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University of Hawai'i |
(808) 956-8856 Telephone |
For Immediate Release: |
October 13, 2000 |
Contact: Jim Manke - University Relations, 956-6106
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| Events at UH Campuses for the Week of Oct. 15-21 |
Former East-West Center fellow Dr. Saleem Ahmed continues his "What is Islam?" lecture series with the video screening of "I Am a Sufi, I Am a Muslim." After the video, Ahmed will lead a discussion on Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam. 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17. Krauss Hall 12, UH Manoa. For more information, call Outreach College at 956-3836 or visit www.outreach.hawaii.edu.
Award-winning landscape photographer Len Jenshel will give a public talk sponsored by UH Manoa Outreach College and Pacific New Media. 7 p.m. Oct 18. Art Auditorium, UH Manoa. For more information, call Outreach College at 956-3836 or visit www.outreach.hawaii.edu.
Dr. Howard S. Barrows, a medical educator and professor emeritus at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, will lead the lecture series "Education: What Do We Know and Why Can't We Change?" The series, a part of the Thomas J. Whelan Jr., M.D. Memorial Lectureship, explores the question: What are the most productive, efficient and humane ways to learn?" 4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. Oct. 18. Biomedical Sciences Building Auditorium B103, UH Manoa. For information, call Gordon Greene at 956-9984.
The UH Manoa School of Architecture presents architect and urban designer Dr. Jack Sidener in a free lecture on "Skin and Bones - Frank Gehry wraps the Hendrix Experience." 5 p.m. Oct. 18. School of Architecture Room 215, UH Manoa. For information, call Heidi Chang at 956-3469.
Oxford-based philosopher Sir Peter Strawson will give two lectures on the UH Manoa campus this week. He will discuss the relationship between politics and philosophy in "Philosophy and Commitment: Left, Right and Center." 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18. Krauss Hall 12. For information, call Outreach College at 956-3836 or visit www.outreach.hawaii.edu. He will also present the philosophy colloquium "A Category of Particulars." 2:30 p.m. Oct. 20. Sakamaki C-308. For information on this lecture, call Jackie Young at 956-8649.
The UH Manoa Department of Theatre and Dance presents its annual fall showcase of student choreography and dance in "Fall Footholds." 8 p.m. Oct. 18-21, 2 p.m. Oct. 22. Earle Ernst Lab Theatre, UH Ma noa. For ticket information, call 956-7655.
UH Manoa political science Professor Neil Milner will give this week's free Brown Bag Biography lecture, "The Three Faces of Uncle Laybeh: Memory and Family Stories." Noon-1:15 p.m. Oct. 19. Cottage 96-36 between Burns Hall and Hale Manoa, UH Manoa. For information, call the Center for Biographical Research at 956-3774.
UH Manoa liberal studies Professor Emanuel Drechsel will give this week's anthropology seminar, "Towards an Ethnohistory of Speaking: Mobilian Jargon and Hawaiian Pidgin." 3 p.m. Oct. 19. Social Science 345, UH Manoa. For information, call Mary Ambrose at 956-7153. For upcoming anthropology colloquia, visit www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/anth/colloquia.htm.
The UH Board of Regents will hold its monthly meetings in Hilo at Hawai'i Community College. Board committees will meet Thursday afternoon, Oct. 19, and the full Board meets Friday morning, Oct. 20. For a detailed agenda, visit www.hawaii.edu/bor or call the Board office at 956-8213.
A dedication ceremony will be held for the new UH Hilo Marine Sciences building. 10:30 a.m. Oct. 20. For details, call Alyson Kakugawa-Leong at UH Hilo University Relations at (808) 974-7642.
The Koa Gallery at Kapi'olani Community College presents "Paintings and Poems," an exhibition of new work by artist Paul Levitt with written responses by his wife, Robin Lung. In his playful and whimsical pieces, Levitt mixes visual metaphors and patterns. Now-Oct. 20. Koa Gallery, KCC. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. For information, call 734-9375.
Windward Community College's Gallery 'Iolani presents "European and American Posters: 1945-1990," a free exhibition that provides insight into Western graphic design since the end of World War II. Now-Oct. 22. Gallery 'Iolani, WCC. The gallery is open 1-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. For information, call 235-7346.
The East-West Center Gallery and the UH Manoa Art Gallery feature concurrent exhibitions of work by 60 contemporary Native Hawaiian artists from Hawai'i and throughout the world. "Mai Na Kupuna Mai, Ho'i I Ka Pu 'olo," or "That which comes from the ancestors is returned as gifts," is running now-Dec. 22 at the East-West Center Gallery at John A. Burns Hall and will also run through Nov. 3 at the UH Manoa Art Gallery. For information, call 944-7341 or 956-6888.
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