Translating the Human: Rights, Ethics, and Practices Across Cultures
The interdisciplinary symposium “Translating the Human: Rights, Ethics, and Practices Across Cultures” will be held at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa on January 14-15, 2010. This symposium will explore the question of the human through the prism of linguistic and cultural translation: What is the human? How and why do we mark the boundary between the human and the non-human? How can an ethical humanism affect language, identity, and place? Do Western forms of humanism articulate with indigenous perspectives and philosophies?
A cultural evening will highlight Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander music and arts, and local faculty and community members will respond to four featured speakers:
A cultural evening will highlight Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander music and arts, and local faculty and community members will respond to four featured speakers:
Konai Helu Thaman
Professor and Personal Chair of Pacific Education and Culture at the University of the South Pacific
Presentation Topic:
"The Human in the Context of Pedagogical Practices and Philosophies in the Pacific"
09:00 AM Thursday, January 14, 2010
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Presentation Topic:
"The Human in the Context of Pedagogical Practices and Philosophies in the Pacific"
09:00 AM Thursday, January 14, 2010
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Susan Schweik
Professor of English and Co-Director of the Disability Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley
Presentation Topic:
"The Human, the Person, and Disability Before the Law"
01:30 PM Thursday, January 14, 2010
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Manu Meyer
Associate Professor of Education at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo
Presentation Topic:
"Hawaiian Epistemology and the Human"
09:00 AM Friday, January 15, 2010
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Presentation Topic:
"Hawaiian Epistemology and the Human"
09:00 AM Friday, January 15, 2010
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Salah D. Hassan
Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University
Presentation Topic:
"Defective Sovereignty: Palestine, National Self Determination and the Global Order"
1:30 PM on Friday, January 15, 2010
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Presentation Topic:
"Defective Sovereignty: Palestine, National Self Determination and the Global Order"
1:30 PM on Friday, January 15, 2010
.:Click here to access the readings
RESOURCES
Downloads:
:: Program
:: Readings
Other Links:
:: University of Hawai'i System
:: UHM Campus Map
:: Public Transportation, TheBus
:: Food Services at UHM
Sponsors:
:: Gladys 'Ainoa Brandt Chair in
Polynesian Studies
:: Hawai‘inuiākea School of
Hawaiian Knowledge, UHM
:: Center for Pacific Islands
Studies, UHM
:: University of Hawai'i
Endowment for the
Humanities
:: The Joseph Keene Chadwick
Fund of the English Dept.
:: Office of the Dean, College of
Language, Linguistics, and
Literature
:: Comparativism and Translation
in Literary and Cultural
Studies
:: SEED Equity and Diversity
Initiative Grant
:: Kamakakūokalani Center for
Hawaiian Studies
:: Center on Disability Studies,
UHM
:: Graduate Student
Organization
Co-Sponsors:
:: American Studies Department,
UHM
:: Center for South Asian
Studies, UHM
:: English Department, UHM
:: Philosophy Department, UHM
:: Political Science Department,
UHM
:: Program
:: Readings
Other Links:
:: University of Hawai'i System
:: UHM Campus Map
:: Public Transportation, TheBus
:: Food Services at UHM
Sponsors:
:: Gladys 'Ainoa Brandt Chair in
Polynesian Studies
:: Hawai‘inuiākea School of
Hawaiian Knowledge, UHM
:: Center for Pacific Islands
Studies, UHM
:: University of Hawai'i
Endowment for the
Humanities
:: The Joseph Keene Chadwick
Fund of the English Dept.
:: Office of the Dean, College of
Language, Linguistics, and
Literature
:: Comparativism and Translation
in Literary and Cultural
Studies
:: SEED Equity and Diversity
Initiative Grant
:: Kamakakūokalani Center for
Hawaiian Studies
:: Center on Disability Studies,
UHM
:: Graduate Student
Organization
Co-Sponsors:
:: American Studies Department,
UHM
:: Center for South Asian
Studies, UHM
:: English Department, UHM
:: Philosophy Department, UHM
:: Political Science Department,
UHM