Symposia

• Rethinking Decolonization in Papua New Guinea

Working Sessions

• 2022-2032 International Decade of Indigenous Languages: Pacific Languages
• 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
• Trust and Care in Pacific Health Systems

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​​Informal Sessions

• Archiving, Preserving and Sharing Ethnographic Research for the Future
• The After/lives of Pacific Plantations
• ​Complexities of Climate Change
• ​Misinformation, Social Media, and the Anthropocene
• Museums and Repatriation
• Pacific Biculturalities​
• Pacific Sisters at the Crossroads of Discrimination
• Possessing the Pacific City: A Comparative Dispossessions Working Group
• "The Soul and the Image": The Story of Film in the Pacific​
• Stories about Birth, Cultural Celebrations, Cultural Observations
• What Matters Now? Navigating Uncertain Futures from Climate Change to Careers

Informal Session: Stories about Birth, Cultural Celebrations, Cultural Observations

Organizer: Jackie Leung, Oregon State University (leungjac@oregonstate.edu)

What is it our families from the Pacific do? What are the practices back home and how does it compare to their experiences in the U.S.? Is it as welcoming? Is it scary? A pilot study conducted with an academic nurse researcher from Washington State University in partnership with a statewide nonprofit that serves the Micronesian community learned that prenatal care is often sought late in care. One reason: Micronesian women do not think it is necessary to get prenatal care, because the only times to visit the doctor is when you are ill or about to giv birth. Prenatal care is a medicalized term. What 'words' describe care during pregnancy? This session is an open discussion on what care means.