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: Pacific Perspectives: The Fluidity of Time, Space and Relations

Organizers: Tammy Tabe and Jiokapeci Qalo-Qiolevu

The Pacific Islands encompass environments and landscapes that epitomise the history, culture, movements, knowledge, identity and the existence of Pacific people. These surroundings are embodied by people as they construct and reconstruct relations between and across time and space. Epeli Hau’ofa aptly describes the world of Pacific Islanders and their relations as one ‘in which peoples and cultures moved and mingled, unhindered by boundaries as they sailed ‘from one island to another … to trade and to marry, thereby expanding social networks for greater flow of wealth’ (1993:8). Such world symbolizes a sea of islands and landscapes that gives agency to the fluidity of time, space and relations of Pacific people.

This session invites an array of Pacific works that attempt to unpack and deconstruct the burgeoning framing and constructs of time, space and relations in the Pacific Islands. We also seek papers that enunciate Pacific epistemologies on the concept of time, space and relations and how they are understood, integrated, embodied and reinforced through change, encounters and movements of people within and beyond the Pacific region.

For more information, please contact Tammy Tabe, The University of the South Pacific,  <tammy.tabe@usp.ac.fj> and Jiokapeci Qalo-Qiolevu <jiokapeci.qaloqiolevu@usp.ac.fj>