Professor Wang's talk tomorrow: Before the Opium Wars

Professor Wensheng Wang, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, will present "Before the Opium War: Two British Invasions of Macao (1802 and 1808) and Their Impact on Sino-British Relations" tomorrow at 2:30pm in the History Department Library. This talk is free and open to the public - please view the flyer for details.

Van Jones presentation - STUDENT DEBT: THE NEXT CREDIT BOMB

Van Jones, the Obama administration’s first green energy czar, best-selling author, Princeton fellow, and founder of a new national organizing campaign for economic justice, Rebuild the Dream. Jones will be speaking on the dizzying accumulation of student loan debt in the United States (now $1 trillion and counting) and the unsustainable burden it places on students and the economy, while also proposing bottom-up solutions to the problem.


STUDENT DEBT: THE NEXT CREDIT BOMB

Monday, March 19

3:30 – 5:00 pm

Hālau O Haumea, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies


Light refreshments to be provided.

Music too. Maybe poetry.


Kicking off a national campaign for economic and environmental justice, Jones will also be speaking at a rally and pop-up dinner at the capitol the next evening at 6:00 pm, so please join us for that event as well. See: http://act.rebuildthedream.com/signup/revival-hawaii.

How “Russian” is Kauai’s Fort Elizabeth?

A recent entry on Russian History Blog, by Professor Romaniello, looks at the history behind Fort Elizabeth, a "Russian" fort on the island of Kauai.

Cultural Studies Certificate Program Speaker Series (Spring 2012)

You're cordially invited to the International Cultural Studies Certificate Program Spring 2012 Speaker Series

Spring 2012 Topic: Sovereignties in the 21st Century

Date: February 15, 2012, Wednesday

Time, location: Noon - 1:15 pm; Burns 2118 (East–West Center)

Speaker: Professor Ty P. Kawika Tengan (Ethnic Studies Department, UHM)

Title of Talk: Return to Fort Kamehameha: Martialing Memory in Occupied Hawai‘i

Date: February 21, TUESDAY, Noon – 1:30 pm

Location: Kuykendall 106

Title of Talk: Who's afraid of Lady Gaga? Navigating fierce currents of the cultural studies classroom

(Part of the series on Towards an engaged Academy: Innovative trends in university teaching and scholarship)

Co-sponosred with the Center for Teaching Excellence

Please see attached flier

Date: March 7, 2012, Wednesday, Noon-1:15 pm

Location: Burns 2118

Speaker: Professor Ibrahim Aoude (Ethnic Studies, UHM)

Title of talk: “Mubarak Out, Military In: Egypt After The Elections”

Co-sponsored with the Department of Ethnic Studies, UHM

All ICSCP events are free and open to the public

March 21: Pacific Connections Seminar Series presents "Flags, Human Heads and Movies" with Professor Chappell

Professor David Chappell, Associate Professor of Pacific Islands History, will present "Flags, Human Heads and Movies: Challenges of Seeking a Common Destiny in Kanaky New Caledonia" on March 21st, 12:00-1:00 p.m., in Room 3121/3125 of the John Burns Hall, East-West Center.

This event is cosponsored by Center for Pacific Islands Studies, East-West Center Pacific Islands Development Program and the History Department. Please see attached for details.

History Forum: February 16th, 12pm noon, Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Please join us for Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin, Madison), on "World History and the Skeptical Specialist".

12pm noon in the History Library, Sakamaki A201

Please see attached for more information.

History Forum: Upcoming Lectures

Please join us for the following free talks in Sakamaki Hall A201, the History Department Library.

Thursday, February 16 at 12 noon for Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (U of Wisconsin, Madison) on "World History and the Skeptical Specialist" You have 9 volumes to write the history of the world! What stays? What goes? Why?

Friday, February 24 at 12:30 for Peter H. Hoffenberg (U H Manoa History) on
"Pugin in the Pacific? Building Neo-Gothic 'Edifices' in the Colonies"

Thursday, April 12 at 12 Noon for Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne" on "The History of Emotions"

Wednesday, April 25 at 12:30 for Yehuda Bauer (Yad Vashem and Hebrew University, Jerusalem) on "Recent Historical Scholarship on the Shoah and Genocide"

Please feel free to contact Professor Peter Hoffenberg (peterh (at) hawaii (dot) edu)

if you have any questions and please feel free to share this information.