Visit to Manoa Heritage Center and the Kūka‘ō‘ō Heiau

HI everyone,
Since Nedra Reynold's visit focuses on ecocomposition and the politics of place in relation to writing pedagogy, we invited her to visit the Manoa Heritage Center, where the Kūka‘ō‘ō Heiau is located, just a 10 minute drive from campus. Melanie Ried is arranging a guided tour for us on:
Monday, Oct. 27
10:15 am - 11:30 am
2829 Manoa Rd
Honolulu, HI 96822
(808) 988-1287
Get directions

If you would like to join us, please RSVP with Melanie at mried@hawaii.edu

Here's some info from their site, http://www.manoaheritagecenter.org/ :

For hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, Kūka‘ō‘ō Heiau has watched over Mānoa Valley. Said to have been originally built by the Menehune, this heiau reflects the long and dynamic history of the Hawaiian Islands. Historical evidence suggests that the heiau eventually became an agricultural temple of the māpele class dedicated to the rites and rituals surrounding food productivity. Restored in 1993, Kūka‘ō‘ō Heiau survives as the last intact Hawaiian temple in the greater ahupua‘a of Waikīkī and remains an extraordinary link to the past.

Readings for Reynolds Seminar

The readings for the Tuesday seminar with Nedra Reynolds are available in the English Dept. office KUY 402, on the bookshelf in front of Ethel's desk.
The main readings are:
Soja, Edward "Chapter 4: Increasing the Openness of Third Space" from Thirdspce: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real and Imagined Places.

Buell, Lawrence. "Chapter 2: The Place of Place" from Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the US and Beyond.

Brooke & McIntosh. "Deep Maps: Teaching Rhetorical Engagement through Place-Conscious Education" from The Locations of Composition.

Additional readings that we may discuss are also available, including an additional chapter from Soja's book and an essay by Julie Drew from Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches (Weiser and Dobrin, eds.)

If you would like to receive an PDF file of the three main readings, please email Jolivette at mecenas@hawaii.edu

Updates: Website, Reynolds dinner and readings

Hi everyone,
The Oct. 1 meeting was canceled. If you came to Manoa Gardens after 5pm and I missed you, sorry for that late cancellation. I didn't send a reminder for the meeting, which may have been a problem, but also several people canceled that day. So I don't think meeting on the first Wed. of every month like we agreed to at the last meeting is a good idea. Seems like due to our individual commitments we can meet only for our scheduled events. Which is completely understandable, but if that is the case, we really need to communicate with each other more frequently, and to make clear commitments to the events we have scheduled. I suggest this blog so we don't clog up emails and perhaps have running conversations going. And as always, I welcome your suggestions.

Here are a few updates:

The RSA website is up on the English Dept. server. Here is the new URL:
http://www.english.hawaii.edu/rsa/

Tuesday dinner with Nedra Reynolds:
I've invited Nedra Reynolds to dinner with RSA students after the Tuesday seminar that we are sponsoring. Erica and Jim Henry will also be there, and I've reserved the back room at Little Village for 6pm. The room seats about a dozen people, so space is limited. If you would like to come, please respond to this posting and we'll sign up first come, first serve. I'm looking forward to having a casual dinner with Reynolds and some of our favorite, hard-working professors (Erica and Jim, of course) off-campus, so should be a relaxing way to end a Tuesday.

Fundraising
In order to reserve the room, however, we need to order at least $250 worth of food/drinks for dinner.
So I need some feedback - are people still committed? Can we raise money beforehand? Or should we look for alternative restaurants?
We must brainstorm on this - I've already invited Reynolds to dinner, so we need to commit to planning this.

We also need to raise a small amount of money or think of an alternative (potluck pupus?) for refreshments for the Tuesday seminar that we are sponsoring.

One quick method I know the Philosophy Grad students association does is to pool together unused textbooks and sell them, putting the money into the grad group fund. I have a few contacts of book buyers - what do you think of this option?

THANK YOU in advance for responding to this posting with RSVP to dinner and any feedback/ideas you have for the above. Or you can contact me via email: mecenas@hawaii.edu

Website for Reynolds Visit

Jim Henry created this information website for Nedra Reynold's visit to the English Department at the end of October. You can find Dr. Reynold's biography, as well as information on the various workshops, seminars, and talks she is giving that week:
http://www.english.hawaii.edu/%20Nedra%20HTML/index.html

Readings for the advance seminar on Tuesday Oct. 28 will be available in the English Dept. office KUY 402 by Tuesday, Oct. 14. There are three short main readings and two supplementary ones - all good stuff from spatial theorist/geographer Edward Soja and other more composition-oriented texts.