Colloquium Series
Spring 2023 English Department Colloquium Schedule
[As always, please be on the lookout for adjustments/additions.]
All events are at 3:00 PM on Thursday; unusual dates/times are underscored.
Colloquia will be held in person in Kuykendall 410 unless otherwise specified.
January 12 Department Meeting
January 19 Lecturers Meeting
January 26 Graduate Program Assessment (Faculty)
Feb 2 Presentation by Candidate for C/R Position: Tabitha Espina
Feb 9 Presentation by Candidate for C/R Position: Joseph Wilson
Feb 16 Presentation by Candidate for C/R Position: Isaac Wang
Feb 23 Department Meeting: Chair’s Election Presentation
5:30-7:00PM Words@Mānoa Event: Reading by Maryanne Mohanraj
March 2 K. Satyanarayana, “The Cultural and Political Significance of ‘Dalit’ Literature”
[Co-Sponsor: Rama Watamull Collaborative Lecture Series, Center for South Asian Studies; Ethnic Studies]
Associated Event: Ethnic Studies Department Workshop
Friday March 3, 11:30-1 PM, George 301 B
“Race and Caste in Comparison.”
- Satyanarayana in Conversation with Ethnic Studies faculty Ethan Caldwell and Monisha Das Gupta
[all are welcome, but if you would like related readings please write to enghi@hawaii.edu]
March 9 Michael Gillespie, “Give Me Your Love: Black Study and the Art of Blackness”
Joseph Keene Chadwick Lecture
Associated Event: Workshop on Michael Gillespie’s Work
Thursday March 9, 12.00-1.15 PM, KUY 410
[all are welcome, but if you would like related readings please write to enghi@hawaii.edu]
March 16 [Spring Break—No Colloquium]
March 23 TBD
March 30 Reading by Joseph Han, Writer-in-Residence
April 6 English Represents!: Undergraduate Showcase (details to follow)
April 13 Creative Writing Showcase
April 20 Department Meeting
April 27 Free
May 4 [Thursday] 3PM Department Reception [details to follow]
Fall 2022 English Department Colloquium Schedule
[As always, please be on the lookout for adjustments/additions.]
All events are at 3:00 PM on Thursday; unusual dates/times are underscored.
Colloquia will be held in person in Kuykendall 410 unless otherwise specified.
8/25 [Tuesday] 3:00PM Greta La Fleur
8/25 3:00 PM Department Meeting
4:00 PM Fall Reception
9/1 No Colloquium
9/6 [Tuesday] 3:00PM Jonathan Skinner–Words@Mānoa Reading
9/8 In Rank Meetings (for faculty) & Meetings for Lecturers
9/15 No Colloquium
9/22 Concentration Meetings (for Graduate Faculty)
9/29 Department Meeting
10/6 Joseph Han, reading from Nuclear Family
10/13 ʻŌiwi Wahine Craft Writing Colloquium
No’u Revilla, ku’ualoha hoʻomanawanui, Tiana Kahakauwila, Brandy McDougalll
10/20 Neferti Tadiar, Chadwick Lecture
10/21 [Friday] Neferti Tadiar, Discussion
10/27 Presentations by ENG 625 students Part I (program to follow)
11/3 Presentations by ENG 625 students Part II (program to follow)
11/10 Creative Writing Graduate Student Showcase
Contact: Shawna Yang Ryan, Director of Creative Writing
11/17 Department Meeting
11/24 Thanksgiving Holiday: No Colloquium
12/1 “Snaring New Suns: Author Readings and Talking Speculative,
” celebrating a new anthology from Bamboo Ridge Press
with co-editors Tom Gammarino, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada,
D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie, and Lyz Soto
(Zoom—link will be sent in advance)
12/8 “Bowl of Stars”: Reading and Discussion
Alexander Casey, Aaron Kiilau, Kristina Togafau, Briana Uu, and Brittany Winland
(Zoom—link will be sent in advance)
Fri 12/9 Department Reception [Details to follow]
Spring 2022 English Department Colloquium Schedule
All days are Thursdays, unless marked otherwise and events are at 3:00PM. Events will be on Zoom until further notice.
1/13 Department Meeting
1/20 Signs of Life in the Classroom Pedagogy Series: Innovations in the First Year Writing Program. Facilitators: Sarah Allen & Liz Calero
In this workshop, you’ll have a chance to share questions and brainstorm approaches to the anticipated shift to in-person teaching next week. We will also share with you the university’s writing rubric and use it as a springboard for a discussion about what students should be able to do as writers when they leave ENG 100, 100A, or 190. You’ll have a chance to share what you see in student writing and what works in your classrooms, as well as to hear from others about theirs. Finally, you will receive a short description of the FYW Assessment Project that is underway this semester. Please join us!
2/3 Graduate Program Assessment (Graduate Students)
2/10 Signs of Life in the Classroom Pedagogy Series: Racism in the Classroom (details to follow)
2/17 Meeting with Lecturers (open only to lecturers)
2/24 Department Meeting
3/3 Q & A Session on tenure and promotion issues with DPC, DPC Chair and Department Chair for interested faculty
3/10 Candace Fujikane, “Elemental Cartographies: The Resurgence of Kanaloa” (post-sabbatical presentation)
3/17 NO MEETING (Spring Recess)
3/24 Beth Yahp (University of Sydney), “Ephemeral Life Writing As (lecture)
3/31Departmental Futures: Queerness…. (A Conversation)
Discussants: Māhea Ahia, Derrick Higginbotham, Hannah Manshel, Danielle Seid
Comments by discussants will be followed by time for open discussion.
