No. 1 January-March 2002
CONTENTS
November 2002 CPIS Conference to Look at
Myth, Terrorism, and Justice
Pacific islands Courses in UH Summer Session
CPIS Welcomes New Affiliate Faculty
Samoan Scholarship Conference
Pacific Papers in SHAPS Student Conference
Occasional Seminars
Faculty Activities
Students and Alumni
Publications and Videos
The Contemporary Pacific:News and Updates
Conferences
Bulletin Board
NOVEMBER 2002 CPIS CONFERENCE TO LOOK AT MYTH, TERRORISM, AND JUSTICE
This
year’s annual conference at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies
focuses on “Myth, Justice, and Terrorism” in film and literature
from the Pacific and Asia. The conference will be held 5–8 November 2002
in Honolulu in cooperation with the Hawai‘i International Film Festival,
the UH Department of English’s Fall Festival of Writing, and NETPAC
(Network for the Promotion of Asia/Pacific Film). In addition to films from the
Pacific and Asia, including several Hawai‘i premieres, the conference
will feature interviews with filmmakers and panels that explore themes of
terrorism and justice in film and literature. Vilsoni Hereniko and Ruth Hsu
are the conference convenors. Further information will be available later on
the CPIS website at http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis.
PACIFIC ISLANDS COURSES IN
UH SUMMER SESSION
Maori heads the list of Pacific
courses to be offered in the UH Outreach College’s summer sessions. The
courses in introductory Maori (IP 101 and IP 102), taught by Robert Wiri, are tuition-free. They require only administrative and term fees.
Other Pacific-related
courses, which have tuition fees, include archaeological field schools in Rapa
Nui, Fiji, and Kohala, Hawai‘i; Art of the Pacific: Australia and
Indonesia; Ethnobotany; Geography of Hawai‘i; Hawai‘i: Center of
the Pacific; Maritime Archaeology Survey Techniques, and Samoan and Hawaiian
language courses.
In addition to credit and
noncredit courses, Outreach College puts on a number of public programs.
Included among these this summer is a sneak preview of selected scenes from Fire
in the Womb, a new movie by CPIS
faculty member Vilsoni Hereniko
and Jeannette Paulson Hereniko.
The screenings, which are free of charge, are at 7:00 pm on 6 and 7 June in the
Yukiyoshi Room (Krauss 12).
For information on UH summer
session activities, see the website at http://www.summer.hawaii.edu or request
a catalog by calling 808-956-5666.
CPIS WELCOMES NEW AFFILIATE FACULTY
The Center for Pacific
Islands Studies welcomes the addition of two Pacific specialists to the UH
Manoa faculty.
Maori specialist Robert Wiri is a new assistant professor of
Maori in the Department of Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures
(DHIPLL). Of Tahoe and Te Arawa descent, Wiri was formerly a lecturer in Maori
studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He will be teaching Maori
language at UH Manoa during the summer session, which begins 28 May 2002. In
the fall of 2002 he will teach courses in introductory and intermediate-level
Maori language and a course on Maori society. Wiri’s appointment is the
culmination of several years of planning by CPIS and DHIPLL aimed at expanding
the current Polynesia language program, which includes Hawaiian, Samoan, and
Tahitian, to offer Maori.
Heather Young Leslie, a Pacific medical and cultural
anthropologist, is a new assistant professor with the UH Department of
Anthropology. Prior to joining UH she was an assistant professor of
anthropology at the University of Alberta, in Canada, where she taught courses
dealing with Pacific ethnography, biomedicine, gender, theory in medical anthropology,
and the social and cultural determinants of health. She has conducted research
in Tonga on a variety of topics over the past ten years. She is currently
teaching a cross-cultural course in folk medicine. In the fall of 2002, she
will teach a course on Pacific Island cultures and a research seminar on
ethnomedicine in the Pacific.
SAMOAN SCHOLARSHIP CONFERENCE
The Samoan Scholarship
Conference, 21 January, at Leeward Community College, was a follow-up to last
year’s Fa‘a-Samoa 2000
conference in Honolulu. The purpose of the conference, which was supported by
the UH President’s Diversity and Equity Initiative, was to showcase
undergraduate and graduate programs at UH Manoa and the UH community colleges
in information sessions for the Samoan community. In addition the organizers
want to make financial aid and application information more accessible for the
Samoan community by identifying individuals in all the Samoan churches who can
serve as liaison with the UH system. These and other initiatives, including a
Samoan Scholarship Fund, started last year, aim to encourage Samoan high school
students to attend UH. Former CPIS graduate Saili Lilomaiava-Doktor
(MA 1993) was instrumental in the organization of this year’s conference.
