Register here to attend the film screening and discussion of On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World). We will host a 2-D screening of the film and a discussion and Q&A with Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio and Dr. Sylvia Frain. Food and drinks will be provided at the end of the event.

Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine artist / activist / scholar / storyteller born and raised in Pālolo Valley to parents Jonathan and Mary Osorio. Jamaica earned her PhD in English (Hawaiian literature) in 2018 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Currently, Dr. Osorio is an Associate Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is a three-time national poetry champion, poetry mentor and a published author. In 2020 her poetry and activism were the subject of an award-winning film, This is the Way we Rise which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2021.  In 2022, Dr. Osorio was a lead artist and Co-writer of the revolutionary VR Documentary, On the Morning You Wake (To the end of the world),  that premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2022 and won the XR experience Jury award at SXSW 2022. She is a proud past Kaiāpuni student, Ford Dissertation (2017) and Post Doctoral (2022) Fellow, and a graduate of Kamehameha, Stanford University (BA) and New York University (MA). She is the author of the award-winning bookRemembering our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea which was published in 2021 by The University of Minnesota Press.

Dr. Sylvia C Frain is co-founder and Director of Impact and Research of the non-profit, Fåha’ Digital Media (FDM) on Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. FDM’s mission is to support Indigenous storytellers while developing an equitable film industry in the Mariana Islands. Dr. Frain served in the role of Public Affairs Coordinator at the US Consulate General in Auckland, the US Mission in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Niue focusing on climate governance and policy-making in the Indo-Pacific region. She earned her Ph.D. in Peace & Conflict Studies at The National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies | Te Ao O Rongomaraeroa at the University of Otago | Te Whare Wānanga Otāgo in Ōtepoti | Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand and a Master’s in International Studies in the field of Peace & Conflict Resolution at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.In 2018, she was the inaugural postdoctoral research fellow at the Pacific Media Centre, and in 2021 was awarded a Whitinga Research Fellowship in Visual Arts | Toi Whakatu in the School of Art + Design | Te Kura Toi a Hoahoa at Auckland University of Technology | Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Organized and moderated by Dr. Heidi Nicholls ([email protected]) and Ruoyu Li ([email protected])

This event is generously co-sponsored by Black Beyond Data and the Departments of Sociology, Political Science, and International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.