Date
12:00pm–1:30pm, Fri Oct 3, 2025
Address
Wist Hall
University Avenue
Honolulu, HI
Event Details
Join us for the EDEF Monthly Talk : “Routing Nakem Praxis in the Diaspora: A Nakemista Praxis in Lahaina and Ilokano Heritage Language Learning in the Diaspora” (Wist Hall 131)
Presented by Dr. Jeffrey Acido, Instructor of Philippine Studies at Leeward CC
Join us to learn about Indigenous Ilokano and Amianan (Northern Philippines) epistemologies and pedagogies. Jeff will present work that grew out of Nakem Pedagogy including his work in Kokua Kalihi Valley among Filipino, Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, Teaching Ilokano courses in the San francisco Bay Area, and his continued work among Filipinos in Lahaina with regard to the resiliency and vanguard as a response to the Lahaina fires.