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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 
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Being and Belonging: Technologies of Reproduction
         Organizer: Jenny Munro
 
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​Decolonising Sea of Islands 
          Organizers: Nuhisifa Williams and Tevita O Ka‘ili​


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

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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 

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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

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

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

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Talanoa on The Healer and the Psychiatrist
          Organizer: Mike Poltorak