UH Better Tomorrow Speaker Series
UH Better Tomorrow Speaker Series
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Joanne Lipman: Closing the Gender Gap
Prominent journalist and author Joanne Lipman joins American Studies Professor and BTSS Director Robert Perkinson for an in-studio interview exploring the systemic challenges women face in the workplace.
Lipman has served as editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal Weekend, USA Today, the USA Today Network, and Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine, leading those organizations to a total of six Pulitzer Prizes.
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The Better Tomorrow Speaker Series features incisive conversations on the most pressing issues of our time. The project is a joint venture of the University of Hawai‘i, Ha...
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Joe Balaz: Stories From a Hawaiian Poet
Просмотров 2114 дней назад
Hawaiian poet Joe Balaz is joined by Hawai'i State Poet Laureate (2023-2025) Brandy McDougall, and professor of Hawaiian literature Sherilyn ho’omanawanui, in this enriching in-studio discussion. Balaz was born and raised in Wahiawa on the island of O‘ahu, and is of Hawaiian, Slovakian, and Irish ancestry. His writing, visual poetry, and artwork have been published in national and international...
Kūhiō Lewis Commencement Address
Просмотров 1914 дней назад
Kūhiō Lewis delivers the Spring 2024 commencement address to the graduating class of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa at the Stan Sheriff Center. Lewis serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, a non-profit organization committed to advancing the cultural, economic, political, and community development of Native Hawaiians. BTSS website: manoa.hawaii...
Joanne Lipman: The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work
Просмотров 3121 день назад
Joanne Lipman outlines a plan fit for every type to successfully navigate life’s biggest transitions-and she argues that these steps apply to organizations as well as individuals. Lipman has served as editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal Weekend, USA Today, the USA Today Network, and Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine, leading those organizations to a total of six Pulitzer Prizes. Highlights: ...
Antonio Oposa: Climate Justice for Future Generations
Просмотров 443 месяца назад
Tony Oposa delvers his Inouye chair keynote address at UH Manoa. Antonio A. Oposa, Jr. is recognized as one of Asia’s leading voices in the global arena of Environmental Law. Fighting to protect the Philippines’ natural patrimony, he has initiated landmark cases to protect the country’s remaining virgin tropical forests and to clean up Manila Bay. As an enforcement operative, he has organized a...
Angela Davis: Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Просмотров 9163 месяца назад
Political activist Angela Y. Davis delivered her keynote address as Inouye chair at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in 2016. Angela Y. Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Over the years, she has been active as a student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer. Professor Davis has lectured in all of the fifty ...
Ai-jen Poo: Organizing with Love in the Age of Anger
Просмотров 913 месяца назад
Ai-Jen Poo delivers her Inouye chair keynote address at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Ai-jen Poo is the Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and Co-director of Caring Across Generations. She is a 2014 MacArthur Foundation fellow, a 2013 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and was named to TIME’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. Her wo...
Marcus Rediker: The Democratic Power of History from Below
Просмотров 1723 месяца назад
Marcus Rediker delivers his keynote address as Inouye chair on the power of history to foster democracy when written from the vantage point not of victors and oppressors but of rebels and the repressed. Marcus Rediker is a Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history at the...
Ai-jen Poo: From the Crisis Economy to the Care Economy
Просмотров 694 месяца назад
Celebrated activist Ai-jen Poo explains why well-designed caregiving infrastructure-from early childhood education to eldercare-is vital to families, society, and to the economic vitality of the nation. Ai-jen Poo explains how caregiving in the United States has traditionally been left to families, especially women, but to our peril. Until families can access caregiving services, including infa...
John Aini & Paige West: Decolonizing Conservation in the Pacific
Просмотров 1484 месяца назад
In this searching conversation, two internationally renowned experts on and advocates for Indigenous cultures and sustainability in Papua New Guinea discuss the evolution of conservation across the Pacific. In looking toward an Indigenous future of environmental management, they see a reconnection of people to place, a transfer of resources from carbon-producing and former colonial powers, more...
