 Years World War One - New Insights to a Global Catastrophe
Monday, November 24
5:30 - 8:30pm
Kanaʻina Building, Iolani Palace

Please see flyer below for more details.

History Workshop: Prof. Suzanna Reiss presents on Friday, November 14th

Please join us for the History Workshop on Friday, November 14th at 2:30pm in the History Department Library, Sakamaki A201. Professor Suzanna Reiss will be presenting a talk entitled, "We Sell Drugs: The Alchemy of US Empire."

Please see flyer below for more information. We hope you can join us and please spread the word!

Mark Your Calendars! Department of History Open House - Thurs., Nov. 13

Date: Thurs., Nov. 13
Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Where: Campus Center Walkway (in front of the ATM machines)
Motto: "Food for Thought" - Free treats for students who stop by to learn more about our program!

See you there!

History Forum Talk by Prof. Alex Golub - Monday, November 17

The U.H. Mānoa History Department and the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society present:

"Melanesian Emerson: Bernard Narokobi and the Creation of Papua New Guinean Cultural Nationalism"
A Public Lecture by Prof. Alex Golub, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Monday, November 17th
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Sakamaki Hall A201
History Department Library
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Free and Open to the Public

History Workshop: Prof. Wayne Farris presents on Friday, November 7th

Please join us for the History Workshop on Friday, November 7th at 2:30pm in the History Department Library, Sakamaki A201. Professor Wayne Farris will be presenting a talk entitled, "From Medicine to Beverage to Art: Technology and Change in Tea Consumption."

Please see flyer below for more information. We hope you can join us and please spread the word!

History Forum Talk by Prof. Jon T. Davidann - Friday, October 24

The U.H. Mānoa History Department and the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society present:

“The Origins of American and East Asian Concepts of Modernity, 1860-1920”
A Public Lecture by Prof. Jon T. Davidann, Department of History, Hawaiʻi Pacific University

Friday, October 24th
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Sakamaki Hall A201
History Department Library
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Free and Open to the Public

Upcoming Phi Alpha Theta Meeting and Book Sale - October 2014

The next PAT meeting will be on Tuesday, Oct. 28th from 5:30 – 7:00 pm. in the History Library, Sakamaki A201. We will be welcoming new members with their official PAT certificates!

The next book sale will be on Thursday, Oct. 30th from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. Please stop by the Campus Center courtyard, in front of the ATM machines, for another round of great book deals.

History Workshop: Prof. Frank Zelko presents on Friday, October 17th

The Department of History welcomes:

Associate Professor Frank Zelko
University of Vermont
"The Whale’s Experience of Modernity: From Blubber and Baleen to Oceanic Guru to Ecosystem Service Provider"

Friday, October 17th
2:30-4:00 p.m.
History Department Library, Sakamaki A201

Please see flyer below for more details:

Book Launch of Prof. Reiss's We Sell Drugs - Sunday, Sept. 28 at Revolution Books

This weekend Revolution Books will be hosting a book launch for Prof. Suzanna Reiss's recent publication, We Sell Drugs: The Alchemy of US Empire. There will be a brief presentation beginning at 3 p.m., followed by Q&A and light refreshments. Please see flyer below for more details.

All are welcome!

First History Workshop of Fall 2014: Prof. James Kraft - Friday, October 3

Next Friday, October 3rd, will be the first meeting of this year's History Workshop series on "Capitalism in Crisis: Development, Sustainability, & Inequality in Global Perspective." We are very fortunate to launch this year's series with a talk by Prof. James Kraft, who will be speaking about his recent book, Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960-1985.

The talk will be at 2:30 pm, Friday October 3rd, in the History Department Library. Please see flyer below for more details.

UHM's Alpha Beta Epsilon Chapter Wins 2014 PAT Best Chapter Award!

Congratulations to UHM's Alpha Beta Epsilon Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta for winning the national 2014 Best Chapter Award (Division V)! The award comes with a cash prize of $250 to be used towards the purchase of books for the chapter's campus library.

In other PAT news, the chapter is teaming up with the Department of History to hold a "Bakes, Books, & Goodies" event on Thursday, Oct. 2 in the Sakamaki Hall Courtyard from 10 am - 2 pm. Half of all book sale proceeds that day will go towards the History Department's contribution to the Aloha United Way campaign. Please stop by for yummy goodies and great book deals!

Finally, the next PAT meeting will be on Tuesday, September 30th from 5:30 - 7:00 pm in the History Library, SAK A201.

