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2021 Session Descriptions

Explore below to learn more about the sessions held at the 2021 virtual meeting. Information about sessions proposed for the 2022 meeting will be shared as soon as it is available.

​To download a PDF of the sessions descriptions, please click here.  

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