Friday, January 24, 2014

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:

Friday, January 17, 2014

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."

Monday, December 2, 2013

Brown Bag Thurs., Dec. 5 by Dr. Karen Jolly--"Revealing Words: Biography of a Scribe"

How can we reconstruct the life of someone we only know through their handwriting, copying and translating texts? Evidence for viking-era Northumbria is pretty scanty, so any scrap is valuable. One messy tenth-century manuscript, Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19, contains a hodgepodge of texts copied by a variety of scribes sometimes competing with each other for space on the precious parchment. It also has the handiwork of one scribe who identifies himself, Aldred, and who boldly translates everything from Latin into his native Northumbrian Old English. I want to write his biography.

Dr. Karen Jolly’s research interests began with popular religion in medical remedies and extended into interdisciplinary approaches to magic, science, and religion. More recently, she has focused on liturgical rituals, bilinguality, and manuscript studies. Her most recent book publication is The Community of St. Cuthbert in the Late Tenth Century: The Chester-le-Street Additions to Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19 (The Ohio State University Press, 2012), a cultural study of a viking-era religious community and their bilingual service book. She is now working on a historical fiction project exploring the life of Aldred and the other scribes at Chester-le-Street, which you can follow on her blog, at litteramepandat.wordpress.com

Monday, November 25, 2013

History Workshop: Professor López Lázaro presents on Friday, Dec. 6

Please join us on Friday, Dec. 6 for the History Workshop where Professor López Lázaro will be presenting, "Reflections on the World Historical Consequences of Record‐Making and Record‐Keeping." The talk will be held in the Dept. of History Library (Sakamaki A201) at 2:30 pm. Please download the flyer below for more details.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Phi Alpha Theta Book Sale - Nov. 19 at Campus Center

Phi Alpha Theta will be having a book sale across the Campus Center Starbucks, from 9:00 until 4:00 on November 19th. All books are $1 and proceeds will support UH's Phi Alpha Theta, the History Honor Society.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Dissertation Defense for Joel Tannenbaum - Friday, Nov. 15

Join us for a dissertation defense by PhD candidate Joel Tannenbaum on Friday, Nov. 15 at 9am in the Dept. of History Library (Sakamaki A201). Please see the flyer below for more details!