Symposia

• Facebook in the Pacific 

• Imaginary Peoples of the Pacific

• Large-scale International Capital and Local Inequalities

• Schools in the Pacific
• Sounds of the Pacific 
• Women and Power in Polynesia

Working Sessions

• Affect and Place in the Contemporary Pacific
• ASAO Histories​
• Health after the Pacific War
• Kava: A Global Phenomenon?
• Mapping, GIS and Social Geography
• Positioning Culture
• The Proliferation of Models
• Stitching New Traditions: Quilting in Polynesia 
• Towards Healthy Islands
• The Urban Pacific

​​Informal Sessions

• Considering Lata: Hero of a Thousand Faces
• Decolonizing Anthropology
• Dreaming in the Pacific
• Growing Old in the Pacific
• New Voices in Pacific Anthropology
• Recounting Alternative Modes of Action and Design
• “The Soul and the Image”: The Story of Film in the Pacific
• Strategic Articulations in Pacific & Samoan Studies
• Transgender Voices in the Pacific Societies and Artistic Creation​

Informal Session: Decolonizing Anthropology: A View from Oceania

Organizers: Marama Muru-Lanning and Lorena Gibson
 
In this session we will ask what it means to decolonise anthropology in Oceania. Drawing on recent work by indigenous anthropologists and those working with decolonising methods and theories, the goal of the session is to collectively discuss what decolonisation looks like when viewed from our sea of islands. We invite participants from across Oceania to this informal session.
 
Marama Leigh Muru-Lanning, University of Auckland <m.murulanning@auckland.ac.nz>;
Lorena Gibson, Victoria University of Wellington <lorena.gibson@vuw.ac.nz>