Women's Studies at University of Hawai'i at Manoa

New Course Spring 2011

2010-12-10T12:31:00.001-08:00

Selected Topics WS 495 (TR 1:30-2:45)

Have you thought about women workers behind your tomatoes?

Gender relations in Fair Trade coffee?

Interested in local, national, and global food and agricultural issues? Body image and eating disorder? This special topics course examines a range of cultural, socio-economic and political issues related to food, agriculture, and body in the US and how they intersect with race, nation and gender.

Key course themes that are addressed from diverse disciplinary and conceptual frameworks include: nutritional science and home economics; culinary nationalism; corporate control of food and farming; women in alternative food movements; women farmers; governance of the agrifood system; food democracy; food sovereignty, body image; dieting.

T/R 1:30-2:45

Contact Aya Kimura at kimuraa@hawaii.edu

New York Times article by Meda Chesney-Lind and Mike Males

2010-04-07T18:00:00.000-07:00

April 2, 2010, New York Times

Op-Ed Contributors

The Myth of Mean Girls

By MIKE MALES and MEDA-CHESNEY LIND

IF nine South Hadley, Mass., high school students — seven of them girls — are proved to have criminally bullied another girl who then committed suicide, as prosecutors have charged, they deserve serious legal and community condemnation.

However, many of the news reports and inflamed commentaries have gone beyond expressing outrage at the teenagers involved and instead invoked such cases as evidence of a modern epidemic of “mean girls” that adults simply fail to comprehend. Elizabeth Scheibel, the district attorney in the South Hadley case, declined to charge school officials who she said were aware of the bullying because of their “lack of understanding of harassment associated with teen dating relationships.” A People magazine article headlined “Mean Girls” suggested that a similar case two years ago raised “troubling questions” about “teen violence” and “cyberspace wars.” Again and again, we hear of girls hitting, brawling and harassing.

But this panic is a hoax. We have examined every major index of crime on which the authorities rely. None show a recent increase in girls’ violence; in fact, every reliable measure shows that violence by girls has been plummeting for years. Major offenses like murder and robbery by girls are at their lowest levels in four decades. Fights, weapons possession, assaults and violent injuries by and toward girls have been plunging for at least a decade.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reports, based on reports from more than 10,000 police agencies, is the most reliable source on arrests by sex and age. From 1995 to 2008, according to the F.B.I., girls’ arrest rates for violent offenses fell by 32 percent, including declines of 27 percent for aggravated assault, 43 percent for robbery and 63 percent for murder. Rates of murder by girls are at their lowest levels in at least 40 years.

The National Crime Victimization Survey, a detailed annual survey of more than 40,000 Americans by the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, is considered the most reliable measure of crime because it includes offenses not reported to the police. From 1993 through 2007, the survey reported significant declines in rates of victimization of girls, including all violent crime (down 57 percent), serious and misdemeanor assaults (down 53 percent), robbery (down 83 percent) and sex offenses (down 67 percent).

Public health agencies like the National Center for Health Statistics confirm huge declines in murder and violent assaults of girls. For example, as the number of females ages 10 to 19 increased by 3.4 million, murders of girls fell from 598 in 1990 to 376 in 2006. Rates of murders of and by adolescent girls are now at their lowest levels since 1968 — 48 percent below rates in 1990 and 45 percent lower than in 1975.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Intimate Partner Violence in the United States survey, its annual Indicators of School Crime and Safety, the University of Michigan’s Monitoring the Future survey and the Centers for Disease Control’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance all measure girls’ violent offending and victimization. Virtually without exception, these surveys show major drops in fights and other violence, particularly relationship violence, involving girls over the last 15 to 20 years. These surveys also indicate that girls are no more likely to report being in fights, being threatened or injured with a weapon, or violently victimizing others today than in the first surveys in the 1970s.

These striking improvements in girls’ personal safety, including from rape and relationship violence, directly contradict recent news reports that girls suffer increasing danger from violence by their female and male peers alike.

There is only one measure that would in any way indicate that girls’ violence has risen, and it is both dubious and outdated. F.B.I. reports show assault arrests of girls under age 18 increased from 6,300 in 1981 to a peak of 16,800 in 1995, then dropped sharply, to 13,300 in 2008. So, at best, claims that girls’ violence is rising apply to girls of 15 to 25 years ago, not today.

