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.

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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