Key Note Speaker
Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer presents: “Indigenous epistemology and world-wide awakening”
Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer
Manulani Aluli Meyer is the fifth daughter of Emma Aluli and Harry Meyer who grew up on the sands of Mokapu and Kailua beach on the island of O’ahu. The Aluli ohana is a large and diverse group of scholar-activists dedicated to Hawaiian education, justice, land reclamation, law, health, cultural revitalization, arts education, prison reform, food sovereignty, transformational economics, and music. Manu works in the field of indigenous epistemology and its role in world-wide awakening. Professor Aluli-Meyer obtained her doctorate in Philosophy of Education from Harvard (Ed.D. 1998). She is a world-wide keynote speaker, writer, and international evaluator of Indigenous PhDs. Her book: Ho’oulu: Our Time of Becoming, is in its third printing. Her background is in wilderness education, coaching, and experiential learning and she has been an Instructor for Outward Bound, a coach for Special Olympics, and a cheer-leader for the Hawaiian Charter School movement. Dr. Aluli Meyer has been an Associate Professor of Education at University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and spent five years in New Zealand as the lead designer/teacher for He Waka Hiringa, an innovative Masters in Applied Indigenous Knowledge degree at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, the largest Māori university with 30,000+ students. Dr. Aluli-Meyer is currently the Konohiki for Kūlana o Kapolei (A Hawaiian Place of Learning at University of Hawaiʻi–West O‘ahu).
Keynote Panel
Book Presentation: Resilience and the Brown Babeʻs Burden: Writings by Filipina Philosophers
“Resilience” is generally understood as the ability to withstand, recover, and even thrive from adversity, signaling a successful return to efficient, everyday functioning. It is a term that in recent years has elicited both praise and disapprobation. In the media coverage of the COVID-19 global pandemic, for example, resilience was widely used as an ambivalent description for the human and cultural capacity to respond to disaster, poverty, political corruption, and grief.
While highly engaged in the areas of psychology, development studies, social work, international studies, and political ecology, the idea of resilience remains an undertheorized concept in philosophy. The first of its kind in the discipline, Resilience and the Brown Babe’s Burden: Writings by Filipina Philosophers (edited by Tracy Llanera), features original academic essays about the concept and the social and institutional practices of resilience. The volume presents broad and intersectional philosophical approaches, including but not limited to feminist theory, social and political philosophy, critical theory, pragmatism, virtue theory, social epistemology, and decolonial theory. It also includes a brief essay on the founding of Women Doing Philosophy, a global feminist organization of Filipina philosophers established in June 2020.
The edited collection is part of the Post-COVID World: Academics, Politics and Society series by Routledge.
Dr. Jacklyn A. Cleofas, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Dr. Noelle Leslie dela Cruz, De La Salle University (Manila)
Krissah Marga Taganas, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Ma. Cassandra Ysobel R. Teodosio, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Dr. Tracy Llanera, University of Connecticut
Keynote Panel
Un-settling Philosophy: A Tribute to Haunani-Kay Trask
Dr. Brandy Nālani McDougall, American Studies Department, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Hawaiʻi State Poet Laureate
Dr. kuʻualoha hoʻoamanawanui, English Department, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa