kehaulani kauanui: hawaiian scholar/ activist

Please note two events featuring visiting speaker, Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui.

1. Panel discussion: Rethinking Indigenous Identity in the Pacific: The Politics of Migration and Location
in Hawai’ian, Māori and Samoan cases. Friday 10 August, 10am-11:30am, Seminar Room, 6 Kelburn Parade, Victoria University of Wellington

2. Lecture: Contemporary Hawaiian Sovereignty and the Politics of Self-Determination. Friday 10 August, 1-3pm, Wharenui o Te Tumu Te Herenga Waka Marae, Kelburn Parade, Victoria University of Wellington

J. Kehaulani Kauanui is an associate professor of anthropology and American studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, USA, where she teaches courses on race, gender, sovereignty politics, and US colonialism in the Pacific Islands. She has co-edited special journal issues: "Migrating Feminisms," Women's Studies International Forum (1998); "Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge," The Contemporary Pacific (2001); and "Women Writing Oceania: Weaving the Sails of the Waka," Pacific Studies (forthcoming 2007). Her first book, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Indigeneity and Sovereignty (Duke University Press, forthcoming), examines the legal construction of who counts as "native Hawaiian" as it relates to race and land dispossession. Her scholarship appears in the following journals: Social Text, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, American Studies, Comparative American Studies, The Hawaiian Journal of History, Mississippi Review, Amerasia Journal, and American Indian Quarterly. She is currently co-editing a book with Andrea Lee Smith, Native Feminisms: Without Apology (under review, University of Minnesota Press) and is currently embarking on two new book monographs: Mana Wahine Hawaiian Decolonization that explores gender politics in indigenous Hawaiian nationalist struggles, and Hawaiian New England: The Grammar of American Colonialism. She is also the host and producer of a weekly radio program, "Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond." Since 2005, she has served as an advisory board member for 2SPR/Two-Spirit Press Room—a Critical Media Project between indigenous media and LGBT media.