Hawaiian Society of Law and Politics 2nd Biennial Symposium

WHEN: March 31, 2007 (Saturday)
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

WHERE:
Hawai`i Imin International Conference Center
1777 East-West Road, on the campus of the University of Hawai`i at Manoa.

WEBSITE: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~hslp

REGISTRATION:

The symposium is open to the public at no cost but registration is required due to limited seating. To register please email the "Symposium Committee" at with your full name and your profession, and be sure to type "HSLP 2007 Symposium Registration" in the subject space of your email. The committee will acknowledge receipt of your registration by email. Space is limited so seating will be reserved for confirmed registered participants.

TOPIC:

The focus of the symposium is on curriculum development at the Collegiate and High School levels. The symposium will provide an interdisciplinary forum where three instructors who teach at the Graduate, Undergraduate and High School levels will present their articles that were published in volume 2 of the Hawaiian Journal of Law & Politics. Following their presentations there will be a panel discussion on how they each have taught courses at the Collegiate and High School levels regarding Hawai`i as an independent and sovereign State and the sources they use. Audience participation is encouraged.

PRESENTERS:

Kanalu Young is an Associate Professor at the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai`i at Manoa. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa in 1995 and has taught in the university system for twenty-two years. He is the author of Rethinking the Native Hawaiian Past (Garland: New York, 1998), a look at the history, politics, and culture of ancient Hawai`i's lesser rank chiefs and their genealogical descendents. For the last twenty-five years, Professor Young has also composed songs, traditional chants and contemporary poetry about life in these islands on a wide range of subjects. He occasionally presents his work in public performances and is an avid supporter of other musical artists' endeavors in that field. Professor Young is a 1972 graduate of the Kamehameha Schools and is its 2002 recipient of the Frank P. Kernohan Award for Outstanding Service in Hawaiian Music and Culture.

Kamana Beamer is presently a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. He also received his M.A. in Geography from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa in 2005, and a graduate of the Kamehameha Schools, Kapalama Heights. For the last year he has been teaching Geography 368 "Geography of Hawai`i" and Hawaiian Studies 107 "Hawai`i: I ka Piko o ka Pakipika," at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa.

Umi Perkins teaches Hawaiian history at Kamehameha Schools, and was a Fulbright scholar to New Zealand in 2004. He is also a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa concentrating in Indigenous Politics. He received his M.A. in government from Harvard University in 2002 and is a graduate of Lahainaluna. He has been published in Cultural Survival Quarterly and co-wrote Pioneer Institute: Privatizing the Common Wealth, published by Political Research Associates.

SPONSORS:

Sponsored by grants from the UH Office of Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity (SEED), UH Student Activity and Program Fee Board (SAPFB), and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.