Ethnic Studies Anniversary : Celebrating 50 Years of Our History Our Way

Island Connections

Island Connections 2020 / 2021
 

Island Connections: Ibrahim Aoudé: The Ethnic Studies Years
April 14, 2021

The discussion centered around Professor Ibrahim Aoudé's years in Hawai‘i and at the Department of Ethnic Studies on the occasion of his impending retirement. Noel Kent and Jonathan Okamura, both Professors of Ethnic Studies (emeritus).

Guests:

• Jonathan Okamura, Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies - UH Mānoa

• Noel Kent, Retired Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies - UH Mānoa

 

Island Connections: Noel J. Kent: Professor Emeritus
March 12, 2021

The panel discussed the academic career of Professor Emeritus Noel J. Kent at the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa

Guests:

• Jonathan Okamura, Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies - UH Mānoa

• Noel Kent, Retired Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies - UH Mānoa

 

Island Connections: Dean T. Alegado: A Farewell
February 13, 2021

Host: Ibrahim Aoudé - Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

The discussion revolved  around the role that Ethnic Studies as an academic unit at the University of Hawai‘i has played and continues to play in the community and on campus since its establishment in 1970. The guests focused on the Oceanic connections that Ethnic Studies has developed and its motto "Our Future, Our Way."

Guests:

• Davianna McGregor, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Oral History - UH Mānoa

• Rosie Alegado, Associate Professor of Oceanography - UH Mānoa

 

Island Connections: Censoring Palestine
December 11, 2020

The guests discussed the censorship that the Zoom provider placed on a program about Palestine and the way in which the University of Hawai‘i administration buckled under to the Zoom provider and thus violated the First Amendment rights of its students, staff and faculty.

Guest:

• Cynthia Franklin, Professor of English - UH Mānoa

• Ma'an Odah, student- grad student in Nutritional Sciences

 

Ethnic Studies: 50 Years On
November 13, 2020

The discussion revolved  around the role that Ethnic Studies as an academic unit at the University of Hawai‘i has played and continues to play in the community and on campus since its establishment in 1970. The guests focused on the Oceanic connections that Ethnic Studies has developed and its motto "Our Future, Our Way."

Guest:

• Ty Tengan, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Anthropology Chair of Ethnic Studies - UH Mānoa

• Davianna McGregor, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Oral History - UH Mānoa

• Ethan Caldwell, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies - UH Mānoa

• Richard Rath, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies - UH Mānoa

• Laurel Mei-Singh, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies - UH Mānoa

• Ulla Hasager, Director of Civic Engagement, College of Social Sciences - UH Mānoa

• Noel Kent, Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies - UH Mānoa

• Jonathan Okamura, Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies - UH Mānoa

• Kyle Kajihiro, Instructor in Geography and Environment, and Ethnic Studies - UH Mānoa

• John Witeck, Community and Labor Activist

• Amefil Agbayani, Community Activist

 

Workers, Tourism, and COVID-19
October 9, 2020

The discussion highlighted  the plight of the tourist industry workers in the current COVID-19 environment. Hawai‘i workers are caught between calls for opening  the economy without much regard to worker safety and remaining unemployed without adequate financial support from the Federal government. 

Guest:

• Eric Gill, Financial Secretary-Treasurer, Unite Here Local-5, Hawaiʻi

 

Two Visions for the UH
September 11, 2020

The show focused on the administration and Board of Regents' vision of a post-COVID-19 UH as opposed to a faculty, students and staff vision of a more open, inclusive, democratic decision-making process that centers around the role of a public university in the service of all of Hawai‘i and one that truly expresses its commitment to being a Hawaiian place of learning.

Guest:

• Cynthia Franklin, Professor of English - UH Mānoa

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