University of Hawai‘i Press is exhibiting at this year’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, which is being held at McCormick Place Convention Center, November 17-20.
Press acquisitions editor Patricia Crosby and Asian studies product manager Steven Hirashima are attending. Please visit us at Booth 219.
University of Hawai‘i Press is exhibiting at this year’s annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, which is being held at the San Francisco Hilton (Union Square) and Hotel Nikko, November 14-18. The meeting’s theme is Borders and Crossings.
Press acquisitions editor Pamela Kelley is attending. Please visit us at Booth 606.
Starting next week, University of Hawai‘i Press will join the other 132 member presses of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) in celebrating the First Annual University Press Week, November 11-17.
In 1978 President Jimmy Carter proclaimed University Press Week “in recognition of the impact, both here and abroad, of American university presses on culture and scholarship.” AAUP and university presses everywhere will be marking the event with:
• A special message from President Jimmy Carter
• Testimonials from writers, thinkers, and public figures—including Jay Parini, Senator Sherrod Brown, and Secretary Robert Gates, among others—as to the value of university presses in their lives and communities.
• Fine Print* (*and digital!): An online gallery of the work of AAUP member presses. Each member publisher selected a title that exemplifies what they do, and the resulting list is truly astounding. From seminal books such as Frederic Jameson’s Postmodernism to leading journals such as the Journal of Experimental Medicine, from the pathbreaking online scholarly community of CogNet to the touchstone reference work of the Chicago Manual of Style, the depth and breadth of our community is ready to be explored. **UH Press’ recently published Kalaupapa: A Collective Memory will be featured.
• Press Influence Maps: The regional importance and global reach of AAUP member presses is often talked about. Using Google Maps, presses have created visual statements that illustrate their impact on the world around them. **View UH Press’ Influence Map, which highlights titles, authors, and affiliates from our Summer 2012-Spring 2013 list: http://goo.gl/maps/ByhAE.
• University Press Blog Tour: Throughout the week, press blogs will host special posts by authors, book review editors, publishers, and others about the value of university presses. Harvard University Press kicks off the tour on Monday, November 12, and it continues coast-to-coast with stops in Canada and Hawai‘i before ending on Friday, November 16, at Oregon State University Press. **The tour comes to UH Press’ blog on Tuesday, November 13, with a post by UH Press author and editorial board member Barbara Watson Andaya. View a complete University Press Week blog tour schedule here.
For more information on these and other events, visit www.universitypressweek.org.
Check our blog next week for daily posts and links to all of the above.
A big mahalo to Markie, Nicky, and Sean (a.k.a. Ikeda Katsu), who drove all the way from Boston to NYC to perform at UH Press’ booth at Book Expo America! The guys played two songs, “Over the Rainbow” and “Higher and Higher,” to promote Jim Tranquada and John King’s The ‘Ukulele: A History.
Mahalo also to Sue Wilhite of East West Bookshop for the video!
UPDATE: Another video of Ikeda Katsu at BEA performing “Higher and Higher” but this time . . . the guys are sitting down! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6445ONInMpk
These and other select UH Press books are also available as eBooks from Amazon’s Kindle Store and Google Play.
This year’s Ka Palapala Po‘okela Award winners were announced at last week Friday’s award ceremony. Congratulations to our authors Wendy S. Arbeit, John R. K. Clark, Mark Panek, and John E. Randall; and to distributed authors Angela K. Kepler and Francis G. Rust.
Winner for Excellence in Text or Reference and Honorable Mention for Excellence in Special Interest: Links to the Past: The Work of Early Hawaiian Artisans, by Wendy S. Arbeit
Honorable Mentions for Excellence in Hawaiian Culture and for Excellence in Text or Reference: Hawaiian Surfing: Traditions from the Past by John R. K. Clark
Winner for Excellence in Nonfiction: Big Happiness: The Life and Death of a Modern Hawaiian Warrior by Mark Panek
Honorable Mention for Excellence in Natural Science: Shore Fishes of Easter Island by John E. Randall and Alfredo Cea
Winner for Excellence in Natural History: The World of Bananas in Hawaii: Then and Now by Angela K. Kepler and Francis G. Rust (Distributed for Pali-O-Waipio Press)
Photo: Author Mark Panek (right) and Ron Cox of the Hawai’i Book Publishers’ Association
The annual Ka Palapala Po‘okela Awards, presented by the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association, honor Hawai‘i’s best books, authors, and illustrators. This year’s award ceremony will be held on Friday, May 11, 2012, at 6 pm, at Bishop Museum’s Atherton Halau. A reception and book signing will follow at 7:30 pm., in the museum’s Hawaiian Hall Atrium and Courtyard.
