2021 Session Descriptions

Symposia

Jean Guiart: L’ethnographie comme marathon d’une vie/Ethnography as Life’s Marathon
Organizers: Lamont Lindstrom and Marc Tabani

Working Sessions

2022-2032 International Decade of Indigenous Languages: Pacific Languages
Organizers: Pefi Kingi, Hūfanga Prof 'Ōkusitino Māhina, and Suzanna Tiapula

Being and Belonging: Technologies of Reproduction
Organizer: Jenny Munro

Decolonising Sea of Islands
Organizers: Nuhisifa Williams and Tevita O Ka‘ili

Growing Old in the Pacific
Organizers: Marama Muru-Lanning and Hilary Lapsley

Mana Moana: Protecting Sacredness
Organizer: Tevita Ka’ili and Nuhisifa Seve-Williams

Proliferation of Models
Organizers: Albert Refiti and Tamasa‘ilau Suaalii-Sauni

Race and Power in Oceania
Organizers: Paige West, Daniel Hernandez, and Alexis Tucker Sade

Rethinking Decolonization in Papua New Guinea
Organizer: Courtney Handman and Alex Golub

"The Soul and the Image": The Story of Film in the Pacific
Organizer: Eliorah Malifa and Dionne Fonoti

Vā Moana: Space and Relationality in Pacific Thought and Identity
Organizers: Leali'fano Albert Refiti and Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul

Women and Politics in Polynesia: Gender Imbalances in Authority on Land Tenure, Chiefly Titles and Political Offices
Organizers: Melani Anae and Serge Tcherkezoff

Informal Sessions

Being Pacific Islander Pasifika, Māori, Indigenous Australian during the Era of Black Lives Matter
Organizers: Alexis Tucker Sade, Lorena Gibson, and Koliniusi Ross-Ma'u

Complexities of Collaboration on Climate Change
    Organizers: J.C. Salyer and Jai Patel

Documentation as Relation: Experiments with and Challenges to Knowledge
Organizers: Celine Travesi and James Leach

Dogs and Their Humans
Organizers: Roger Ivar Lohmann

Ends of Oblivion: Continuities and Discontinuities in Oceania’s Pasts
   Organizers: Serge Tcherkezoff, Matteo Aria, and Alex Mawyer

Food Sovereignty in the Pacific
Organizers: Kathleen C. Riley, John Wagner, and Patricia Fifita

Museums and Repatriation
Organizers: Tarisi Vunidilo and Halena Kapuni Reynolds

Pacific Island Politics, Populism, and Democracy
Organizers: Malama Meleisea, Asofou Soo, and Penelope Schoeffel

Pacific Perspectives: The Fluidity of Time, Space and Relations
Organizer: Tammy Tabe and Jiokapeci Qalo-Qiolevu

Possessing the Pacific City: A Comparative Dispossessions Working Group
Organizer: Jennifer Day and Benedicta Rousseau

Slouching towards Christian Theocracy in Western Polynesia
Organizers: Michael Horowitz and C.F. Velt

Trust and Care in Pacific Health Systems
   Organizer: Mike Poltarak, Jessica Hardin, Tarryn Philips, and John Taylor

Talanoa on The Healer and the Psychiatrist
Organizer: Mike Poltorak