TO: Donald O. Straney, Chancellor
CC: Matthew Platz, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Randy Hirokawa, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Yoshi Miike, Chair of Communication (Spring 2015); Jing Yin, Chair of Communication (Fall 2015) Michael Marshall, Chair of Art and Chair of Performing Arts (AY 2015-2016) Jackie Johnson, Chair of Performing Arts (AY 2014-2015) John Cheng, Chair of Philosophy
FROM: Seri Luangphinith, Chair of Humanities
DATE: August 30, 2015
RE: Annual Report for the Humanities Division, AY 2014-2015
One behalf of the Humanities Division, I hereby submit the following report that sums up the activities and accomplishments of our faculty over the past academic year (including the previous summer).
Several important personnel actions took place: (1) a tenure-track position was approved for Communication with the successful recruitment of Dr. Zheng An, and (2) an instructor in Science and Tech writing was approved and a search undertaken as of May, 2015. The instructor search was not successful and English will be moving forward with a second attempt this academic year. Dr. Celia Bardwell-Jones in Philosophy was promoted to Associate Professor. She now serves as the Chair of Women’s Studies (that received approval from the BOR and has inaugurated its B.A. this year): https://www.hawaii.edu/offices/bor/regular/notice/201505210915.regular.pdf.
Languages formally added Korean 101 and 102 to its roster. The Division will be receiving a grant of a little over $11,000 from the Korea Foundation (a branch of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) to fund both courses. We also welcome the addition of the Spanish Language Certificate, which also commences this academic year.
The following departments undertook the successful completion of the following activities as service to the larger campus:
Performing Arts
The Department concluded a very visible year of outreach and public performances in the 2014-2015 academic year.
Jackie Pualani Johnson, Professor of Drama and Chair of the Performing Arts Department, scripted a one-woman show, Lili‘uokalani at Washington Place, and performed in the title role at the Queen’s former home, Washington Place in Honolulu. The program was hosted by the newly-elected Governor, David Ige. A second performance of the play was held at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Hilo for an evening program entitled Musings and Meditations with our Monarch. The show was a featured performance at the Kamehameha Schools, Kea’au, drama festival on April 30, 2015. Professor Johnson’s sabbatical project, Hilo: Da Musical, served as the Department’s major Spring performance. The cast included thirty-five faculty, staff, students, and community participants.
Amy Horst, Instructor of Music and Director of Choral Activities, performed with her vocal/piano duo, Nothing But Treble, in a concert on January 31, 2015. The concert, Double Trouble, featured duets with local and mainland musicians/singers. Nothing But Treble also performed in Minneapolis on June 19th.
Other members of the Department were also highly active:
• Walter Greenwood, Staff Accompanist and Clarinet Instructor, led the choirs and played the organ at Christ Lutheran Church weekly; played choir and organ for the Hilo Community Chorus weekly; played piano for and conducted the Orchid Isle String Orchestra monthly; participated in two local professional jazz combos performing in local venues; accompanied singers in Ms. Horst’s January 31 concert; accompanied singers in the March 21st Songs We Love To Sing concert; and played lead piano for Hilo High School's Performing Arts Learning Center production of Les Miserables in April. • Lee Eisenstein, Guitar Instructor and a Hoku Na Hano Hano island music award-winner, performed regularly throughout the year in local venues on the Big Island and Oahu. • Paul Lindbergh, Saxophone Instructor, performed regularly throughout the year in local venues, notably with the Island Swing Orchestra at the Prince Kūhiō Plaza on Astro Day, May 2, 2015. • Armando Mendoza, Trumpet Instructor and a well-known local conductor and music educator, played trumpet for local concerts and musical theater productions throughout the year, including the Hilo High Performing Arts Learning Center's production of Les Miserables in April. • Gloria Mendoza-Watson, Piano Instructor and Staff Accompanist, continued her work with the National Piano Guild organization, instructing private students and preparing them for contests and auditions locally and on Oahu. She also continued her work as pianist/organist/choir director for St. Joseph Catholic Church in Hilo. • Mark Sheffield, Voice Instructor, returned to the stage as a solo tenor in Amy Horst's January 31 concert, Double Trouble. He followed this return with a performance at the UH Hilo Spring Fling choral concert on May 9. • Gene Short, Trombone Instructor and retired music educator, continued his work mentoring young brass players in the local community. • Trever Veilleux, Jazz Orchestra Director, created original arrangements of the music of Frank Zappa and a wide variety of soul music artists for the Jazz Orchestra concerts of December 2014 and May 2015. He also performed as a professional guitarist three nights weekly at local venues throughout the year.