Tickets are $25 and include heavy pupu buffet and cocktails, gourmet chocolate truffles by Choco le‘a, and entertainment by Ka ‘Eha. Book sale and author signing proceeds to benefit Bishop Museum. Tickets can be purchased at Native Books/Na Mea Hawai‘i at Ward Warehouse (596-8885). For more information, email aloha@hawaiibooks.org.
This year’s UH Press nominees are:
Links to the Past: The Work of Early Hawaiian Artisans, by Wendy S. Arbeit
(Excellence in Hawaiian Culture, Excellence in Text or Reference, Excellence in Special Interest)
Backstage in a Bureaucracy: Politics and Public Service by Susan Chandler and Richard C. Pratt
(Excellence in Nonfiction)
No Nā Mamo: Traditional and Contemporary Hawaiian Beliefs and Practices by Malcolm Nāea Chun
(Excellence in Hawaiian Culture, Excellence in Nonfiction, Excellence in Design)
Hawaiian Surfing: Traditions from the Past by John R. K. Clark
(Excellence in Hawaiian Culture, Excellence in Text or Reference, Excellence in Nonfiction, Excellence in Design)
Conservation of Pacific Sea Turtles by Peter Dutton, Dale Squires, and Mahfuzuddin Ahmed
(Excellence in Natural Science)
Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawai‘i by Gerald Horne
(Excellence in Nonfiction)
Murder Leaves Its Mark by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
(Excellence in Literature)
People and Cultures of Hawai‘i: The Evolution of Culture and Ethnicity edited by John F. McDermott and Naleen Naupaka Andrade
(Excellence in Text or Reference)
I Ulu I Ke Kumu: The Hawai‘inuiākea Monograph edited by Puakea Nogelmeier
(Excellence in Hawaiian Culture)
Big Happiness: The Life and Death of a Modern Hawaiian Warrior by Mark Panek
(Excellence in Nonfiction)
Shore Fishes of Easter Island by John E. Randall and Alfredo Cea
(Excellence in Natural Science)
Living Spirit: Literature and Resurgence in Okinawa edited by Frank Stewart and Katsunori Yamazato
(Excellence in Literature)
Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in Twentieth-Century Hawai‘i by Isaiah Helekunihi Walker
(Excellence in Nonfiction, Excellence in Design)
University of Hawai‘i Press will be among the local publishers participating in this year’s Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival this weekend, May 5–6, 10 am–5pm, at Honolulu Hale. Admission and parking are free to the general public.
Click here for a detailed schedule of events.
As part of the University of Hawai‘i’s Green Days initiative, University of Hawai‘i Press will be closed March 26-30, 2012. The Press will reopen on Monday, April 2, 2012. Mahalo for your support!
As part of the University of Hawai‘i’s Green Days initiative, University of Hawai‘i Press will be closed March 26-30, 2012. The Press will reopen on Monday, April 2, 2012. Mahalo for your support!
Launched in January 2012, Project MUSE’s University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) e-book collections feature more than 14,000 electronic titles from 66 university press and scholarly publishers, including UH Press. The collections provide libraries, researchers, and students access to high quality book-length scholarship, including both new and classic titles, fully integrated with over 500 journal titles. Visit http://muse.jhu.edu for more information.
The Association for Asian Studies annual meeting is UH Press’ biggest scholarly exhibit/conference: 300 new and recent Asia books and journals will be on display and editorial and marketing staff will be attending. The Press’ publishing partners Ateneo de Manila University Press, Cornell University East Asia Program, KITLV Press, NIAS Press, NUS Press (Singapore), and University of the Philippines Press will be exhibiting in neighboring booths, in addition to newcomer MerwinAsia. See you in Toronto!
