Category: Hawaii

Hydrological Science in Hawaii Symposium

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The Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawai‘i, will host a symposium on the state of hydrological science in the Islands on Friday, August 13, 2007. The half-day event is open to the public and will be held at the Manoa campus’ Marine Science Building, Room 114, from 8:30 a.m.

The symposium is inspired by Hydrology of the Hawaiian Islands, written by L. Stephen Lau and John Mink and published by University of Hawai‘i Press in October 2006. The book provides a basic understanding of hydrology for the general reader and more in-depth discussion for those familiar with the discipline. The goal of the symposium is to bring together people who work or study in the field of hydrology in all its aspects, review the history of Hawaiian hydrology, and discuss topics for future development.

First Among Nisei Book Launch

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A book launch celebrating the publication of First Among Nisei: The Life and Writings of Masaji Marumoto will be held on Saturday, July 21, 2007, at 10:30 a.m., at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, Teruya Courtyard, 2454 South Beretania Street, Honolulu. The book is written by University of Hawai‘i professor Dennis M. Ogawa, published by the Department of American Studies, UH, and the JCCH, and distributed by University of Hawai‘i Press. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information call (808) 945-7633 or email info@jcch.com.

The Life and Writings of One of Hawaii’s Most Distinguished Nisei

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Distributed for the Department of American Studies, University of Hawai‘i, and the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, First Among Nisei: The Life and Writings of Masaji Marumoto, by Dennis M. Ogawa, is an account of the life and career of one of Hawai‘i’s most distinguished Nisei. Primarily based on oral histories, this book is an account of Marumoto’s life and career—from the time he was a child until he was well into his retirement years in the mid-1980s. Marumoto was the first person of Asian ancestry to graduate from Harvard Law School, the first Japanese American president of the Hawaii Bar Association, and the first Japanese American to serve on the Hawaii Supreme Court.

June 2007 / ISBN 978-0-8248-3141-7 / $25.00 (PAPER)

Dennis M. Ogawa is the author of Jan Ken Po: The World of Hawaii’s Japanese Americans and co-author with Glen Grant of Kodomo no tame ni/For the Sake of the Children: The Japanese American Experience in Hawaii, both published by University of Hawai‘i Press.

Author Davianna McGregor to Guest on OHA Radio Talk Show

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UH professor Davianna McGregor, author of Na Kua‘aina: Living Hawaiian Culture, will be a guest on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs radio talk show Na Oiwi Olino, next Tuesday, June 12, 2007. The newly formatted show, hosted by Kimo Kahoano and Brickwood Galuteria, airs weekday mornings from 7 to 9 on KKNE 940AM and is streamed live on the internet at http://am940hawaii.com.

Professor McGregor is also featured in the June/July 2007 issue of Hawaiian Airline’s Hana Hou! magazine.

How To Get Your Book Published in Hawaii

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The Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association, in conjunction with Outreach College, University of Hawai‘i-Manoa, presents “How to Get Your Book Published in Hawai‘i,” a one-day course for aspiring authors and publishers, on Saturday, June 16, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM. Onsite registration will begin at 8:30 AM at UHM Pacific Ocean Science & Technology 127, with smaller sessions held at Kuykendall Hall. Cost for the course is $75. To register, contact the University of Hawai‘i Outreach College at: 808-956-8400 or online here.

Course presenters include industry professionals from local book publishers (including University of Hawai‘i Press), designers, distributors, and consulting companies, who will speak on topics ranging from acquisitions and editing; distribution, marketing, and sales; financial considerations, among others. The keynote speaker will be columnist/author/playwright Lee Cataluna. In addition to the informational sessions, benefits of attending include extensive take-home handouts and exceptional access to many of the key people in the book publishing industry.

Sessions will include:
“The Essence of Story is Conflict”—Lee Cataluna, keynote speaker
“Acquisitions and Editing”—Roger Jellinek (Jellinek & Murray Literary Agency) and Chris McKinney (author)
“Design and Production”—Angela Wu-Ki (Angela Wu-Ki Design) and DeSoto Brown (author)
“Sales, Marketing, and Distribution”—Bev Motz (Bess Press) and Jeff Swartz (Islander Group)
“A Book’s Life: A Timeline of Your Book from Acquisition to Publication”—Masako K. Ikeda (University of Hawai‘i Press), Julie Chun (Julie Chun Design), and Nora Okja Keller (author)
“To Publish or Not to Publish? Selecting the Best Method to Publish Your Book”—Dave Takaki (Editions Ltd.), Burl Burlingame (Pacific Monograph), and Tom Coffman (author)
“Dollars and Sense: The Monetary Costs and Rewards in Book Publishing”—Ron Cox (Bishop Museum Press), Bev Motz (Bess Press), and Tom Coffman (author)
“Staying Alive! How to Maintain and Increase Your Book’s Sales After its Release”—Theresia Howe and Julie Funasaki (both of Island Heritage)
 **Topics and presenters are subject to change.