Even by this measure, it’s not girls who have gotten more violent faster — it’s middle-aged men and women, the age groups of the many authors and commentators disparaging girls. Among women ages 35 to 54, F.B.I. reports show, felony assault arrests rocketed from 7,100 in 1981 to 28,800 in 2008. Assault arrests among middle-aged men also more than doubled, reaching 100,500 in 2008. In Northampton, the county seat a few miles from South Hadley, domestic violence calls to police more than tripled in the last four years to nearly 400 in 2009. Why, then, don’t we see frenzied news reports on “Mean Middle-Agers”?

What’s more, the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention concluded that girls’ supposed “violent crime increase” in the ’80s and ’90s resulted from new laws and policies mandating arrests for domestic violence and minor youth offenses “that in past years may have been classified as status offenses (e.g., incorrigibility)” but “can now result in an assault arrest.” Thus, the Justice Department found, increased numbers of arrests “are not always related to actual increases in crime.”

This mythical wave of girls’ violence and meanness is, in the end, contradicted by reams of evidence from almost every available and reliable source. Yet news media and myriad experts, seemingly eager to sensationalize every “crisis” among young people, have aroused unwarranted worry in the public and policy arenas. The unfortunate result is more punitive treatment of girls, including arrests and incarceration for lesser offenses like minor assaults that were treated informally in the past, as well as alarmist calls for restrictions on their Internet use.

Why, in an era when slandering a group of people based on the misdeeds of a few has rightly become taboo, does it remain acceptable to use isolated incidents to berate modern teenagers, particularly girls, as “mean” and “violent” and “bullies”? That is, why are we bullying girls?

Mike Males is senior researcher at the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. Meda-Chesney Lind, a professor of women’s studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, is the co-editor of the forthcoming “Fighting for Girls: New Perspectives on Gender and Violence.

09-25 Sonia Amin Public Lecture

2009-09-21T18:28:00.000-07:00

SONIA NISHAT AMIN: Revisiting the Trauma of 1971: Selina Parveen in the Killing Fields of Rayer Bazaar

UHM Women’s Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2009
A presentation and discussion by:
Professor Sonia Nishat Amin
Department of History at the University of Dhaka and the Arthur Lynn Andrews Chair at the UHM School of Pacific and Asian Studies

Friday, 9/25/09
12:30pm-2:00pm
Saunders 637

This paper attempts to reconstruct the struggle of poet, journalist, editor and Freedom Fighter, Selina Parveen leading up to her tragic death at the hands of the Pakistani army and their collaborators in Bangladesh's War of Liberation, 1971. Selina Parveen is one of the few women who have been honoured by the commemorative stamps issued by the state in remembrance of the 'Martyred Intellectuals'. Yet her life story is often obliterated by the amnesia of historians who tend to gloss over the role of women in history. In this paper I would like to briefly reconstruct the trajectory of Parveen's life and struggle as part of the Bengalee Resistance in 1971 - from the start of her career as an independent journalist to the last moments of her brutal death in the killing fields of Rayer Bazaar.

Fall 2009 Women's Studies Colloquium Schedule

2009-08-26T18:19:00.000-07:00

Fall 2009 Colloquium Series

09/11 Kimberlee Bassford (filmmaker) discusses Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority

* co-sponsored with the Center for Biographical Studies, the Bridge to Hope Program, UHM Women’s Center, the UHM Archives Department and the UHM Political Science Department

09/18 Anne Keala Kelly (filmmaker) discusses Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai`i

10/02 Michael J. Shapiro (UHM-Political Science) “Mother’s Talk and Mother’s Arms: Edward P. Jones’ Washington, DC”

· co-sponsored with the Political Science Department

10/16 Kathryn Davis (UHM-Second Language Studies) TITLE TBA

10/23 Elyssa Faison (University of Oklahoma-History) “Gender and Labor in Korea”

· co-sponsored with the UHM Center for Korean Studies

11/13 Brianne Gallagher (UHM-Political Science) “The Blog of War: (Re)producing U.S. Soldiers in an Age of Terror”

· co-sponsored with the Political Science Department

12/04 Women’s Studies Capstone Presentations

TITLE(S) TBA

All colloquia take place at Saunders Hall, Room 637 from 12:30-2pm on the (Friday) date noted above. Please contact Bianca Isaki (bisaki@hawaii.edu) for more information.

