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"​

Informal Session: 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

An informal space welcoming student voices. Recognizing the critical momentum of this era, from confronting the long and persistent history of racism, white nationalism, colonialism, and state-sponsored violence to highlighting the morbid inequalities of the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change on brown and black communities, this session aims to create a space for open expression and critical voices. Acknowledging the pragmatic, intersectional, and creative nature of the new generations of scholars, this talanoa, tok stori session invites students to share their experiences and ideas in whatever communicative medium they choose (e.g. essay, spoken word, song, artwork, research, dance, or short digital film). 

Participants welcome. Our session includes music from Tonga Ross-Ma’u, presentations from MANA students including Saige Afalava, Alesi Meyers, Allura Murray-Cruz, Pamaikamakaniaheahemaliekokalani Ohelo-Kamakea Fita, Cam Reyes, Dannia Saldivar, and Tane Te'i, and more.

For more information, please contact Alexis Tucker Sade, MiraCosta College, <pacificalexis@gmail.com>