Events

An Evening with Professor/Kumu Maenette K.P. Ah Nee – Benham,
Chancellor of the University of Hawai’i West O’ahu

In Our Mothers’ Voice: Ulu aʻe ke welina a ke aloha

Monday, October 7, 2024
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (informal fellowship for students and alumni starts beforehand at 5:00 pm)
Stauffer’s Albrecht Auditorium

The School of Educational Studies’ Distinguished Bowen Lecture, now in its 41st year and named in honor of Dr. Howard Bowen, enables us to bring to campus some of today’s most respected scholars in higher education to engage our students and faculty in discussions about critical issues in higher education.

This year we are honored to welcome Professor/Kumu Maenette K.P. Ah Nee – Benham to CGU as our 2024/2025 Distinguished Bowen Lecture.

Please join us for her talk: “In Our Mothers’ Voice: Ulu aʻe ke welina a ke aloha.”

Weaving together ancestral stories, professional knowledge and practice, and community-based action, Dr. Benham explores the source of our work as teachers, educational leaders, scholars, researchers, and education advocates. Knowing and living into the practice of “nānā i ke kumu” (to look to the source/to find your truth) presents a pathway that assists us to wrestle with impossible, intolerable situations as we generate dynamic and creative places and gracious spaces for learning and exploring. This presentation provides insights into the importance of cultural knowledge as a source of being pono (balanced and just) and a path to leading and living in grace. And, it invites the audience to engage in strengthening their personal and professional excellence, Kūlia i ka nuʻu!

To aid planning purposes, please register below (https://tinyurl.com/BenhamOct2024).