More pictures from Ruth Dawson's retirement reception

2009-05-01T18:39:00.000-07:00

We are going to miss you Ruth!

Women's Studies Colloquium May 1 (F)

2009-04-27T13:03:00.000-07:00

Women's Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2009
May 1 (F) 12:30-2:00 Saunders 541

One of Women's Studies faculty members, Dr. Ruth Dawson is retiring at the end of this semester. This special talk by Dr. Dawson is followed by a reception to celebrate her accomplishments and a new start. Please come and join us!

"Framed! A Gendered take on Words and Images"

by Ruth Dawson (Women's Studies, UHM)

Abstract: Using examples that range from Hawaii, modern and ancient, to 18^th-century Germany, this talk explores gendered narratives of looking and being looked at and asks us to think how these acts are represented in a mural we walk past almost daily, in transcripts of abortionist trials, and at other sites where words and images interact.

Ruth Dawson is a professor of Women’s Studies, a position she reached after many years in the non-tenure-track wilderness in which increasing numbers of UHM faculty will probably soon be confined. She earned her Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, and, as her three thick personnel folders in the Dean’s office attest, has probably been terminated more often from the University of Hawaii than all her Women’s Studies colleagues combined—after all, lecturers get ceremonially terminated every semester! In addition to the varied teaching, which she loves, her research focuses on the rediscovery and reassessment of eighteenth-century German women writers, the analysis of representations of Catherine the Great of Russia and of Catherine as an early woman celebrity, and critiques of the exploration texts that resulted from the Cook voyages in the Pacific.

April 24 (F) 12:30-

2009-04-20T17:40:00.000-07:00

Women's Studies Graduate Certificate capstone presentation

Mapping Convergence: Feminism, Nationalism, and Indigenous Women Writers

Sarah Smorol (American Studies, UHM)

Abstract: “Mapping Convergence” is a talk that explores the places where feminism has been integrated into Nativist/Indigenist and Nationalist movements through literature by women writers from the Chicana, Native American and Native Hawaiian communities. Particular attention is placed on the period from the late 1970s to early 1980s when a plethora of books were published focusing on contributions from Native women writers.

Speaker bio: Sarah Smorol is a second-year PhD candidate in American Studies and working towards the Advanced Women’s Studies Graduate Certificate at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Previous education includes a B.A. in Language and Cultural Studies from the State University of New York Empire State College and an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Cross-Cultural Arts and Literature) from San Diego State University.

Room: Saunders 541

Open to public

WS Colloquium April 17 Friday

2009-04-13T00:11:00.000-07:00

Japanese Women's Participation in Transnational Women's Activism, 1870s-1880s

Rumi Yasutake (Konan University, Japan)

--Co-sponsored with Center for Japanese Studies--

April 17 (Friday)

12:30pm-1:30pm, Saunders 541

Abstract

This paper examines interaction among American and Japanese men and women in the Tokyo-Yokohama area during the 1870s and 1880s, focusing on the inception of a Japanese women's union in Tokyo of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union(WWCTU), the largest women's organization in turn-of-the-century America. The Japanese women's union was formed through
efforts of Mary C. Leavitt, a "round-the-world missionary” dispatched by the WWCTU. By that pivotal moment, Japan had fully recognized the need to Westernize and modernize itself to sustain its integrity from the threat posed by the Western powers. Preceding Leavitt were American missionary women, who had arrived in Japan along with government officials, traders, and industrialists. The presence of American women in Japan, which demonstrated material wealth and advanced technology of America, were welcomed by Japanese men and women in the 1870s and 1880s when Japan looked up to the Western nations for its model for civilization. From a macro-point of view, American women, who came to Japan for the expansion of their religious beliefs or of their moral movement, looked to be effective agents of American, especially cultural, imperialism. However, when you closely examine interactions between American and Japanese men and women, the seeming expansion of American cultural values and customs appears to be far more complex and illusive. This paper investigates collaboration and contention among American and Japanese men and women who responded to
Leavitt's call to organize a WCTU union in the Tokyo-Yokohama area in the 1880s.

