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Brown Bag Biography with Maile Arvin

In this talk, I share in-process thoughts on collective pedagogies and practices of reverence, as I have learned through caring for relationships with people and places that have genealogical links to sites of child incarceration in Hawaiʻi. I offer these framings of reverence as a way of engaging biographical methods for people and places for which there may never be enough traditional data to fill in the details of their lives. How might collaborative experiences of reverence offer pathways to knowledge creation that can hold complex analyses that integrate pain and love into colonial histories? Dr. Maile Arvin is a Kanaka Maoli feminist scholar, and an assistant professor in Ethnic Studies and Public Administration at ����ֱ��M. She previously was an associate professor of History and Gender Studies, as well as the founding director of the Center for Pasifika Indigenous Knowledges, at the University of Utah. Her first book, Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawaiʻi and Oceania, was published with Duke University Press in 2019. She also directs the research project Nā Lei Poina ʻOle (Beloved Children Never Forgotten), a community-engaged history project about reformatories and industrial schools in Hawaiʻi.

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Center for Biographical Research, Mānoa Campus

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