Dr Joseph Haldane, Chairman and CEO, IAFOR His Excellency Professor Toshiya Hoshino, Osaka University, Japan Professor Barbara Lockee, Virginia Tech., United States Professor Donald E. Hall, Binghamton University, United States Dr James W. McNally, University of Michigan, United States & NACDA Program on Aging Professor Haruko Satoh, Osaka University, Japan Dr Grant Black, Chuo University, Japan Professor Dexter Da Silva, Keisen University, Japan Professor Gary Swanson, University of Northern Colorado, United States Professor Baden Offord, Curtin University, Australia Professor Frank Ravitch, Michigan State University, United States Professor William Baber, Kyoto University, Japan
Dr Grant Black, Chuo University, Japan Dr Joseph Haldane, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan Professor Donald E. Hall, University of Rochester, United States Dr Daniel Hoffman, University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States Professor James W. McNally, University of Michigan, USA & NACDA Program on Aging Professor Deane Neubauer, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, United States Professor Haruko Satoh, Osaka University, Japan Tialei Scanlan, Brigham Young University – Hawaii, United States Professor Gary E. Swanson, University of Northern Colorado, United States (fmr.) Robin Watson, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, United States
Professor Umberto Ansaldo, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dr Yutaka Mino, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan Dr Thanassis Rikakis, University of Southern California, USA Dr Linda Schwartz, Ambrose University, Canada Dr Richard Donovan, Kansai University, Japan Professor Donald E. Hall, Binghamton University, United States Professor Anne Boddington, Kingston University, UK Lord Charles Bruce, Japan Society of Scotland, UK Professor Chung-Ying Cheng, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA Professor Georges Depeyrot, French National Center for Scientific Research, France Professor Said M. Faiq, American University of Sharjah, UAE Dr Alfonso J. García Osuna, Hofstra University, USA Dr A. Robert Lee, Nihon University, Japan (retd.) Professor Jeffrey Sommers, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Dr Drago Štambuk, Croatian Ambassador to Iran Dr Brian Victoria, Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, UK
Dr Tomas Chochole, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Professor Xiaofan Gong, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, China Dr Jytte Holmqvist, HBU-UCLan (University of Central Lancashire), United Kingdom Professor Yi-Ting Kuo, Jen-Teh Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Taiwan Dr Yuk Yee Lee, Gratia Christian College, Hong Kong Dr Reena Mittal, MJPRU, Bareilly, India Dr Zainor Izat Zainal, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Chris Blake currently serves as the Director of Pacific Innovations with the Office of Teaching and Learning Innovations at Kamehameha-Kapālama. In this role, he works to examine the wisdom of our ancestors and integrate it into our present knowledge to help us to navigate into the future. Chris has been an educator in the hui ʻepekema (Science) i ke kula kiʻekiʻe ma Kamehameha-Kapālama since 2000 and has been the High School Science Department Chair since 2010. Currently, he is the kumu (teacher) of Papa Kilo Hōkū (Celestial Navigation) which takes many of the components of non-instrument traditional navigation and sailing and provides a hands-on opportunity to learn from navigators and captains from the Polynesian Voyaging Society.
Chris has been working with the Polynesian Voyaging Society since 2012, connecting with Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia with the Mālama Honua -World-Wide Voyage in 2014-2017. He has continued his growth and development with Nainoa Thompson and Bruce Blankenfield with voyages to Ka Houpo o Kāne (InterTropical Convergence Zone) in May 2021 and the voyage to Papahānaumokuākea in June 2021. In 2022, he was selected for the crew on Hōkūleʻa as it voyaged on the ancient searoad of Kealaikahiki to Arutua, Rangiroa and Papaʻete in Tahiti.
Mark K. Ellis
Polynesian Voyaging Society, United States
Biography
Mark K. Ellis was born, raised, and currently lives with his ʻohana in Nuʻuanu, Oʻahu. He is a husband and father of four children. Mark is a crew member and student of navigation with the Polynesian Voyaging Society. He is a past Fellow of the First Nations’ Futures Institute at Stanford University. Mark received an undergraduate degree in Organisational Development and a master’s degree in Instructional Technology and Design. He is currently a Sr. Instructional Designer with Kamehameha Schools.
Polynesian Voyaging Society, Hawai'i, United States
Biography
Catherine Fuller is a sixth grade teacher at 'Iolani School in Honolulu. She is also a crew member on the Polynesian Voyaging Society's canoes Hõkūle'a and Hikianalia, and has held multiple roles on the canoes including navigator and captain. Catherine brings the lessons from her experiences to her students through the examination of the values, practices and decisions required to create a sustainable world. Her interests include outrigger canoe paddling, photography and reading.