Donations to the Samoan
Scholarship Fund in the form of a check to the UH Foundation, with
“Samoan Scholarship Fund” designated in the memo section, may be
sent to Samoan Scholarship Fund, c/o Kapi‘olani Community College
Development Office, 4303 Diamond Head Road, Ilima 212, Honolulu, Hawai‘i
96816.
PACIFIC PAPERS IN SHAPS STUDENT CONFERENCE</a
Research in the Pacific was well represented at the 2002 UH School of
Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies Graduate Student Conference, 18–22
March. The following students, from a variety of departments, presented
Pacific-related papers:
Michael Wysong (Botany)—“Lau
Atule: Traditional Purse-Net Fishing in Manu‘a, American Samoa”
Betty Ickes (History)—“Homeland
Initiatives and the Emergence of a Transnational Tokelauan Identity”
Isebong Asang (Education)—“Writing
Palauan Epistemology is a Messy Endeavor”
Luafata Simanu-Klutz (History)—“O
Ai ‘Oe? Samoan Identity in Encapsulating Marginality”
Trisha Watson (Law)—“Preservation
of the Land, Preservation of the People: Broadening the Environmental Justice
Model to Protect Multicultural Societies”
Takashi Mita (Political
Science)—“Formation of ‘Imagined Community’ in Colonial
Micronesia: Palauan National Identity Imagined as a Japanese?”
Brian Diettrich
(Ethnomusicology)—“Singing Our Faith: Catholic and Protestant
Church Music and Identity in Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia”
David Kammerer
(Ethnomusicology)—“A Hawaiian Cultural Icon Remembered: The Slack
Key Virtuosity of Leonard Kwan”
Monique Mironesco (Political
Science)—“Feminist Consciousness and Identity: Women’s
Studies in Hawai‘i”
Masami Tsujita
(Geography)—“Becoming a Factory Girl: The Impact of a Japanese
Wiring Factory on Young Samoan Women’s Lives”
Toshiko Arai (Sociology)—“Dynamics
of Assimilation and Discrimination in the Japanese Occupation Period,
1914–1945, in Palau”
Simanu-Klutz, Mita, and Tsujita are graduates of the CPIS MA program.
Asang is working on a Certificate in Pacific Islands Studies while she is a
doctoral student in the College of Education. Congratulations to all the
participants!
OCCASIONAL SEMINARS
Jon Osorio, assistant professor in the UHM Center for Hawaiian
Studies, gave a talk titled “What Kine Hawaiian are You?” on 23
January at Native Books and Beautiful Things. The talk was based on his recent
article by the same name, which was published as part of the recent special
issue of The Contemporary Pacific
on Native Pacific cultural studies. Osorio has just completed his first book, Dismembering
Lahui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887, which will be published in June 2002 by UH Press.
Greg Fry, Hedley Bull Fellow in the Department of International
Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National
University, gave a talk on 25 January on “The ‘Pacific
Solution’: Australia’s Regional Approach to ‘Border
Protection.’” Fry is a political scientist who has written
extensively about regional issues.
Robert Wiri, newly appointed assistant
professor of Maori in the UHM Department of Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages
and Literature, gave a talk on 28 January on “Matauranga Maori: Maori
Knowledge and Maori Ways of Knowing.” His talk covered the five
categories of Maori verbal knowledge: korero (oral narratives), waiata (songs, chants), whakapapa (genealogies), whakatauki (proverbial sayings, tribal aphorisms), and kupu
whakaari (prophecies). In a second
talk on 11 February, “From Hawaiiki to Aotearoa: The Migration of the
Maori People to New Zealand,” Wiri covered several theories of Maori
migration.
Brij V Lal, Professor of History and Director
of the Centre for the Contemporary Pacific at the Australian National
University, gave a talk on 31 January titled “In George Speight’s
Shadow: Fiji’s Constitutional Conundrum.” Lal was one of the
architects of the 1997 Fiji Constitution. He concluded his talk with some
thoughts on where Fiji is heading.
Vilsoni Hereniko, associate professor in the UHM
Center for Pacific Islands Studies, gave a talk on “Talk Story: Fact,
Fiction, and Faction” on 13 February. Hereniko, who is a well-known
writer and playwright, talked about, and showed footage from, his new film, Fire
in the Womb.
