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Brown Bag Biography with Noah Hanohano Dolim

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The Center for Biographical Research presents: / “Ahu‘ena: A Life In and Beyond the Archives” / Noah Hanohano Dolim, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Hawaiʻi at ����ԴDz� / Emma Ahu‘ena Taylor (1867–1937) was an ali‘i wahine who became a sought after historian and cultural expert during the early Territorial era of Hawai‘i. Her life’s work is both exceptionally visible and unsurprisingly obscured by the intersecting politics of Indigeneity, race, gender, and class. Additionally, her seemingly contradictory personal and professional relationships with white settler elites, which includes her marriage to the Territorial archivist, offers much to think about how Kānaka ‘Ōiwi persisted under a new regime. The story of Emma Ahu‘ena is a rich glimpse into the generation of ali‘i who were considered to be “links” and “bridges” between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and more importantly, between the Hawaiian Kingdom and the Territory. / Noah Hanohano Dolim’s current project centers on ali‘i wahine political leadership outside of formal government institutions and their creation of sovereignties beyond the nation-state between the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. His research attends to the intersections of gender, race, settler colonialism, and imperialism. Noah is from Kunia, O‘ahu and has ancestral ties to Puna, Hawai‘i. / Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, Conflict and Peace Specialist, Hui ʻĀina Pilipili: Native Hawaiian Initiative, the School of Communication & Information, the School of Cinematic Arts, and the Departments of American Studies, Anthropology, English, Ethnic Studies, History, Political Science, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies / Thursday, October 10 / Kuykendall 410 / 12PM to 1:15PM HST

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