Mānoa Faculty Lecture Series
2010 Lectures
Folding the disciplinary into the interdisciplinary: encounters of ethnomusicology with area studies
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Thursday January 21, 2010
Ricardo D. Trimillos
Asian Studies & Ethnomusicology
In the cultural environment of an hegemonic "West," music and its expressions are readily pigeon-holed as "art," with its associations of the ephemeral, the inconsequential, and the extra. Considering music and its uses in the cultural milieu of insular Southeast Asia, Trimillos examines its relevance to understanding political identities, ecological challenges, gender constructions, and notions of history and memory. He further suggests that music presents a less burdened point of entre for the interdisciplinary consideration of an area or region.
How does one know to be a boy or girl, man or woman?
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Thursday February 18, 2010
Milton Diamond
JABSOM
Often times simple questions have complicated answers. How one comes to identify as a boy or girl, man or woman seems to be one of those simple questions with a complicated answer. Most often the answer reduces itself to a discussion of nature versus nurture. This talk will integrate evidence from both nature and nurture. The talk will cover typical psychosexual development as well as that of different trans and intersex conditions and differentiate sexual identity from gender identity.
Aquaculture Education and Research in an Online 3-D Virtual World
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Wednesday March 31, 2010
Benny Ron
Aquaculture Program Coordinator
The Aquaculture program at the University of Hawai'i has created a 3-dimensional simulation of an aquaponics system for use by researchers and educators. The simulation can be explored online by anyone in the world using "Second Life" [SL]: a Virtual World where residents can explore, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another. As of September 2008 there were just over 15 million registered Second Life users. At least 300 universities around the world now teach courses or conduct research in SL. The University of Hawai'i is not the first group to create an aquaponics system in Second Life, but to our knowledge they are the first to have created an interactive system where students and researchers can modify the layout of the system and see the effects on plants.
Erica Jong, Sappho's Leap, and I: Interaction of the Novelist and the Scholar
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Wednesday April 21, 2010
Robert Ball
Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas
In this scholarly yet semi-anecdotal biographical memoir, Robert Ball describes his professional interaction with Erica Jong as her Classics consultant for her novel about the Greek poet Sappho, explaining how they met, how they collaborated, and how they engaged in other academic activities beyond the publication of her novel.
*Lectures information courtesy of the Hamilton Library:
http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/about/news/libevents/events2010.html#fac