Students of Dr. Dan Boylan’s Humanities 300 seminar are in for a unique viewing experience on Thursday when the group views and discusses decades-old home movies in the ʻUluʻulu Exhibition Area.
“C&H Pure Home Movies” will be open to the public and explore the cultural and historical goldmine found in home movies — they not only record a family’s personal memories but provide today’s viewers with a glimpse into past times. The films and discussions will include a conversation about how home movies from Hawaiʻi and California show connections between the two states via travel, tourism, the military, and agriculture. The seminar is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. on March 8.
Humanities 300 is a seminar that emphasizes the multi-disciplinary perspectives important in Humanities. Different Humanities faculty members are tapped to give lectures on their teaching and research interests, helping students put together a picture of how different disciplines contribute to an understanding of humanities.
In the Thursday seminar, two outside archivists whose work includes preserving and digitizing home movies will speak. Janel Quirante, head archivist for ʻUluʻulu: The Henry K. Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaiʻi, and Pamela Vadakan, manager of the California Revealed project, will discuss the work of both of their organizations and screen examples of home movies. Dr. Boylan, one of UH West Oʻahu’s original faculty members, is also an author and political analyst and will join in the discussions.
ʻUluʻulu, which is housed on the UH West Oʻahu campus, preserves film and videotape related to the history and culture of native Hawaiians and the people of Hawaiʻi. California Revealed is a project to help California’s libraries in partnership with heritage groups, to digitize, preserve and offer online historically significant Californiana (books, documents, recordings). It is a project of the California Preservation Program.