Ka Wā Ma Mua, Ka Wā Ma Hope (Using the Past to Inform the Present and Future)

Puakea Nogelmeier (far left), and translation students

The Institute of Hawaiian Language Research and Translation (IHLRT) will be holding a presentation on Tuesday, October 18, UHM Hamilton Library, Hawaiian and Pacific Collections, Room 501, at 4:00 p.m. The IHLRT is a collaborative research unit providing access to Hawaiian language resources, and learning experience and training to a new generation of translators.

This presentation will highlight some of IHLRT’s current projects, introduce its graduate research students, look at upcoming projects, and discuss how these collaborations are reconnecting students, faculty and staff to historical Hawaiian perspectives. Speakers will include Puakea Nogelmeier, Kilika Bennett, Paige Okamura, and Kamealoha Forrest. UH Sea Grant is involved in many of these projects so please help spread the word. For more information contact Dore Minatodani at (808) 956-2852 or dorem@hawaii.edu.