4/7 English Represents!: Undergraduate Showcase (details to follow)
4/14 Recent Department Research (organized by Outreach Committee)
4/21 Department meeting
4/28 Reading by Lawrence Ypil (Department of English’s Creative Writing Fellow for Spring 2022)
5/6 (Friday) 12:00 End of semester party (Details TBD)
Fall 2021 English Department Colloquium Schedule
[As always, please be on the lookout for adjustments/additions.]
All events are at 3:00 PM on Thursday via ZOOM until further notice; unusual dates/times are underscored.
Zoom information will be emailed to the department a few days before the event.
8/26 3:00 PM Department Meeting
4:00 PM Fall Reception
9/2 NO COLLOQUIUM
9/9 In Rank Meetings (for faculty) & Meetings for Lecturers
9/16 Cynthia Franklin, “‘Rising Like a Mighty Wave’: Maunakea and the Movement Beyond the Human”
9/23 Concentration Meetings (for Graduate Faculty)
9/30 Department Meeting
10/7 Departmental Futures: An English Department in Hawai`i in the Twenty-First Century (a series of conversations)
Decolonizing the English Department: What Does It Mean?
10/14 Haunani-Kay Trask and Literature in Hawai`i
A Panel Celebrating the Life and Work of Haunani-Kay Trask
Participants: ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui (Chair), Brandy Nālani McDougall, Laura Lyons, No‘u Revilla
10/21 Shawna Yang Ryan, “Anatomy: A Literary Reading”
10/28 Presentations by ENG 625 students Part I (details to follow)
11/4 Presentations by ENG 625 students Part II (details to follow)
11/11 Holiday: No Colloquium
11/18 Department Meeting
11/25 Thanksgiving Holiday: No Colloquium
12/2 “Call & Response” event with three pairs of students and faculty.
“Chasing the Shadows: Hayden White’s Figuralism in Mental Health Diagnoses”—Li Shan Chan & Craig Howes
“Healing the Indigenous Pacific: A Kåntan Chamorrita Response to Julian Aguon’s ‘The Properties of Perpetual Light’”—Arielle Taitano Lowe & Craig Santos Perez
“An experimental course design that approaches and advances Canagarajah’s theory of translanguaging in the context of Hawai‘i”—Shilpi Suneja & Darin Payne
12/9 Bamboo Ridge Press Presents Special Issue: Kīpuka: Finding Refuge in Times of Change (Book Launch)
Contact: Donald Carreira Ching
Fri 12/10 Department Reception [Details to follow]
Spring 2021 English Department Colloquium Schedule
[As always, please be on the lookout for adjustments/additions.]
Unless otherwise intimated, all events through the Spring 2021 semester will be at 3:00 PM on Thursday via Zoom (link will be shared a few days before the event); unusual dates/times are underscored.
1/14 Department Meeting
1/21 Signs of Life in the Classroom Pedagogy Series: Managing the Labor of Teaching Online
Moderators: Sarah Allen & Candace Fujikane
1/28 Focus Designation Workshop
This will be a hands-on workshop on how to apply successfully for Gen Ed focus designations
Workshop Leader: Georganne Nordstrom; Participants: Sarah Allen, ku’ualoha ho’omanawanui, John Zuern
2/4 Signs of Life in the Classroom Pedagogy Series: Information Literacy Modules
Moderator: Sarah Allen; Participants: Brian Richardson and David Gustavsen (from UHM Libraries)
2/11 Jack Taylor (Assoc. Prof., English, UHM), Lecture–“‘You tired, ain’t you’: The Politics of Emotions in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun“
2/18 The Reading List
What I am Reading and Why Book Reports by
ku’ualoha ho’omanawanui on Alice TePunga Sommerville’s Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook
Hannah Manshel on Tiffany Lethabo King’s The Black Shoals
2/25 FREE/OPEN FOR RESEARCH MEETINGS
NOTE: Anna Deveare Smith’s keynote presentation “Snapshots: Portrait of a World in Transition” is at 3:30PM (please see emails)
3/4 Department Meeting
3/11 Indigenous Filmmaking
Moderator: Danielle Seid
Students in Danielle Seid’s ENG 763: Film Theory and Criticism class will discuss three films by contemporary indigenous filmmakers. After short presentations on the films, audience members will be invited to join the discussion.
3/25 Meeting with Lecturers (open only to lecturers)
4/1 Department Meeting: Graduate Program Assessment with focus on PhD Area Exams (open only to faculty)
4/8 English Represents!: Undergraduate Showcase
Presentation of Work in Undergraduate English Classes from 100+ to 400+, followed by opportunity to socialize
Fri 4/9 3PMwords@Mānoa: Michelle Peñaloza (reading and discussion)
4/15 Joseph Keene Chadwick Lecture: Melissa Sanchez, “Feminist Guilt”
[details to follow] [Dr. Sanchez will also meet with faculty and students in a discussion format—details to follow]
4/22 Celebration of Faculty Research (organized by Outreach Committee)
4/29 Department Meeting
5/7 Department End-of-Semester Celebration [Time and format TBD]