2024 Experts Lecture Series Explores
Pioneers in Historic Preservation
Wednesdays, January 31 to March 6, 2024 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Virtual on Zoom
Free, registration required (scroll down to register for individual lectures)
The series, curated by Dr. Ralph T. Kam, executive director of Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives, is sponsored by the Historic Preservation Graduate Certificate Program, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s School of Architecture and Historic Hawai‘i Foundation.
Expert presenters will lead us on a journey of exploration of six historic preservation pioneers in Hawai‘i describing their passions, visions, work and impact.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
12:00 to 1:00 PM
Nancy Bannick
Presenter: Robin Lung, Documentary Filmmaker
Lecture one will highlight Nancy Bannick, a committed and tireless advocate for preserving architecturally significant and historically important buildings, as well as exceptional trees, landscapes and natural resources. Bannick is especially well known for her decades long fight to save Honolulu Chinatown, which was declared a historic district in 1973.
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NANCY BANNICK: SAVING HONOLULU’S CHINATOWN film below
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
12:00 to 1:00 PM
William J. Murtagh
Presenter: William Chapman,
Interim Dean, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, School of Architecture and Professor, American Studies
William J. Murtagh was a founding member of the United States Committee of the International Council of Monuments and Sites, a historic preservation nongovernmental organization. He was first keeper of the National Register of Historic Places. He served as a faculty member at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
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Wednesday, February 14, 2024
12:00 to 1:00 PM
Daughters of Hawai‘i
Presenter: Patricia Morgan, Former Regent, Daughters of Hawai‘i
Founded in 1903, the Daughters of Hawaii sought “to perpetuate the memory and spirit of old Hawai‘i and of historic facts, and to preserve the nomenclature and correct pronunciation of the Hawaiian language.” Through their efforts Hanaiakamalama, Hulihe‘e Palace and the birthplace site of Kauikeaouli, Kamehameha III, have been protected. The seven founders comprised Emma L. Dillingham, Sarah Colin Waters, Lucinda Severance, Ellen A. Weaver, Mrs. Annie A. Dickey, Cornelia H. Jones and Anna M. Paris.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
12:00 to 1:00 PM
Henry Enoka Palenapa Kekahuna
Presenter: Kekuewa Kikiloi, Associate Professor, Kamakakūokalani, Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Henry E. P. Kekahuna was a Kanaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) archaeologist, surveyor, historian, and researcher of the mid-20th century whose work documenting Hawaiʻi’s past comprises one of the most significant historical and ethnographic archives of life in Hawaiʻi during the period of ʻŌiwi Wale (Native Only).
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024
12:00 to 1:00 PM
Kenneth Emory
Presenter: Aki Sinoto, Archaeologist
Kenneth Pike Emory was an American anthropologist who grew up in Honolulu and played a key role in shaping modern anthropology in Oceania.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
12:00 to 1:00 PM
King David Laʻamea Kalākaua
Presenter: Douglas Askman, Professor of History, Hawai‘i Pacific University
King David Kalākaua advocated for a renewed sense of pride in all things Hawaiian such as the arts, medicine, music, and hula. ʻIolani Palace, constructed during Kalākaua’s reign, was not only a symbol of Hawaiian ingenuity and sovereignty, but of the grandeur and lavishness of his rule as well.