News from the Department of Political Science
Thank you to everyone who chatted with us at the Summer Kick-off! Special thanks to our graduate students Alyssa Purcell and Hannah Hymen for representing our department.
Check out UH Mānoa Summer 2023 Class Availability for more information about courses!
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Join us Friday, March 24th 2:30pm to 4:00pm in Saunders 624 for our very own Prof. Kathy Ferguson's colloquium on her book 📚 "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture"
Excellent deep conversation on “Belgium, the Atlantic and the Pacific” with students at the College of Political Science, University of #Hawaii. Thank you for your warm welcome! 🙏#Mahalo to all the people who made this program possible. @uhmanoa @uhmpolisci 4/4
Join us in the launch of ʻRiding Two Horses Labour in Europeʻ with author Glyn Ford, British academic and Labour Party politician.
When: February 13 at 3:00pm
Where: Digital Studio at Sinclair Library 1st Floor
Snacks will be provided. Weʻll see you there!!
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Publishing and Professional Development Panel
🗓️Date: Friday, Feb 3rd
🕝Time: 2:30 PM - 4 PM
🏛️Location: Saunders 624
Anarchist letterpress printers and presses are the focus of a new book by a @uhmpolisci and @on_ws_studies faculty member - Kathy Ferguson’s work details the importance of printed materials that galvanized anarchist movements across the US & Great Britain.

Role of printers, pressers in the anarchist movement spotlighted in new book | University of Hawaiʻi System News
By diving deeper into the practices of anarchist print culture, Kathy Ferguson points to possible methods for cultiv...
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Our very own Prof. Jairus Grove will be giving his talk titled “To Risk Imagination: Notes on a palliative theory for a dying world.”
🗓️Date: Friday, Jan 20th
🕝Time: 2:30 PM - 4 PM
🏛️Location: Saunders 624
Light refreshments will be served✨
Join us in person or online on Tuesday, January 17 from 12–1 pm HST for a talk by @AdamPLiff on the US-Japan Alliance and Taiwan. Cosponsored by @uhindopacific, UHM CCS, @UHM_CJS, @UHMAsianStudies, @uhmpolisci, and @EastWestCenter https://hawaii.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w-TIxMJyQL6Kx59WLtDdMw
The write stuff: @css_uhmanoa faculty, @uhmpolisci’s Katharina Heyer and @UHM_Sociology’s Ashley Rubin, are named 2 of 3 co-editors of Law & Society Review. ➡️https://bit.ly/3XbBLQL #UHManoa #FacesOfManoa
Next week, Vinod Aggarwal will give a webinar on "Is New Economic Statecraft Passe?" live on Zoom! Sponsored by @uhcseas, @UHMAsianStudies, @uhmpolisci & @uhindopacific
Jan 11th @ 3:00p (Hawaii)
https://bit.ly/3ilYIS7
Join us for a discussion on critical issues of national security with guest speakers Ambassador Bonnie Denise Jenkins and Jessica Lewis, Assistant Secretary Bureau of Political-Military Affairs!
Date: January 20, 2023
Time: 10 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Saunders Hall 624
Join us in congratulating Dr. Tamara Swift on her successful PhD dissertation defense "Matriarchy or Death"

Upcoming Dissertation Defense
Join in person or online!
"Matriarchy or Death" by Tamara Swift
Wednesday, Dec 14, 2022 | 9 AM - 11 AM | SAUNDS 704
Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/99398441507
Passcode: 840199
Join us in congratulating Dr. Youngwoo Rhee on a successful PhD defense "The Memory Way of Korean Between the Ghost of Premodern Choson and Modern Value System of Contemporary Korea."
Upcoming Dissertation Defense
Join online or in person!
"The Memory of Koreans between the Ghost of Premodern Choson and Modern Value System of Contemporary Korea" by Youngwoo Rhee
Friday, Dec 9, 2022 | 8 AM - 10 AM | SAUNDS 624
Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96757494088
Passcode: 527378
Upcoming Dissertation Defense
Join in person or online!
"Matriarchy or Death" by Tamara Swift
Wednesday, Dec 14, 2022 | 9 AM - 11 AM | SAUNDS 704
Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/99398441507
Passcode: 840199
Regionalism and Nationalism in Contemporary Thailand: Styles of Nationalism and Susceptibility to Ethnic Rhetoric by Joel Selway
Date: Friday, Dec 2, 2022
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM HST
Location: Saunders 624
Online Registration: https://tinyurl.com/ms5m3hne

@uhcseas & @uhmpolisci are co-hosting a webinar on "Regionalism and Nationalism in Contemporary Thailand: Styles of Nationalism and Susceptibility to Ethnic Rhetoric"on Dec 2, 2022 from 2:30-4:00pm.
Venue: Saunders Hall, Room: 624
Register online:
https://tinyurl.com/yc3fcphx
@uhcseas & @uhmpolisci are co-hosting a webinar on "Regionalism and Nationalism in Contemporary Thailand: Styles of Nationalism and Susceptibility to Ethnic Rhetoric"on Dec 2, 2022 from 2:30-4:00pm.
Venue: Saunders Hall, Room: 624
Register online:
https://tinyurl.com/yc3fcphx
TODAY! Friday, November 4, 2022 2:30-4:00pm at SAUNDERS 624.
Skayu Louis (he/him) - "Don't Forget the Granola"
Kauwila Mahi (ia/they/he) - "Scents of Place"
Jake Atienza (he/him) - "Reading Between the Lines"

Come and join us for Skayu Louis, Kauwila Mahi, and Jake Atienza's colloquium series today Friday, November 4, 2022 from 2:30PM - 4PM in SAUNDS 624!
A zoom link to their colloquium can be found below:
http://US02WEB.ZOOM.US/J/84352564748
Come and join us for Skayu Louis, Kauwila Mahi, and Jake Atienza's colloquium series today Friday, November 4, 2022 from 2:30PM - 4PM in SAUNDS 624!
A zoom link to their colloquium can be found below:
http://US02WEB.ZOOM.US/J/84352564748
Congratulations Hannah El-Silimy, POLS PhD Candidate, for receiving the national American Association of University of Women (AAUW) fellowship award.
Read more about the award in the UH News Story here: http://go.hawaii.edu/cE2