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Description
Associate Professor Hōkūlani K. Aikau will be speaking on 'Curating A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i: The Detours Project'
Assistant Professor Maile Arvin will be speaking on 'Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania'
Speaker Bios
Hōkūlani K. Aikau (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi) is an associate professor in Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah.
Dr. Aikau is the author of A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawaiʻi (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) and Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi, co-edited with Dr. Vernadette Gonzalez (Duke University Press, 2019).
Maile Arvin (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi) is an assistant professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She is a Native Hawaiian feminist scholar who works on issues of race, gender, science and colonialism in Hawai‘i and the broader Pacific. Her first book, Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania, is forthcoming with Duke University Press in Fall 2019.