Rumi Yasutake is a professor in the Faculty of Letters, Konan University in Kobe, Japan.
She is the author of the book Transnational Women's Activism: The United States, Japan, and Japanese Immigrant Communities in California,1859-1920 (New York: New York University Press, 2004).

Women's Studies Colloquium April 16

2009-03-24T18:55:00.000-07:00

April 16:

“A Japanese in Every Jet” Gender, Mobility, and Modernity in Postwar Japan

By Dr. Christine Yano (Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, UHM)
Date: Thursday April 16
Time: 3:00 pm—4:30 pm
Location: Korean Studies Auditorium, East West Rd (opp. Moore Hall)

(Refreshments Provided)

See attached flyer for more information.

Abstract:
In 1964, the Japanese government lifted international travel restrictions, opening the floodgates for international travel. By May 1967, Life magazine proclaimed, “Newest Stewardess Fad: A Japanese in Every Jet,” featuring Japanese stewardesses on eleven international carriers.

This paper examines the “Japanese-in-every-jet” phenomenon through the experiences of Japanese stewardesses who flew for the world’s premier carrier, Pan American World Airways.
It suggests that the job took elite Japanese women out of the national home and into the corporate sphere of Pan Am’s global cabin and foreign ports of call.

Free and open to the public.

WS colloquium March 20, 2009

2009-03-16T13:05:00.000-07:00

Battle of the Sexes in the New Millennium

Examining Sport and Gender

Trina Kudlacek

(UHM, Office of Student Athlete Academic Services)

March 20 (Friday)

12:30pm-1:30pm, Saunders 541

Abstract

The 1970’s were a pivotal decade for the empowerment of women and women’s involvement in sport reflected the spirit of the times. In 1972, Title IX was passed and in 1973 Billy Jean King played Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes”. Now, 36 years later, both women and men, are becoming more aware of how traditional gender roles shape and restrict their participation in sport as in larger society. This talk will examine the importance of sport, as a socially constructed and gendered institution, through which hegemonic masculinity is reproduced and reinforced.

Trina Kudlacek received her Doctorate of Education in Sport Psychology and Counseling from Temple University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Her academic focus has been on diversity issues in athletics with particular emphasis on race, ethnicity, and gender. She has worked in academic support services with college student-athletes for 17 years and currently has a position as an academic adviser for the Office of Student Athlete Academic Services at UH Manoa. In addition to academic advising, Trina currently teaches two courses on line at Oregon State University, one in the Exercise and Sport Sciences entitled "Power and Privilege in Sport" and the other "Women in Sport" through the Women's Studies Department. She also teaches a course in the sociology of sport in the Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science Dept. at UH Manoa. She is the author of a textbook chapter on sychosocial issues of college student-athletes and has also presented at national and international conferences on coach/athlete relationships, diversity issues for student-athletes of color, and academic support strategies for student-athletes.

Rainbow bridge academic fair

2009-03-06T11:07:00.000-08:00

Women's Studies participated in the Rainbow Bridge Academic Fair.
More on the Rainbow Bridge Program:

The Rainbow Bridge program will familiarize prospective community college transfer students with the Mānoa campus, inform them on policies and procedures which affect their enrollment at Mānoa, showcase various academic and student service programs, and provide opportunities for students to network with Mānoa faculty and staff.

If you are transfer students to Manoa and would like to know more about Women's Studies, please contact 956-7464, or email any of our faculty members.

WS colloquium March 13 (F) Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence: The Japanese Experience

2009-03-03T16:54:00.000-08:00

Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence: The Japanese Experience

Yuma Totani

Department of History, UHM

--Co-sponsored with Center for Japanese Studies--

March 13 (Friday) 12:30pm-1:30pm, Saunders 541

Abstract

Since the establishment of international tribunals in the 1990s, there have been debates concerning the extent to which justice systems can help victims and perpetrators of mass atrocity begin the process of confronting the past and restoring the fabric of torn communities. This paper explores how rape, sexual slavery, and other forms of sexual violence that accompanied the Japanese conduct of war were documented at WWII war crimes trials on the one hand and the present-day civil lawsuits on the other. By comparing the two types of legal proceedings, Totani considers the possibilities and limitations of the judiciary in achieving justice, establishing accountability, and restoring the dignity of the victims of atrocity.

