Conference in September - European Encounters with Islam in Asia

The History Department is co-sponsoring a workshop on "European Encounters with Islam in Asia 1500-1800" along with the Center for Philippine Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for World History, and Muslim Societies in Asia and the Pacific Program. The conference will commence on Friday, September 28th, and concludes on Saturday, September 29th, and will be held in the Asia-Pacific Room of the Hawai‘i Imin International Conference Center.

Please see the attached flyer (3 separate pages) for details, and for more information and registration details, or contact Professor Matthew Romaniello <mpr (at) hawaii.edu> or Professor Matthew Lauzon <mlauzon (at) hawaii.edu>.

Dr. Romaniello's Regents' Medal for Excellence in Teaching

The Office of Faculty Development and Academic Support has posted regarding current awardees of the 2011-2012 Regents' Medals, including Professor Romaniello, who was awarded for Excellence in Teaching.

Please scroll down to the fifth entry to see Professor Romaniello's photo and write-up here.

Departmental Student Awards Ceremony

We had a lovely Spring 2012 departmental student award ceremony this week, with delicious Thai food and lots of smiling faces.  Congratulations to our hard-working awardees! (Click the photos to enlarge)

The above photo shows the following award recipients (left to right):
Michael Newalu, Michael Kline, Elizabeth Schultz (with baby Bennett), Drew Gonrowski, Michael Johnson, Shirley Buchanan and Adam Witten.

Dean Thomas Bingham announced that Professor Romaniello is the 2012 recipient of the College of Arts and Humanities Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Board of Regents' Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.


2011 – 2012 AWARDS

The Daniel Kwok Award for the Outstanding Teaching
Assistant:

Co-Winners:
- Tomoko Fukushima
- Alex Holowicki

The Donald Johnson Award for the Outstanding
Master’s Thesis

Co-Winners:
Adam Witten, “Seeds Deferred: Japanese Agrarian
Development, Rōnō and the Transformation Under
Industrialism”

Betsy Schultz, “From the Nuremberg and Tokyo War
Crimes Trials to the International Criminal Court: The
Converging Paths of Great Britain and Germany”

The Donald Johnson Award for the Outstanding
Research Paper Produced in a Graduate Seminar
and First Runner-Up

Winner: Alex Holowicki, “Reel Connections:
Cosmopolitanism and the Amateur Cinema League”

First Runner Up: Shirley Buchanan, “Tracing
the Social Networks that Linked Oklahoma and Oahu,
Indigenous Destinies and American Trajectories in the
Nineteenth Century”

The Taraknath Das Prize for the Best Paper in Asian

History by a Graduate Student:

- Joshua Ku, “A Stubborn and Recalcitrant Ally: An
American Military Perspective on the US-KMT
Relationship During World War II”


The Barbara B. Peterson Award for Graduate Student
Excellence in American History

Co-Winners: Michael Newalu
Alex Holowicki

The Pacific Circle Editorial Award (granted to the
Editorial Assistant for the Bulletin of the Pacific Circle)

- Michael Kline

The Kuykendall Prize for the Best Paper by an
Undergraduate Student

- Troy Takahashi, “Toxic? Britney Spears and
Contemporary Cultural Discourse on American Girl
Culture”

The John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship in History

- Drew Gonrowski
- Michael Johnson

Newby Fellowship

- Drew Gonrowski
- Lance Nolde

Living History Day - May 19th

You are invited to the

U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii
and Hawaii Army Museum Society's
12th Annual

Living History Day

in honor of Armed Forces Day

Saturday, May 19th

10am-3pm

U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii, 

Fort DeRussy, Waikiki, parking available

Please see attached files for details and a map of the location

Hawaii Book & Music Festival (HBMF) 2012

SAVE THE DATE!

Hawaii Book & Music Festival (HBMF) 2012

Saturday-Sunday May 5-6 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 

Frank F. Fasi Civic Grounds at Honolulu Hale
in Historic Downtown Honolulu

ALL FREE & FREE PARKING next to the site

Eight Venues, Over 150 events, over 500 Presenters

Steve Songs, Host, PBS KIDS, 
and your favorite PBS KIDS and other characters.

Click here for the Complete Schedule.

For more details visit
hawaiibookandmusicfestival.org

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We need volunteers!
You’ll get a t-shirt and a book tote, and you’ll be entered in a drawing for a NOOK Tablet each day.
Email Jacqui Pirl at: tropicalparadise@hawaii.rr.com
Or call Jacqui at 224-4008 with questions etc. 

Please do forward this to your friends!
I look forward to seeing you there!

Aloha,
Roger Jellinek
Executive Director
Hawaii Book and Music Festival

rgr.jellinek@gmail.com
www.hawaiibookandmusicfestival.org

History Workshop - Bryce Beemer to present on Friday, May 4th

Bryce Beemer, PhD candidate in the History department, presents "Slave Gathering Warfare and Creolizing Cultures in Pre-Colonial Burma: Histories of Manipuri Captives in Mandalay" on Friday May 4th from 2:30-4pm.

Please see the flyer for details.

Yehuda Bauer will present for the History Forum and more

Professor Yehuda Bauer will present a series of public talks next week at the University of Hawai‘i in Mānoa.

His first talk will be on Tuesday, April 24th at 12 p.m. on

“Recent Scholarship on the Shoah, Genocide and Genocide Prevention”

Tuesday, April 24th at 12 noon

Sakamaki Hall A201

U H Manoa History Department Library