Jan 29 at 9:30am | Hoʻomakalahia: Disentaglement and Healing

Join us on Thursday, January 29, from 9:30-10:50 am for a special discussion, Hoʻomakalahia: Disentaglement and Healing. This panel brings together Native Hawaiian voices to reflect on reconciliation, healing, and peace. Grounded in the notion of ho’omakalahia, the intentional work of disentanglement, the conversation considers what healing could look like for Hawai‘i’s people.

The event will be held in the Library’s 2nd floor event space. 

About Our Speakers

Ka’iulani Akamine

Ka’iulani Akamine is the Director of UH West Oʻahu’s Center for Adults Returning to Education.

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Kealani Cook

Originally from Waimea, Hawaiʻi Island, Kealani Cook is a historian who began working at UH West Oʻahu in Fall 2015. His published work focuses on ties between Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.

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Kauʻi Merritt

Dr. Baumhofer Merritt an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Health Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu. Her current work draws on concepts and theories from medicine, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and public health to reduce Native Hawaiian health disparities within a social justice framework. In this way, her work addresses how social and cultural environments are embodied within individuals and manifest as the unequal distribution of disease between populations. Specifically, she is interested in the prevention of cardiometabolic disease through community interventions that aim to reinforce ʻai pono and address the cultural, historical, and social determinants of disease.

She has been awarded the Harvard University Native American Program’s 1665 Caleb Cheeshateaumuck Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Harvard University Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and the 2016 Dr. Fang-Ching Sun Memorial Award for Work with Vulnerable Populations from The Chan School of Public Health.

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Moderator, Masahide Kato

Masahide Kato is an Associate Professor in Political Science in the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi, West Oʻahu. His main expertise is in Political Philosophy and its intersection with Popular Culture, Ecology, Indigenous Epistemology, Cosmology, and Transcendental Consciousness.

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