This year’s theme is the history of historic preservation in Hawaii. Our first speaker was Spencer Leineweber on the history of C. W. Dickey and the restorations of the Lyman House in Hilo and the Mission Houses here in Honolulu. For the next five weeks there will be a talk with a similar theme on [...]
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Experts at the Palace 2010 Schedule
Our Experts at the Palace lecture series will start on Thursday, January 14, 2010, 12 noon at Iolani Palace. The talks this year will focus on the topics of the Kalakaua Monarchy and the Hawaiian Kingdom :
Jan 14 – Spencer Leineweber, “Rituals of Place: Palaces of the Kamehameha Monarchy”
Jan 21 – Stuart Ching “Iolani [...]
Historic Preservation Certificate Colloquia Presentations
Monday December 7, 3:00 PM
Moore Hall, Room 323
The Historic Preservation Graduate Certificate Program announces the following colloquia presenting research on partial fulfillment for the requirements of the certificate program.
Lauren Cooper
“Historic Preservation and Disaster Management”
Kelley Uyeoka
“Mālama i nā Koehana Stewardship of Hawaiian Archaeological Collections”
Chang-Yu Hong
“Spring Preservation on Jeju Island: Freshwater Springs as a Historical, Community and [...]
The Place of Hawai‘i in American Studies
Center for Hawaiian Studies
Friday, May 8, 2009
A half-day colloquium which aims to critically address how Hawai‘i is situated both in the history, politics, and culture of the United States and in the scholarly discourse of American Studies, and how seeing “America” from the standpoint of Hawai‘i alters and adds to the understanding of U.S. history [...]
Talk : “Lincoln in American and Hawaiian History and Memory”
“Lincoln in American and Hawaiian History and Memory,” a lecture by James O. Horton, professor, American studies.
Wednesday, April 8
Hamilton Library 301
3:30 to 4:30 PM
Doors open at 3:00 PM - Refreshments will be served.
The lecture will focus on Abraham Lincoln in American history and memory, and the relationship between Lincoln and the Hawaiian kingdom in mid-19th [...]