Linda Furuto
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, United States
Biography
Dr Linda Furuto is from Hau‘ula, O‘ahu and a professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Prior to joining UHM, Dr Furuto was an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Head of Mathematics and Science at University of Hawai’i West O‘ahu, and a middle and high school mathematics teacher in Fiji, Japan, Los Angeles, and Boston. Dr Furuto completed her PhD at UCLA, her master’s degree at Harvard University, and bachelor’s degree at Brigham Young University. She is the director of the world’s first degree program in ethnomathematics, which received an official add-a-field licensure in ethnomathematics from the Hawai‘i Teacher Standards Board. Dr Furuto has been part of the Polynesian Voyaging Society since 2007 and is an education specialist connecting voyaging on the ocean and land through ethnomathematics, access, equity, and STEM education.
Pelika Andrade
Na Maka Onaona & University of Hawaiʻi, United States
Biography
A native Hawaiian born and raised on the island of Kauaʻi, Pelika Andrade works with Na Maka Onaona, a Hawaii-based non-profit, and the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College program. She has a long history of working with Hawaiian communities throughout the archipelago as a community member, sailor, voyager, cultural practitioner and researcher.
For the past twelve years, she has been developing alternate approaches to monitoring Hawaiʻi’s watersheds and has been supporting the implementation of a management strategy that supports healthy balanced communities in Hawai‘i. She is an ongoing participant in the Papahanaumokuakea Cultural Working Group and has served as chair from 2011-2014 and interim chair 2021-present. Pelika has a Master’s degree in Hawaiian studies with a focus on Malama Aina (Hawaiian Conservation) and has visited the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands many times to conduct scientific and cultural research. "I feel both honoured and privileged to be a contributing part of caring for our islands, our elder siblings, and ensuring a healthy-thriving pae'aina (archipelago) for future generations."
Kai Hoshijo
Polynesian Voyaging Society & Maunalua Fishpond Heritage Center, United States
Biography
Kai Hoshijo is 25 years old and hails from Niu Valley, Oahu. She recently received her Master’s degree from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM) and graduated in 2019 with her BSc in NREM. She is a navigation student and volunteer crew member with the Polynesian Voyaging Society and the Maunalua Fishpond Heritage Center. Her recent work titled “O Niu ka inoa: Management lessons based on historical timelines and community stories of a degraded nearshore resource” featured archival research and community interviews to enhance the understanding of Konohiki fishery management in Niu Ahupuaʻa. Kai loves being on the ocean and spending time near it. In her free time, she teaches, makes pottery and loves working in her yard.
Brendan Howe
Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Biography
Brendan Howe is Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University, South Korea, where he has also served two terms as Associate Dean and Department Chair. He is also currently the President of the Asian Political and International Studies Association, and an Honorary Ambassador of Public Diplomacy and advisor for the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has held visiting professorships and research fellowships at the East-West Center (where he is currently enjoying a second term as a POSCO Visiting Research Fellow), the Freie Universität Berlin, De La Salle University, the University of Sydney, Korea National Defence University, Georgetown University, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, and Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Educated at the University of Oxford, the University of Kent at Canterbury, Trinity College Dublin, and Georgetown University, his ongoing research agendas focus on traditional and non-traditional security in East Asia, human security, middle powers, public diplomacy, post-crisis development, comprehensive peacebuilding and conflict transformation. He has authored, co-authored, or edited around 100 related publications including Society and Democracy in South Korea and Indonesia (Palgrave, 2022), The Niche Diplomacy of Asian Middle Powers (Lexington Books, 2021), UN Governance: Peace and Human Security in Cambodia and Timor-Leste (Springer, 2020), Regional Cooperation for Peace and Development (Routledge, 2018), National Security, State Centricity, and Governance in East Asia (Springer, 2017), Peacekeeping and the Asia-Pacific (Brill, 2016), Democratic Governance in East Asia (Springer, 2015), Post-Conflict Development in East Asia (Ashgate, 2014), and The Protection and Promotion of Human Security in East Asia (Palgrave, 2013).
Haunani Kane
University of Hawai‘i, United States
Biography
Dr Haunani Hiʻilani Kane is a scientist, surfer, and voyager from Kailua, Oʻahu. An Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi, Haunani’s life is guided by the values and storied history of her kūpuna (ancestors). Haunani's research combines coastal geomorphology, paleo environmental reconstructions, spatial analysis, and the perspectives of a native islander to investigate how islands, reefs, and island people are impacted by changes in climate.
Haunani has been mentored since her youth in traditional Hawaiian wayfinding and navigation by the Polynesian Voyaging Society. Haunani has spent nearly 200 days at sea aboard both sailing and modern research vessels. As a voyager and climate scientist, Haunani's research and teaching rely upon reestablishing ancestral relationships to place. She hopes that through this process she may provide a more inclusive understanding of the impacts of environmental stressors and ensure that the best available climate science data is reflective of all stories of place and their people. Haunani is currently working with her students and colleagues at the MEGA Lab to better understand how islands in Papahānaumokuākea respond to rising sea levels and storms.
