Navigating the In-Between: Oceania in the Pacific Century
Navigating the In-Between: Oceania in the Pacific Century
MON • MAY 9 • 10am–11:30am
(Doors open at 9:30am.)
East-West Center
Jefferson Hall • Keoni Auditorium
1777 East-West Rd, Honolulu
East-West Center, in partnership with Hawaiʻi Contemporary and the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, invites you to a timely panel discussion expanding on Dr. Homi K. Bhabha’s reflections around the Hawaiʻi Triennial 2022’s thematic refocalizations of a ʻPacific Century.’ A diverse panel of scholars will join Dr. Bhabha to discuss fluxes and formations, betwixes and betweens, edges and margins of history, reflecting on knowledge, people, and culture in Oceania’s contemporary and emerging futurities. Moderated by Dr. Alexander Mawyer, Director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Coffee and light refreshments. Program is free with registration. Parking on campus (for a fee); limited parking at auditorium ($10).
* Panelists *
Dr. Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and chair of the Program in History and Literature at Harvard University.
Dr. Jaimey Hamilton Faris is an Associate Professor of Critical Theory and Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her recent writing on Pacific Arts includes “Gestures of Survivance: Angela Tiatia’s Lick and Contemporary Environmental Performance Art in Oceania” in Pacific Arts Journal (2021) and “Interfacing in the Oceans Weave” for TBA21’s Oceans Rising (2021).
Dr. ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui is a Professor of Hawaiian Literature in the English Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is Director of Kaipuolono, a Native Hawaiian digital humanities project, and a founding and current chief editor of ʻŌiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal.
Dr. Tarcisius Kabutaulaka is an Associate Professor at the Center of Pacific Islands Studies at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Dr. Craig Santos Perez, a Chamoru from Guam, is the co-editor of six anthologies and the author of five poetry books and the monograph Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization. He is a professor in the English department at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