Dorothy Roberts: Dismantling the Carceral Web
Просмотров 1285 месяцев назад
In this keynote address at the University of Hawai‘i’s Justice Innovations Summit, sociologist and legal scholar Dorothy Roberts explains how child welfare policies have trapped poor families of color in a web of carceral control rather than providing them meaningful protection and assistance. Building on her critique of child protective services, legal sociologist Dorothy Roberts shows how age...
Dorothy Roberts: The Punitive History of Child Welfare Services
Просмотров 4885 месяцев назад
Legal sociologist Dorothy Roberts on how child welfare agencies do more to punish poverty and exacerbate racism than they do to protect children. Roberts, sociologist, and law professor, has devoted her career to critiquing overly punitive approaches to child welfare and family law. In this wide-ranging conversation on the entwined history of racism, economic inequality, and coercive family man...
2024 Hawaiʻi Kuʻu Home Aloha Summit Keynote - For Our Grandchildren: Healing. Restoring. Imagining.
Просмотров 1935 месяцев назад
What are the futures we hope for and envision for our children and grandchildren? Dr. Gail Christopher, whose work emphasizes the importance of holistic healing, and Kumu Hula Kekuhi Kealiʻikanakaʻoleohaililani, whose passion lies in the rejuvenation of human-to-nature relationships, come together for the first time in conversation: “For Our Grandchildren: Healing. Restoring. Imagining.” Featur...
George Goehl: The Community Organizer's Toolbox
Просмотров 906 месяцев назад
George Goehl: The Community Organizer's Toolbox
Amitav Ghosh: Climate, Colonialism, and Global Geopolitics
Просмотров 1446 месяцев назад
Amitav Ghosh: Climate, Colonialism, and Global Geopolitics
Ai-jen Poo: Movement for Care
Просмотров 1096 месяцев назад
Ai-jen Poo: Movement for Care
Nicholas Christakis: How Humans Evolved to be Good
Просмотров 1478 месяцев назад
Nicholas Christakis: How Humans Evolved to be Good
The Future of Trauma-Informed Care in Hawaiʻi
Просмотров 2038 месяцев назад
The Future of Trauma-Informed Care in Hawaiʻi
Robin Kimmerer - HIGHLIGHTS
Просмотров 489 месяцев назад
Robin Kimmerer - HIGHLIGHTS
Julian Aguon: Law, Indigeneity, and Climate Justice
Просмотров 3299 месяцев назад
Julian Aguon: Law, Indigeneity, and Climate Justice
Julian Aguon: An Indigenous Pursuit of Climate Justice
Просмотров 3259 месяцев назад
Julian Aguon: An Indigenous Pursuit of Climate Justice
Nicholas Christakis - HIGHLIGHTS
Просмотров 804Год назад
Nicholas Christakis - HIGHLIGHTS
Nicholas Christakis: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Просмотров 482Год назад
Nicholas Christakis: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Taste Of Tourism
Просмотров 101Год назад
Taste Of Tourism
Industrial Animal Agriculture in Hawai'i
Просмотров 69Год назад
Industrial Animal Agriculture in Hawai'i
Robin Kimmerer: Learning from Ecological Communities
Просмотров 585Год назад
Robin Kimmerer: Learning from Ecological Communities
NHPI Health Inequities Root Causes & Systemic Solutions
Просмотров 77Год назад
NHPI Health Inequities Root Causes & Systemic Solutions
Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Recognizing Signs of Authoritarianism
Просмотров 19 тыс.Год назад
Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Recognizing Signs of Authoritarianism
Food Insecurity in Hawaiʻi- HIGHLIGHTS
Просмотров 108Год назад
Food Insecurity in Hawaiʻi- HIGHLIGHTS
Mona Hanna-Attisha: What the Eyes Don't See
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Mona Hanna-Attisha: What the Eyes Don't See