Broken Trust, Varua Tupu Win Awards

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University of Hawai‘i Press titles were among the winners at the 2007 Ka Palapala Po‘okela book awards ceremony, held on May 18, 2007. The awards are presented by the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association to recognize the finest books published during the previous year.

Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, and Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust, by Samuel P. King and Randall W. Roth, was awarded the coveted Samuel M. Kamakau Award for Hawai‘i Book of the Year, as well as the certificate award in the nonfiction category and an honorable mention in Hawaiian Culture. This best-selling book by a federal judge and a UH law professor recounts the background and dramatic events surrounding the ouster of Bishop Estate trustees in the 1990s. According to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (July 4, 2006), Broken Trust belongs at “the top of Hawaii’s must-read list.”

Varua Tupu: New Writing from French Polynesia, edited by Frank Stewart, Kareva Mateata-Allain, and Alexander Dale Mawyer, received the Excellence in Literature Award. The first anthology of its kind, Varua Tupu offers English-speaking readers the stories, memoirs, poetry, photography, and paintings of a French Polynesian artistic community that has been growing in strength since the 1960s.

Waikiki: A History of Forgetting & Remembering, by Gaye Chan and Andrea Feeser, received an honorable mention in Excellence in Design.

Also honored were UH Press author Caren Loebel-Fried and Iz: The Voice of the People (Bess Press) and The Seven Orchids (Bamboo Ridge Press), both distributed outside of Hawai‘i by University of Hawai‘i Press.

Kneubuhl Receives the Cades Award for Literature

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Playwright Victoria Kneubuhl, the author of Hawai‘i Nei: Island Plays, is the most recent recipient of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, presented annually by the Hawai‘i Literary Arts Council. Kneubuhl’s first mystery novel, The Portrait Murders, will be published by University of Hawai‘i Press in 2008. She will be reading from her work at this month’s Hawai‘i Books and Music Festival.

Kneubuhl’s family boasts several accomplished writers, including her uncle, John, the author of Think of a Garden and Other Plays, published by University of Hawai‘i Press, and Lemanatele Mark Kneubuhl, the author of The Smell of the Moon, distributed in North America by University of Hawai‘i Press and published by New Zealand’s Huia Publishers.

UH Press Authors at the Hawaii Book and Music Festival, May 19-20

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More than a dozen University of Hawai‘i Press authors* will be presenters at the second annual Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival, a celebration of Island books and music to be held on May 19-20, 2007, on the grounds of Honolulu Hale (City Hall). The free weekend event will feature readings, panels, and performances (download a program schedule here) by more than 350 celebrated local, national, and international authors, crafters, and musicians.

To view books by UH Press authors at the event and our latest titles, please stop by the UH Press tent, located near the Hawaiian Pavilion along King Street. See you there!

*Victoria Kneubuhl, J. Arthur Rath, Leslie Hayashi, Caren Loebel-Fried, Albert Wendt, Frank Stewart, Marion Coste, Sue Cowing, Mike Markrich, Jon Osorio, Davianna McGregor, Maxine Hong Kingston, Samuel King, Randall Roth, Billy Bergin, Gaye Chan, Haunani-Kay Trask, Mark Panek.

Na Kua‘aina: Living Hawaiian Culture

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Due to high demand for the cloth edition, Na Kua‘aina: Living Hawaiian Culture, by Davianna Pomaika‘i McGregor has now been made available in paperback.

May 2007 / ISBN 978-0-8248-3212-4 / $20.00 (PAPER)

“A bold intervention in modern Hawaiian politics, a summoning to the barricades that by its end will have you cheering. Na Kua‘aina is the inspiring story of a culture that refuses to die, of a resurgent nation poised to reclaim its embattled heritage. . . . This is no dry-as-dust tome destined for library basements, but a solidly grounded set of political demands cast in historical mode. It is good research leading to intellectually honest conclusions with real-world applications.” —Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination

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The enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the west—connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life.

Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination, by Jeffrey Geiger, is the first study to offer a detailed look at the United States’ intense engagement with the myth of the South Seas just after the First World War, when, at home, a popular vogue for all things Polynesian seemed to echo the expansion of U.S. imperialist activities abroad.

“An elegant, incisive account of the early 20th century fascination with ‘Polynesianess.’ Through readings of the lives, interactions, and cultural productions of a group of influential ‘ethnographic’ writers and film makers—whose refiguring of South Seas myths registered anxieties about modernity—Geiger appreciates complexities within an emergent, distinctively modernist, U.S. imperial imagination. Meticulously researched, and lucid in its applications of film, postcolonial, and gender theories, Geiger’s book is at once the most thorough account of its subject to date and the most theoretically rewarding.” —Paul Lyons, author of American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination

May 2007 / ISBN 978-0-8248-3066-3 / $59.00 (CLOTH)

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