# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Pépin Lecture - Author Talk with Hi‘ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join author and scholar Hi‘ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart in discussion of her book, Cooling the TropicsAbout this EventFor our first event of the Fall 2025 Pépin Lecture Series, author and scholar Hi‘ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart will join us in conversation to discuss her first book, . Copies of Cooling the Tropics will be available for purchase. About the Book: Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi—all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of Western pleasure and profit. Marketed as “essential” for white occupants of the nineteenth-century Pacific, ice quickly permeated the foodscape through advancements in freezing and refrigeration technologies. In Cooling the Tropics Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart charts the social history of ice in Hawaiʻi to show how the interlinked concepts of freshness and refreshment mark colonial relationships to the tropics. From chilled drinks and sweets to machinery, she shows how ice and refrigeration underpinned settler colonial ideas about race, environment, and the senses. By outlining how ice shaped Hawaiʻi’s food system in accordance with racial and environmental imaginaries, Hobart demonstrates that thermal technologies can—and must—be attended to in struggles for food sovereignty and political self-determination in Hawaiʻi and beyond.About the Author: Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart (Kanaka Maoli) is Assistant Professor of Native and Indigenous Studies at Yale University. An interdisciplinary scholar, she researches and teaches on issues of settler colonialism, environment, and Indigenous sovereignty. Her first book, Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (Duke University Press, 2022) is a recipient of the press’s Scholars of Color First Book Award. Her articles have appeared in refereed journals such as NAIS, Media+Environment, Food, Culture, and Society, and The Journal of Transnational American Studies, among others. She is the co-editor of the special issue “Radical Care,” for Social Text (2020), and the editor of Foodways of Hawaiʻi (Routledge, 2018). She is currently working on a project about cultural memory, commemoration, and hauntings in Hawaii State Parks. Professor Hobart holds a PhD in Food Studies from New York University, an MA in Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture from the Bard Graduate Center, and an MLS in Rare Books Librarianship and Archives Management from the Pratt Institute.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brookline/pépin-lecture-author-talk-with-hi‘ilei-julia-kawehipuaakahaopulani-hobart/100001399864244639
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- **city**: Brookline
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 808 Commonwealth Avenue
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- **long**: -71.1116874
- **full address**: 808 Commonwealth Avenue, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Brookline, United States

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- **Q**: When and where is Pépin Lecture - Author Talk with Hi‘ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart being held?
  - **A:** Pépin Lecture - Author Talk with Hi‘ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart takes place on Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm at 808 Commonwealth Avenue, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Brookline, United States.
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