Darwin Kaneaiakala
Cultural Practitioner, United States
Biography
Darwin “Kaleolani” Kaneaiakala is a native Hawaiian cultural practitioner from the island of O’ahu. He was born, raised, and still resides in the Ahupua’a of Kāne’ohe on the Windward side. He practises Polynesian sailing, Lua (The Art of the Hawaiian Warrior), and mahi’ai (farming). Learning the art of ku’i kalo (smashing taro) from Daniel Anthony over eight years ago, he discovered the health benefits of kalo, a staple food of the Hawaiian people. He passes on his cultural knowledge by sharing food and teaching others to ku’i.
Dr Julie Kaomea is a Kanaka Maoli professor of Indigenous Education at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Throughout her youth she was fed and sustained by the ʻāina momona of Heʻeia, Oʻahu, and her deep aloha for this ʻāina continues to inform and inspire her scholarship and teaching to this day. Dr Kaomea received her bachelor’s degree at Stanford University, an elementary teaching credential at the University of California, Berkeley, and both her master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research in Native Hawaiian Education has been published in Educational Researcher, Curriculum Inquiry, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Qualitative Inquiry, and History of Education Quarterly. She has served as the coordinator of the University of Hawaiʻi’s PhD in Education Program in Curriculum & Instruction for ten years, and teaches graduate courses in Decolonizing Research Methodologies, Indigenous & Postcolonial Perspectives in Education, and Contemporary Native Hawaiian Education.
Randy Kosaki
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States
Biography
Dr Randy Kosaki is a coral reef fish ecologist with NOAA's Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Born and raised on O’ahu, Kosaki received his BA in Marine Biology from Occidental College, and his PhD in Zoology from the University of Hawai‘i. Kosaki's research specialisation is in the use of advanced dive technologies, such as closed-circuit rebreathers, to explore the coral reef "twilight zone," or mesophotic (deep) coral reefs between 150 and 330 feet deep. His research is primarily focused on the remote reefs of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, but has taken him to numerous localities across the tropical Pacific. In his spare time, Kosaki enjoys reading about fish, looking at fish, photographing fish, catching fish, cooking fish, and eating fish (while watching old Broadway musicals).
Paul McKimmy
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, United States
Biography
Paul McKimmy is interim Associate Vice Provost for Academic Excellence at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa where he leads the tenure and promotion process, chairs the distance learning advisory committee, acts on policy and contract cases, and coordinates professional development.
Dr McKimmy has a combined thirty years of experience in higher education, including twenty years with the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa College of Education. As the College’s Director of Technology & Distance Programs, his roles included planning and managing instructional support services, technical services, and development of distance programs. As a faculty specialist in the Learning Design & Technology department, he also developed a curriculum and taught courses in instructional design, academic technology, and online learning. He continues to serve on doctoral committees with the department.
Dr McKimmy holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Western Michigan University, a Master degree in College Student Personnel and Guidance and Counseling from Bowling Green State University, and a Bachelor in Business Administration from Hope College.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States
Biography
Born and raised in Kapahulu on Oʻahu, Kanoe Morishige is the Native Hawaiian Program Specialist and NOAA Affiliate for Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument supporting Native Hawaiian advocacy and engagement across research, policy, and management to guide the co-management of PMNM. For the past fourteen years through her work in the Native Hawaiian non-profit organisation, Nā Maka Onaona, she has been working alongside local communities perpetuating Native Hawaiian knowledge systems, integrating western scientific tools, and building capacity of youth leadership to support ʻāina momona, healthy and productive lands, oceans, and communities.
Hindsight, Foresight, and Our Post-COVID Future
Keynote Presentation: Paul McKimmy
The COVID pandemic challenged higher education to adapt to new parameters on a timeline no one saw coming. Typically slow to change, educational institutions made difficult changes on an accelerated timeline and under stressful conditions. Components of online education shifted from secondary to primary importance for nearly all institutions. As a result, some colleges closed under the strain. Now in the post-pandemic phase, we can reflect on which pre-pandemic institutional efforts paid dividends during the crisis. As a lead on the planning and support of online programs at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and as chair of the Mānoa Distance Learning Committee, the presenter was positioned to support and observe efforts in multiple programs. This presentation will discuss observations and predictions relating to promising institutional strategies that have and will continue to benefit our programs in the post-pandemic reality.
