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  • Update! – since Friday 4/18 is a holiday, we have rescheduled for Wednesday 4/23 from 2:00-3:30pm. The Art of Exile: the Micropolitics, Aesthetics and Staged Authenticities of Tai Dance a talk by Tani Sebro, PhD Cand. (Political Science, UHM) April 23, 2014 2:00-3:30 pm Tokioka Room – Moore Hall 319 Précis: Dance, song and movement aesthetics

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  • I, along with a couple of colleagues from the University of Hawai’i were recently featured in this nice write up about the School of Pacific and Asian Studies Conference we recently presented at. Here is the feature, written by Talia Oligore: _________________________________________________________________________________________ The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s School of Pacific and Asian Studies’ (SPAS)

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  • We bathe together after dancing in the brilliant sunlight of the open temple courtyard. Bathing is an essential ritual to be performed at least twice a day during the torrid heat of the monsoon season in Upland Southeast Asia. After bathing with the dancers, I lay down on the cool tiles of the schoolhouse floor.

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  • by Tani H. Sebro* “The individual in whom insanity and criminality met in such a way as to cause specialists to raise the question of their relationship, was not the man of the little everyday disorder, the pale silhouette moving about on the edges of law and normality, but rather the great monster” (Michel Foucault

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  • On Becoming

    “The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.” ― Michel Foucault That is the goal of all who endeavor – to enter into the process of becoming – something other than what once was. This page will contain within it auto-archeological artifacts of my

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