Fall 2025

Peace Building Workshop Series

Workshop Dates:

• Session 1: 10/25/25
• Session 2: 12/6/25
• Session 3: 1/10/26

All sessions 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m
Location: Pacific Buddhist Academy
1754 Lusitana Street Honolulu, HI 96813
For more information & registration: bit.ly/ceeds25

Fish that Empty the Water: Co-Species Invasion as Occupation

Thursday, October 9, 2025
6:00 - 7:30 p.m
Location: Keoni Auditorium at Imin Conference Center
Register at: https://go.hawaii.edu/QTr
​Speaker: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Professor, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz

Participatory Approaches to Adaptive Water Governance: Arizona and Hawai'i

Thursday, September 18, 2025
12:00 p.m
Location: UH Mānoa Campus, Saunders Hall 443
Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/87809930797?, passcode: uhmgeofa25
​Speaker: Barbara Quimby, PhD, Assistant Professor, Marine Science & Policy, Hawai'i Pacific University

Fall 2024

Remapping Carceral Archipelagos: Memorial Pilgrimages To World War II Japanese American Confinement Sites

Thursday, November 13
12:00 p.m
Location: UH Mānoa Campus, Saunders Hall 443
​Speaker: Kyle Kajihiro, Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UH Manoa
Contact: Orhon Myadar, [email protected]

"We Exist, Because We Resist”: Megaprojects, Displacement And Dispossession In Southern Mexico

Thursday, October 24
12:00 p.m
Location: UH Mānoa Campus, Saunders Hall 443 
​Speaker: Debbie Samaniego, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UH Manoa.
Contact: Orhon Myadar, [email protected]

Pacific Risa, A NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership: Trends And Impacts Of Climate Change In The Pacific Islands

Thursday, October 3
12:00 p.m
Location: UH Mānoa Campus, Saunders Hall 443 
​Speaker: Victoria Keener, Research Professor, Global Institute of Sustainability & Innovation | Arizona State University; Senior Research Fellow, East-West Center
Contact: Orhon Myadar, [email protected]

Hawaii Geographic Information Coordinating Council: Overview And Opportunities

Thursday, September 26
12:00 p.m
Location: UH Mānoa Campus, Saunders Hall 443 
​Speaker: Sarah Halpern and Clare Mamura, The Hawaii Geographic Information Coordinating Council
Contact: Orhon Myadar, [email protected]

Sick Maps And The Molecular Epidemiology Of Bacterial Infectious Disease​

Thursday, September 19
12:00 p.m
Location: UH Mānoa Campus, Saunders Hall 443 
Speakers: Michael H. Norris, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, UH Manoa
Contact: Orhon Myadar, [email protected]

Christina Moon ; Three Years on the Great Mountain: A Memoir of Zen and Fearlessness

Saturday, September 14
11:00 a.m
Location: UH Mānoa Campus Center
Speakers: Christina Moon; Moderator: Maya Soetoro NG