Spring 2006

Ryuka in Hawaii

Masanori Nakahodo, visiting professor from University of the Ryukyus, will discuss this traditional Okinawan music in Hawaii . The seminar will feature performances of Ryuka by renowned Ryuka master, Mr. Takenobu Higa.

Date:March 17, 2006
Time: 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Place: Tokioka Room (Moore 319)

Asia-Pacific Lecture Series:

Dr. Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka will be the next speaker in a lecture series sponsored by the National Resource Centers for the Pacific Islands, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. His talk, “Global Capital and Local Ownership in the Solomon Islands Forestry Industry,”will discuss the interactions between the global and the local by examining natural resource development, focusing on the Solomon Islands forestry industry. Kabutaulaka sees local communities as actively interrogating, negotiating, strategizing, and adopting global forms and processes to meet local needs, not simply existing as passive victims of global forces.

Date:March 16, 2006
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Place: Saunders Hall 704F

"Texts in Old Japanese: Language and Culture: Man'yoshu Symposium"

Professor Alexander Vovin, of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department, will lead a symposium featuring presentations on Nara-period culture, religion, phiology and linguistics that will help us better understand the world in which the Man'yoshu was created. (This seminar is part of the ongoing Man'yoshu exhibition.)

William Matsuda: "Buddhism in the Man'yooshuu."
John Kupchik: "Distinguishing East from West: Features of the Eastern Japanese poems of the Man'yooshuu."
Matthew McNicoll: "The Auxiliary -kyer- in Western Old Japanese"
Alexander Vovin: "What are kure no masapi? A new look at the continental connection hidden in the Nihonshoki kayoo 103"

Date:March 9, 2006
Time: 3:00 -5:00 pm
Place: Tokioka Room (Moore 319)

Please see the attached flyer for more details.

"What is happening in Japanese Politics? "

Mr. Yukio Matsuyama, former Chair and Honorary Chair of the editorial board of the Asahi Shimbun, will discuss contemporary issues and changes taking place in Japanese politics.

Date:February 17, 2006
Time: 3:00 -5:00 pm
Place: Tokioka Room (Moore 319)

Please see the attached flyer for more details.

"Graduate Student Panel: Legacies of War: Occupation Propaganda, War Memory, and Anti-Base Struggles in Okinawa

Chihiro Komine (PhD candidate, American Studies), Shinji Kojima (PhD candidate, Sociology), Kyle Ikeda (PhD candidate, EALL), and Rinda Yamashiro’s (MA candidate, Sociology) will discuss Okinawan and American responses to the legacies of the Battle of Okinawa from the later years of the Occupation in the late 1960s to contemporary and ongoing anti-base struggles.

Date:February 10, 2006
Time: 3:30 -5:00 pm
Place: Tokioka Room (Moore 319)

Please see the attached flyer for more details.

"Research and Publishing on premodern japan "

Dr. Wayne Farris, of the University of Hawaii Department of History, will discuss strategies for new avenues of research on premodern Japan. As an expereinced author, he will talk about some of the "dos and don'ts" of getting your work published.

Date:February 2, 2006
Time: 3:30 -4:30 pm
Place: Tokioka Room (Moore 319)

Please see the attached flyer for more details.

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