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UNI V tH~ l I Y OF HAWAII LI BRARY Pacific News from Manoa NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAl'I No. 2 April-June 2004 INSIDE News in Brief ........................•....................... 2 CULTURE MOVES!-CENTER'S Sima Urale to Be Writer-in-Residence ................. 2 CONFERENCE IN 2005 Enhancing Care for Marshallese Patients ............ 3 The 2005 Center for Pacific Islands Studies Pan-Pacific Club Active on Campus .................. 3 conference, "Culture Moves! Dance in Oceania from Jobwa Dance Performed in .Honolulu ................ 4 Hiva to Hip Hop," will be held 9-12 November at Interdisciplinary Pacific Studies, UCSC .............. 4 the National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Heyum Scholarship Awarded .............•............• 4 Tongarewa in Wellington. It will be cosponsored and Visitors to the C~nter ...................................... 5 organized by Pacific Studies at Victoria University of Occasional Seminan and Presentations .............. 5 Wellington in conjunction with the museum. The The Contemporary Pacific: Special Offer ........... 6 gathering will encompass traditional, contemporary, Moving Images Database Updated .................... 6 and hip-hop dance and include three nights and one Faculty Activities ........................................... 7 day of performances by professional, high school, Student and Alumni Activities ........................... 8 · and community groups, as well as individuals. During Publications and Moving Images ....................... 9 the day there will be discussion sessions on the Conferences .................................................. 11 history, choreography, music, contexts, politics, and Bulletin Board ...........................................• 12 documenting of dance in Oceania, as well as performance workshops. The Pacific collection at the MOVING ISLANDS-2004 Fall Writers' Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa will Festival at UH Manoa host a costume exhibition. For general enquiries, please contact Katerina "Moving Islands: Fall Writers' Festival," celebrating TEAIW A at [email protected] or April HENDERSON authors of Oceania and the Caribbean, will be held 8, at [email protected]. For enquiries on 9, 10, and 12 November 2004 on the UH Manoa documenting the dance and the associated exhibition, campus. The Center for Pacific Islands Studies is one contact Sean MALLON at [email protected]. of the sponsors of the festival, which is a News on the conference is posted on the center's collaboration of the UH Department of English and website, http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis. the EWC-UHM Islands of Globalization project. The all-star lineup of speakers includes Michelle CLIFf, Nalo HOPKINSON, Witi IHIMAERA, George TONGAN TO BE TAUGHT AT UHM LAMMING, Jully MAKINI, Rodney MORALES, The University of Hawai'i at Manoa Department of Noenoe SILVA, and Albert WENDT. Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures In panel discussions and readings, participants will is pleased to announce the introduction of a class in explore the cultural, social, geographical, and elementary Tongan language beginning in August political influences on their writing. Witi IHIMAERA, 2004. With the addition of Tongan, there are now author of The Whale Rider and numerous other five Polynesian languages (Hawaiian, Tahitian, Maori, stories and novels that draw on his Maori heritage, is and Samoan, in addition to Tongan) being offered at taking part in the festival as part of his UH UH Manoa. The Center for Pacific Islands Studies Distinguished Lecture Series residency during the has provided support for Maori, Tahitian, and week's events. A festival website is forthcoming. All Samoan and was instrumental in making the offering festival events, and Witi Ihimaera's presentations, are of Tongan possible. open to the public at no charge. ~C DU1.HSS Pacific News from Manoa April-June 2004 The days and times for the Tongan class have not 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Robert been set. For more information, contact Naomi Sullivan is an assistant professor of English at UH LOSCH, Chair of the Department of Hawaiian and Manoa. Both Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri wil.l Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, at begin teaching at UH Manoa in August of 2004, [email protected] (telephone: 808-956-7371 ), or when Wendt takes up his tenure as Citizens' Chair of contact the department secretary at 808-956-8672. English. Books in Hawaiian Now Online NEWS IN BRIEF It is now possible, through the website Ulukau, to Scholarship Fund at UH Hilo for Hawai'i and access downloadable PDF-format books, in English Pacific Island High School Graduates and Hawaiian, on Hawaiian topics. The Bible, two Research