UH Manoa Political Science

Please feel free to join us for Kahala Johnson's dissertation event on Monday, September 16, 2024 at Saunders 624 from 8:30AM to 10:30AM!

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Antoine Bousquet will deliver a talk tomorrow on the future of AI and augmented thinking. Since the early stages of ChatGPT, he has been investigating the consequences of large language models on politics and education. Please join us for what I know will be a very interesting conversation.

Congratulations Dr. Donna Kona Au for your outstanding display of hard work and effort!

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The Department of Political Science was thrilled to hold our annual Culminating Experience on May 3, 2024. Congratulations to Wailana Medeiros as she celebrates the completion of her MA in Political Science! Thank you all for joining us!

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Congratulations to Dr. Changwon Yang on completing a successful dissertation defense!

Thank you to all that came to the Graduate Student Dual Presentation Colloquium!

Featured:

3rd year PhD student in Political Science, Tiffany Beam, presenting "Floating at the Waters Edge, with Onto-stories of Asian Diaspora".

2nd year MA student, Ashley Clark, presenting "Interspecies Terroir and the Making of Bug-Bitten Tea".

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Congratulations Dr. Andriy Levytskyy!

*ROOM CORRECTION
Please note the correction in the flyer. This event will take place in Saunders 624 and not Saunders 704!

Please feel free to join us for Donna (Kona) Au's dissertation event on May 6, 2024. Food will be provided!

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Come join the Department for Colloquium presentations! Featuring Tiffany Beam and Ashley Clark.

Come join us via Zoom! Dissertation Defense by Riddhi Shah.

Manoa Political Internship Program Celebrates 50-year anniversary see link below!

Mānoa Political Internship Program celebrates 50-year anniversary | University of Hawaiʻi System News Interns experience an up-close view of state and federal government and gain skills to advance their careers in a variety of fields.

Please join the Department of Political Science on Tuesday, April 30th via zoom at
12 Noon to 2pm HST.

Title: Power Fortified by Fear: Patron-Client Relations, Impunity, and Electoral Killing in Maguindanao, Philippines

by Changwon Yang (POLS)

Come join the department! Dissertation Defense by Andriy Levytskyy

DEADLINE EXTENSION! Manoa Political Internship Program. Link provided above. Don't miss out on a great opportunity.

Thank you to those who attended the talk on March 8, 2024!

Office will be closed during spring break. Have a great spring break and stay safe and healthy! 🌼🌴✨

Thank you Assistant Secretary of State Mallory Stewart for the informative and insightful talk!

Thank you to those who joined us for our February 16th talk with Kumu Hina as she shared the art of storytelling through the animated medium!

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Join us for our next colloquium on February 16th, 2024 at 2:30pm-4:00pm at the Native Hawaiian Student Services Room 113 QLC.

Food will be provided! For more information, contact us at [email protected]

Thank you to those who joined us for our second colloquium of the semester! We had the pleasure of having Dr. Jon Goldberg-Hiller present on his newly launched book Law by Night. For more information on the book, you can visit dukeupress.edu

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Never too late to celebrate our Fall 2023 graduates! Congratulations and best of luck in your future endeavors 🎊🎓

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Congratulations to Poli'ahu and Ken for completing their culminating experience and earning their Master's degree!!

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Happy holidays from the Political Science Department! ✨ Office will be closed throughout the break.

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Join us on Oct. 20 as we kickstart our Fall 2023 Colloquium Series! We welcome guest speaker, Professor David Mullins on his talk about Kaftka's Animal Machines.

Food will be served in person on Oct. 20 at 2:30pm-4:00pm in Saunders 624 or join us online through Zoom!

https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/94804355090
Passcode: political

Tomorrow we are honored to host NASA Commercial Space Executive, president of the World Space Week Association, and UH alumni, Dennis Stone to speak with students and the public!

You are welcome to join via zoom at 2:30pm HST: Tinyurl.com/astroepet

POLS SPRING ‘23 COLLOQUIUM 🌺

Save the date! Friday, April 28th 2023

Ruoyu Li, a visiting scholar from John Hopkins University will be presenting her talk “Oh, its just an experiment’ - Exploring the Material and Discursive Construct of the US Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands.”

The event will be held in Saunders 624 2:30 PM to 4 PM.

DM or email us for any questions!

Congratulations to two of our POLS students who were recognized for their dedication and service to UH Mānoa and for enhancing the University’s mission of excellence!

Kalikoaloha Martin, POLS Ph.D. candidate, received the Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

The Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for a faculty and a graduate assistant recognizes the dedication and demonstrated excellence as teachers of undergraduate students. It was established as a memorial to the late Frances Davis, who taught mathematics at Leeward Community College and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for 19 years.

One of our POLS student assistants, Binierose Cacho, was also recognized with the Student Employee of the Year Award!

The Student Employee of the Year Program was created in 1986 by the Mānoa Career Center to recognize and highlight the achievements and contributions of student employees on the UH Mānoa campus.

You can read more about their awards on the UH Manoa Awards! Congratulations once again!!

UH Mānoa Awards | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Recognizing the dedication and service of UH Mānoa faculty, staff, and students committed to enhancing the University’s mission of excellence. Join us in-person for the 2023 UH Mānoa Awards Ceremony to honor this year’s award winners at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, May 1 at Kennedy Theatre. Watch the ...

POLS Dissertation Defense 🎓

Join us for Amali Wedegedara’s, POLS PhD candidate, dissertation defense on “Debt and Resistance: A Study of Agrarian Women’s Protests in Sri Lanka”

Date: Thursday, May 04 2023
Time: 2PM - 4PM (HST)
Location: Saunders 624 or via Zoom

We are excited to invite you to another spring series colloquium hosted by the Department of Political Science, co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and Center for Biographical Research, and partially sponsored by the Student Activity and Program Fee Board and UH SEED IDEAS.

Dr. Kealani Cook, Dr. Noenoe K. Silva, Dr. Dean Itsuji Saranillio, and Dr. Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar will come together in a panel to discuss four different approaches to understanding the ways that Kanaka ‘Ōiwi and other Oceanic peoples sought to maintain and develop their political and cultural coherence under imperial and colonial administration.

The colloquium will take place on Friday, April 14th, from 2:30 pm to 4 pm in Saunders 624. For those unable to attend in person, a Zoom link is provided below.

Please share this invitation with your colleagues and students; we look forward to a lively discussion following the presentation.

Zoom Option
While our colloquia will be in-person this semester, the event will also be hosted on Zoom. There is no need to pre-register for the event.

Zoom link: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/95469482658

Meeting ID: 954 6948 2658

One tap mobile: +16699006833,,95469482658 #

Please do not hesitate to reach out to [email protected] with any questions or concerns.