Symposia

• Jean Guiart: L’ethnographie comme marathon d’une vie/Ethnography as Life’s Marathon​​

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Working Sessions

• 2022-2032 International Decade of Indigenous Languages: Pacific Languages
• Being and Belonging: Technologies of Reproduction
• Decolonising Sea of Islands 
• Growing Old in the Pacific
• Mana Moana: Protecting Sacredness
• Proliferation of Models
• Race and Power in Oceania
• Rethinking Decolonization in Papua New Guinea
• "The Soul and the Image": The Story of Film in the Pacific
• Vā Moana: Space and Relationality in Pacific Thought and Identity​

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​​Informal Sessions

• Being Pacific Islander Pasifika, Māori, Indigenous Australian during the Era of Black Lives Matter 
• Complexities of Collaboration on Climate Change
• Documentation as Relation: Experiments with and Challenges to Knowledge
• Dogs and Their Humans
• Ends of Oblivion: Continuities and Discontinuities in Oceania’s Pasts
• Food Sovereignty in the Pacific
• Museums and Repatriation
• Pacific Island Politics, Populism, and Democracy
• Pacific Perspectives: The Fluidity of Time, Space and Relations
• Possessing the Pacific City: A Comparative Dispossessions Working Group
• Slouching towards Christian Theocracy in Western Polynesia
• Trust and Care in Pacific Health Systems
• Talanoa on "The Healer and the Psychiatrist"​

Working Session: Being and Belonging: Technologies of Reproduction

Organizer: Jenny Munro

In 2020, the informal session “Stratified Reproduction in a Global Oceania” discussed technologies, inequalities, emotions and ecologies of reproduction in Oceania. Building on that, this session hones in on 'reproductive citizenship' (what forms, politics, and practices of being and belonging are promoted, eschewed, denied) and 'technologies of reproduction' (biomedical, social, governmental). Key questions we have are: Do practices and values around reproduction (sexuality, fertility, pregnancy, birth, childrearing) in Oceania tend to conform to expectations or disrupt them? What are the expectations and disruptions, whose values or knowledge do they represent, and how do they work in practice? What are the technologies that facilitate or deny particular choices, strategies and experiences? Who controls them, seeks them, and refuses them?

For more information please contact Jenny Munro, University of Queensland, at <jenny.munro@uq.edu.au>