{"id":104530,"date":"2019-10-09T08:17:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T18:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=104530"},"modified":"2019-10-28T07:55:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:55:05","slug":"conversations-on-maunakea-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/09\/conversations-on-maunakea-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Sciences and the Sacred: Conversations on Maunakea lecture series"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/manoa-campus-gnrc-tree-1.jpg\" alt=\"trees on U H Manoa campus\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-91430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/manoa-campus-gnrc-tree-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/manoa-campus-gnrc-tree-1-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/manoa-campus-gnrc-tree-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa will hold a lecture series titled <a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/news-and-events\/sciences-and-the-sacred\/\">Sciences and the Sacred: Conversations on Maunakea<\/a> throughout the 2019&#8211;2020 academic year. The series is a collaboration between multiple <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa units&#8212;the Office of the Provost, the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/biocultural\/\">Biocultural Initiative of the Pacific<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/integrated-knowledge-systems\/\">Sea Grant Center of Excellence in Integrated Knowledge Systems<\/a> out of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>The lectures will be held in the evenings in the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Art Auditorium and will be open to the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> community and the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Each lecture will pair a Native Hawaiian practitioner with a <abbr>UH<\/abbr> faculty member on the following topics on the following the dates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuesday, October 29: Geological and hydrological phenomena of Maunakea<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, November 21: Meteorological phenomena and island weather systems relevant to Maunakea<\/li>\n<li>January, 2020: Biodiversity and climate\/ecological zones on Maunakea<\/li>\n<li>February, 2020: Human interactions on Maunakea pre-1778<\/li>\n<li>March, 2020: Impact of Maunakea on our understanding about the nature of the universe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;Mindful of our university\u2019s mottos of M\u0101lamalama (enlightenment) and Maluna <span aria-label=\"ae\">a&#699;e<\/span> o na lahui a pau ke ola ke kanaka (above all nations is humanity), I have engaged with faculty, staff and students in understanding the depth of the issues surrounding Maunakea across multiple viewpoints,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Provost <strong>Michael Bruno<\/strong> in a message to the campus announcing the lecture series &ldquo;The critiques and criticisms offered are fair, and they should motivate continuous reflection and action moving forward. This process has reminded me that as members of the academy, we have a profound responsibility to educate ourselves about Maunakea, and to do so with open minds and with civility and aloha.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The series will not directly address the Thirty Meter Telescope and its related controversies though organizers say it is intended to, &ldquo;inspire and inform subsequent discussions of the contemporary issues surrounding Maunakea.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Each lecture will be recorded for viewing at a later date and will be available as an educational resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each lecture will pair a Native Hawaiian practitioner with a <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> faculty member on topics ranging from geology, and hydrology to pre-1778 human interactions on Maunakea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[659,92,9,438],"class_list":["post-104530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-maunakea","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-sea-grant","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104530"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105358,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104530\/revisions\/105358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}