News from the Department of Anthropology
Congrats to Christine Yano on her illustrious career, including breaking the internet by proclaiming that #HelloKitty is not a cat. I am lucky to call her a colleague and mentor. Aloha 🌺
Save the Date!
Christine Yano on #KuleanaAnthropology
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I was interviewed by Politico for their @DigitalFuture newsletter. My wife said I would tweet it so everyone would know and @UHawaiiNews would know. So... there you go. Thanks to Politico!

Discord + War Thunder: The NatSec risks that blindsided America
www.politico.com
Congratulations to anthro major Tara Sutton!

Perseverance rewarded! Meet Tara Sutton, @CSS_UHManoa Outstanding Graduating Senior for 2023. This true academic game-changer with three undergraduate majors is headed for grad school. ➡️https://go.hawaii.edu/vaX #UHManoa #ManoaGrad
Don't miss @UHCSAS keynote Amitav Ghosh
Tuesday 18 April, 6:30 HST
@ManoaAnthro @uhm_es

A talk to challenge how we think about climate change and thus how we act on it, by the acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh: "The Nutmeg's Curse: Climate, Colonialism and Global Geopolitics." Tues., April 18, 6:30 pm, Art auditorium, UH Mānoa. Register: https://bit.ly/Ghosh_social
Congratulations, Sara!
@ManoaAnthro @JonathanPadwe

Ms. Ci Yan Sara Loh received a Wenner-Gren Dissertation grant for doctoral project entitled “Finding Resilience in Difference: Orang Asli Indigenous Knowledge, Climate-Exacerbated Disasters and Development in the Langat River Basin, Peninsular Malaysia.” Congratulations, Sara!
Apparently daylight savings begins in the UK on Sunday, so please note the corrected time zones for the talk on Monday:
8am Hawai‘i
2pm Eastern
7pm UK
11:45pm Nepal
cc @ManoaAnthro @UHCSAS
Excited to speak virtually at Oxford about my latest research in Nepal. Please join us on Monday:
9am Hawai`i
3pm Eastern
7pm UK
12:45am Nepal (Tue)
The time is here! @jan_brunson is speaking about "Absence and Accountability in Reproductive Health in Nepal" this Monday at *7pm* UK time! Sign up here: or join directly on Zoom (link below) @KaveriQureshi @oxford_anthro @OxfordDemSci @pop_LSE @oxsocsci
Jan Brunson: Absence and Accountability in Reproductive Health in Nepal
Vulnerability as Exclusion, as Erasure: A Study of Absence and Accountability in the context of reproductive health in Nepal
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Don't miss this exciting presentation from our own @jan_brunson on new research from Nepal!
Excited to speak virtually at Oxford about my latest research in Nepal. Please join us on Monday:
9am Hawai`i
3pm Eastern
7pm UK
12:45am Nepal (Tue)
Excited to speak virtually at Oxford about my latest research in Nepal. Please join us on Monday:
9am Hawai`i
3pm Eastern
7pm UK
12:45am Nepal (Tue)
The time is here! @jan_brunson is speaking about "Absence and Accountability in Reproductive Health in Nepal" this Monday at *7pm* UK time! Sign up here: http://bit.ly/3TElzqm or join directly on Zoom (link below) @KaveriQureshi @oxford_anthro @OxfordDemSci @pop_LSE @oxsocsci
The beginning of a new era for the journal! Our first rebranded issue is out now. We reflect on the origins of the journal's new name - Waka Kuaka, commemorate the contributions of archeologist Jack Golson, Fuli Pereira reflects on indigenising museum practice and more.
Here’s a nice little study looking at the Late Paleolithic-Neolithic transition in southern China and tying in some Hoabinhian discussion. Nice collaboration led by my Chinese colleagues. | Home
Thursday @ 3 HST
@ManoaAnthro alumna Prof. Cissy Fowler
cohosted by @uhcseas
A real honor and pleasure to have listened to Pat Shipman’s talk on dingo domestication!! 😁😁. @ManoaAnthro
Nice to see so many in the biological anthropology class wearing purple on Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day!! 😊😊. @ManoaAnthro @MoebiusSyndrome