Brown Bag Biography with Kayla Watabu
October 19, 12:00pm - 1:15pmMānoa Campus, Kuykendal 410
The Center for Biographical Research presents: /“Makawalu Perspectives on Silence: Reimagining the ‘Gaps’ as Stories” / Kayla Watabu, PhD student and Assistant Director of the Writing Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa /As stories are central for many Indigenous communities in nourishing relationships, the fracturing created by dispossession and disconnection can interrupt this kinship caretaking process, which results in silences that are often fraught with violence and trauma. In this presentation, Kayla Watabu considers her own journey in decolonizing her body and shares the process of tracing her mo‘okū‘auhau while reinterpreting the silences of her ancestors through multiple cultural and historical lenses. This act of makawalu traces a succession of abundant stories hidden within the silences, thereby writing and speaking them with ea and mana. / Kayla Watabu is a Ph.D. student in the English Department where she currently serves as the UH Mānoa Writing Centerʻs Assistant Director. Her article, titled “Silence as Storytelling: Makawalu Perspectives on the ‘Gaps’” (under review), explores how inherited silences within family histories can be reimagined by moving through cultural and historical lenses to ultimately transform those absences into abundance. / Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, the Center for Oral History, the Matsunaga Institute, Conflict and Peace Specialist, the School of Communication & Information, the Departments of Departments of American Studies, English, Ethnic Studies, and Sociology / Thursday, October 19 / KUY 410 / 12 noon to 1:15PM HST
Event Sponsor
Center for Biographical Research, Mānoa Campus
More Information
(808) 956-3774
Thursday, October 19 |
|
10:00am |
Fall Graduation Fair Mānoa Campus, Campus Center Courtyard
|
10:00am |
Real Estate Symposium Mānoa Campus, RISE at 1810 University Avenue
|
12:00pm |
Brown Bag Biography with Kayla Watabu Mānoa Campus, Kuykendal 410
|
2:30pm |
Cross-Cultural Conversations Mānoa Campus, Online
|
3:00pm |
Women's Circle Mānoa Campus, QLCSS 208
|
3:00pm |
Anthropology Colloquium Fall 2023 Series Mānoa Campus, Crawford Hall 115
|
4:00pm |
Logic Games Workshop Mānoa Campus, Online
|
5:00pm |
Part Time JD Flex and Law School Admissions Mānoa Campus, Virtual
|
6:00pm |
Voice of the Sea YouTube Watch Party Mānoa Campus, online
|