2025 Citizen Science Posters
In SLS 130: Introduction to Pidgin in Hawaiʻi, our undergrad students got the chance to become researchers themselves! In April of 2025 they used a citizen science approach to explore different features of Hawaiʻi Creole (Pidgin) and share what they learned with the community.
Citizen science means that research isn’t just for academics — anyone can take part in collecting, observing, and sharing data. Our undergrads collected their own data and analyzed it themselves to see what they could learn about Pidgin. They shared their findings in a poster session at UH that plenty people came to! The poster about “Shoots” was voted the best poster by those who came to the poster session. Try check out their posters below!
2024 – Pidgin Outreach Event – April 18, 2024
Campus Center Courtyard, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 11-2
The Charlene Sato Center collaborated with students in SLS 130: Intro to Pidgin in Hawaiʻi to create an outreach and giveaway event. The UH community came to the UHM Campus Center Courtyard to participate in a few games and challenges about Pidgin, and win a free t-shirt. Students in SLS 130 ran the event from 11-2.
2023 – FO REEL! Da Pidgin Film Festival
2018 – Hawaiian-Pidgin Summit
2017 – Summit on Pidgin in Education
2016 – Get Pidgin? Outreach Event
2014-2015 Invited Speaker Series: Language Diversity in schools and society.
Bucholtz, M. (2015, March 20). “Respeta mi idioma”: Promoting linguistic diversity and sociolinguistic justice through youth research and activism. 2014-2015 Speaker Series: Language Diversity in schools and society.
Reaser, J. (2015, February 5). Language as part of the diversity cannon. 2014-2015 Speaker Series: Language Diversity in schools and society.
2012-2013 Invited Speaker Series: Language Discrimination in a Multicultural World.
This speaker series examines how language is used to connect, communicate, and construct one’s identity, and how it is used to judge and discriminate against groups of individuals. Language can serve as a conduit for stereotypes connected to culture, ethnicity, and nationality, which in turn may lead to acts of discrimination based on the way certain individuals speak. Stereotypes have far-reaching consequences because the discourses surrounding them perpetuate the unequal power relations already in place. Two distinguished scholars who have dedicated their careers to language discrimination will examine these issues in regard to language in the United States. This series was made possible by a grant from the Diversity and Equity Initiative at UHM.
John Baugh (Spring 2013) Some linguistic consequences of slavery in the United States
Rosina Lippi-Green (February 17, 2013) Linguistic authenticity & stereotyping in the performance of identity
Fiona Willans – Multilingual education policy in the Pacific: Insights from Vanuatu
Fiona Willans – The multilingual turn in sociolinguistics: What use is it to educators?