Brown Bag Biography featuring Professor John Rosa - Thursday, Sept. 11

The Center for Biographical Research at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa presents:

Brown Bag Biography Series, Fall 2014
“Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History”
John Rosa, UHM Department of History

Thursday, September 11
12 noon - 1:15 p.m.
Kuykendall 410

Please see flyer below for more details, and a full listing of Brown Bag Biography talks:

Department of History Honors Track

The Department of History is pleased to announce the creation of an Honors Track in History! This track offers many options for completing an Honors degree in History, with only a minimum of 3 additional credits beyond the 33 required for the History major. Please note: Students must first qualify for and apply to the UHM Honors Program.

For more information, please see the document below prepared by Prof. Karen Jolly, or visit the Honors section of our website at:

http://manoa.hawaii.edu/history/content/history-honors-track

PAT Events to Kick Off Fall 2014

Our first Phi Alpha Theta meeting this semester will be on Thursday, Aug. 28th, from 5:30 – 7:00 pm. We will meet in the History Library (SAK A201) and share with you our "Best Chapter" ppt & video that was submitted for PAT national award consideration. We will also have our usual pizza dinner, so don't miss it!

Our first Book Sale will be on Tuesday, Sept. 2nd – the day after the Labor Day holiday.

See you at these events!

Talk at Hawaiʻi State Library featuring Prof. Kieko Matteson - Saturday, July 26

Prof. Kieko Matteson will be delivering a talk at the Hawaiʻi State Library—as part of its upcoming WWI History Program—on Saturday, July 26 from 2-3 p.m. For more information, please see the flyer below:

Professor Rich Rath featured in NPR's All Things Considered

Prof. Rich Rath has been featured as an interviewee for a segment of NPR's All Things Considered on the Duckworth Chant and its ancestry from African and African American work songs. To download the audio file and view the transcript, please visit this link: http://www.npr.org/2014/06/16/322589902/sound-off-where-the-militarys-rhythm-came-from

Interview with Professor Leonard Andaya in Itinerario

An interview with Professor Leonard Andaya has been published in the April 2014 edition of Itinerario, the International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction. In this interview, Prof. Andaya shares stories about his upbringing, educational background, and experiences as a Southeast Asia historian.

Citation: Kathryn Andersen Wellen and Ariel C. Lopez, "Traversing the Malay-Indonesian World: An Interview with Leonard Andaya," Itinerario, 38:1 (2014): 7-12.

Please click here for an excerpt OR click here for full text (requires UH login).

History Workshop: Graduate Student Symposium - Friday, May 2

Please join us for the grand finale of the History Workshop series this year, "Roots and Routes: Mobility, Migration, and Diasporas" on Friday, May 2nd from 2:30-4:00pm in the History Department Library (SAKAM A201). We will be hosting four of our History Department graduate students who will share some of their research.

Please see flyer below for more details:

History Forum Talk by Prof. Mark Merlin - Wednesday, April 30

The U.H. Mānoa History Department and the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society present:

"Historical Highlights of Hemp Fiber Use: The Case of Eurasia"
A Public Lecture by Prof. Mark Merlin, Department of Botany, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Wednesday, April 30th
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Sakamaki Hall A201
History Department Library
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Free and Open to the Public

History Workshop: Prof. John Rosa presents on Friday, April 11

Please join us for the History Workshop this Friday, April 11th at 2:30pm in the History Department Library, Sakamaki A201. Professor John Rosa will be presenting a talk entitled, "Fly Hawaiʻi: Roots and Routes of Transpacific Air Travel."

Please see flyer below for more information. We hope you can join us and please spread the word!

Final PAT Events for Spring 2014 - April 24th & 28th

The last Phi Alpha Theta meeting of the semester will be on Thursday, April 24th from 5:30 – 7:00 pm in the History Department Lounge (SAK B210).

Also, mark your calendars for the next PAT Book Sale, to be held on Monday, April 28th from 9:00am - 4:00pm at the UHM Campus Center. Books will be sold for $1 each.

See you there!

Graduate Seminar & History Workshop - Prof. Christopher Capozzola, MIT

Professor Christopher Capozzola from MIT is visiting the UH Mānoa campus this week and will be hosting a graduate seminar on Wednesday April 2nd. All graduate students are welcome if they notify Prof. Vina Lanzona (vlanzona at hawaii dot edu) in advance.

On Friday April 4th, Prof. Capozzola will be presenting a talk in the History Workshop entitled, "How Filipino Veterans Joined the Greatest Generation, 1945-2009".

Please see flyers below for more information:

History Forum Talk by Dr. Irving Martin Abella - Tuesday, April 1

Please join us for a special History Forum Public Talk by Dr. Irving Martin Abella, Prof. of History, York University, and a well-respected specialist in the history of the Jews in Canada and the Canadian labor movement.

