UNIVERSITY Of HAWAII LIBRARY .. ~· ... .. Pacific News from Manoa NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTER FOR PACIAC ISLANDS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I Australia and Indonesia; Ethnobotany; Geography of NOVEMBER 2002 CPIS Hawai'i; Hawai'i: Center of the Pacific; Maritime CONFERENCE TO LOOK AT l\1YTH, Archaeology Survey Techniques, and Samoan and TERRORISM, AND JUSTICE Hawaiian language courses. This year's annual conference at the Center for In addition to credit and noncredit courses, Pacific Islands Studies focuses on "Myth, Justice, and Outreach College puts on a number of public Terrorism" in film and literature from the Pacific programs. Included among these this summer is a and Asia. The conference will be held 5-8 November sneak preview of selected scenes from Fire in the 2002 in Honolulu in cooperation with the Hawai 'i Womb, a new movie by CPIS faculty member Vilsoni International Film Festival, the UH Department of HERENIKO and Jeannette Paulson HERENIKO. The English's Fall Festival of Writing, and NETPAC screenings, which are free of charge, are at 7:00 pm (Network for the Promotion of Asia/Pacific Film). In on 6 and 7 June in the Yukiyoshi Room (Krauss 12). addition to films from the Pacific and Asia, including For information on UH summer session activities, several Hawai 'i premieres, the conference will feature see the website at http://www.summer.hawaii.edu or interviews with filmmakers and panels that explore request a catalog by calling 808-956-5666. themes of terrorism and justice in film and literature. Vilsoni HERENIKO and Ruth HSU are the conference CPIS WELCOMES NEW AFFILIATE convenors. Further information will be available later FACULTY on the CPIS website at http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis. The Center for Pacific Islands Studies welcomes the addition of two Pacific specialists to the UH Mano a PACIFIC ISLANDS COURSES IN faculty. UH SUMMER SESSION Maori specialist Robert WIRI is a new assistant Maori heads the list of Pacific courses to be offered professor of Maori ii1.the Department of Hawaiian in the UH Outreach College's summer sessions. The and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures courses in introductory Maori (IP 101 and IP 102), (DHIPLL). Of Tahoe and Te Arawa descent, Wiri was . taught by Robert WIRI, are tuition-free. They require formerly a lecturer in Maori studies at the University only administrative and term fees. of Auckland, New Zealand. He will be teaching Other Pacific-related courses, which have tuition Maori language at UH Manoa during the summer fees, include archaeological field schools in Rapa session, which begins 28 May 2002." In the fall of Nui, Fiji, and Kohala, Hawai 'i; Art of the Pacific: 2002 he will teach courses in introductory and intermediate-level Maori language and a course on INSIDE Maori society. Wiri's appointment is the culmination Samoan Scholarship Conference ....•.........••...•..• 2 of several years of planning by CPIS and DHIPLL Pacific Papers in SHAPS Stutknt Conference •....• 2 aimed at expanding the current Polynesia language IOccasional Seminars ............................................. 3 program, which 'includes Hawaiian, Samoan, and Faculty Activities ............................................ 3 Tahitian, to offer Maori. CC Students and Alwnni ..................................... 4 Heather Young LESLIE, a Pacific medical and Publications and Videos ................................... 4 cultural anthropologist, is a new assistant professor The Contemporary Pacific: News and Updates .... 7 with the UH Department of Anthropology. Prior to 8 Conferences and Festivals ................................... 7 joining UH she was an assistant professor of Bululin Board ............................... ~................... 9 anthropology at the University of Alberta, in Canada, Pacific News from Manoa January-March 2002 where she taught courses dealing with Pacific Donations to the Samoan Scholarship Fund in the ethnography, biomedicine, gender, theory in medical form of a check to the UH Foundation, with anthropology, and the social and cultural "Samoan Scholarship Fund" designated in the determinants of health. She has conducted research memo section, may be sent to Samoan Scholarship in Tonga on a variety of topics over the past ten Fund, c/o Kapi 'olani Community College years. She is currently teaching a cross-cultural Development Office, 4303 Diamond Head Road, course in folk medicine. In the fall of 2002, she will Ilima 212, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96816. teach a course on Pacific Island cultures and a research seminar on ethnomedicine in the Pacific. PACIFIC PAPERS IN SHAPS STUDENT CONFERENCE SAMOAN SCHOLARSHIP Research in the Pacific was well represented at the CONFERENCE 2002 UH School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific