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: Race and Power in Oceania

Organizers: Paige West, Daniel Hernandez, and Alexis Tucker Sade

In this informal session we will begin to examine the efficacy of critical race theory generated in and from the North American context for the analysis and understanding of the racial politics in Oceania and the endurance of various white supremacies in the region. Our session will address these questions: How does the literature on intersectionality translate to the Oceanic context and with Oceanic peoples on Turtle Island (considering the differences in concepts of self, other, persons, and things between regions)? How can critical race theory derived from work on Black and Latinx lives in the United States speak to the experiences of people in and from Oceania? How does the growing body of critical Indigenous Studies work generated from settler-colonial nations like Canada, The United States, and Australia inform our understanding of both decolonial possibilities beyond the ongoing colonial power relations in Oceania? How can the exchange of ideas across the intersections of Oceania and the American continents inform a Critical Oceanic theory?​

For more information, please contact Paige West <cw2031@columbia.edu>,  Daniel Hernandez dh.winaq@gmail.com> or Alexis Tucker Sade <MiraCosta College>