2012 Sessions

Please direct inquiries regarding the proposed 2012 sessions to Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Program Coordinator.


Symposium: Ends of War: Causes of Peace in the Pacific

Organizer: Roger Lohmann


Symposium: From Romance to “Reality”: Representations of Pacific Islands and Islanders

Organizers: Nancy Lutkehaus and Judith Schachter


Working Session: Avoiding Giving

Organizer: Elise Berman


Working Session: Engagement with Capitalism

Organizers: Fiona McCormack and Kate Barclay


Working Session: Law and Custom in Micronesia

Organizer: Manuel Rauchholz


Working Session: Men, Masculinities, and Violence

Organizers: Martha Macintyre, Aletta Biersack, Margaret Jolly


Working Session: Photographing Pacific Islanders

Organizers: Kathryn Creely and Eric Silverman


Working Session: Spatial Orientation

Organizers: Alex Mawyer and Rick Feinberg


Informal Session: Sisters and Brothers: New Perspectives on Contemporary Siblingship in the Pacific

Organizers: Mary K. Good and Simonne Pauwels


Informal Session: The Pacific and Judaism

Organizers: Terry Brown and Lynda Newland


Informal Session: Mimesis and Transcultural Encounters

Organizers: Jeannette Mageo, Elfriede Hermann, Deborah Gewertz


Informal Session: Naming Systems and Naming Relations in Austronesia/Oceania

Organizers: Kun-hui Ku and Lamont Lindstrom; discussant Dan Jorgensen


Informal Session: Naturalist Histories: Making Nature in Oceania

Organizers: Jamon Halvaksz and Joshua Bell


Informal Session: Obesity and Health in the Pacific

Organizers: Aunchalee Palmquist and Nancy Pollock


Informal Session: Reclaiming Hope

Organizer: Tate LeFevre and Eben Kirksey


Informal Session: Refashioning the Body: Building Critical Theory Across the Pacific

Organizers: Lisa Uperesa, Bethany Matai Edmunds, and Paige West


Informal Session: Small Islands in Peril or Under Pressure

Organizers: Colin Filer and Simon Foale


Informal Session: Value in Motion: (E)motions of Exchange

Organizers: Susanne Kuehling and Katharina Schneider