Event timeline
6pm: Screening of Healing Traditions and Blackbird with moderated discussion
7pm: Ta-Nehisi Coates in Conversation, moderated by Dr. Akiemi Glenn
8pm: Drinks and book sale with no-host bar in Luce Pavilion
Ta-Nehisi Coates the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, winner of the National Book Award. His recent book We Were Eight Years in Power is a collection of his essays on the Obama Era. He currently writes the Black Panther and Captain America comic book, in addition to writing as a national correspondent for The Atlantic.
His award-winning writing combines reportage, historical analysis and personal narrative to address some of America’s most complex and challenging issues pertaining to culture and identity.
Dr. Akiemi Glenn is a Honolulu-based scholar and cultureworker. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and a B.A. in linguistics from New York University. Her research considers the interplay of space, geography, community and language. Glenn's primary interests are in how Indigenous peoples, refugees, captives, migrants and other diasporic peoples in the Pacific and the Americas use language to construct, navigate and politicize their identities. She commits her interests in systems, semiotics and culture to an applied research method and practice that explore the rich vectors of change in community culturework programming. Glenn is the founder and curator of the Pōpolo Project. She is currently the director of Tele!, a language revitalization and engagement project in Hawai‘i's Tokelauan community funded by the federal Administration for Native Americans and administered by Te Taki Tokelau Community Training & Development.
The Pōpolo Project is a multimedia project that explores what it means to be black in Hawai'i and the larger Pacific. By making the lives of Black folks visible among what we commonly think of as local, the Pōpolo Project highlights the vivid, complex diversity of blackness.