Join us for the 11th

Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference

Chaminade University of Honolulu

May 25 and May 26, 2024
Honolulu, HI

Saturday, May 25, 2024 

Session 1. 

Reflections on Conceptions of Space in Oceania with Vilsoni Hereniko and Ropeti Ale
 
Session 2. 

Roundtable Discussion of the 2024 UH Press anthology  An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific with Cristina Bacchilega, Victoria Nālani Kneubuhl, Joyce Pualani Warren, and ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui
 
Session 3. 

Panel on the Life and Art of John Alexander Kneubuhl with Victoria Nālani Kneubuhl, Jackie Pualani Johnson, Tusi Avegalio, Otto Heim
 
Session 4. 

Dramatic Reading: excerpts from John Kneubuhl’s Sunset Crowd, Saint Mac, and Folktale following by discussion and Q & A

 
Sunday, May 26, 2024
 
Session 5. 

A Celebration of Hawai‘i Noir including presentations by:
 Chris McKinney, Editor of the forthcoming book, Honolulu Noir

Scott Kikkawa, Bamboo Ridge Press novelist; author of Kona Winds 

and Char Siu 

Stanley Orr, author of Darkly Perfect World: Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir
 
Session 6. 

Screening and Discussion of the 1968 Hawaii Five-O episode “Strangers in Our Own Land,” co-written by John Kneubuhl and Herman Groves

Stay tuned for the complete OPCA 2024 Conference Schedule coming soon!