Aloha: The History of a Cultural Concept
Posted: March 4, 2023
Monday, April 3
Reception: 4–4:30 p.m.
Lecture 4:30–6 p.m.
Wyckoff Auditorium (Bannan 244)
Noelani Arista (Kanaka Maoli) is director of the Indigenous Studies Program at McGill University and associate professor in history and classical studies. Her research focuses on Hawaiian governance and law; Indigenous language archives; and traditional knowledge organization systems.
Dr. Arista (pictured) is the author of The Kingdom and the Republic: Sovereign Hawaiʻi and the Early United States (2019). She is working to develop several community digital access projects including Rubellite Kawena Johnson’s kanikau (Hawaiian laments) project that seeks to understand the lives of Hawaiian people and their relationship to land and each other; 365 Days of Aloha, a project focused on understanding “aloha” through mele (songs) and oli (chants) which began as a popular Facebook group; and the Hawaiian Evangelical Association Names File Project to organize, transcribe and make available the writings of more than 1,200 writers many of whom are ‘Ōiwi writing in the Hawaiian language.
View the event flyer at Al Mann 2023 Lecture.
This event is free and open to everyone.