Kūpina'i Language Center
The Kūpina'i Language Center (KLC) in Moore 151 is a multi-purpose space for community-based events and language work, linguistic data collection, studying, and meetings. It has a "living room" space for informal elicitation, a sound-attenuated booth for high-quality audio recording, a conference table, and a kitchenette equipped with a refrigerator and a microwave.
The KLC is open for use when our LAELab GAs or undergraduate RAs are on duty. Please see the LAELab monitor calendar to view the room's availability and reserve the space. Note that the lab currently has a “living room” space for informal interviews, a sound booth (though you’ll need to check out a microphone from the Phonetics lab and any other necessary equipment), a conference table, and a kitchenette equipped with a fridge and microwave.
"Kūpina'i" means "echo" in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi.
How to get here
Driving directions to Moore 151:
Navigate to the Center for Korean Studies Parking Lot at 2000 East-West Rd, Honolulu, HI 96822.
Visitors may park in the green visitor stalls ($3/hr from 6am-4pm, and $1/hr from 4pm-midnight). White stalls are reserved for faculty and staff. Pay at the green pay station and remember to put your receipt on your car's dashboard.
Cross East-West Road to get to Moore Hall.
Enter from the northeast corner / mauka (mountain-facing) side on Maile Way, indicated by the arrow in the image. Moore 151 is on the ground floor on the right.
Past Events
Healing Hawaiʻi's Societal and Ecological Landscape Through the Cultural Ideology of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Time: 12:00-1:15 PM HST
Speaker: G. Kalehua Krug, PhD, Ka Waihona o Ka Naʻauao PCS
Place: Kūpinaʻi Language Center (Moore Hall 151)
Join us for the first event of the Lauhoe Speaker Series. Guest speaker G. Kalehua Krug, PhD, will share about how ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi and its knowledge system can reshape the societal and ecological landscape of Hawaiʻi, pointing to the connectivity between the language we speak, the thoughts that we think, and the cultural behaviors that we employ in our relationships to people, land and our future. Krug will speak from his experiences as the Poʻokumu of Ka Waihona O Ka Na'auao Public Charter School.
The first Lauhoe Speaker Series event will also serve as the soft launch for the new Kūpinaʻi Language Center in Moore 151, a combined research space and community-oriented language workshop that is part of the LAE Labs network of CALL.
About the Presenter:
Kalehua Krug is proudly from the Waiʻanae Coast on the island of Oʻahu. His ʻohana lived in Nānākuli for generations. He currently resides in Lualualei with his three keiki who have been raised with ‘Ōlelo Hawai’i as the primary language spoken at home. He has worked as a Kaiapuni Hawaiian Language Immersion teacher, a Hawaiian Language Teacher Educator at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and transitioned to become the administrator of the Hawaiian Language Immersion Program of the Department of Education in 2014. In 2019, Kalehua became the Principal of Ka Waihona o ka Naʻauao Public Charter School. He studies indigenous philosophy and utilizes Hawaiian cultural traditions and ceremonies as a mechanism to counter the effects of the ideological trauma suffered inter-generationally throughout colonization and build a more sustainable future for our children and our environment. He is a traditional Hawaiian tattooist, Mea Kākau Uhi Hawaiʻi, for over 20 years and is also a Hawaiian musician and composer.