Defiant Indigeneity:  The Politics of Hawaiian Performance by Stephanie Nohelani Teves

Many Nations Longhouse

January 25, 2019 12:00-1:30pm

Refreshments will be served.

Defiant Indigeneity:  The Politics of Hawaiian Performance explores Hawaiian performance beyond the tourist gaze to theorize how Hawaiians contest US occupation and recuperate aloha as a practice of insurgent worldmaking.

A special edition of the Native American Studies Colloquium Series to celebrate the publication of Defiant Indigeneity.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Oregon, Lani Teves is Kanaka Maoli, born and raised in Oahu.

With discussants:

Maile Arvin, Assistant Professor of History and Gender Studies, University of Utah

Joyce Pualani Warren, Postdoctoral Scholar of Ethnic Literature, University of Oregon

Brian Klopotek, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Orego