Brown Bag Biography with D. Kauwila Mahi

February 16, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Mānoa Campus, Biomed B-104 & Zoom

The Center for Biographical Research presents: / “Mai Ka Hunalepo a Kaneikapuahiohio: From a dust mote to Kaneikapuahiohio” / D. Kauwila Mahi, Graduate Research Assistant and Student, University of 51׻ʻi at ԴDz, and Instructor, University of Victoria, British Columbia / This talk will intimate life writing by establishing relationships between the smallest dust mote to multiple akua 51׻i and the lives aina enjoy alongside Kanaka Maoli. Life writing has the potential to be a space where people become radicalized and pulled into movement/s for ea. In this discussion, Kauwila will be suturing moolelo 51׻i of different aloha aina into multiple disciplines of art./ D. Kauwila Mahi is an Oiwi 51׻i from Maunalua, Oahu who embodies genealogical rhythms of sovereignty, solidarity, ceremony, and contested governance through ancestral materials in olelo 51׻i. His work is rooted in precolonial traditions and traverses an Indigenous future, while refusing state-sponsored, violent reproductions of militourism and missionaries. Kauwila’s work is inspired by his matriarchal genealogy of lei makers, feather workers, and 51׻ian Sovereignty photographers. /Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, the 51׻ʻinuiākea School of 51׻ian Knowledge, Hui ʻĀina Pilipili: Native 51׻ian Initiative, the Center for Oral History, the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, the School of Cinematic Arts, the School of Communication & Information, the Departments of Anthropology, History, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies / Thursday, February 16/ Zoom / 12 noon to 1:15PM HST / Zoom link: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/95116865752/ Zoom Meeting ID: 951 1686 5752/ Password: 287490


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Center for Biographical Research, Mānoa Campus

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