MYTHS, TERRORISM, AND JUSTICE
Themes from Pacific and Asian Literature and Film
5–8 November 2002
REVISED PROGRAM (See asterisked items)
Imin Conference Center, 1777 East-West Road
8:15 am Registration
9:00–9:45 am Opening Chants
Oli Aloha, Oli Lei, Oli Mahalo
Keali‘i‘olu‘olu Gora, Halau Ku Mana
Na ‘Opio (Students) o Halau Ku Mana
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Vilsoni Hereniko, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, UHM
Ruth Hsu, English Department, UHM
10:00–11:45 am Mele ‘Ai Pohaku: Singing out the Predator
Jon K K Osorio, Center for Hawaiian Studies, UHM
DOCUMENTARY: ACT OF WAR (Hawai‘i, 60 min)
After-film discussion with directors Puhipau and Joan Lander
Lunch Break
12.45–2:00 pm Storytelling: Wisdom from the Ever-Present “Past.” Panel Presentation
Lilikala Kame‘eleihiwa, Center for Hawaiian Studies, UHM
Cristina Bacchilega, English Department, UHM
Reina Whaitiri, English Department, University of Auckland
2:15–3:30 pm Voices of the ‘Aina: Resisting Colonialism. Panel Presentation
Kyle Kajihiro, American Friends Service Committee
Momi Kamahele, Hawaiian Studies, Leeward Community College; ‘Ilio‘ulaokalani and Hui Malama o Makua
Terri Keko‘olani Raymond, ‘Ohana Koa/Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific
3:30–4:30 pm Opening reception – cohosted by Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC)
Honolulu Academy of Arts
6:00–9:15 pm FEATURE FILM: THE WRESTLERS (India, 99 min)
After-film discussion with director Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Imin Conference Center
8:30 am–12:00 pm DOCUMENTARY: BASTION POINT: DAY 507 (Aotearoa/New Zealand, 26 min)
FEATURE FILM: UTU (Aotearoa/New Zealand, 118 min, unrated director's cut)
After-film discussion with co-director (Bastion Point) Merata Mita and director Geoff Murphy (UTu)
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***Dole Cannery
9:30 am–11:30 pm FEATURE FILM: NEW MOON (Philippines, 134 min)
Lead actor Cesar Montano in person.
Lunch Break
1:15–3:00 pm Performing Cultural In/Justices. Panel Presentation
DOCUMENTARY: THE LAND HAS TEETH: Rotuman Justice (Rotuma, Fiji, 17 min) with director Esther Figueroa, Juniroa Productions, and Elisapeti Inia, Rotuma, Fiji
April Drexel, Center for Hawaiian Studies, and Karen Kosasa, American Studies Department, UHM
Valerie Wayne, English Department, UHM
3:15–4:45 pm Pacific/Asia and Beyond. Panel Presentation
Ibrahim Aoude, Ethnic Studies Department, UHM
Nandita Sharma, Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellow, Women’s Studies Department, UHM
Theodore S Gonzalves, American Studies Department, UHM
Nick Deocampo, Mowelfund Film Institute, Philippines
Honolulu Academy of Arts
***6:00–10:15 pm FEATURE FILM: THE MAori MERCHANT OF VENICE (Aotearoa/New Zealand, 158 min)
After-film discussion with director Don C Selwyn, producer Ruth Kaupua-Panapa, et al
Dole Cannery
***9:30 am–11:30 pm FEATURE FILM: A POET: UNCONCEALED POETRY (Indonesia, 90 min)
Lunch Break
Kuykendall 101, UHM
2:00–3:15 pm Reclaiming Hawai‘i’s Discursive Spaces. Panel Presentation
Jon K K Osorio, Center for Hawaiian Studies, UHM
Kathy Ferguson and Phyllis Turnbull, Political Science Department, UHM
Geoffrey White, Anthropology Department, UHM, and EWC-PIDP
Gaye Chan, Art Department, UHM
FALL CELEBRATION OF WRITERS
Open free of charge to the public; no registration required
Kuykendall 101, UHM
3:30-4:45 pm Writers on Their Work and Its Relation to Myth, Terrorism, and Justice
Sia Figiel, novelist and poet, Samoa
Vilsoni Hereniko, playwright and filmmaker, Rotuma
S Shankar, novelist and critic, India/United States
Art Auditorium, UHM
7:00–9:30 pm Reading
Robert Barclay, novelist, United States
Ku‘ualoha Meyer Ho‘omanawanui, poet, Hawai‘i
Caroline Sinavaiana, poet, Samoa
Albert Wendt, novelist and poet, Samoa
For more information, contact the English Department at 956-7619 or spahr@hawaii.edu.
Imin Conference Center
***9:00 am–12:00 pm DOCUMENTARY: BASTION POINT: DAY 507 (Aotearoa/New Zealand, 26 min)
FEATURE FILM: UTU (Aotearoa/New Zealand, 118 min, unrated director's cut)
After-film discussion with co-director (Bastion Point) Merata Mita and director Geoff Murphy (UTU)
Lunch Break
Imin Conference Center
2:00–3:45 pm Independent Filmmaking in the Pacific. Panel Presentation
Ruth Kaupua-Panapa, Producer, THE MAori Merchant of Venice
Chris Lee, Producer and Co-Chair, Cinematic and Digital Arts Program, UHM
Merata Mita, Co-Cirector and Co-Editor, Bastion Point: Day 507
Don C Selwyn, Executive Producer and Director, THE MAORI MERCHANT OF VENICE
Carlyn L Tani, Executive Director, Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC)
3:45–4:45 pm Closing remarks and refreshments