Fri, October 14, 2016 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS). Free but registration required. Scholar-practitioner of Hawaiian and Indigenous epistemology, Dr. Manulani Aluli-Meyer joins the UBC Future of Food Speaker Series to share with us her Indigenous epistemology approaches to land reclamations and food sovereignty.
Manulani Aluli-Meyer is the fifth daughter of Emma Aluli and Harry Meyer. Her family hails from Mokapu, Kailua, Wailuku, Hilo and Kohala on the islands of Oahu, Maui and Moku O Keawe. The Aluli ohana is a large and diverse group of scholar-activists who have spent their lives in Hawaiian education, justice, land reclamation, law, health, cultural revitalization, arts education, prison reform, transformational economics, food sovereignty, Hawaiian philosophy and most of all, music.
Professor Aluli-Meyer obtained her doctorate from Harvard (Ed.D. 1998) by studying Hawaiian epistemology via language, history, and the clear insights of Hawaiian mentors. She is an international keynote speaker who has published on the topic of native intelligence and its synergistic linkages to quantum sciences, transformational and whole thinking, and to liberating evaluation and pedagogy. Manu’s background is in wilderness education, experiential learning and ecological literacy, and she has been an Instructor for the Outward Bound, Wilderness Hawaii, Hawaii Bound, and other alternative learning programs. Dr. Aluli-Meyer championed the Hawaiian Charter School movement in Hawaii, worked within the prisons, and developed Hoea Ea and Kaiao Garden for the Hawaii Island Food Sovereignty movement. Manulani has been an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Hawaii in Hilo and host to many creative community transformational education projects within/outside the university. She is currently the Director of Indigenous Education at UH West Oahu and inspired with many community initiatives in educational reform, food security, and prison transformation.
We are privileged to welcome this engaged practitioner, scholar, and speaker to UBC and very much look forward to your engagement.