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​​

Informal Session: Women and Politics in Polynesia: Gender imbalances in authority on land tenure, chiefly titles and political offices

Organizers: Serge Tcherkezoff and Melani Anae

Even though the traditional Polynesian systems of social organisation are often mentioned as an exception in the large place of authority that women can exercise in matters of extended family organisation, land tenure and inheritance, and even chiefly offices, a clear imbalance between access given to women versus access given to men is prevalent, and is deepening with the current evolution of land tenure and political systems. In Samoa for instance, a number of cases reveal the limitations imposed on women, as varied as the right for women to hold a chiefly clan title (matai), or to keep an authority over the land if they are living on their husbands' land etc. This panel would analyse a number of varied cases of these limitations, as well as discussing some possible legal or customary regulations that could put in place ""affirmative"" distinctions, up to the extreme case in place in the French Pacific with the ""Parity law"" for candidacies in political offices.

We invite anyone interested in this informal session to contact the panel organizers and join us at the ASAO Meeting!

Serge Tcherkezoff, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), <stcherk@pacific-credo.fr>; 
Melani Anae, Pacific Studies, Te Wānanga o Waipapa, University of Auckland, <m.anae@aucklnad.ac.nz>