Internationalisation and Cooperation in East Asian Higher Education
Keynote Presentation: Brendan Howe
East Asia (including both Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia) is a region that has contributed greatly to the concept of an “Asia-Pacific Century.” This focus has been justified by the East Asian economic development “miracle,” the absence of interstate war in the “long peace of East Asia,” and an “Eastphalian peace.” Reference has also been made to East Asia’s other miracle, the decline of mass atrocities, while Freedom House notes it is the only region of the world to have made significant gains in political freedoms in recent years. Educational institutions in the region have made steady progress up international league tables. There is growing participation by East Asian scholars in international conferences such as those organised by ISA, WISC, DSA, and AAS, and a growing number of conferences organised by such associations in Asia. Yet, many obstacles stand in the way of a true internationalisation of higher education. These include a paucity of resources, a shortage of publishing outlets, language barriers, an emphasis on hard sciences and disciplines which promote economic growth (econophoria), and relatedly, the pull of policy relevant work that offers greater prestige and financial rewards. In some cases, nationalism, and in other cases a subaltern relationship to the West (sometimes both together), restrict regional educational cooperation and development. This presentation will discuss some of these issues and shortcomings, but also propose opportunities for overcoming the challenges.
Hidden Hawaiʻi: A Huakaʻi through the Native Realities of Our Island Home
Keynote Presentation: Julie Kaomea
A huakaʻi is a journey taken with purpose and intention. In contrast to a pleasure-seeking tour of “must-see” attractions, our kūpuna set off on huakaʻi with humility, respect, and an open mind, allowing themselves to be moved and transformed by the people and places they meet along the way. In a similar spirit, I invite you to join in this virtual huakaʻi to the “Hidden Hawaiʻi” experienced by a group of classroom teachers and graduate students in my semester-long course in Contemporary Native Hawaiian Education. We’ll journey back in time to uncover the suppressed histories of a once flourishing and internationally recognised Hawaiian nation. We’ll lay bare the stark, contemporary realities behind the touristic sheen of glossy postcard images and expose the US military’s thinly veiled threats to our Native existence. Finally, we’ll venture to hidden kipuka or tucked away oases of aloha ʻāina that have thus far resisted the ravages of rampant capitalism and development – small sovereign spaces where Kānaka can put our hands to the soil once more to unearth, cultivate, and reimagine visions of more sovereign and sustainable, Indigenous Hawaiian futures.
We will highlight the diverse ways in which Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) are active in weaving ancestral knowledge systems, values, practices into multi-disciplinary research and indigenous science. These collective efforts will highlight how these ʻŌiwi and the Papahānaumokuākea Native Hawaiian Cultural Working Group are integral to protecting Papahānaumokuākea where there is no division between natural and cultural resources. These efforts are part of more than two decades of ʻŌiwi leaders and communities building pilina and kuleana to care for Papahānaumokuākea as an extension of the communities we call home.
Panel Presentation: Chris Blake, Mark K. Ellis, Catherine Fuller, Linda Furuto
This panel is composed of seasoned Poynesian Voyaging Society crew members who are also educators at levels ranging from elementary to university to the larger community. The panel will discuss transmitting the lessons of the canoe to students of all ages as well as the educational platform being launched for the Moananoiākea voyage planned to start in 2023.
Poi is a traditional staple of Hawaiian cuisine, and is made from taro, breadfruit or plantain that is pounded into a smooth paste and eaten by hand. This Hawaiian cultural presentation demonstrates the Hawaiian traditional protocols of poi pounding using traditional tools and the kalo (taro). A tasting of the fresh poi will culminate the presentation.
Chris BlakePolynesian Voyaging Society, United States
Mark K. EllisPolynesian Voyaging Society, United States
Catherine FullerPolynesian Voyaging Society, Hawai'i, United States
Linda FurutoUniversity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, United States
Pelika AndradeNa Maka Onaona & University of Hawaiʻi, United States
Kai HoshijoPolynesian Voyaging Society & Maunalua Fishpond Heritage Center, United States
Brendan HoweEwha Womans University, South Korea
Haunani KaneUniversity of Hawai‘i, United States
Darwin KaneaiakalaCultural Practitioner, United States
Julie KaomeaUniversity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, United States
Randy KosakiNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States
Paul McKimmyUniversity of Hawai’i at Mānoa, United States
Kanoe MorishigeNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States
Hindsight, Foresight, and Our Post-COVID FutureKeynote Presentation: Paul McKimmy
Internationalisation and Cooperation in East Asian Higher EducationKeynote Presentation: Brendan Howe
Hidden Hawaiʻi: A Huakaʻi through the Native Realities of Our Island HomeKeynote Presentation: Julie Kaomea
Weaving Knowledge Systems and Nurturing the Next Generation to Care for Papahānaumokuākea Marine National MonumentPanel Presentation: Pelika Andrade, Kai Hoshijo, Haunani Kāne, Randall Kosaki, Kanoe Morishige
Voyaging: From the Canoe to the ClassroomPanel Presentation: Chris Blake, Mark K. Ellis, Catherine Fuller, Linda Furuto
Hawaiian Cultural Presentation: Poi PoundingCultural Presentation: Darwin Kaneaiakala
