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A History of Pacific Language Programs at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

Join us to hear from Assoc. Professor John Mayer (IPLL) in the latest session of the CPIS Occasional Seminar Series. Hawaiian and Pacific Island Languages have a long history at the University of Hawaii. Beginning with the Hawaiian Language Program in the late 1950s, the number of languages offered grew with the support of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies (CPIS). By the 1990s ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵM had the largest number of Pacific Language Programs at any university. These programs included Hawaiian, Tahitian, Samoan, Maori, Tongan, Chamorro, and occasionally Marshallese and Fijian. This talk will describe the historic development of the Pacific Language Programs within the Department of (Hawaiian and) Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures (HIPLL/IPLL) and explore the importance of CPIS for their growth. Also discussed will be the more recent reduction and/or elimination of these programs since the merger of the colleges of Language Literatures, and Linguistics, and Arts and Humanities, and the School of Pacific and Asian Studies into the new College of Arts, Languages & Letters in 2020.

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Free and open to the public

Event Sponsor
Center for Pacific Islands Studies, Mānoa Campus

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Foley Pfalzgraf, 808-956-2202, foleycp@hawaii.edu, /cpis/, CPIS Occasional Seminar (PDF)