Students also undertook highly public roles:
• In the Fall of 2014, thirteen students in the DANCE 419, Dance in Education, got hands-on teaching experience at Waiākeawaena Elementary School to study the pedagogy of Creative Dance in the classroom—all of this culminated with the four weeks of practicum at Waiākeawaena Elementary classrooms, grades K-5. • Joshua Timmons and Payton Mayer (B.A. in Performing Arts, Music Concentration) undertook a 2-month tour (circa 50 shows) with the reggae group, The Steppas. They appeared in Arizona, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), Texas (Dallas), Florida (St. Petersburg), and California (San Diego) in a wide range of venues, including the House of Blues and the Hard Rock Café. In Hilo, they performed with the student band, Pathology, at the May 2015 Astro Day at the Prince Kūhiō Plaza.
Attendance numbers by event for the 2014-15 season were:
Fall 2014 Great Leaps Dance Concert 599 Fall 2014 UHH Jazz Orchestra Concert 590 Holiday Orchestra/Choral Concert 585 Directing One Acts (3 showings) 168 Hilo Da Musical (4 performances) 1930 Spring 2015 Great Leaps Dance Concert (2 849 performances) Spring 2015 UHH Jazz Orchestra Concert 600 Spring Choral Concert 92
PArts Student Projects Haunted Nursery (Chanell Crawford) 500
TOTAL PArts Events 5913
Art
The Art Department hosted a range of artists and exhibitions in the previous academic year. Many of these events are documented in a variety of websites:
Summer and Fall 2014 • Visiting Artists Talks at the Donkey Mill by John Hitchcock (June) and Crystal Wagner (July) at the Donkey Mill Art Center, Holualoa, HI. http://www.donkeymillartcenter.org/archives_workshops.php?type=3&cPage=1 • “Reimagining Paper and Fiber”, Wailoa Center Hilo, July 2014. http://hawaiitribune- herald.com/news/community/summerai-annual-exhibit-opens-friday • “Photographs from Serbia”, Manono Campus Gallery, Sept. 15 through Nov. 28, 2014 • Willie Cole (October) http://hilo.hawaii.edu/news/press/release/1506 • Photographer Ai Iwane (Oct) shared information about her current research and study in the history of unique cameras inextricably linked to the narrative of Japanese immigrant culture in Hawaii, and current use of panoramic photographic technology in Hawaii and Japan. • “2014 Pacific States Biennial National” print exhibition, Campus Center Gallery, October 15 through December 1, 2014. http://hilo.hawaii.edu/news/report/archive.php?id=64
Spring 2015
• Donald M. Suggs (February) “Je Suis Michael Brown Jr.” http://hilo.hawaii.edu/news/stories/2015/02/21/publisher-of-st-louis-american/ • Jan Garden Castro (March) http://hilo.hawaii.edu/news/stories/?s=jan+garden+castro&searchsubmit= • Professor Susan Schultz, English Department, UH Mānoa (March), in collaboration with the UH Hilo English Department. • “Look Like What It Means, a two-day symposium” March 11 and 12, 2015, celebrating the exhibition and poetry Albert Saijo in collaboration with UH Hilo faculty from English, Philosophy, and Art, UH Manoa and visiting scholar in residence Jan Garden Castro. http://hilo.hawaii.edu/news/stories/2015/02/19/albert-saijo/ • Prints from Belgrade, March 9 – May 15 http://hilo.hawaii.edu/news/stories/2015/03/12/art- exhibit-prints-from-belgrade-march-9-may-15/ • Yuji Hiratsuka (April) http://hilo.hawaii.edu/news/stories/?s=yuji+hiratsuka&searchsubmit • “2015 PSBN Poetry Scores Hawaii – Look Like What It Means”, international juried invitational work on paper exhibition, Campus Center Gallery February 15 through April 15, 2015 • Prints from Belgrade, March 9 – May 15 http://hilo.hawaii.edu/news/stories/2015/03/12/art- exhibit-prints-from-belgrade-march-9-may-15/
In addition, the Department sponsored two major publications--Artist Print Edition: Spring 2015 Volume I (http://hilo.hawaii.edu/~art/projects/0) and the 2014 Pacific States Biennial National (PSBN) exhibition catalog, for which Dr. Jean Ippolito contributed a 1,700 word exhibition review entitled, “Imagination and Distant Memories in the 2014 Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Campus Center Gallery.”
