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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 Island Politics, Populism, and Democracy

Organizers:
Malama Meleisea, Asofou Soo, and Penelope Schoeffel

The turn to religious ethno-populism in American political rhetoric, and in  several countries in Europe, has not previously been widely prevalent in the Pacific Island States due to the common situation where parliamentarians negotiate (usually unstable)  alliances to seize power, rather than appealing to grassroots voters with populist messages. But, in Samoa, for example, a firmly entrenched one-party government for the past four year has been making increasingly populist appeals to an electorate in which village leaders still hold most of the political cards.

The conveners of this informal session hope for participation by others from Pacific Island states related to the themes of the session.​

For more information, please contact Malama Meleisea, National University of Samoa <m.meleisea@nus.edu.ws>