Please join us on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at 8:30 AM, at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Hamilton Library (Rooms 301 & 306), for the Association of Hawaiʻi Archivists’ 2024 Annual Conference & Meeting.

The theme for the 2024 meeting is ‘Disaster Prevention & Recovery’ where we will reflect and learn from the tragic events that happened on Maui and how organizations in Lahaina are recovering.

Catastrophic events often happen suddenly. It is our responsibility to prepare and plan for such occurrences. We would like to invite AHA members to join us in building collective wisdom around this issue, plan for potential community actions, and offer help to those affected by the tragedy.

  Click here to register to attend in-person^* or via Zoom.

• in-person participants’ ticket includes lunch.

Our annual conference and meeting will be preceded by the ITrustAI Public Symposium ‘Using AI to Interrogate Archives’ by InterPARES TRUST on Friday, February 23, 2024. This symposium is open for free to all and you are more than welcome to attend. More information on the program is available here.

The program includes:

Time	Activity	Presenters
8:30	-REGISTRATION-
9:00 AM	AHA President’s Address	Toni Palermo, AHA President
9:15 AM	Keynote Address: “Collaborative response to disasters and other challenges”	Helen Wong-Smith, President, Society of American Archivists, CIS Ph.D. Student Archivist for University Records at the University of Hawai’i
	-BREAK-
10:00 AM	Panel: Disaster Recovery, Experiences, and Recommendations	Moderated by: Koa Luke Assistant Archivist Cataloger at ʻUluʻulu; University of Hawaiʻi West Oʻahu Panel participants: Reverend Maya Shinri Hara Lahaina Jodo Mission Kimberly Flook Lahaina Restoration Foundation Lorraine Minatoishi AEPAC Malia Van Heukelem Art Archivist Librarian Jean Charlot and Archive of Hawai‘i Artists & Architects, Hamilton Library, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
	-BREAK-
11:15 AM	Community Discussion- Disaster Recovery Plan in your Institution	Moderated by: Stasha Gardasevic Metadata Specialist at Kawaiahaʻo Church Conference Participants
	-LUNCH BREAK-
1:00 PM	AHA Annual Business Meeting	Any and all may attend the Business meeting, but only AHA members in good standing may vote.

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For any questions, please contact the head of the organizing committee Stanislava Gardasevic (gardasev@hawaii.edu)

Panel Participants’ Bios

Rev. Maya Shinri Hara was born on Maui and grew up at the historic Buddhist temple Lahaina Jodo Mission. After graduating from Lahainaluna High School, she attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she focused on Japanese history and received a Bachelor’s in the interdisciplinary Group in Asian Studies Department. She went on to earn a Master’s degree from the Institute of Buddhist Studies and moved to Kyoto, Japan, where she studied the Japanese tea practice chadō and worked for over a decade as a freelance translator, specializing in premodern Japanese art and Buddhism. Rev. Hara began her training to be a priest in her family tradition of Pure Land or Jōdo Buddhism and after a three-year program, she was ordained in 2005. In 2009, she moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she worked as a curatorial assistant for Japanese art for almost five years, before she moved back to Maui in 2022 to help her family run the Lahaina Jodo Mission. Since the Lahaina fires, she has been working on the rebuilding of this historic Buddhist temple.

Kimberly Flook is the Deputy Executive Director of Lahaina Restoration Foundation. Her experience includes work at ten historic sites and museums over twenty-three years as a museum professional, including eight years as a museum educator, twelve years as an historic site director, and five years as a museum manager. In these roles, she has specialized in public programing and collections conservation projects. At LRF, she leads the team that cares for, processes, and digitizes LRF’s collections. Prior to joining the museum field, she worked as an archeologist, specializing in the architecture of Pre-Classic Mayan warfare.

Lorraine Minatoishi Ph.D AIA LEED AP, is the president and owner of AEPAC, an award-winning architecture firm specializing in residential, commercial, and government projects with an emphasis on historical architecture. With over 25 years of experience in the industry, Minatoishi has designed and managed projects for a wide range of clients, including commercial and residential properties, educational and civic buildings, and public spaces.

Minatoishi holds a Doctor of Engineering from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. She also holds degrees from the University of Hawaii, Bachelor of Architecture and the University of Oregon, Master of Architecture. Minatoishi has won numerous awards on projects such as The Royal Hawaiian Hotel & Sheraton Waikiki Master Plan and the Rehabilitation of Building 9 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Dr. Minatoishi has also produced the film “Aloha Buddha”, a documentary examining the history and growth of Japanese Buddhism in Hawaii, awarded Audience Best Documentary of the Year at The Hawaii International Film Festival in 2011.

Dr. Minatoishi is presently serving as the 2024 Chair for the National AIA Historic Resources Committee, AIA Hawaii State Board Council, and Board of Friends of Kapiolani Park Preservation Society. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded AEPAC a contract for cultural monitoring in the efforts to clean and restore Lahaina. https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/10/cultural-monitors-help-assure-lahaina-fire-cleanup-is-done-with-respect/

Malia Van Heukelem oversees the Jean Charlot Collection, a large collection of artist papers, plus the Archive of Hawaii Artists & Architects at Hamilton Library. Previously, she worked in the Library’s Preservation Department, and has served as Collections Manager for the state’s Art in Public Places Collection and for ‘Iolani Palace. Malia is an AIC National Heritage Responder and will discuss her work supporting Lahaina fire response and recovery of collections.