Date

12:00pm–1:30pm, Fri Feb 21, 2025

Event Details

Join us for the EDEF Monthly Talk : “Filipina/o/x Foodways in Hawaiʻi: Liberatory Education, Critical Pedagogy, and Praxis“

Friday, February 21st, 2025, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM in Wist 233.

Dr. Shannon Cristobal, faculty member at Kapi‘olani Community College, will be our speaker.

Join us to explore how Filipina/o/x foodways have served as a powerful tool for education, resistance, and cultural preservation. This talk will examine how education and food were used as a strategic colonizing tool by American reformers in the Philippines, and how Filipina/o/x used their foodways to demonstrate resourcefulness and remain resilient in the face of discrimination and oppression. Using standpoint theory and the NAIMAS methodology, the discussion will focus on how the everyday lives of Filipina/o/x individuals in Hawai’i help re-member, reclaim, and reconnect to their ways of being, knowledge, and epistemologies. The talk will also cover how Filipina/o/x of all ages, from K-12 to higher education and beyond, can access their culture and history through food.

Pizza will be provided! Please RSVP to help us plan accordingly.