lJ ~'Vt: ~ITY Oa- HAWAII LI RARY . Pacific News from Manoa NEWSLETIER OF THE CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAl'I for having produced "a significant body of work of "MOVING CULTURES" PLANS exceptional quality." Hereniko, who began writing ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE and directing plays as an undergraduate at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, is the author of Moving Cultures: Remaking Asia-Pacific Studies, five full-length plays and ten one-act productions. an international and interdisciplinary conference His latest play, Fine Dancing, was produced in highlighting new directions in collaborative area Honolulu in August and as a part of the Stories of studies research and teaching about Asia-Pacific, the Pacific Festival in Guam in October. In addition will be held 10-13 June 1998 in Honolulu. The to his plays, Vilsoni has written short stories, conference marks the culmination of the first stage children's books, and a monograph, Woven Gods, of a project funded by the Ford Foundation as part based on his doctoral dissertation on clowning in his of its initiative, Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area home island of Rotuma. Studies. The conference will feature reports on Joseph STANTON, a poet and associate professor global-local interactions in the Republic of Palau, as in arts and humanities at UH, received the second well as presentations that will place the Palau material Cades award as "a writer not yet widely recognized in wider regional and historical contexts. The who shows unusual talent and promise." Stanton and conference convenor is Terence WESLEY -SMITH at Hereniko were honored at a reception and reading at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies. An the Honolulu Academy of Arts on 20 November. announcement for the conference is included with this newsletter. HATTORI AND TEAIWA HERENIKO WINS CADES AWARDED FIRST LITERATURE AWARD HEYUM SCHOLARSHIPS Vilsoni HERENIKO, celebrated playwright and Pacific Anne HATTORI and Katerina TEAIW A have been literature specialist at the Center for Pacific Islands awarded Heyum Scholarships for the 1997-1998 Studies, has been awarded one of two Elliott Cades academic year. Hattori earned her MA in Pacific Awards for literature for 1997. Hereniko was chosen Islands studies in 1995 and is currently a doctoral student in history at UH Manoa; Teaiwa is a second­ ::::::::::::::::::· .:•,•.:•,•.:•,•.:•,•,•.. '.·,•.:•,• .. •.,•.• .,•.•.,•.•.:=·. year student in Pacific Islands studies. They are the ::; :· .::::: ::~:~:~ =~=~:::=:~:~=~== :::~:~:::~ :~::::::~: ::~:~ :::::~:~:~:;: :;:::::;< ::;::::~::::'.::::: ? ;:: .'.••.•.. ••.'.••.·· 1N·'''.i•,••''s•''.( 1'''.•n''''•''.''E'''''•.'.,•,,•.;,::.•····•.•.•.•.••.• .:;: :: ::::: :;: ::::: :;: .;.;:· .. ~:}f'.;:;:::: first scholarship recipients from the fund, which was started in 1994 by a generous gift from Miss Renee HEYUM, Curator Emeritus of the Pacific Collection at UH Manoa. After her death, the fund was augmented by contributions from many friends and colleagues of Miss Heyum. The purpose of the fund is to assist Pacific Islanders in their studies at the University of Hawai 'i. Hattori' s doctoral research concerns the history of the US Naval Government on Guam between 1898 and 1941, particularly as this government was experienced by the Chamorro people. She will use the scholarship to support her research in the naval archives and other collections in Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1997 the Washington, DC area. Teaiwa's work focuses on the scholarship, an applicant must be a citizen of a contemporary issues affecting Banabans living on developing member country of the ADB and have Rabi or on Banaba. two years of work experience. The application Each spring the fund normally awards one $3000 deadline for the 1999-2000 academic year is scholarship, based on merit and need, for the 15 October 1998. upcoming academic year. For application Japan Continues Support to PIDP information, contact Graduate Chair, Center for The government of Japan awarded the East-West Pacific Islands Studies, at the address on the Center's Pacific Islands Development Program masthead. Contributions to the fund are welcomed (PIDP) $400,000 as part of its continuing financial and may be sent to UH Foundation/Heyum support for the program. The award will help support Endowment, University of Hawai 'i, Honolulu, ID scholarships for Pacific Island undergraduate and 96822. graduate students, as well as other PIDP activities. In announcing the contribution, Japan's Consul General NEWS IN BRIEF,. in Hawai 'i, Kishichiro AMAE, said, "This contribution expresses the strong commitment of the ADB Grants Extend to Pacific Islands Studies Japanese government to the sustainable development The Asian