Prof. Abella will discuss "The Holocaust, Antisemitism, and Canada" at 12 noon on Tuesday, April 1st in Sakamaki Hall A201, the UH Mānoa History Department Library.

The talk is free and open to the public.

Prof. Khary Polk presents on Wednesday, March 19

The Department of History welcomes:

Assistant Professor Khary Polk
Black Studies and Sexuality, Women and Gender Studies
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
"Easy to Get: Race, American Militarism, and the Black Venereal Body Abroad"

Wednesday, March 19th
12:00-1:30 p.m.
History Department Library, Sakamaki A201

Please see flyer below for more details:

Women's Studies Colloquium featuring History Graduate Students - Friday, March 14

The Department of Women's Studies at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa presents:

Spring 2014 Colloquium Series
Womenʼs History in Hawaiʻi: A Panel Discussion
featuring: Rebekah Carroll, J. Uluwehi Hopkins, Shirley Buchanan, and Catherine ʻĪmaikalani Ulep

Friday, March 14
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Saunders Hall 244

Please see flyer below for more details:

History Workshop: Professor Matthew Romaniello presents on Friday, March 21

Please join us Friday, March 21st for the History Workshop as we continue to host events related to our annual theme, Roots & Routes: Mobility, Migration, and Diasporas. Professor Matthew Romaniello will be presenting a talk entitled, "Roots of Treatment, Routes of Knowledge: Scurvy in the Eighteenth Century North Pacific." We will convene in the History Department Library, Sakamaki Hall A201, at 2:30pm.

More details are available in the flyer below:

History Forum Talk by Prof. Sumner J. LaCroix - Thursday, April 10

The U.H. Mānoa History Department and the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society present:

"Sons, Daughters and Labor Supply in Early Twentieth-Century Hawaiʻi"
A Public Lecture by Prof. Sumner J. La Croix, Department of Economics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Thursday, April 10th
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Sakamaki Hall A201
History Department Library
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Free and Open to the Public

History Workshop: Professor Wensheng Wang presents on Friday, March 7

Please join us Friday, March 7th for the History Workshop as we continue to host events related to our annual theme, Roots & Routes: Mobility, Migration, and Diasporas. Professor Wensheng Wang will be presenting a talk entitled, "From Highland to Sea: Border-Crossing and Frontier Protest in Qing Dynasty China." We will convene in the History Department Library, Sakamaki Hall A201, at 2:30pm.

Please see flyer below for more details:

History Forum Talk by Prof. Susan M. Schultz - Wednesday, March 12

Please join us for a provocative discussion of "Writing History in a Time of Forgetting." This is our first in a series of Interdisciplinary History Forums, taking place on Wednesday, March 12 at 12:30pm in Sakamaki Hall A201, the UH Mānoa History Department Library. Future talks will include a botanist's history of cannabis and an economic historian's history of marriage and labor in Hawaiʻi.

Forgetting History: Alzheimer's & Documentary Writing: Susan M. Schultz, Department of English

My recent book, “She's Welcome to Her Disease”: Dementia Blog, Volume 2 (Singing Horse Press, 2013), combines poetry, diaristic writing, essay, children's stories (with dementia sufferers in them), myriad documents (emails, notices from the DoD, insurance forms), and other genres to tell the story of my mother's Alzheimer's and death. World War II was the central moment of her life, as it was for most of those in her Alzheimer's care home, but by the end she had forgotten that War. I will read from the book, and talk about how to write Alzheimer's. While I'm a creative writer, I'm eager to engage with historians on these important questions.

Susan M. Schultz has taught in the English department at UHM since 1990. She is a poet, critic, and editor/publisher of Tinfish Press, which she founded in 1995. Her books include A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (U of Alabama Poetry & Poetics Series, 2005), and more recently Dementia Blog (2008), Memory Cards: 2010-2011 Series (2011) and “She's Welcome to Her Disease”: Dementia Blog, Volume 2 (2013) from Singing Horse Press in San Diego. She recently participated on a panel about teaching documentary poetry at the Associated Writing Programs convention in Seattle. Susan blogs at Tinfisheditor.blogspot.com (the two books on dementia come largely from blog work), and cheers for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.

Please feel free to download and distribute the flyer below:

Talk by Professor James Bade - Tuesday, Feb. 18

In his talk entitled "Early German Settlers in the Pacific and their Descendants," Professor James Bade will be concentrating on the lives of the settlers in New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga, and what their offspring have been up to since the late 1800s. According to Dr. Bade, the descendants of these German settlers in Tonga for example, are found not just in Tonga but throughout the world, principally in New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Samoa, and Germany, and many have become well-known names in their fields.

