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."

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