Prolonged Occupations: The Baltic States and Hawaii
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:24:37
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From: Sydney Lehua Iaukea <siaukea
@ hawaii.edu>
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TITLE OF TALK: "PROLONGED
OCCUPATIONS: THE BALTIC STATES AND
HAWAI‘I”
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4,
2006
Noon - 1:15
p.m.
SAUNDERS 624, FRIEDMAN ROOM,
UH-MANOA
While the U.S. occupation of
Hawai‘i may have the longest duration in modern history, it is not the
only prolonged occupation of an Independent State. Extended occupations of
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania occurred after World War II, from the mid 1940s
until 1991, as the Soviet Union illegally subsumed these countries within its
territorial borders. Although aspects of these occupations are specific to the
time and situation in Europe, by analyzing these examples a discourse may emerge
for describing the significant concepts and the trajectory of events within
prolonged occupations of Independent States. This conceptual framework may then
be applied to Hawai‘i as a means for exploring the history and the
dynamics of the U.S. occupation of Hawai‘i. For this talk, I will employ
historical institutionalism to create a conceptual trajectory of prolonged
occupations from data gathered on Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Posted: Thu - September 28, 2006 at 02:27 PM