Yuma Totani obtained her Ph.D. in History at the University of California at Berkeley, in 2005. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, in 2005-2006. She is currently an assistant professor of History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her representative publication is The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008). The Japanese edition, Tōkyō saiban: dai 2-ji taisen go no hō to seigi no tsuikyū (Tokyo: Misuzu shobō, 2008), is translated and revised by the author.

Student group

2009-02-19T12:05:00.000-08:00

Students affiliated with Women's Studies program created a group called Collective for Equality, Justice & Empowerment. Check out their website here

CEJE will be organizing the Feb 27 panel on violence against women.

Feb 27 Colloquium

2009-02-19T12:02:00.000-08:00

CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE: LINKING GENDER & RACE”

February 27, 2009
12:30 – 1:30
SAUNDERS 541

PANEL SPEAKERS:

NJOROGE NJOROGE, PhD. Department of History (UHM)
JENNIFER ROSE, J.D. Gender Equity Specialist (UHM)

How is structural violence produced and reproduced?
Experienced and expressed?
Negotiated and navigated?
Accommodated and resisted?

This colloquium will, from various angles, address these profound, perplexing, and perennial questions in specific contexts, and through the insights of activists and academicians in the field and on the ground.

ORGANIZED BY THE COLLECTIVE FOR EQUALITY, JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT
ceje@hawaii.edu

Feb 20 talk: Toward a Feminist Analysis of the Collapse of Public Education

2009-02-19T12:00:00.000-08:00

Toward a Feminist Analysis of the Collapse of Public Education
Mari Matsuda Law School, UHM

--Co-sponsored with Department of Political Science--

February 20 (Friday)12:30pm-1:30pm, Saunders 541

Abstract: This talk brings a feminist theory/critical race theory perspective to the analysis of the collapse of public education. Universal, quality public education as an ideal is an accepted part of liberal discourse in the United States, belied by the reality of large numbers of children with no access to minimally decent education. The actual expectation and experience of most American families is that finding adequate education for their children is a significant challenge. In Hawaii, educated parents are increasingly unwilling to send their children to public schools, a trend mirrored in other urban areas, and exacerbating a have vs. have-not education system. There are many material and ideological reasons for the decline of the public school. This talk will focus on the gendered aspects, considering, for example, the effect of teaching as “women’s work,” the abandonment of the feminist strategy of comparable worth, “private sphere” and privatization, and the third shift that women work in order to maintain functions – such as team mom and fundraiser – that shore up the defunded system of public education. I would like to make a tentative link to the larger problem of public quietude in the face of completely unacceptable social realities. Why do we accept largely inadequate public services, whether in health care, education, mental health, elder care – any number of areas that we all need, desperately, at one time or another? What is it about late-capitalist patriarchy that imposes the collective sense that created problems are intractable realities, and that organizing for change is futile?

Ann Dunham: A Personal Reflection

2009-01-22T12:14:00.000-08:00

An article from Anthropology News, written by Dr. Alice Dewey and Dr. Geoffrey White.

news related to our previous panel on Ann Dunham

2009-01-22T11:58:00.000-08:00

We organized a panel discussion on the contribution on Ann Dunham, the mother of President Barak Obama, in last September (see previous post). Here are some news related to the conference.

"A woman of the people:A symposium recalls the efforts of Stanley Ann Dunham to aid the poor "(Star Bulletin)

"Obama's mother's work focus of UH seminar" (Honolulu Advertiser)

"Long-range love of Obama’s absent mother" (Times online)

100 years of women at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa

2009-01-22T11:47:00.000-08:00

Link to women's history walking tour at University of Hawai'i at Manoa. This site was created by Dr. Ruth Dawson and her students. Enjoy!

