"On the Morning You Wake": Film Screening and Discussion

Description

"On the Morning You Wake uses innovative documentary storytelling and virtual production techniques to viscerally recreate the lived experiences of people who, for 38 minutes, had to react and make impossible decisions in the face of nuclear violence" (Source: On the Morning You Wake website).

Please join a film screening and discussion of On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World) with refreshments provided. Join a 2D screening of the film followed by a discussion and Q&A with Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio and Sylvia Frain. Heidi Nicholls, a Johns Hopkins postdoctoral fellow in sociology, and Ruoyu Li, a Johns Hopkins graduate student in political science, will moderate.

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

About the Speakers:

Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine artist, activist, scholar, and storyteller born and raised in Pālolo Valley to parents Jonathan and Mary Osorio. Osorio earned her PhD in English (Hawaiian literature) in 2018 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Currently, 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 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 the Sundance Film Festival in 2021. In 2022, 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 the Sundance Film Festival in 2022 and won the XR Experience Jury award at SXSW 2022. She is a proud past Kaiāpuni student, Ford dissertation (2017) and postdoctoral (2022) fellow, and a graduate of Kamehameha, Stanford University (Bachelor of Arts), and New York University (Master of Arts). She is the author of the award-winning book Remembering our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea, which was published in 2021 by the University of Minnesota Press.

Sylvia C. Frain is co-founder and director of impact and research of the nonprofit 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. Frain served in the role of public affairs coordinator at the U.S. Consulate General in Auckland and the U.S. Mission in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Niue focusing on climate governance and policy-making in the Indo-Pacific region. She earned her doctorate in peace and conflict studies at Te Ao O Rongomaraeroa (National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies) at Te Whare Wānanga Otāgo (University of Otāgo) in Ōtepoti (Dunedin), Aotearoa (New Zealand), and a master's in international studies in the field of peace and 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.