News from the Department of Sociology
Jason Alexander has been selected for a prestigious scholarship! Congratulations! https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/03/17/crown-prince-akihito-scholarship-alexander/
Prof. Ashley Rubin @ashleytrubin guest edited (with @tcguiney and @yeomans_henry) a special issue of the @TheHowardLeague Howard Journal of Crime and Justice on path dependence and criminal justice.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/20591101/2023/62/1
Professor Kimura to speak on tsukemono @AASAsianStudies #AAS2023 session "Multispecies ontology and epistemology: the situated responses and response-abilities in the Anthropocene" (March 17, 4 pm) #AsianStudies #Sociology #JapaneseStudies
UH-Manoa scholars at the Association of Asian Studies meeting #Japanesestudies #AsianStudies #fermentation
Center on Aging, Tokyo Institute of Technology explore tech for older adults
Center on Aging, Tokyo Institute of Technology explore tech for older adults | University of Hawaiʻi System News
The Center on Aging will facilitate interdisciplinary collaborative research between faculty at the two institutions.
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Dr. Genshitsu SEN, 15th grand master of Urasenke tradition visited UH-Manoa. Pictured here with Dr. Kimura. #tea, #uhmanoa, #JapaneseStudies
Professor Manfred B. Steger delivered two invited lectures titled, "Globalization in the COVID-19 Era" at the University of California Irvine, Department of International and Global Studies 2/21/23 and at the University of California Santa Barbara, Dept. of Global Studies 2/22/23
This transdisciplinary course includes texts that help us recognize, describe and make sense of the complex dynamics experienced in the processes of global warming and also social relations. Very useful for sociology! Contact walkover@hawaii.edu for more info.
Margie Walkover is completing her third year facilitating weekly global study sessions for the Fritof Capra Course in Complexity and Systems Thinking - "A Systems View of Life."
About - The Systems View of Life
Introduction During the last four decades, a new conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. It ...
www.capracourse.net
Robin O'Day had a Canadian postdoctoral fellowship for his year, and Masato Nishikido, then at Hosei University and now at Waseda University, spent a sabbatical year with us.
Three PhD graduates of the sociology department also contributed chapters: Shinji Kojima, Yoko Iida, and Yuki Asahina. In addition, two other contributors were visitors in the department for a year:
The book, titled Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan: New Directions in Social Movements, contains 12 ethnographic studies of recent social movements, including one by each of the co-editors.
University of Hawaii Press has accepted a book co-edited by emeritus Professor Patricia Steinhoff and Professor David Slater of Sophia University in Japan, which will be published in spring 2024.
♥️Wherever you go across the globe, we’ll always be connected … in the shape of a heart. Happy Valentine’s Day from your CSS family! @css_uhmanoa ➡️https://youtu.be/CRzX-Cvq1-I
Professor Kimura's class (SOC 400) visited Ka Papa Loʻi O Kānewai
Environmental Justice Club at UH holding a legislative testimony workshop with Sociology graduate student, Jason Alexander
The Department of Sociology is offering a variety of online courses during the summer term. Course descriptions can be found at: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/catalog/category/arts-sciences/social-sciences/soc Feel free to contact us with any questions!
The Environmental Justice Club will be hosting a civic engagement workshop on Feb 9!
Interested in majoring in Sociology? Visit our Undergradate Chair on Feb 6 for info on our degree and free pizza!
Congratulations to our alumnus, Dr. David Swanson, who will be inducted into the Mississippi Academy of Science as a Fellow at a special inaugural ceremony during the upcoming Annual MAS meeting on February 22, 2023. https://csde.washington.edu/news-events/swanson-to-be-inducted-into-fmas/
