Fall 2024 English Department Colloquium Schedule

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.

As always, please be on the lookout for adjustments/additions.

August 29 Department Meeting and Reception`

September 5 Rank Meetings

September 12 Reading and Craft Talk with Kristiana Kahakauwila

(CBR event co-sponsored by English)

September 19 Title IX/EEO/Student Conduct Workshop

September 26 No colloquium

October 3 Reading and Reception in Tribute to Caroline Sinavaiana

with James Thomas Stevens

October 10 Department Meeting

October 17 Samina Mishra, Happiness Class: Is Happiness Teachable?

October 24 Department Meeting

October 31 Wo Chan, Togetherness

November 7 Nadya Tannous, You Can’t Kill an Idea: Palestine Will Be Free

November 14 Panel and Discussion on History/Historicism in the Curriculum

November 21 Department Meeting

November 28 Thanksgiving Break

December 5 Hold

December 12 Fall Reception. 12:00 pm

Spring 2024 English Department Colloquium Schedule

All events are at 3:00 PM on Thursday.

Colloquia will be held in person in Kuykendall 410 unless otherwise specified.

As always, please be on the lookout for adjustments/additions

January 11 Department Meeting

January 18 No colloquium

Feb 8 Words@Mānoa Presents Bojan Louis

Feb 22 Department Meeting

Feb 29 “The Place of the Personal Essay in our Classrooms,” discussion facilitated by Sarah Allen

March 7 Discussion of Graduate Program Curriculum facilitated by Derrick Higginbotham

March 14 T Kira Madden, Visiting Writer in Residence

March 21 Spring Break—No colloquium

March 28 Sherene Seikaly, Visiting Lecturer

April 4 Department Meeting

April 11 Jennifer Doyle, Chadwick Lecturer

April 12, 10:30 am Workshop with Jennifer Doyle

April 18 Debra Hawhee, Visiting Lecturer

April 25 English Represents!: Undergraduate Showcase

May 2, 12:00 pm Department Reception

Fall 2023 English Department Colloquium Schedule

All events are at 3:00 PM on Thursday.

Colloquia will be held in person in Kuykendall 410 unless otherwise specified.

As always, please be on the lookout for adjustments/additions

8/24 Department Meeting and Fall Reception

8/31 no colloquium

9/7 Discussion of AI and Teaching with Political Science Faculty

9/14 In-Rank Meetings (for Faculty) and Meetings for Lecturers

9/21 Concentration Meetings (for Graduate Faculty)

9/28 Department Meeting

10/5 Francesca Royster, Listening for My Mother: Travels in Music from Chicago to Bahia

10/12 Signs of Life Workshop: “Responding to Self-Disclosure in Student Writing,”

facilitated by Sarah Allen (Writing Programs Director), Liz Calero, Alexander

Khaddouma (UHM Counseling Center) Brittany Winland (Assistant Writing

Programs Director)

10/19 Malak Mattar, “Art, Gaza and Decolonization”

10/26 Sarah Allen, “Beyond Anthropocentrism(?): Logos and the Aesthetic

Relation”

11/2 Discussion of Policies, Assignments, Attendance, and Other Issues in

Undergraduate Teaching, faciliated by Anna Feuerstein (Undergraduate

Director)

11/9 Margo Steines, Reading from Brutalities: A Love Story

11/16 Department Meeting

11/23 Thanksgiving Holiday: No Colloquium

11/30 TBD

12/7 Department Reception [details to follow]