Translating the Human: Rights, Ethics, and Practices Across Cultures

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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:

Konai Helu Thaman

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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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Susan Schweik

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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

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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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Salah D. Hassan

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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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