Symposia

• Rethinking Decolonization in Papua New Guinea

Working Sessions

• 2022-2032 International Decade of Indigenous Languages: Pacific Languages
• Documentation as Relation: Experiments with and Challenges to Knowledge
• Dogs and Their Humans
• Food Sovereignty in the Pacific
• Pacific Sisters at the Crossroads of Discrimination
• Trust and Care in Pacific Health Systems

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​​Informal Sessions

• Archiving, Preserving and Sharing Ethnographic Research for the Future
• The After/lives of Pacific Plantations
• Ends of Oblivion: Continuities and Discontinuities in Oceania’s Pasts
• Museums and Repatriation
• Pacific Biculturalities
• Possessing the Pacific City: A Comparative Dispossessions Working Group
• "The Soul and the Image": The Story of Film in the Pacific​
• Stories about Birth, Cultural Celebrations, Cultural Observations
• What Matters Now? Navigating Uncertain Futures from Climate Change to Careers
  

Working Session: Experiments with and Challenges to Knowledge 

Organizer: Celine Travesi, CREDO, CNRS (celine.travesi@univ-amu.fr)
Co-Organizer: James Leach, CREDO, CNRS (james.leach@pacific-credo.fr)

Following a lively and well attended informal session online last year, we look to move to a working session on the basis of the same rubric: we ask: how should anthropologists work with documentation in Oceania today? And how do people in Australia and the Pacific work, or make us work, with documentation?

In this second round, we invite draft papers from those who have experimented with different ways of making documentation in the Pacific, or have been challenged to do so. The idea is to share, and reflect on, all kinds of experiments regardless of their results, with an emphasis on methodological and epistemological concerns.

After the first session, three related areas emerged:
i. Documentation and the relations it engenders, and facilitates, and those that it makes difficult, or obscures.
ii. what kinds of relations can, or even should flow from documentation? And thus:
iii. how might we approach, where can we find inspiration for, thinking about, practicing, and developing the processes of documentation by attending specifically to its relations?