This fall, the UH West Oʻahu Center for Professional Development presents a new brown bag lecture series for faculty, lecturers, and specialists across disciplines to share their research with the UHWO ʻohana. All events will be held in the UH West Oʻahu Library ʻUluʻulu Archive exhibition space on the first floor.
Thursday, Sept. 24, noon-1 p.m.
At Home and in the Field: Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands with Suzanne Finney, Mary Mostafanezhad, Guido Carlo Pigliasco, and Forrest Wade Young
Editors Suzanne Finney, Mary Mostafanezhad, Guido Carlo Pigliasco, and Forrest Wade Young will discuss At Home and in the Field: Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands, a book designed to supplement introductory classes across multiple disciplines (anthropology, geography, sociology and Pacific Island studies) featuring contemporary and regionally relevant examples of ethnographic field research.
Measuring the Effects of Sex Offenders’ Residential Locations on Property Values with Dr. Patricia Yu
UH West Oʻahu Instructor of Economics Patricia Yu will discuss her study examining the impact of sex offenders’ residential locations on property values in Rochester, NY using 19,702 single residential housing sales data from 2000 to 2013.
Friday, Oct. 16, noon-1:20 p.m.
A GenAdmin Story of Becoming: An Ecological Approach to Sustainable Writing Program with Dr. Natalie Szymanski
UH West Oʻahu Assistant Professor of English Natalie Szymanski will discuss combining postmodern mapping, Writing Program Administration (WPA) scholarship, and ecological theory work. This presentation provides a frame for understanding everyday WPA work as a sustainability-conscious constellation of interrelated and interdependent ecologies.
Library Website Redesign with Sara Aiello, Pearl DeSure, and Alphie Garcia
UH West Oʻahu Librarians Sara Aiello, Pearl DeSure, and Alphie Garcia will discuss how the library staff developed the UH West Oʻahu Library website using feedback from students and faculty, incorporating recent design techniques, and tying themes together with a discovery layer.
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 11 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
The Matrix Ate My Homework: Accelerationist Aesthetics in an Age of Neoliberal Education with Dr. David Kupferman
Assistant Professor of Education David Kupferman will discuss an alternate response to neoliberal education reforms. Employing accelerationist aesthetics of speculative science fiction, this perspective sheds light on not just the tactics of neoliberalism, but recovers, repurposes, and speculates on the ends of a future democratic education, its pedagogies and technologies.