January 30 (Friday) WS Colloquium

2009-01-21T23:08:00.000-08:00

Women's Studies Colloquium Series (Spring 2009)
January 30 (Friday) 12:30pm-1:30pm, Saunders 541

Riding Astride: Self-Representation in Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West

By Kristin M. McAndrews (Department of English, UHM)

Abstract

In “Riding Astride: Self Representation in Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West,” I will discuss the way in which female identity emerges in a collection of stories I gathered from women who work with horses in Winthrop, Washington, a legally mandated Western theme town. To understand the complex cultural dynamics of these women and the humor they employ in storytelling, I found it necessary to commit myself to this geographic location in order to begin comprehend humor and gender in the American West. I also discovered the need to include my own experience, analyzing my off-centered relationship with the women I interviewed and the community I researched. What resulted from my work was another way in which to consider scholarship of women’s narratives.

Speaker bio: Kristin M. McAndrews is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. She works with folklore, oral narratives, auto/biography, humor, tourist and gender studies and culture and cuisine. Most recently, she has researched on the 1850 visits to Paris by Lot Kamehameha and Alexander Liholiho. Working at Bishop Museum and the National Library of France in Paris, she is looking at the ways in which these future rulers of Hawai`i enter and exit the discourse of the Grand Tour, a traditional narrative of upper class European young men.

Spring 2009 Women's Studies Colloquium at University of Hawai'i at Manoa

2009-01-21T23:07:00.000-08:00

Jan 30 (F) Kristin M. McAndrews (UHM, English)

“Riding Astride: Self-Representation in Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West”

Feb 20 (F) Mari Matsuda (UHM, Law School)

“Moving Education from the Public to the Private: A Critical Race Theorist and Feminist Analysis of the School Problem”

Feb 27 (F) Njoroge Njoroge (UHM, History) and Jenn Rose (UHM, Gender Equity Specialist)

“Critical Reflections on Structural Violence: Linking Race and Gender”

--Organized by Collective for Equality, Justice, and Empowerment (CEJE)--

March 13 (F) Yuma Totani (UHM, History)

“Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence: The Japanese Experience”

--Cop-sponsored with Center for Japanese Studies--

March 20 (F) Trina Kudlacek (UHM, Office of Student Athlete Academic Services)

“The Battle of the Sexes in a New Millennium: Examining Sport and Gender”

April 16 (R) Chris Yano (UHM, Anthropology)

“A Japanese in Every Jet”: Gender, Mobility, and Modernity in Postwar Japan

--Co-sponsored with Center for Japanese Studies and anthropology department--

*note that this talk is at Moore Hall 319 and starts at 3:00.

April 17 (F) Rumi Yasutake (Konan University)

“Japanese Women's Participation in Transnational Women's Activism, 1870s-1880s”
--Co-sponsored with Center for Japanese Studies--

April 24 (F) Women’s Studies Graduate Certificate capstone presentation

“Feminism, Nationalism and Indigenous Women Writers” by Sarah Smorol

May 1 (F) Ruth Dawson (UHM, Women’s Studies)

“Memory sticks: a backward look at UHM Women's Studies”

12:30-2:00, Saunders 541 unless otherwise noted

Fall 2008 Women's Studies Colloquium at University of Hawai'i at Manoa

2009-01-21T17:12:00.001-08:00

Sept 12 (F)
“DR. Stanley Ann Dunham: An Extraordinary Woman and Her Work”
Alice Dewey (UHM anthropology), Nancy Cooper (UHM anthropology), and Bron Solyom (Jean Charlot Collection at UHM Library)

Sept 19 (F)
“Sexuality and Ethnicity: Issues from a Philippine Perspective”
Lilia Quindoza Santiago (UHM Indo-Pacific Languages)
co-sponsored with Center for Philippine Studies

Sept 26 (F)
“Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific”
Kathy Ferguson (UHM Women’s Studies and Political Science)
Monique Mironesco (UH West Oahu, Political Science)
co-sponsored with Department of Political Science

Oct 10 (F)
“The Women of Liulichang: Female Collectors and Bibliophiles in Late-Qing China”
Shana Brown (UHM History)
co-sponsored with Center for Chinese Studies

Oct 31 (F)
“'Japanese Eyes, American Heart': Race, Nation, and Masculinity in Japanese American Veterans' WW II Narratives”
Mire Kokari (UHM Women’s Studies)

Nov 14 (F)
“Smoke, Sex, and “Masculine” Women: Tobacco in the Early Modern World”
Matt Romaniello (UHM History)