Philosophy
From August 15-22, the department co-hosted the final week of Tokyo University and UH Manoa’s joint summer institute on comparative philosophy. Ten professors and twenty-two graduate students presented papers, attended lectures, and explored Hawai`i’s cultural and natural heritage. The Big Island portion of the institute included a trip to the Ho`okupu ceremony in Kohala to commemorate King Kamehameha’s victory, an evening at the visitors’ center on Mauna Kea, a lecture from a Buddhist monk, and an afternoon at the Place of Refuge.
This year Chris Lauer founded a new lecture series with Eric Heuer of the Psychology Department called Sharing Mana`o Across the Disciplines (SMAD). The first semester’s SMAD aims to bring together diverse approaches to today’s most pressing theoretical and practical problems for spirited discussions of the commonalities and differences between the various academic disciplines. The first year’s lectures sought to bring together philosophy and neuroscience on questions concerning the nature of mind and consciousness. Joint lectures titled “What is Consciousness?”, “Free Will and Neuroethics,” and “The Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence” occurred on February 12th, March 12th, and April 23rd, respectively. Attendance increased with each presentation, with 45 audience members at the first lecture, 46 at the second, and 83 at the third.
The Department received a UH Seed Grant, as well as monetary support from other programs, to host Jamaica Osorio for a public lecture and presentation on March 13, 2015. Total: 120 audience members attended her three lectures
The Department received a Diversity Grant to host Professor Scott Pratt from the University of Oregon for a presentation “Indigenous Ontology and the Ethics of Social Practice” on April 9, 2015. 47 audience members present.
Foreign Languages
The Japanese Studies Program faculty devoted much effort in planning public events. Dr. Yoshiko Fukushima coordinated the March 6th showing of A2-B-C, a documentary film commemorating the 4th anniversary of Tohoku Triple Disaster in Japan. She also helped to coordinate workshops for Mikusano Mitakara (Three Treasures: Japanese Ancient Magic to Live Joyfully) by the dancer Iida Shigemi in Hilo, Waimea, and Kona in Spring of 2015.
Dr. Masafumi Honda devoted his time to hosting a number of academicians and students from Japan, thereby expanding the program’s outreach:
Fall 2014
• August 21-26: Chuo University Study tour. Fourteen Chuo University students visited Japanese 101 class and interacted with Japanese language students in Japanese. • August 23 – September 17: Chuo University Teaching Japanese Internship. Two students observed Japanese language classes and wrote a report under the mentorship of the Japanese Methodology course instructor. • September 11: Nihon University Professor Dr. Akira Takahash brought thirteen students to UH Hilo, where Dr. Honda presented “Nisei in Hawaii.” • October 22, 23, & 24: 190 Dokyo High school students visit and interact with UHH Japanese language students
Spring 2015
• March 13: Hiroshima Sogo-Gijyutsu high school visit. Ten students interacted with Japanese language students in class and presented a slide show about Japanese high school life in Hiroshima.
Dr. Masafumi Honda gave a talk entitled “Japanese Immigrant in Hawaii and Biculturalism” to visiting teachers and students from Sapporo Nichidai High School. He also helped to organize Japanese Shinnen Matsuri Festival & Mochi tsuki on January 28th here at UH Hilo. Local Japanese cultural clubs came to the campus to assist with UH Hilo’s Japanese Student Association’s New Year Festival. Japanese exchange students from Japan demonstrated Calligraphy, Origami, and Kimono dressing.
The Chinese Certificate Program
The Chinese Studies Certificate Program hosted an interactive exhibition on Chinese language and culture at the Library Plaza on February 18th to commemorate Chinese New Year and to promote the Chinese Studies Certificate program. The exhibition included a great variety of aspects of Chinese culture, including zodiac signs, New Year customs, auspicious symbols, paper cuttings, brush calligraphy, brush painting, abacus, chess, mahjong, etc. In addition, the exhibition also includes posters showing the data of a rapid growth of Chinese tourists to Hawai‘i and data on the growth of the Chinese Studies Certificate Program (see below). It attracted approximately 200 people, including students, faculty, staff, as well as adults and children from the community. Approximately 150 Chinese Studies Certificate Program brochures were distributed.
