Women in Islam among lecture topics

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The University of Hawai'i Outreach College is casting a wide net this month with a diverse quartet of free lectures examining the role of women in the development of Islam, the history of blacks in Hawai'i, e-learning and ocean photography. All take place in the Yukiyoshi Room of Krauss Hall on the Manoa campus.

• At 7:30 p.m. today, UH professor Tamara Albertini presents "Muslim Women: Their Contribution to the Making of Islam." She was exposed to Islamic education in Tunisia, where she was reared, before studying philosophy, linguistics and Roman law at universities in Basel, Switzerland, Rome and Munich, Germany. Albertini is working on a major anthology of Islamic philosophy.
• At 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Miles Jackson, former dean of the UH School of Library and Information Sciences, traces the immigration of blacks to Hawai'i from the a period pre-dating the Battle of Nu'uanu in 1796 to the present with "And They Came: The History of Blacks in Hawai'i." Jackson is the author of a recently published book of the same title.
• At 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 20, Tom Abeles addresses the projected shift of higher education out of buildings and onto the Internet with "e-Learning: A Lens to the Future of Higher Education."
• At 7 p.m. on Feb. 22, photographer Wayne Levin shares images from his book, "Other Oceans," as well as previously published works. Levin's images include underwater landscapes from Hawai'i to Costa Rica to Micronesia.

The first three lectures are supported in part by the Shunzo Sakamaki Extraordinary Lecture Fund.

Levin's lecture is presented by Pacific New Media and is supported by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and Hawai'i Community Television.