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: Complexities of Collaboration on Climate Change

Organizers: J.C. Salyer and Jai Patel


Much of the existing anthropological research on climate change in Oceania focuses on the ways that indigenous peoples perceive their environments and how the idea of climate change has come to mediate environmental narratives. However, climate change is an object of research for people and organisations far beyond the boundaries of academia, and anthropological research on climate change often involves collaboration with others. Research networks embody multiple interests and goals, as well as different epistemologies and ontologies.
 
This panel addresses the complexity of collaboration in climate change research. Given that climate is never a purely academic topic and that the discourse and actions around climate change are always mobilized for various agendas and positions, we pose the following questions for discussion:

• How do researchers work in an environment populated by local communities, BINGOS, local NGOs, government actors, etc?
• What are the opportunities and hazards of working in collaboration with these various actor groups?
• How do our research relationships influence what we do and how we do it?
• What can we learn from our collaborators? What can they learn from us?
• What are the conditions that allow for collaboration?

 
We welcome contributions beyond the scope of the questions above, though panel discussions will be guided by a reflective focus on the relational dynamics that shape anthropological research on climate change.


For more information, please contact J.C. Salyer, Barnard College, Columbia University <jsalyer@barnard.edu> and Jai Patel <ajpatel@student.unimelb.edu.au​>