The talk is co-sponsored by the History Department, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, and the department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literature. The talk will be at the History Library, Sakamaki A-201 on Tuesday, Feb. 18 from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Upcoming Phi Alpha Theta Chapter Meeting, Book Sale, & Other News

The next Phi Alpha Theta meeting of the semester will be on Tuesday, February 25, from 5:30 – 7:00 pm in the History Lounge (SAK B210). On the agenda are plans for the upcoming 30th-annual PAT Regional Meeting.

Love getting great deals on books? Then stop by the upcoming PAT Book Sale, to be held on Thursday, February 27, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the UHM Campus Center! Books will be sold for $1 each.

Hungry for more PAT news? Check out this posting on the College of Arts & Humanities website: http://www.hawaii.edu/arthum/?news=uh-manoa-chapter-of-national-history-honor-society-celebrates-30-years

History Workshop: Professor Rath presents on Friday, Feb. 14

Please join us for our next History Workshop Session, where Professor Richard Rath will present a talk entitled "Briton Hammon and the Sonic Dimensions of Atlantic Communication Networks." This talk, part of the workshop series devoted to the theme of "Roots and Routes: Mobility, Migration, and Diasporas," will take place in the History Department Library (Sakamaki Hall A201) on Friday, February 14th at 2:30 p.m.

Please see flyer below for more details:

Public lecture by Professor James C. Scott - Wednesday, Feb. 26 (co-sponsored by the Dept. of History)

The public is cordially invited to attend:

"The First Agrarian States: The Late Neolithic Multispecies Resettlement Camp"
James C. Scott, Yale University

Wednesday, February 26
5:30 p.m.
Bilger Auditorium

Professor Scott's lecture and visit to UHM are sponsored by the following institutions:

● UH Center for Southeast Asian Studies ● Pacific Islands Development Program, East - West Center ● Department of Anthropology ● Department of Political Science ● Department of History ● Department of Sociology ● Center for Philippine Studies ● UH International Cultural Studies Program ● Luce Foundation Initiative on East and Southeast Asian Archeology ● Department of Geography ● Department of Ethnic Studies

Please see flyer below for more details:

Brown Bag Biography featuring Professor Njoroge Njoroge - Thursday, Feb. 6

The Center for Biographical Research at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa presents:

Brown Bag Biography Series: Discussions of Life Writing by & for Town & Gown
“‘My Name is Nobody’: Malcolm X, Memory, and the Politics of Memory”
Njoroge Njoroge, UHM Department of History

Thursday, February 6
12 noon - 1:15 p.m.
Henke Hall 325, 1800 East-West Road

Please see flyer below for more details, and a full listing of Brown Bag Biography talks:

PIMS Panel & Book Launch featuring Professor David Chappell - Thursday, March 6

The UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies, Department of History, Department of Anthropology, and Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Center present:

Pacific Islands Monograph Series (PIMS) Panel and Book Launch: “Anticolonial Resistance in Melanesia”
David Akin, Independent scholar, and David Chappell, UHM Department of History, chaired by Tarcisius Kabutaulaka, UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies

Thursday, 6 March
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
3121/3125 John A Burns Hall, East-West Center

Please see flyer below for abstracts and more information:

First History Workshop of Spring 2014: Dr. Maile Arvin - Friday, Jan. 24

Please join us for the first session this semester of the History Workshop, "Roots & Routes: Mobility, Migration & Diaspora" that will convene next Friday. We are excited to welcome Maile Arvin who is visiting from her position as a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow based in the History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz. The talk is being cosponsored by the Department of American Studies.

Maile Arvin's talk, "Polynesian Types: The Science of Making Whiteness Indigenous to the Pacific," will be presented in the History Department Library, Sakamaki Hall A201, Friday January 24th at 2:30pm. More details are provided in the flyer below:

Upcoming Phi Alpha Theta Events - Spring 2014

A message from the PAT President, Shirley Buchanan:

"Welcome to Spring Semester!

The PAT Biennial Convention in New Mexico was a resounding success! All of our Alpha Beta Epsilon members did an excellent job at their presentations and we also accepted an award for Dr. Robert McGlone honoring his thirty years of service to Phi Alpha Theta. We have posted some pictures and video clips at our Facebook page, so check it out!

We also worked on new ideas for our chapter and we will have our first meeting of the spring semester on Tuesday, Jan. 28th from 5:30 – 7:00 pm in the History Lounge (SAK B210). We will be recruiting new members and we will continue organizing for our 30th Annual Hawaiʻi Regional Conference to be held at Campus Center on Saturday, March 8th. We will also be planning other upcoming events like our next book sale which will be held on Wednesday, February 5th."