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Dates: November 16-17, 2018
Location: Hawaiʻi IMIN International Conference Center
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Theme: Kilokilo Ka Maka: Understanding Our Place(s)

Keynote Speakers

Nainoa Thompson
Assistant Professor
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Explorer, environmentalist, master navigator, cultural revivalist, educator, storyteller: Nainoa Thompson has led the rediscovery and revival of the ancient Polynesian art of navigation.Through his voyaging, teaching and engagement, he has opened a global, dialogue on the importance of sustaining ocean resources and maritime heritage. Nainoa has dedicated his life to exploring the ocean, maintaining the health of the planet and ensuring that the ancient marine heritage and culture of Polynesia remain vibrant into the future.
Currently the president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS), a non-profit research and educational organization, Thompson recently completed a four-year voyage around the world on the Hōkūleʻa, a traditional, double-hulled voyaging canoe. Through these travels, Thompson and his crew engaged with thousands of people, including world leaders to highlight the importance of ocean resources, cultural legacies and protection of these critical places in the future.

Joe Sanchez
State Archivist
Hawaiʻi State Archives

Joseph Sanchez has been a professional librarian for 12 years.  He was an early adopter of ereaders and iPads, a Maker Space pioneer, and has a national reputation for innovation and leadership.  His accomplishments include building a five thousand square foot multimedia studio, the highest library kickstarter ever funded, opening a coworking space, launching a statewide wildlife app, and other nontraditional services.  He has taught LIS courses for the University of Denver, as well as undergraduate courses in a variety of disciplines. He has served in both academic and public libraries. His website is www.thebookmyfriend.com.

Guha Shankar 
​Library Director
LA County Libraries

Guha Shankar is Folklife Specialist at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. At the Center he is involved in a range of public outreach programs, particularly the coordination of Ancestral Voices/Local Contexts , a collaborative digital knowledge repatriation initiative with Native communities and the open source platforms, Local Contexts and Mukurtu CMS. He is also Project Director for the national Civil Rights History Project, an initiative that documents, in born-digital video format, the experiences of activists in the black freedom struggle. Drawing on his extensive media production background, Shankar conducts workshops in field research and skills-based training in oral history documentation, photography, and librarianship and archiving for the benefit of a range of cultural communities and institutions. Shankar has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin (2003) with a concentration in Folklore and Public Culture.

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