Schedule

Monday, August 1st

9:15 am Shuttle departs for campus

9:30 am Coffee and continental breakfast

10:00 am Opening Remarks: David Theo Goldberg; Kavita Philip

11:00 – 12:30 Round Table: All faculty [10 minute thematic provocations/ problematics]

12:30-2:00 LUNCH on your own

2:00 – 3:00 pm Wendy Chun

3:00-3:30 pm Coffee Break

3:30 – 5:15 pm Nishant Shah, Larissa Hjorth, Itty Abraham

5:30 – 6:00 Revisiting our thematic provocations: general discussion

6:00-7:30 Reception at East-West Center

7:45 Shuttle departs for hotel

 

Tuesday, August 2nd

9:15 am Shuttle departs for campus

9:30 am Coffee and continental breakfast

10:00 – 11:00 am Lucy Suchman

11:00- 12:00 pm Sha Xin Wei, “Recherche-Création”

12:00-1:30 pm LUNCH on your own

1:30 – 3:30 pm Panel discussion: Siva Vaidyanathan, Roger Hart, Wendy Chun

3:30-4:30 pm 6 Lightning talks/provocations: Mike Fischer, Leon Morenas, John Cho, Lily Nguyen, Regina Yung Lee, Anita Chang

4:30-5:00 pm Coffee Break

5:00-6:00 pm Special presentation/discussion: Heather Diamond, American Studies and English, University of Hawai’i, and author of American Aloha: Cultural Tourism and the Negotiation of Tradition (University of Hawai’i Press, 2008)

6:30 pm Shuttle departs for hotel

 

Wednesday, August 3rd

9:15 am Shuttle departs for campus

9:30 am Coffee and continental breakfast

10:00 – 12:00 pm Siva Vaidyanathan

12:00-2:00 pm LUNCH on your own

2:00 – 4:00 pm Sha Xin Wei: AR Workshop

4:00-4:30 pm Coffee Break

4:30-5:30 pm 6 Lightning talks/provocations: Lilly Irani, Yiman Wang, Rahul Mukerjee, Yugon Kim, Cheryl Deutsch, Will Jordan

5:45 pm Shuttle departs for dinner [NOT hotel]

6:15 pm Group Dinner @ Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant [see group dinner page for details]

8:30 pm Shuttle departs restaurant for hotel

 

Thursday, August 4th

9:15 am Shuttle departs for campus

9:30 am Coffee and continental breakfast

10:00 – 11:15 pm Ivan da Costa Marques

11:30-12:45 pm Larissa Hjorth

12:45-2:00 pm LUNCH on your own

2:00 – 3:00 pm Roger Hart

3:00 – 4:00 pm Nishant Shah

4:00-4:30 pm Coffee break

4:30 – 5:30 pm 6 Lightning talks/provocations: Grant Otsuki, Tania Perez-Bustos, Amy Fujiwara Shen Dan O’Neill, Daniel Araya, Jen Spiegel

5:30-6:00 pm Revisiting our thematic provocations: discussion

6:15 pm Shuttle departs for hotel

Evening: On your own

 

Friday, August 5th

9:15 am Shuttle departs for campus

9:30 am Coffee and continental breakfast

10:00 – 11:00 am Special presentation/discussion: Konrad Ng, Academy for Creative Media, University of Hawai’i

11:00 am – 1:30 pm Joe Dumit
1:30 – 2:30 pm LUNCH on your own

2:30-3:30 pm Itty Abraham

4:00-4:30 pm Open discussion, moderated by Lucy Suchman & Ivan da Costa Marques

Note: No afternoon snack today – but there will be coffee!

4:45 pm Shuttle departs for hotel
Optional group evening outing: First Friday Art Walk in Chinatown

 

Saturday, August 6th
On your own

Optional literary event: Poetry Reading by SECT participant Margaret Rhee @ Revolution Books (3 pm)

Optional evening out: Lulu’s Waikiki Surf Shack (Time TBD)

 

Sunday, August 7th
On your own

Optional group brunch: Shorebird All-You-Can-Eat Brunch on the Beach, $12.95 (Time TBD)

 

Monday, August 8th

9:15 am Shuttle departs for campus

9:30 am Coffee and continental breakfast

10:15 – 11:45 am Kath Weston

11:50 – 1:15 pm Achal Prabhala

1:15-2:30 pm LUNCH on your own

2:30 – 4:00 pm Panel discussion: Cori Hayden, Joe Dumit

4:00-4:30 pm Coffee Break

4:30-5:30 pm Special lecture/discussion: John Rosa, Department of History, University of Hawai’i, and author of Local Story: The Massie/Kahahawa Case and the Politics of History in Hawai’i (University of Hawai’i Press, forthcoming)

6:00 pm Shuttle departs for hotel

 

Tuesday, August 9th

9:15 am Shuttle departs for campus

9:30 am Coffee and continental breakfast

10:00-1:00 pm Panel: Kath Weston, Achal Prabhala, Kavita Philip

1:00-2:00 pm LUNCH on your own

2:00-4:00 pm Cori Hayden

4:00-4:30 pm Coffee Break

4:30-5:30 pm 6 Lightning talks/provocations: Martha Kenney, Bernardo Attias, Aimee Bahng, Colleen Lye, Dai Kojima, Margaret Rhee, Leon Morenas

5:45 pm Shuttle departs for hotel

7:00 pm Group Dinner @ Keo’s Waikiki Thai Restaurant [see group dinner page for details]

 

Wednesday, August 10th

9:15 am Shuttle departs for campus

9:30 am Coffee and continental breakfast

10:00 – 1:00 pm TAG! You’re IT! The most re-tweeted tags from the past week will be consolidated into a tag cloud, which will then serve as the basis for small group conversations. These small groups will converse on their own for 2 hours, after which they will report back to the whole.

The link to the tag-cloud is http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3904542/secVII

1:00-2:00 pm LUNCH on your own

2:00 – 4:00 pm Concluding event: David Theo Goldberg First 30 minutes: conversation about how we want to use this last session.

[No afternoon coffee break today]

4:30 pm Shuttle departs for hotel