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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: Experiments with and Challenges to Knowledge 

Organizers: Celine Travesi and James Leach



In the Pacific, the meaning and implications of writing and producing knowledge have been debated intensely over the last decade. In this session, we ask: how should anthropologists work with documentation in Oceania today? Alternatively, how do people in Australia and the Pacific work, or make us work, with documentation? We invite contributions 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. This will provide food for thought concerning what it actually means to make knowledge through documentation in the Pacific today.



For more information, please contact Celine Travesi, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, CREDO UMR 7308 <celine.travesi@univ-amu.fr> and James Leach <james.leach@pacific-credo.fr>