Graduation figures for the Certificate: 2011-2012: 1 graduate 2012-2013: 3 2013-2014: 6 2014-2015: 8
Fall 2012 Chang, Samantha Spring 2013 Atwell, Shannon Neel, Taylor L. Stewart, Christopher M. Fall 2013 Misheva, Lilia Spring 2014 Lockwood, Hannah Lung, Anna Maldonado, Abel Ramos, Christopher Tang, Wing Sing Fall 2014 Yoshizawa, Haruki Spring 2015 Gao, Yinsong Kim, Yonghwan Kopp, Christopher Nakao-Eligado, Alexandria J. Patterson, Michael S. Silva-Sampaio, Rory Xie, Mei-Yi
In addition, there are five (5) more students who have already finished with the certificate requirements and will graduate with their majors at a later time: Jeremy R. Ganir; Conner Hedrick; Chenghai Jin; Eileen Liu; and Elizabeth R. Lough. Three (3) more students will be finished with the certificate by Winter 2015: Hyesun Kong; Karen K. Ota; and Brenna M. Usher. The following are currently in the pipeline and should finish within the year: David Arakaki; Paul And Sheng; Bendick O. Baris; Angelica R. Durante; Andrea N. Gutierrez; Michael B. Moore; Lindsay G. Price-Friend; and Aya Shimada.
Filipino Studies Certificate Program
The program experienced a very busy year promoting cultural events that brought the University together with key community partners. The events included Balik Pamantasan (September 20, 2014), Filipino-American Heritage Month—which included Barrio Fiesta, a talk on Filipina women from the plantation, and a film by Jose Antonio Vargas (October 2014), Pasko Sa Pamantasan Christmas at University (December 2014), and the Pamana ng Lahi Cultural Presentation (April 9, 2014).
English
The writing instructors and lecturers in English Department have wrapped up two years of grade-level reading tests for all ENG 100(T) courses for AY 2013-2014 and AY 2014-2015. Data was collected for approximately 800 students:
Semester Total Number Number of Number of Number of Highest Lowest of Students Students Students Students Score Score Reading in Reading Reading the 1200s Below 1200 Below 1000 Fall 2013 249 65 (26%) 55 (22%) 21 (8%) 1600 (8) 810 Spring 2014 189 35 (18%) 57 (30%) 22 (11%) 1600 (11) 660 Fall 2014 221 45 (20%) 93 (42%) 27 (12%) 1600 (2) 880 Spring 2015 187 39 (20%) 105 (56%) 69 (36%) 1600 (3) 732
The data will be discussed and later reported to the Congress for use in the upcoming interim report for accreditation. The Department has confirmed the appointment of Ms. Lauri Sagle as Composition Director and is moving towards strengthening the freshman writing program.
English also continued its tradition of hosting local writers: Chris McKinney and Rudy Puana (Fall 2014) and Alani Apio (Spring 2015); the department also participated with other programs to host Albert Saijo (Art) and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio (Women’s Studies).
The Department handed out the following student awards per their Droste endowment (Spring 2015):
• Freshman DaHai Lee's paper, “Freshman 15”, won the $250 award for Outstanding Freshman Composition Paper. • Junior Gloria Simpson received the award for Outstanding 200-Level English Paper for her paper “Aliens and Others." • Senior Kara Nelson's short story "Far from the Madding Major” won the $250 award for Outstanding Work in Fiction. • Trevor Perry won the $250 award for Outstanding Work in Poetry. • Senior Wilfred T. Gee received the $500 award for Outstanding Upper-Division English Paper for his research paper, "'And Much of Madness...' Examining Initial Narrator Impressions in 'The Fall of the House of Usher'."
The Droste Endowment made possible a literary event commemorating Edgar Allen Poe. Held on October 28, the event brought together the students from ENG 488, faculty, and community members for poetry readings and literary discussions.
The Department also established the Matthew S. Therrien $500 Memorial Award for Excellence in Writing this academic year. Senior Kara Nelson was the first recipient of this award.
The Teaching English as a Second Languages (TESOL) Certificate Program, under the direction of Ms. Bela Conley-Ramsay, witnessed steady growth. Job opportunities have expanded, with the program having established direct contact with the Australian Centre of Education in Cambodia and the Xian College of Technology in China. In partnership with Global Exchange, certificate graduates also have access to the following programs: Teach Tibet, Teach Austria, Teach America and Teach the World programs, the JET program and the Peace Corps.
