Fall 2018 English Department Colloquium Schedule
[As always, please be on the lookout for adjustments/additions.]
All events are at 3:00 PM on Thursday in KUY 410 unless otherwise specified; unusual dates/times are bolded and/or marked with asterisks
8/23 3:00 PM Department Meeting; 4:00 PM Fall Reception
8/30 Mara Pike, College Mental Health Awareness Training (Workshop on Mental Health)
9/6 Vernadette Gonzalez: “Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i: The Detours Project”
9/13 Department Meeting
9/20 Concentration Meetings (for Graduate Faculty)
*9/20 7:00 PM Tariq Luthun, Reading [Words@Mānoa Event]
9/27 Mahealani Ahia & LynleyShimat Lys (Hawaii Review), “Get Local: Creating a Hawai‘i Centered Open Educational Resource (OER) Textbook for the Humanities with Hawai‘i Review”
10/4 In Rank Meetings (for faculty)
10/11 S. Shankar: “Readings, Rights, and Ahimsa: A Comparative Exploration of Freedom of Expression”
LLL Senior Research Award Lecture—hosted by Office of the Dean, College of LLL
10/18 ENG 625 student presentations
*10/18 5:30 PM J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Talk based on Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism (Duke UP) & Speaking of Indigenous Politics (U of Minnesota P)—Location TBD
*F 10/19 5 PM Samiya Bashir, Reading [Words@Mānoa Event]
10/25 ENG 625 student presentations
*Sa 10/27 CW Conference [Words@Mānoa/ Hawaii Review Event]—Location TBD
11/1 Ramzy Baroud, “Give the Palestinian People the Right to Tell Their Own Stories”
11/8 Chadwick Lecture: Will Stockton and D. Period Gilson: “Between You and Me: A Queer Exegesis on dcTalk and Christian Pop Music”
11/15 Department Meeting
11/22 No Event: Thanksgiving
11/29 Nandi Odhiambo, Reading & Book Launch for Smells Like Stars
12/6 “The Global Early Modern: Reflections on Literature and History”–panel presentation by ENG 730 students
*F 12/7 12:00 Department Party