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"​

Working Session: Proliferation of Models

Organizers: Albert L Refiti and Tamasa‘ilau Suaalii-Sauni

The two sessions so far discussed the multitude of methods and models currently in use and applied in Pacific research. In this workshop we aim to reconnect with some of the participants from the 2019 Auckland meeting and to continue the discussions regarding the publication options for the session. 

As a reminder we are exploring what part the established and emerging methods play in the larger decolonial project that is currently underway. Some of these methods and models include kaupapa Māori (Smith), kakala (Helu-Thaman), talanoa (Halapua, Vaioleti), su’ifefiloi (Figiel, Silipa), fa’afaletui (Tamasese ET AL), teu le vā (Anae ET AL), tāvaism (Māhina, Ka’ili ET AL), tāuhi vā (Ka’ili), malie/mafana (Manuatu), fonofale (Pulotu-Endermann), Mana Moana (Mila) to name a few. 

We still have places for those who want to join us in this workshop session for researchers and scholars to present their research, fieldwork or ethnography that uses an existing Indigenous Pacific model or a proposed new Indigenous Pacific model as a method(ology) for gathering and synthesising research. We especially welcome papers that deal with new and emerging methods, models or paradigms for doing research in the Pacific.


For more information, please contact Albert Refiti, Auckland University of Technology <albert.refiti@aut.ac.nz> or Tamasa‘ilau Suaalii-Sauni <s.suaalii-sauni@auckland.ac.nz>