face-to-face: Indigeneity, Colonialism and Settler Communities Across the Globe
A conference by the American Studies Graduate Student Association at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa
 April 3, 2010- Campus Center 9AM to 3PM- This is a FREE EVENT!! This is an SAPFB Sponsored Event Schedule of Events
9:00-10:00 AM: Registration and Opening Remarks by AJ Duxbury over Coffee and Pastries in the Campus Center Executive Dining Room Registrar: Sanae Nakatani
10:00-11:00 AM: Session 1 Colonialism and Incarceration in Hawai'i (Campus Center 307) Moderator: Stacy Nojima J. Chesley Burruss, American Studies. “Prison Exile: Overincarceration, Colonialism, and the use of Private Prisons.” Macey Luo, Nursing and Women’s Studies. “Trauma/PTSD among Girls within the Juvenile Justice System.” Eri Oura, Political Science & Women’s Studies. “‘Racial Tensions are Simmering in Hawaii’s Melting Pot’: Deconstructing Representations of the 2007 Waikele Case.”
Constructing Othered Identities (Campus Center 308) Moderator: AJ Duxbury Abraham Flores, Jr., American Studies. “Double-Edged Endearments: An Exegesis of Conchitina Valdez’s Combined Love Letters – Ilokano literature used in the articulation of fervent adoration.” Patrick Kaiku, Pacific Island Studies. “Christian Missions and the Demonization of Indigenous People's “Pasts”: On-going Trends of Missions Vilifying 'Kastom' on New Hanover Island in Papua New Guinea.” Reid Uratani, Political Science. “The Logic of Incorporation: Mahu, Liberalism, and the Rights of Man.” 11:15AM-12:15PM: Session 2 War and National Identity (Campus Center 308) Moderator: Yusuke Ikeda Alvin Lim, Political Science. “Khmerness qua Event.” Kevin Lim, American Studies. “Debunking The Myth of Canadian Multiculturalism: A Case Study of Select Japanese Canadian Internment Films.” Linda Michaud-Emin, Political Science. “Identifying Complexities within an Ethnic or Sectarian Post-Colonialist Framework: Turkish Occupation of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).”
Marginalization Through Representation (Campus Center 307) Moderator: Nicole LaPrade Brian Alofaituli, Pacific Island Studies. “The Portrayal of Sāmoan NFL Players in the Media.” Sue Haglund, Political Science. “Tule Traversal Bodies in Modern Panama” Benjamin Hedge Olson, American Studies. “Metal World: Globalized Subcultures and Cosmopolitan Headbangers.”
12:30-1PM Keynote Presentation by Dr. Sivasish Biswas of Assam University in the Campus Center Executive Dining Room
1:00-1:45PM Lunch in the Campus Center Executive Dining Room
2:00PM-3:15PM: Session 3 Philippines: Colonized & Settler Colonizer (Campus Center 307) Moderator: Miguel Llora Eriza Bareng, American Studies. “The Direction of Modern Philippine Historiography and a Short Case Study.” Kim Compoc, English. “Filipinos and Statehood: Reflections on American Assimilation and Settler Complicity.” Melanie Medalle, Political Science and Women’s Studies. "1898 Unfortunates’: Reimagining Sex, Race, and Aesthetico-Sensory Space in the Treaty of Paris and Resistance to US Conquest of the Philippines.” Theresa Navarro, American Studies. “Exhibiting Nation, Citizenship and Gender in the Philippines: The Pinay as Politico-Historical Prop at the Ayala Museum Diorama Experience.”
Colonization Through Film (Campus Center 308) Moderator: Karyn Mo Wells Megumi Chibana, Political Science. “Representations of Hawaii and Okinawa.” Yujung Lee, American Studies. “A Declaration of Love all the Same: Chicago and Modern Boy.” Ebil Matsutaro, Pacific Island Studies. “Palau: A Living Specimen of the Sea.” face-to-face: Indigeneity, Colonialism and Settler Communities Across the Globe is inspired by the following quote: “The top of the cliff isn’t the place to look at us; come down here and learn of the big and little current, face to face” (1983, p24)  The quote is Pukui's literal translation of a proverb followed by a description of colloquial usage and meaning which she describes as- "Learn the details. Also, an invitation to discuss something"- p.24 It is hoped that students from many disciplines, and approaching the topics of indigeneity, colonialism and settler communities from many angles, will come together, “face to face”, and broaden each other’s knowledge and awareness of the ways that both our scholarly work, and our lives, intersect.
Face to Face Keynote Presentation by Dr. Sivasish Biswas Campus Center Executive Dining Room- 12:30 P.M. University of Hawaii at Manoa- Feb., 27, 2010
Dr. Biswas’ work centers on issues of border and migration and colonialism in India-“ All these papers are based on his work with Northeast India's tribal politics of land use, migration, and cultural diaspora against the background of India's colonial history..” - Sura Rath, Central Washington University For the last two years Dr. Biswas has chaired special sessions at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association’s annual convention. These sessions have focused on issues of “Migrancy and Hybridity” in Neo-Colonial India and deconstructing the political-territorial history of the Mizoram region and Mizo people of Northern India under colonial rule.
Keynote Address: The Indian Carnival : Border Crossing and Inbetweenness in Diasporic Writers Territoriality in the Indian subcontinent extending into Southeast Asian countries is a concept which can be interrogated. While a land mass with a border supposedly informs the identity, borders are so loose and amorphous that the geography-specific politically-loaded term ‘border’ is misleading. Cross-border movement is natural, and is evident in cultural, religious, and linguistic practices. While Amitav Ghosh represents movement of people across borders with racial and cultural contact, territorialization, de-territorialization and re-territorialization giving rise to uprooted statelessness, Salman Rushdie dreams about a ‘chutneyfication’ of cultures, languages and religions which exist in the liminal zone of our consciousness. Like Ghosh, Rushdie, too, is fixated on the historical focal point of India’s geographical divide in 1947. The midnight of 15th August was India’s tryst with ambivalence : the euphoria of Independence from a hegemonic colonial British rule, and the concurrent trauma of partition, delineation of borders defined in blood, and generation of hostile identities out of ourselves. This paper indulges into the nostalgia of the past, when the term border did not exist, and people could freely move, work and settle anywhere in the sub-continent and beyond even up to Malaysia. It negotiates the extreme identity-consciousness engendered through blood-letting of our own blood-brothers. It attempts to represent the “chutneyfication” in recent times, predicated by globalization, and seeks catharsis in magic-realism of the nocturnal congress of minds of those born at the stroke of midnight, 15th. August, 1947-those who might anticipate the post-9/11 post-26/11 confrontations into a trans-border, trans-cultural and trans-religious heterogeneous co-existence of cyber-age. Acknowledgements
The American Studies Graduate Student Association would like to thank the following people: The Faculty of the American Studies Department at UH Mānoa Keynote Speaker Dr. Sivasish Biswas, Assam University, India SAPFB: Student Activity and Planning Fee Board at UH Mānoa and the many others who helped. Additionally, this conference would not have been possible without donations made by David Stannard and Abraham Flores Jr. -Mahalo Nui Loa face-to-face Conference: Eriza Bareng Chesley Burruss AJ Duxbury Carrie Lau Sanae Nakatani Sarah Smorol Karyn Mo Wells ASGSA Board Members: Chesley Burruss AJ Duxbury Sarah Smorol
Panel Moderators: AJ Duxbury Yusuke Ikeda Nicole LaPrade Miguel Llora Stacy Nojima Karyn Mo Wells
Webpage Design: Sarah Smorol
Contact us at: asgsa@hawaii.edu
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