Settler Colonialism & Indigenous Peoples

April 30, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Art Building Auditorium

In dialogue with Patrick Wolfe's lecture on Tuesday, April 28th, a roundtable discussion on “Contemporary Indigenous Issues in Australia and Hawai`i” will be held on Thursday, April 30, from 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the UH Mānoa Art Auditorium. Participants include Wolfe, UH Mānoa Assistant English Professor ku’ualoha ho’omanawanui, Leeward Community College Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies Momiala Kamahele, UH Mānoa Associate Professor of Anthropology Ty P. Kāwika Tengan, and UH Mānoa Professor of Hawaiian Studies Haunani-Kay Trask.

Professor Patrick Wolfe of La Trobe University in Australia will give a free public lecture, “Settler Colonialism and the Exception of Indigenous People: What’s So Special About Native Rights.”on Tuesday, April 28, from 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the UH Mānoa Art Auditorium.

Wolfe is the Charles La Trobe Research Fellow in History at La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia, and author of Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event (Cassell, 1999). He has researched, taught, lectured, and written on race, colonialism, Aboriginal histories, the history of anthropology, and genocide in Australia, the United States, Brazil, Palestine, and India.

The Organization of American Historians recently appointed him to its Distinguished Lectureship Program. In 2009-10, he will be a fellow at the Charles Warren Center for American History at Harvard University. He is currently working on a transnational history of settler-colonial policies on Native peoples.

For more information on these free and open-to-the-public events, as well as related events, see www.hawaii.edu/amst/pwolfe

Professor Wolfe’s visit is funded by The Mānoa Fund at UH Mānoa, and sponsored by the following departments and programs: UH Mānoa’s American Studies, English, Museum Studies, Anthropology, Ethnic Studies and Political Science; East-West Center/UH Mānoa International Cultural Studies Certificate Program; and Leeward Community College’s Hawaiian Studies and Political Science.


Event Sponsor
Please see list of sponsors above, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Melissa Rand, 808-956-7428, museum@hawaii.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/amst/pwolfe

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