The Samoan Scholarship Conference, 21 January, at Studies Graduate Student Conference, 18-22 March. Leeward Community College, was a follow-up to last The following students, from a variety of year's Fa 'a-Samoa 2000 conference in Honolulu. departments, presented Pacific-related papers: The purpose of the conference, which was supported Michael WYSONG (Botany)-"Lau Atule: by the UH President's Diversity and Equity Initiative, Traditional Purse-Net Fishing in Manu'a, was to showcase undergraduate and graduate American Samo a" programs at UH Manoa and the UH community Betty ICKES (History)-"Homeland Initiatives and colleges in information sessions for the Samoan the Emergence of a Transnational Tokelauan community. In addition the organizers want to make Identity" financial aid and application information more Isebong ASANO (Education)-"Writing Palauan accessible for the Samoan community by identifying Epistemology is a Messy Endeavor" individuals in all the Samoan churches who can serve as liaison with the UH system. These and other Luafata SIMANU-KLUTZ (History)-"0 Ai 'Oe? initiatives, including a Samoan Scholarship Fund, Samoan Identity in Encapsulating Marginality" started last year, aim to encourage Samoan high Trisha WATSON (Law)-"Preservation of the Land, school students to attend UH. Former CPIS graduate Preservation of the People: Broadening the Saili Lilomaiava-DOKTOR (MA 1993) was Environmental Justice Model to Protect instrumental in the organization of this year's Multicultural Societies" conference. Takashi MITA (Political Science)-"Formation of 'Imagined Community' in Colonial Micronesia: The Center for Pacific Islands St11dies Palauan National Identity Imagined as a School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific St11dies Japanese?" University of Hawai'i at Miinoa Brian DIETTRICH (Ethnomusicology)-"Singing 1890 East· West Road Our Faith: Catholic and Protestant Church Music Honol11l11, HI 96822 USA and Identity in Chuuk State, Federated States of Phone: (808) 956-7700 Micronesia" Fax: (808) 956-7053 David KAMMERER (Ethnomusicology)-"A e-mail: [email protected] Hawaiian Cultural Icon Remembered: The Slack Robert C Kiste, Director - Key Virtuosity of Leonard Kwan" Letitia Hickson, Editor Monique MIRONESCO (Political The newsletter can be read on-line at: Science)-"Feminist Consciousness and Identity: http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/Newsletter.html. Women's Studies in Hawai'i" · Items in this newsletter may be freely reprinted. Masami TSUJITA (Geography)-"Becoming a Acknowledgment of the source would be Factory Girl: The Impact of a Japanese Wiring appreciated. To receive the newsletter electronically, Factory on Young Samoan Women's Lives" contact the editor at the e-mail address above. The University of Hawai'i at Miinoa is an Toshiko ARAI (Sociology)-"Dynamics of Equal Opport11nily/Afjir111ative Action l11stit11tio11. Assimilation and Discrimination in the Japanese Occupation Period, 1914-1945, in Palau" 2 Pacific News from Manoa January-March 2002 Simanu-Klutz, Mita, and Tsujita are graduates of pa Ag~tllS~R~ut, and showed footage from, the CPIS MA program. Asang is working on a his new film, Fire in the Womb. Certificate in Pacific Islands Studies while she is a John PULE, novelist, poet, painter, and multimedia doctoral student in the College of Education. performance and video artist, gave a slide talk on the Congratulations to all the participants! importance of family and place in his work. Pule is Visiting Distinguished Writer for spring 2002 in the OCCASIONAL SEMINARS UHM English Department, a position funded in large Jon OSORIO, assistant professor in the UHM Center part by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies' for Hawaiian Studies, gave a talk titled "What Kine National Resource Center grant. A new solo Hawaiian are You?" on 23 January at Native Books exhibition of his paintings, I Once Had a Mind as and Beautiful Things. The talk was based on his Visible as Light, is currently showing in Auckland. recent article by the same name, which wa~ published Kimberlee KIHLENG, Research Project as part of the recent special issue of The Coordinator for the Hawai 'i Outcomes Institute at the Contemporary Pacific on Native Pacific cultural John A Bums School of Medicine, gave a talk on studies. Osorio has just completed his first book, "Globalizing Situations: Women, the Nation-State, Dismembering Liihui: A History of the Hawaiian and Economic Change in Pohnpei, Federated States Nation to 1887, which will be published in June 2002 of Micronesia" on 14 March. She discussed the ways by UH Press. in which women in Pohnpei resist marginalization by Greg FRY, Hedley Bull Fellow in the Department the economic and political forces of global of International Relations, Research School of Pacific capitalism. and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Katerina