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The Honolulu Arts and Humanities Conference – Held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA from Thursday through Saturday, March 27-29, 2025»
Welcome to HAHC2025
Welcome to the Inaugural Honolulu Arts & Humanities Conference (HAHC2025), which is being held from March 27-29, 2025 in Honolulu – the state capital of Hawaii, USA. Organized by INTESDA, this international, peer-reviewed conference invites academics, scholars, researchers, students and others to gather and share viewpoints, ideas and research on a range of topics across the arts and humanities.
The arts and humanities offer a unique opportunity for academia to play an important role in the 21st century as they are an integral pathway for seeking knowledge, debating social issues and exploring solutions to crises. As an example, the global pandemic will cast a long shadow into the future, as well as expose areas of strength, resilience, creativity and innovation in the arts and humanities.
The pandemic revealed the inequities in access to healthcare and education and underscored the need for innovating the manner in which humans interact, communicate and learn. In particular, access to the arts and humanities across elementary, secondary and post-secondary education levels was adversely challenged to be innovative, to adapt to change and to overcome the difficulties of teaching and learning within the restrictions caused by the pandemic. Nevertheless, the resilience of the human spirit prevailed. Moving forward from resiliency to recovery, teachers must now take a greater role in cultivating understanding and integrating the arts and humanities modes of inquiry, creating innovation in the classroom, providing skills, encouraging diverse viewpoints and creating safe and productive academic environments.
With the theme of Recovery and Resilience, HAHC2025 will promote a critical understanding of the innovate and organic approaches from the arts and humanities towards the post-pandemic and uncertain future in which we now exist. This conference is committed to the cross-cultural exploration of the post-pandemic world. HAHC2025 encourages fresh ideas, opinions and discussions amongst teachers, academics, scholars, researchers, students and others who desire social change, solutions to crises, and the search for knowledge.
The venue for HAHC2025 will be the Airport Honolulu Hotel Meeting Center. With quick access to downtown Honolulu and Waikiki, as well as excellent conference facilities, friendly staff, classic amenities and a convenient location, the Airport Honolulu Hotel is an excellent venue for HAHC2025 participants looking to escape the hustle and bustle of city traffic and explore the most popular attractions of Oahu.
In addition, HAHC2025 is being organized alongside The 2nd Honolulu Education Conference (HEC2025), as arts and humanities streams intersect with education, we encourage registrants to attend any session of their interest.
HAHC2025 is being convened by INTESDA in association with the School of Public Policy at Chiang Mai University, Thailand; Los Angeles Pierce College, USA; and the Multicultural Center at Purdue University Indianapois (IUPUI), which has since merged with Indiana University, USA.
HAHC2025 welcomes submissions of up to 300 words in English by Friday, February 14, 2025 from these streams:
- Art and Art History
- Comparative Literature and Culture
- English Language and Literature
- Environment and Climate Change
- History, Politics and Economics
- Performing and Visual Arts
- Philosophy and Ethics
- Public Policy
- Religion and Spirituality
- Teaching and Learning
- Technology and Social Media
- Urban Studies, Planning and Design
- War, Criminal Justice and Human Rights
- Other Areas of the Arts & Humanities (please specify)
Plan Your Attendance
Who Should Attend
HAHC2025 is a special, international, peer-reviewed engagement for educators, academics, researchers, students and others who embrace the SDGs right to quality education, lifelong learning, innovation in the classroom, student engagement, access to the arts, humanities, education and human rights.
HAHC2025 Plenary Speakers
Jo Ann Oravec, Ph.D., is a full professor in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater in the Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management. She received her MBA, MS, MA, and PhD degrees at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Professor Oravec has written several books and over eighty peer-reviewed articles on computing, management, ethics, public policy, disability studies, and related topics. She was the first chair of the Privacy Council of the State of Wisconsin, the US’s first state-level council on information privacy issues. She has received more than twelve hundred academic citations of her journal articles. She has worked for public television and developed software along with her academic ventures. She has held visiting fellow positions at both Cambridge and Oxford.
Robert Reuschlein, Ed.D., is a faculty member at the Real Economy Institute. He has expertise in economic engineering and holds multiple degrees, including an Ed.D., MBA, CPA, and BSEE. Dr Reuschlein has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize multiple times. He has also authored several publications on topics such as Peace Economics, Military Keynesianism, and the Political Economy of War. He has taught academic courses on the subjects Peace Economics and Weather, Wealth, and Wars. His latest book is Weather, Wealth, and Wars (2021). Most recently, he has developed a Ukraine War game (2023) as a peace and conflict teaching tool.
Organizing Committee
Takayuki Yamada is a Charter and Founding Member of RID 2760 Rotary Club of Chubu Nagoya Mirai, where he also serves as a special advisor of the Polio Plus Committee of Japan. Over the past twenty years, he has organized and led multiple missions to South Asia and Southeast Asia to assist with immunization efforts to eradicate polio, deliver humanitarian supplies and support the SDGs. He has been a longstanding Rotarian serving on the strategic planning committee for the Rotary International Youth Exchange Program in Japan. He is the founding chairperson of INTESDA.
About INTESDA
The International Education for Sustainable Development Alliance is a diverse community of educators, academics and nonprofit professionals founded in 2015, in part, to support the Sustainable Development Global Goals set by the United Nations. It is committed to addressing sustainable development issues through capacity building, advocacy, networking and sharing knowledge.