Emalani Case: Keynote Address, 2021 Center for Pacific Islands Studies Student Conference

Originally from Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, Emalani Case grew up in a small town immersed in the stories and histories of her place. Coupled with her life-long training in hula, or Hawaiian chant and dance, she thus learned to see her world-or each landscape, seascape, and skyscape-as being ‘storied.’ This fueled her passion for writing and studying literature, which eventually led to her BA and MA degrees in English; to her efforts to learn to speak, write, and translate ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Language); and eventually, to her PhD work in Pacific Studies at Victoria University of Wellington where she continued to study stories, genealogies, and ancestral connections and obligations across Oceania
Emalani now shares her love of stories and histories as a Lecturer in Pacific Studies. As a Hawaiian woman, scholar, activist, writer, blogger, and dancer, she is deeply engaged in issues of indigenous rights and representation, colonialism and decolonisation, and environmental and social justice.
Emalani's first book, Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki, was published by UH Press in 2021.
This keynote address is part of the 9th Annual Center for Pacific Islands Studies Student Conference. For more information about the annual Center for Pacific Islander Student Conference, or about other Pacific Islands resources, please contact [e-mail].
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[@taufa.s]

Truly inspired by Emalani's Keynote address; grateful to have been present when she presented and to have access to this recording. Mahalo UHM CPIS!

[@sourpoi3]

Mahalo for sharing this!!! Pure Excellence!