Bishop Museum presents its Kapaemahu Speaker Series | Pacific Connections: Gender Diversity Across Moana Nui
Friday, July 29, 2022
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Atherton Hālau & Livestreamed via Zoom
Free admission
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This program is part of a five-part speaker series that harnesses community discourse around The Healer of Stones of Kapaemahu exhibition on view in Bishop Museum’s Castle Memorial Building through Oct. 16, 2022. By bringing together cultural practitioners, scholars, artists, and community organizers, the program aims to cultivate deeper understanding of the exhibition’s central themes of gender diversity, Native Hawaiian health, and the power of monuments. These talks will take place in person at Bishop Museum’s Atherton Hālau and will be streamed live for virtual participation.
In Hawaiʻi, the creation chant, the Kumulipo, traces the origins of life to the combining of paired opposites: light and dark, earth and sky, wet and dry, male and female. In conversation with co-curator Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Professor Tēvita O. Kaʻili will share stories of gender duality from his native Tonga and other regions of Oceania, and Hawaiian historian Adam Keawe Manolo-Camp will discuss his research and storytelling initiatives to help revive Hawaiian understandings and histories of gender fluidity and same-sex relationships, including among revered rulers and nobles.
Speakers include:
Adam Keawe Manolo-Camp, Hawaiian cultural historian, President of Indigenous Pasifika
Tēvita O. Kaʻili, Anthropologist and Dean of Pacific Studies at Brigham Young University—Hawaii
Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, co-curator of The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu, Kanaka Maoli teacher, cultural practitioner, and community leader