Development Bank, which offers of the countries and the improvement of the people's opportunities to talented individuals from its well-being in the Pacific region." Since 1978, Japan developing member countries to pursue postgraduate has contributed over $3.2 million to the EWC and studies through its Japan Scholarship Program, has PIDP. approved the scholarship for the master's in Pacific Islands Studies at UH Manoa. The award covers full Michael Hamnett to Head SSRI tuition and fees and provides for a monthly Michael HAMNETT has been appointed director of subsistence stipend and round-trip airfare among the Social Science Research Institute at UH Manoa. other items. For information and application forms, Hamnett, who has been acting director since 1996, write to ADB Scholarship, Program on Education has served as Deputy Director of the Pacific Islands and Training, East-West Center, 1601 East-West Development Program, EWC, and as a senior policy Road, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96848-1601. Email: analyst with the Pacific Basin Development Council. [email protected]; tel: (808) 944-7595; His recent work has focused on coastal resource fax: (808) 944-7070. In order to be eligible for management in Hawai 'i and American Samoa; disaster mitigation in Hawai 'i and the Pacific Islands; marine resource management in American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam; the tuna industry in the Pacific; and climate variability ·and change. The Social Science Research Institute is supported largely by contracts and grants from public agencies and private organizations. It facilitates and supports applied interdisciplinary research addressing critical social, economic, and environmental problems, primarily in Hawai 'i and the Asia-Pacific region. For more information, see the SSRI website at www2.hawaii.edu/ssri/. FINE DANCING HAS GUAM DEBUT IN OCTOBER Author Vilsoni HERENIKO, producer Jeannette PAULSON, and the entire cast of Fine Dancing were in Guam to open the second annual Stories of the Pacific Festival at a Gala Dinner Theater on 2 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1997 8 October. The play, which was originally produced Jolly, who has written on gender and the politics on the beach at Ala Moana Park in Honolulu in of tradition, particularly in Vanuatu, is currently August and adapted for the production in the Hyatt working on European representations of Oceanic Regency Guam Ballroom, was enthusiastically difference-gender, race, and sexuality-from received by festival goers. Rena OWEN, theater and Cook's voyages and in later travel writing, literature, movie actress best-known for her role in Once Were and cinema. Her most recent book is a volume of Warriors, reprised her role as Hina, the moon essays coedited with Leonore MANDERSON, Sites of goddess, in Fine Dancing. Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia In addition to opening the festival, the play had and the Pacific (University of Chicago Press). two public performances, and two cast members, Rena Owen and Timi T AUPUA, master drummer UH-AMERICAN SAMOA from Tahiti, conducted workshops for festival DEDICATED TELELINK participants. According to Hereniko, it was a wonderful trip, during which the cast and staff were A new telecommunications link between the beneficiaries of the warm Guam hospitality, University of Hawai'i and American Samoa has been exchanging songs and dances long into the night. established through the PEACESAT (Pan-Pacific Education and Communication Experiments by The Stories of the Pacific Festival is a celebration Satellite) program. The new hookup, which is a 24- of storytelling through dance, film, theatre, music, hour-a-day link for distance education and print, and narration. CPIS students Lee PEREZ (MA telemedicine applications between UH and the LBJ 1997) and Fata SIMANU-KLUTZ, from Pacific Tropical Medicine Center in Pago Pago, is the Resources in Education and Learning, also took part highest quality link for video teleconferencing that in the festival, which was sponsored by the Guam has been established for the Pacific. It is also the first Humanities Council. sustained link for the network. Those who missed Fine Dancing in Hawai'i and The link is similar in concept to HITS (Hawai 'i Guam can look forward· to seeing it on the big Interactive Telecommunications System), but does screen. In May, Hereniko was awarded seed money not require the personnel infrastructure that HITS from the Hubert Bals Fund committee in Rotterdam requires; the camera tracking and focusing can be to create a screenplay. controlled by discussion leaders on either end via a small keyboard connected through an infrared link. JOLLY LECTURES ON PACIFIC The link will be used during spring semester 1998 HISTORY AND GENDER to deliver two University of Hawai