Symposia

• Positioning Culture within Pacific Christianities  

Working Sessions

• Affect and Place in the Contemporary Pacific
• De-colonising the Sea of Islands 
• Decolonizing Anthropology: A View from Oceania 
• Environmental Resistances in Oceania
• Growing Old in the Pacific
• Mana Moana: Protecting Sacredness
• Pacific Queer Communities and Artistic Creation
• Porgera, Whither and Whence? 
• The Proliferation of Models
• Satan in the Pacific ​
• Stitching New Traditions: Quilting in Polynesia 

​​Informal Sessions

• 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages
• Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change 
• Astronomies of Oceania 
• Connecting Wealth and Space: Environmental Intimacy Working Against Capitalism
• Considering Lata: Hero of a Thousand Faces
• Dreaming in the Pacific
• Education and Empowerment: Decolonising Schooling in Oceania
• Honoring Kale Langlas​   
• Jean Guiart: L’ethnographie comme marathon d’une vie/Ethnography as Life’s Marathon 
• Kava: A Global Phenomenon?
• New Voices in Pacific Anthropology
• Rethinking Labor and Work in the Global Pacific​
• “The Soul and the Image”: The Story of Film in the Pacific
• Stratified Reproduction in a Global Oceania
• Uta ma Tai: Inside looking out in Pacific Island scholarship 
• Vā Moana: Space and relationality in Pacific thought and identity
• We will get over it when it is over: Race and Power in Oceania  
• Women and Politics in Polynesia​

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Informal Session: Stratified Reproduction in a Global Oceania

Organizers: Jenny Munro, Leslie Butt, and Madeline Lemeki

This informal session was attended by Heidi Colleran, Laura Burke, Sandra Widmer, Carol, Ceridwen Spark and John Cox as well as the organisers Jenny Munro and Leslie Butt. Sharyn Graham Davies attended via Skype, and we received abstracts in absentia from Sarah Smith and Els Rieke. We also had chats over coffee with people who couldn't make it to the session, or couldn't find it. One of the themes that arose in our discussion focused on reproductive technologies, broadly defined to include materialities and policies, and how these are ‘wielded' socially and politically to shape reproduction. Technology is produced socially through values that make the technology present: What technology is permissible, what is invisible, how is it dis- tributed and embedded in relationships. Who wields it and how. What issues of political belonging, exclusion and inclusion get wrapped up in how people engage or are engaged by medical technologies. We'd be happy to hear from those interested in writing on this topic in the near future.

For more information please contact Jenny Munro at <jenny.munro@uq.edu.au>