Maritime Heritage Symposium (coming in February)

Aloha!

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) are hosting the 24th Maritime Heritage Symposium on February 16-18, Presidents' Day weekend.

Please see the attached flyers for details about the symposium and the keynote speaker, Dr. James P.

Keynote Address:

WHEN: Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 6:30-7:30 PM

WHERE: NOAA’s Marine Sanctuaries’ Hawai`i Kai conference facility
6600 Kalaniana`ole Hwy suite 302
(Roy’s Restaurant building 3 floor) POC 271-4187

Free and open to all.

For additional information please see:

www.mahhi.org
www.hawaii.edu/mop/site/2013symposium.html

Professor Arista Post on the Legal History Blog

Professor Noelani Arista has made a guest post, titled I ka ʻōlelo nō ke ola: In speech there is life on the Legal History Blog.

12pm today - Professor Jordan Sand talk in the Tokioka Room, Moore Hall 319

Jordan Sand, Associate Professor of Japanese History and Culture at Georgetown University will present "Tokyo as an Imperial Capital" from 12:00-1:30pm today in the Tokioka Room, Moore Hall 319.

This event is co-sponsored by the Japanese section of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Department of History, and the Center for Japanese Studies.

Please see the attached flyer for more information.

Nationalism: Change in Consciousness or Fiction? - Benedict R. O'G. Anderson

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES

East- West Center: Collaboration - Expertise - Leadership

University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

Nationalism: Change in Consciousness or Fiction?

Benedict R.O'G. Anderson

Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus

International Studies, Government and Asian Studies

Cornell University

Monday, November 5, 2012
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Keoni Auditorium, Jefferson Hall, East-West Center

See attached flyer for more information

 

Co-Sponors:

  University of Hawai‘i Distinguished Lecture Series

   Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

   Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center

   School of Pacific and Asian Studies

   College of Arts and Humanities

   College of Social Sciences

   Department of Anthropology

   Department of History

   Department of Political Science

   Center for Southeast Asian Studies

   Center for Philippine Studies

   Center for Pacific Islands Studies

The Cuban Missile Crisis: What Happened Then And What Could Happen Tomorrow

An event sponsored by: Department of Ethnic Studies

For more information please contact: 

Dr. Noel Kent, George Hall room 338

956-6963, noelk (at) hawaii (dot) edu

50 Years Ago in October 1962, Our World Almost Ended...

The Cuban Missile Crisis: What Happened Then And What Could Happen Tomorrow

October 24, 2012

12:00-1:30pm

Kuykendall 410

Image: Flickr Commons, from U.S. National Archives

The video "Thirteen Days" will be shown followed by a panel on the lessons of the crisis.

Sponsored by: UH Manoa Ethnic Studies, History, and Political Science Departments.

Professor Tricia Starks presents for the History Workshop, Friday, October 5th

Professor Starks will present "Right to Harm: Smoking, Gender, and Consumer Culture in Imperial Russia" on Friday, October 5th from 2:30 to 4:00 pm in the History Department Library.

Please see the attached flyer for details. This event is co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Colloquium and the Ella Wiswell Endowment Fund for the Promotion of Russian Studies.

We hope to see you there!

Professor Kenneth Pomeranz to present in September

Professor Kenneth Pomeranz, 

University Professor of History, University of Chicago

President-elect, American Historical Association,

will give the following lectures for the Confucius Institute Fall 2012 Distinguished Speaker Series

“Late Imperial Legacies: Land, Water and the Dynamics of Chinese Economic Development” Monday, September 24, 3:30–5:00 p.m.

Center for Korean Studies Auditorium, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Reception to follow.

and “Populating China’s Southwest Frontier: ‘Han’ and ‘Minority’
in Qing Political Economy and Global History”
Tuesday, September 25, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Sakamaki Hall A201 (History Department Library)
Cosponsored by The Confucious Institute and the UHM Department of History

Download the flyer