2010 Session Reports
Symposium: Diaspora,
Identity and Incorporation
Organizers: Alan Howard
(Honolulu), Jan Rensel (CPIS, University of Hawai'i), and Michael
Lieber (University of Illinois)
Symposium: Dumont in the
Pacific [canceled]
Organizers: Serge Tcherkézoff (CREDO), Joel
Robbins (University of California, San Diego), and Mark Mosko (ANU)
Working Session: Austronesian Linkages
Organizer: Kun-hui Ku (National Tsing-Hua University)
Discussant: Lamont Lindstrom (Tulsa University)
Working Session:
Cargo Cults, Kastom, and Kago Kalja: Old Theories and New Realities
in the Study of Melanesian Movements
Organizers: Marc Tabani (CNRS-CREDO, University
of Provence, France) and Marcellin
Abong (Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta)
Working Session:
Forests of Oceania: Environmental Histories, Present Concerns and
Future Possibilities
Organizers: Joshua A. Bell (Smithsonian
Institution) and Paige West (American Museum of Natural History)
Working Session: Vernacular
and Culturally Based Education in Oceania Today: Articulating Global,
National and Local Agendas
Organizers: Marie Salaün (Université de Paris) and Christine Jourdan
(Concordia University)
Working Session: Villages and
Their Alters in Melanesian Social Worlds [canceled]
Organizers: Courtney Handman (Reed College) and Rupert
Stasch (UC San Diego)
Informal Session: Identity
Issues and Ethno-Racial Categorization in the Pacific [canceled]
Organizers: Pauline McKenzie Aucoin (Carleton University) and Michael
Goldsmith (University of Waikato)
Informal Session: Contemporary
Sporting Foundations
Organizers: Fa‘anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa (Columbia University)
and Paige West (Barnard College)
Informal Session: Brothers
and Sisters Going Global: New Perspectives on Pacific Kinship [canceled]
Organizer: Mary Good (University of Arizona)
Informal Session: Ends
of War: Causes of Peace in the Pacific
Organizer: Roger Ivar Lohmann (Trent University)
Informal
Session: From Romance to "Reality": Representations of
Pacific Islands and Islanders
Organizers: Nancy Lutkehaus (USC) and Judith Schachter (Carnegie
Mellon)
Informal Session: Global Warming in the South Pacific
Organizers: Heather Lazrus (University of Oklahoma) and Paul Shankman (University of Colorado)
Informal Session: Land Reform in Papua New Guinea: “What’s
new?”
Organizers: Ira Bashkow (University of Virginia) and Ryan Schram
(University of Helsinki)
Informal
Session: Photographing Pacific Islanders
Organizers: Eric Silverman (Wheelock College) and Kathy Creely (University
of California at San Diego)
Informal
Session: Spatial Orientation
Organizers: Alex Mawyer (Lake Forest College) and Rick Feinberg
(Kent State University)
Proposed New Sessions for 2011
Informal Session: Issues in Law and Custom in Micronesia
Organizer:
Manuel Rauchholz (Office of National Archives, Culture and Historic
Preservation, Federated States of Micronesia)
Informal Session: Madang
Organizer: Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi (West Chester, Pennsylvania)
Informal Session: The Pacific and Judaism
Organizers: Terry Brown (Anglican Church of Melanesia) and
Lynda Newland (University of the South Pacific)
Informal Session: Reverse Mobilities and Pacific Youth
Organizers: Helen Lee (La Trobe University) and Jack Taylor (La
Trobe University)
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