TESOL has also started tracking students coming through the program and can boast of increasing success rates:
Semester Student Job Placement Spring 2012 Allison Azai Sam Clubb Nick Conway Hyran Kim MA Manoa Saichon Kuwahara Teaching EFL in Thailand Jaymen Luapola Brendan Moore Teaching EFL in Peru Gerrie Morishita Sean Okimoto Ryan Rosenberg JET Michael Roy Mitchell Sambrabo JET Chris Stewart Leah Wagner Fall 2012 Spring 2013 Brittney Carey MA ED in progress or complete Silas Chapman Lecturing at Xian college of technology Nan Davis MA ED …may be teaching at a Hawaiian Immersion school in Hilo Ganga Harrison MA in progress Dominic Hillman N/A Allena Ikehara JET Michelle Kaku N/A Nakasue Dee Ann N/A Bryce Pierson Taught for the HCC summer Bridge program Yvonne Sylva N/A Sher Toribio N/A Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Tiphani Kainoa JET Program Hannah Lockwood Teaching EFL in Prague Abel Maldonado Teaching ESL at Keaau Intermediate Chris Ramos N/A Summer 2014 Lisa Misheva N/A Fall 2014 Peter Bennet Teaching EFL for the Australian Centre of Education in Cambodia Devin Burnty N/A Iris Hirayama N/A Stacy Joel N/A RoxAnne Lawson N/A Leslie McClung Completing her MA Nelli Semenko Teaching ESL in Washington State Lindsay Terelson N/A Remi McKay N/A Andrew Musick Teaching EFL in Okinawa Spring 2015 Kaweihi Hanohano N/A Akihiro ito One of four exchange students who completed the TESOL certificate Dahye Jong One of four exchange students who completed the TESOL certificate Yongwan Kim N/A Gail Klevens Working in a school in China/Enrolled in MA program in TESL Yoshiko Kurikawa One of four exchange students who completed the TESOL certificate James McElvaney Completing his BA at UHH Hye Jin Piper N/A Robert Piper N/A Ronald Santos N/A Gabe Tebow N/A Yuka Torama One of four exchange students who completed the TESOL certificate Randall Yamaoka Accepted into an MA program and Fulbright? JET? These students have completed the certificate but have not yet graduated Mylast Bilimon Asia Howe Olivia Throssel Fall 2015 Approx. 35 in process of Graduation Date unknown ASC TESOL
The program will continue to monitor post-graduation activity and update the list to assess completion rates and demographic shifts in student populations.
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The following is a breakdown of the individual accomplishments of faculty:
I. Grants (including travel) • Bardwell-Jones, Celia. UHH Research Corporation Travel Award. Spring 2015, $2200. • Feng, Jiren. UHH Research Corporation Travel Award. Spring 2015, $2200. • Freeman, Timothy. UHH Research Corporation Travel Award. Spring 2015, $2200. • Goebel, Jon. UHH Research Corporation Travel Award. Spring 2015, $2200. • Iwasaki, Patsy. Hawai‘i State Legislature Grant-in-Aid $36,000. • ---. YWCA of Oahu Grant, $5,000. • Lauer, Christopher. UHH Research Corporation Travel Award. Fall 2014, $2200. • Luangphinith, Seri I. Korea Foundation. Summer 2015, $11,432. • Marshall, Michael. Chacenllor’s Diversity Committee. Spring 2015, $1800. • Møllegaard, Kirsten. UHH Research Corporation Travel Award, Spring 2015, $2,200.
