Re-imagining Indigenous Cultures: The Pacific Islands

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
SUMMER INSTITUTE - 2003

SCHEDULE

Week One
June 30 - July 4

Voyages of (Re)Discovery

Time MONDAY
June 30
TUESDAY
July 1
WEDNESDAY
July 2
THURSDAY
July 3
FRIDAY
July 4
9:30am 
-
Noon

Geoffrey White
Introduction

Vilsoni Hereniko
Representing Cultural Identities

Burns 4111

Robert Kiste

Geographic and Political Overview

Burns 4111

David Hanlon

Decolonizing History in Oceania

Burns 4111

Ben Finney
Jonathan Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio

Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors

Burns 3121

HOLIDAY
Noon
-
1:30pm
Obtain ID cards

Burns 2121/2125

Group Photo

Lunchtime session

John Keola Lake

Hawaiian Culture and Protocol

Hale Halewai

GROUP TRIP

O‘ahu

meet: 
Burns Lobby

Lunchtime session

Film and Discussion

Wayfinders

Hale Manoa

-
1:30pm
-
6:00pm

 

4:30 - 6:00 pm

RECEPTION

Burns Gallery

Library Orientations

1:30: EWC library
Burns Hall 

2:30: Pacific Collection
Hamilton Library

Rm 113

GROUP TRIP

O‘ahu 

  -
Evening - - - SOCIAL EVENT   

Week Two
July 7 - July 11

Narratives of Nation: The Art and Politics of Pacific Identities

Time MONDAY
July 7
TUESDAY
July 8
WEDNESDAY
July 9
THURSDAY
July 10
FRIDAY
July 11
9:30am 
-
Noon
Vicente Diaz

Entangled Na(rra)tives: Indigenous Modernizations in Guam

Burns 3121

Geoffrey White
Tarcisius
Kabutaulaka

Telling Stories: History and National Narrative in Melanesia

Burns 3121

Margaret Jolly

In the Wake of Cook?: Gender and Sexuality on the Cook Voyages and Beyond

Burns 3121

Margaret Jolly

Engendering Roots and Routes in Contemporary Oceanic Arts

Burns 3121

Margaret Jolly
Terence Wesley-Smith

Curriculum Discussion

Burns 3121

Noon
-
1:30pm
- Lunchtime Session

Noenoe Silva

Politics of Hawaiian History

Hale Halewai

- Lunchtime Session

 Terence Wesley-Smith

Moving Cultures: Internet innovations

Burns 3118

 

 

1:30: GROUP TRIP

Bishop Museum

meet:
Burns Lobby

5:00pm
-
6:30pm
- Film and discussion
 (optional)

Since the Company Came (Solomon Is)

Hale Manoa

- Film and discussion
(optional)

A Race for Rights (Fiji)

Hale Manoa

-
7:00pm
Evening

Vicente Diaz


Sahyan Tasi Fache Mwaan: InterVoyage(r)s between the Central Carolines and the Marianas
A Multimedia Presentation

Korean Studies

- - - SOCIAL EVENT

Kaimana Beach

Week Three
July 14 - July 18

Pacific Voices / Island Literatures

Time MONDAY
July 14
TUESDAY
July 15
WEDNESDAY
July 16
THURSDAY
July 17
FRIDAY
July 18
9:30am 
-
Noon
Vilsoni Hereniko

Inside / Out: Pacific Literature & Cultural Politics

Burns 3121

Houston Wood

New Practices of Literary and Cultural Studies

Burns 3121

Caroline Sinavaiana

Myth, Memory and Pacific Writing

Burns 3121

Albert Wendt

Pacific Literature:
A Conversation

Burns 3121

Vilsoni Hereniko
Caroline Sinavaiana
Albert Wendt

Curriculum Discussion

Burns 3121

Noon
-
1:30pm
- Lunchtime Session:
On Local Writing

Paul Lyons
Lisa Kanae
Rodney Morales
Gary Pak

Hale Halewai

Lunchtime Session:

Haunani-Kay Trask

A Poet's Insurrection: Nationalist Poetry in Colony Hawai‘i

Hale Halewai

Lunchtime Session:

Reina Whaitiri

Maori Women Poets

Hale Halewai

-
5:00pm
-
6:30pm
Film and discussion (optional)

Vilsoni Hereniko

Once Were Warriors

Hale Manoa

- Film and discussion
(optional)

Caroline Sinavaiana

Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree

Hale Manoa

- -
7:00pm
Evening
- - - - EVENING EVENT

A Reading by Albert Wendt

HIG 110

Week Four
July 21 - July 25

Imag(in)ing Oceania: Pacific Film and Video

Time MONDAY
July 21
TUESDAY
July 22
WEDNESDAY
July 23
THURSDAY
July 24
FRIDAY
July 25
9:30am 
-
Noon
Vilsoni Hereniko

New Visions: Representing the Pacific in Film

Burns 3121

Caroline Sinavaiana

Teaching the Pacific Through Film

Burns 3121

Barry Barclay

Maori Filmmaking: Recent Interventions

Burns 3121

Teresia Teaiwa

Visual Cultures of the Pacific: Art, Film, Performance

Burns 3121

Barry Barclay
Vilsoni Hereniko
Teresia Teaiwa

Curriculum Discussion

Burns 3121

Noon
-
1:30pm
- Lunchtime Session

Esther Figueroa

Accessing Indigenous Knowledge through Pacific-made Media

Burns 3118

- Lunchtime Session

Pacific Islanders in Communication

Pacific Islander Film and Video

Burns 3118

 

1:30 GROUP TRIP
(optional)

Polynesian Cultural Center

meet: 
Burns Lobby

5:00pm
-
6:30pm
Film and discussion

Vilsoni Hereniko

Making The Land Has Eyes

Hale Manoa

- - - -
7:00pm
Evening
- - EVENING EVENT

Barry Barclay

Celebrating Fourth Cinema

Korean Studies

- PERFORMANCE

Polynesian Cultural Center Evening Show

Week Five
July 28 - August 1

New Pacific: Traveling Cultures

Time MONDAY
July 28
TUESDAY
July 29
WEDNESDAY
July 30
THURSDAY
July 31
FRIDAY
August 1
9:30am 
-
Noon
Kehaulani Kauanui

Pacific Diaspora(s)

Burns 3121

Katerina Teaiwa 

Between our Islands: Flows of Popular Music and Dance

Burns 3121

Epeli Hau'ofa

Our Sea of Islands

Burns 3121

Work on Final Projects Participant Presentations

Burns 3121

 

Noon
-
1:30pm
- Lunchtime Session

Alan Howard

Islands on the Web

Burns 3118

- Lunchtime Session

Geoffrey White
Letitia Hickson

The Institute in Review

Burns 3121/2125

-
5:00pm
-
6:30pm
Film and discussion (optional)

TBA

- - - -
7:00pm
Evening
- - EVENING EVENT

Epeli Hau'ofa

Beyond the Horizon: Creative Exploration in Contemporary Oceania

HIG 110

CLOSING PICNIC -