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