II. Special Awards • Conley-Ramsay, Bela. ALEX Excellence in Teaching Award, 2014-15.
III. Publications • Feng, Jiren, et al. Elements of Architecture: Roof. Venice [Italy]: Marsilio, 2014. • ---. “Jishu yu wenhua de chanjie: Beisong guanxiu jianzhu zhuanshu Yingzao Fashi de xin yanjiu; The entanglement of technology and culture: New research in the Northern Song official architectural treatise Yingzao Fashi.” Proceeding of the International Symposium “Redrawing the Zeitgeist of Medieval China: From the Perspectives of Knowledge, Beliefs, Society and Their Interactions.” Shanghai: Fudan University, 2014. 203-13. • Fukushima, Yoshiko. “Kazuo Kuroki/Inoue Hisashi’s Chichi to Kuraseba: Remember. Protest and Return to Ordinary Life.” Enola’s Light: Japanese Cinema and A-Bomb. Ed. Matthew Edwards. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 171-83. • Gordon, Ronald. “Reflection on Walt Whitman's 'On Hearing the Learn'd Astronomer.’” In Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach. Ed. Megan Scribner and Sam Intrator. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 2014. 96-97. • Lauer, Christopher. “Irony as Seduction.” In Leonard Cohen and Philosophy: Various Positions, edited by Jason Holt (Chicago: Open Court, 2014), 89-100. • —. “Schelling’s Unfinished Dialogue: Reason and Personality in the Letter to Eschenmayer.” In Schelling’s Practice of the Wild, edited by Jason Wirth (Albany: SUNY Press, 2015), 197-208. • —. Annotated Translation of “Schelling’s Answer to Eschenmayer (1812),” with Jason Wirth. In Schelling’s Practice of the Wild, edited by Jason Wirth (Albany: SUNY Press, 2015), 173-96. • Luangphinith, Seri I. “Beyond Solitary Confinement: Rethinking the Sociopolitical Context of Local Literature in Hawai‘i.” The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature. Ed. Rajini Srikanth and Min Hyoung Song. New York: Cambridge UP, 2015. 389-405. Print. • Mishina, Faith. “’Chile, the Golpe and the Gringos’ or, the Power of Econo-Production at the Expense of Human Rights: The Violent Dawn of Neoliberalism.” The International Journal of Civic, Political, and Community Studies Volume 12 .2 (August 2014): 33-43. • ---. “The Crumbling of Imperial Peace: The Violence of External Acquisition Is Turning Internal. “ The International Journal of Arts and Sciences 7.5 (December 2014): 153-66. • ---. “The Ominous Strings of Neoliberal Puppet Masters: Washington, Allende and Pinochet.” The International Journal of Arts and Sciences. 12.2 (December 2014): 33-43. • ---. “The Latin American Indigenous Perspective in Three Recent Court Cases: Environmental Rights are Human Rights.” The International Journal of Arts and Sciences. 4.1 (March 2015): 7- 18. • Møllegaard, Kirsten. “Into the Woods: Classic Fairy Tales Retold as WWII Survivors’ Stories. Beyond the Moon: Journeys Imaginary and Real. A Humanities Guide to Children's Literature. Honolulu: Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities, 2014. 10-11. Print. • Møllegaard, Kirsten. “Animal Invasion: Estrangement and the Domestic Uncanny in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ and ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue.’" The International Journal of Arts and Sciences. 7.5 (2014): 11-26. Print. • Okuyama, Yoshiko. Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime. Lanham: Lexington (Rowman & Littlefield), 2015. • ---. “Christian Martyrdom in Japanese Contexts: The Amakusa-Shimabara Revolt and Christian Martyrs.” The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, 5.3 (2015): 33-41. • ---. “Deaf Adolescents’ Textisms.” Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior. Ed. Zheng Yan. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. 1419-30. • ---. “Japanese Deaf Adolescents’ Textisms: A Case Study of the Under-Represented Population.” International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology, and Learning. 4.2 (2014): 20-32.
IV. Exhibitions • Grabar, Andrew. 35th Mini Print International of Cadaqués, 2015, Taller Galeria Fort, Barcelona, Spain; Galerie L’Etagd’Art, Bages, France; Wingfield Barns, United Kingdom; and Tharrats Foundation of Graphic Art, Pineda de Mar, Spain, 2015. • ---. 14th Lessedra World Art Print Annual—Mini Print 2015, Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2015. • Goebel, Jon. Master Teachers Exhibit, invitational exhibition curated by Michael Aakhus, Evansville Museum, Evansville IN (March 15 – May 3, 2015). • ---. The Art of the Book. Invitational exhibition curated by Michelle Martin, Sherman Smith Family Gallery, Tulsa, OK (May 1 – June 28, 2015). • ---. Distortion. invitational portfolio exhibition, organized by Wuon-Gean Ho, Southern Graphics Council International printmaking conference, Knoxville, TN (March 18 – 21, 2015). • ---. INK! Jurors Amze Emmons, R.L. Tillman, and Jason Urban. Silpe Gallery, University of Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT (March 14 - April 1, 2015). • ---. Honolulu Printmakers 87th Annual Exhibition. Juror Sonnenzimmer. Honolulu Museum of Art School, Honolulu (February 26 - March 20, 2015). • ---. Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay. Invitational exhibition, curated by Emily Arthur, Marwin Begaye and John Hitchcock. Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St Augustine, FL (January 16 - February 28, 2015) & Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, WI (March 7 – April 6, 2015. http://www.reridinghistory.org/. • ---. SHY RABBIT Print National 5. Juror Karen Kunc. International Juried Exhibition, http://www.shyrabbit.com/Exhibits.html, SHY RABBIT Contemporary Arts, Pagosa Springs, CO (July 26 – September 6, 2014). • ---. The Art of Making. Juror Jill Wakelin. The Makery, Hilo (June 6 - July 13, 2014). Awarded Third Place. • ---. Bite, Burn Scratch. Invitational exhibition, organized by Denise Karabinus. Honolulu Museum of Art School, Mezzanine Gallery, Honolulu, HI (August 7 - September 5, 2014). • ---. Everything Paper. National Juried Exhibition. Juror Karin Campbell. UNO Art Gallery, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Ohama (August 29 - October 2, 2014). • ---. 3rd Annual Armstrong National 2-D Competition Exhibition. Juror Courtney McNeil. Armstrong Atlantic Fine Arts Gallery, Savannah, GA (January 13 - 28, 2014). • ---. Impressions 2014. National Juried Printmaking Exhibition. Jurors John Carr and Michael Sellmeyer. Sarah Silberman Art Gallery, Montgomery College in Rockville, MD (January 28 - February 21, 2014). • ---. 35th Annual Paper in Particular. Juror Craig Barber. Larson Gallery, Columbia College, Columbia, MO (February 3 – March 2, 2014). • Marshall, Michael. Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki, Art Invitational and CD Launch. Gallery ‘Iolani, Windward Community College, Kāne‘ohe (June 20 - July3, 2014). • The Art of Making. Juror Jill Wakelin. The Makery, Hilo (June 6 - July 13, 2014). • Abstract Only. Juror Kaori Ukaji. Wailoa Center, Hilo (Aug. 3-31, 2014).
V. Conference Papers and Presentations • Bardwell-Jones, Celia. “Dependency and Care in Peirce’s Theory of Reasoning,” meeting of the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, Volcano, Hawai‘i , May 1, 2015. • —. “Embodied Technologies at Sea: Theorizing the Ship and the Struggle for Liberation” meeting of the Caribbean Philosophy Association, Maya Rivera, Mexico, June 18-21. • Conway-Nesson, Liam. “The Kupa `Aina Summer Bridge Program: Stories of a Cultural and Environmental Pedagogy.” Western Literature Association in Victoria, B.C. Canada. November 9, 2014. • Feng, Jiren. Panelist. “The Ritual Spaces of the Etiquettes of Receiving Foreign Guests in the Tang and Northern Song Dynasties.” Redrawing the Zeitgeist of Medieval China: From the Perspectives of Knowledge, Beliefs, Society and Their Interactions, Fudan University, Shanghai, November 8-10, 2014. • ---. “Indoctrinating Confucian ideals in architecture: The government construction regulations from the Tang to the Ming.” The 18th Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, June 21-22, 2014. • ---. “The 8th-century building code Yingshanling and its place in Chinese architectural literature.” The 19th Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, June 20-21, 2015. • Freeman, Timothy. “Come on Baby, Light my Fire: Narratives and Images of Fire in Nietzsche’s Engagement with the Traditional Metanarratives of Western and Indian Philosophy,” meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, Los Angeles, October 4, 2014. • —. “Pele’s Abode: Reflections on an Extraordinary Place,” meeting of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Rejkavik, Iceland, May 16, 2015. • —. “Is Intimacy Impossible? Continental Perspectives,” invited presentation for the UH Manoa Philosophy Department, October 31, 2014. • —. “Narrative Epiphenomenalism, or Hegel’s Critique of Twitter,” meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, Los Angeles, October 4, 2014. • —. “Observing the Holy Sabbath of Nature,” meeting of the North American Schelling Society, New York, New York, August 30, 2014. • Fukushima, Yoshiko. “Human Art Center Iida Shigemi’s Transformation: from e-dance to Mikusa no Mitakara.” Panel VIII: Japanese Theatre Challenging Context and Tradition. Association of Asian Performance 14th Annual Conference, Montréal, Canada, July 29-30. • ---. “Roundtable I: Asian Theatre in Public Schools and in the Community – Strategies and Challenges.” Association of Asian Performance 14th Annual Conference, Montréal, Canada, July 29-30. • ---. “Being ‘International’ Politically an Theatrically: Collaboration of Sano Seki and Senda Koreya.” Panel V: The Tension Between Art and Politics: Japanese Proletarian Theatre Artists in the 1920s-1930s. Association of Asian Performance 13th Annual Conference. Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel (July 23-24, 2014). • ---. “On Noda Hideki’s Canon.” In “Cultural Reponses to the United Red Army Affair.” The Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. June 21-22, 2014. • Jubilado, Rodney C. “Cultural Reinforcement in Heritage Education: Perspectives from Filipino- Americans in Hawaii.” 2014 Global Conference on Education. Las Vegas, November 14-15, 2014. • ---. “Doing Ethnographic Research: The Case of Researching on Filipino-Americans in Hawaii.” Invited Speaker, Graduate School of the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. April 28, 2015. • ---. “Syntax Seminar-Workshop on Minimalist Program.” Facilitator-Speaker for the Graduate School of Malay Studies at the University of Science Malaysia, May 8, 2015. • ---. “Just how good my English should be? Delinguisticizing the English Language Variety in the Philippines.” Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences, Negros Oriental State University, Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines. August 14, 2015. • ---. “Doing Multidisciplinary Research: Which Fields Go Together?” Graduate School of Negros Oriental State University, Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines, August 15, 2015. • ---. “Localizing Social Science Research.” Invited Speaker. First Seminar on Academic Writing at the Graduate School of the University of Southeastern Philippines, August 22, 2015. • Lauer, Christopher. “How to Dance the Law: Engaged Embodiment in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,” meeting of the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, April 30, 2015. • Luangphinith, Seri I. “College Ready: Myth or Reality.” Invited Speaker. Hawai‘i ACT State Organization 2015 Annual Conference in Honolulu. April 17, 2015. • Møllegaard, Kirsten. “Legends in the City: The Strange Case of Edgar Allan Poe.” Island Dynamics Conference on Vernacular Religion, Folk Belief and Traditions of the Supernatural in Macau, China. March 23-28, 2015. • ---. “Drawn and Quartered: Gender, Race, and Identity in Two Asian American Graphic Novels.” Western Literature Association Conference in Victoria, B.C., Canada. November 5-8, 2014. • ---. “Graphic Narratives as Literature: Strategies for Critical Reading.” New Directions in the Humanities Conference in Madrid, Spain. June 11-13, 2014. • ---. “Animal Invasion: Estrangement and the Domestic Uncanny in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ and ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue.’” International Journal of Arts and Sciences in Barcelona, Spain. June 16-19, 2014 • Okuyama, Yoshiko. “Author Talk: What Japanese Film and Anime Tell You.” The Hilo Public Library, August 19, 2015. • ---. “Christian Martyrdom in Japanese Contexts: The Amakusa-Shimabara Revolt and Christian Martyrs.” The 5th International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, The University of California at Berkeley, April 16-17, 2015. • Takaoka, Alicia. “Hawaiian Myths and Connections: A New Digital Cultural Library.” Association for Information Science and Technology's Special Interest Group in Digital Libraries on Digital Liaisons: Building Communities and Empowering Culture through Digital Libraries in Seattle, Washington. November 31- December 5, 2014. • ---. “A New Instrument for Moderator Evaluation: Updating Fiedler's Contingency Model for Online Communities.” Social Informatics 2014: The Third ASE International Conference on Social Informatics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. December 15-19, 2014.
VI. Special Appointments (External)
• Celia Bardwell-Jones. Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Program Committee, 2014-2015. • Jiren Feng, Reviewer, Frontiers of History in China. Higher Education Press (China) and Brill Academic Publisher (The Netherlands), Spring 2014. • Yoshiko Fukushima. Reviewer, Dissertation Review, dissertationreview.org , 2015. • ---. Peer Reviewer. An Anthology of Contemporary Japanese Plays. Methuen Drama Bloomsbury Publishing, April 2015. • ---. Member, Emerging Scholar Selection Committee, Association of Asian Performance, 2014- 2015. • Karla Hayashi and Lauri Sagle. Hawai'i P-20 English/Language Arts Work Group, 2014-15. • Jubilado, Rodney C. Fulbright-UC Berkeley Grantee. Filipino Language and Culture Curriculum Development Project at University of the Philippines, Summer 2015. • Seri I. Luangphinith. WASC Review Team for the University of Guam. • Michael Marshall. Juror for "Creative Hands: Selected Works by Pacific Artists" a biennial exhibition since 1992 to showcase current works from the region, Isla Center for the Arts, University of Guam, November 20, 2014 through January 30, 2015. • Michael Marshall. Curator for “Re-imagining Paper and Fiber International Invitational”, July 7 through 25, 2014 at the Wailoa Arts and Cultural Center.