scientist Alec D KEITH and his wife, Kay, Hawaiian-English dictionaries, a journal of archival have donated $2.4 million to establish a scholarship Hawaiian texts, and a collection of Hawaiian fund at the University of Hawai'i-Hilo for graduates language newspapers are available, as well as a of Hawai'i and Pacific Island high schools. The growing number of books, many published by DxRx VIV A Inc End0wed Scholarship Fund, which Kamehameha Schools Press. The site is well on its is named after a nonprofit company recently way to becoming a true digital library. The Hawaiian founded by Keith and a partner, is designed to language site is http://www.ulukau.org; the English provide educational opportunities for Hawai'i and language site is http://www.ulukau.org/english.php. Pacific Island students who show academic promise, but have difficulty paying for college. Keith serves SIMA URALE TO BE WRITER-IN on the UH Hilo Advisory Board and is an affiliate RESIDENCE IN 2004 faculty member of the university's Chemistry Writer and film director Sima URALE is the first Department. The awards will be administered by the selectee for the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand UH Hilo Financial Aid Office as part of the financial Pacific Writers' Residency at the University of aid application process. Each applicant automatically Hawai'i at Manoa. Urale, the writer and director for becomes a candidate when he or she applies for several award-winning films, including 0 Tamaiti and financial aid, subject to the eligibility requirements. Velvet Dreams, will be with the Center for Pacific Whetu Moana a Finalist for Book Award Islands Studies from 9 August to 9 November 2004. The University of Hawai'i Press co-edition of Whetu Her writing project during the residency is to develop Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English, her full-length feature script, Moana, which explores edited by Albert WENDT, Reina WHAITIRI, and the traditional stories of Polynesian myths and Robert SULLIVAN, is one of the finalist titles for the legends. Urale is a graduate of the New Zealand Drama School Toi Whakaari, in Wellington, and the Film and The Center for Pacific Islands Studies School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies Television School of the Victorian College of the University of Hawai 'i at Manoa Arts, in Melbourne, Australia. As part of her 1890 East-West Road residency, she will visit classes and give at least one Honolulu, HI 96822 USA public presentation. She hopes to meet with Hawaiian Phone: (808) 956-7700 and other Pacific Islanders while she is in Honolulu, Fax: (808) 956-7053 email: [email protected] and to make use of the resources of the Pacific David Hanlon, Director Collection at UH Manoa's Hamilton Library. Letitia Hickson, Editor Urale's residency at the university coincides with The newsletter can be read online at: the expected formal launching this fall of the http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/Newsletter.htm Academy for Creative Media at UH Manoa. The Items in this newsletter may be freely reprinted. Acknowledgment of the source would be appreciated. program, which held its first classes in the spring of To receive the newsletter electronically, contact the this year, expects to see its first BA degrees awarded editor at the e-mail address above. in 2008. The University of Hawai'i at Manoa is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution. 2 Pacific News from Manoa April-June 2004 member of the Chuukese community working to WORKSHOP AIMED AT bridge the gap between Chuukese families and local ENHANCING CARE FOR schools. While the immediate goal was to give MARSHALLESE PATIENTS teachers some concrete strategies and skills for working hand-in-hand with families, the long-term Health-care workers in clinics, hospitals, and other goal is to help teachers see schools and education community health organizations will have an related activities through Micronesian eyes, as a first opportunity to learn more about the social, cultural, step to creating understanding on both sides of the and political background of Marshallese migrants in divide. Hawai'i at a workshop cosponsored by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and Small Island Networks on 28 July 2004. Speakers at the workshop, PAN-PACIFIC CLUB ACTIVE ON "Understanding Marshallese Patients: Cooperating UHM CAMPUS Across Cultures," will review the impact of the On the UH Manoa campus, students from the Pacific Compact of Free Association and explore culturally and students with Pacific interests know they can find patterned behaviors and beliefs that influence like-minded colleagues to have serious and not-so interactions with Americans and American social, serious discussions with, inside the circle of the Pan educational, and health programs. Marshallese are the Pacific Club (PPC). A fixture on campus