John Pule, novelist, poet, painter, and multimedia performance and
video artist, gave a slide talk on the importance of family and place in his
work. Pule is Visiting Distinguished Writer for spring 2002 in the UHM English
Department, a position funded in large part by the Center for Pacific Islands
Studies’ National Resource Center grant. A new solo exhibition of his
paintings, I Once Had a Mind as Visible as Light, is currently showing in Auckland.
Kimberlee Kihleng, Research Project Coordinator
for the Hawai‘i Outcomes Institute at the John A Burns School of Medicine,
gave a talk on “Globalizing Situations: Women, the Nation-State, and
Economic Change in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia” on 14 March.
She discussed the ways in which women in Pohnpei resist marginalization by the
economic and political forces of global capitalism.
Katerina Teaiwa, PhD candidate in anthropology at
the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National
University, gave a talk titled “Between Islands and Archives: A Cinematic
Approach to History and Anthropology” on 21 March. She explored cinematic
montage as a methodology for dealing with temporally and spatially disparate
moments in Pacific Island lives and events.
FACULTY ACTIVITIES
The select performing group
of music professor Jane Moulin’s
Tahitian Ensemble was among the invited guest performers at the
Kapi‘olani Community College International Fair the third week of March.
This is the third year the group has participated in the festival, where their
stellar performance earned them an enthusiastic "standing invitation"
for the future.
Congratulations to historian
and UH Pacific Curator Karen Peacock
on the publication of her book (with Nicholas J Goetzfridt),
Micronesian Histories: An Analytical Bibliography and Guide to
Interpretations. And to Aumua
Mata‘itusi Simanu, Samoan
language instructor, on the publication of her book, ‘O Si Manu A
Ali‘i: A Text for the Advanced Study of Samoan Language and Culture (See the Publications section.)
History associate professor
David Chappell traveled to New Caledonia
the first week of March to serve on the dissertation committee of a local
scholar who wrote his thesis on the Japanese in New Caledonia. Japanese came to
New Caledonia as indentured workers but were dispossessed and deported during
World War II. Their metis
descendants grew up in their local mothers’ cultures, but they have their
own local association. While he was in New Caledonia, Chappell was interviewed
by the local television station’s staff about the United States’
treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. He will be presenting a
talk on non-western seamen on Euroamerican ships for the North American Society
of Oceanic History conference in Honolulu in mid-May.
Robert C Kiste and Tisha Hickson traveled to Washington, DC the first week in
February to attend the US Department of Education Title VI National Resource
Center (NRC) directors’ meeting to prepare contenders for the next
three-year cycle of NRC grants.
Several CPIS faculty members
have received significant research grants during the past year. Archaeologist
Michael Graves received a Skaggs
Foundation grant to support a research project on a maritime archaeology and history investigation of civil war
activity in Pohnahtik harbor, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. He is also
working on an NSF-funded subgrant from University of California, Berkeley, to
explore the dynamic historical ecology of the Hawaiian Islands during the
period from 1200 to 200 BP.
Barry Rolett, also a UHM archaeologist, is
working with Chinese archaeologists on a grant from the Harvard Asia Center to
look at the possible origins in Fukien Province, China, of Austronesian
seafaring cultures.
Historian David Hanlon received a grant from the Bank of
Guam in support of his biography of Tosiwo Nakayama, the first president of the
Federated States of Micronesia.
Education associate
professor Margaret Maaka received
several large grants from educational granting agencies in support of her work
on education reform and comprehensive curriculum on the leeward coast of
O‘ahu.
Ethnobotanist Will McClatchey is the co-PI for grants from
Japan and the National Science Foundation to support biodiversity research
linked to the Pacific-Asia Biodiversity Transect Network (PABITRA), a
collaborative program for investigating the function of biodiversity and the
health of ecosystems in the tropical Pacific Islands. The grants are largely
for training Pacific Island researchers and for meetings to develop
collaborative research.
Lu Eldredge, Executive Secretary
of the Pacific Science Association, received grants, from the Hawai‘i
Community Foundation, National Ocean Service, MacArthur Foundation,
International Council of Scientific Unions, and the Packard Foundation, for
research on the introduction of marine species in Hawai‘i and marine
biodiversity and biogeographic classification in the Asia Pacific region.
STUDENTS AND ALUMNI
Congratulations to alumnus
Joakim Peter (MA 1994), who has
been appointed Chuuk Campus Director for the College of Micronesia—Federated
States of Micronesia. Peter assumed his post on 25 March. His former position
was Project Director of Chuuk Culture and Education Studies Projects.
Congratulations also to
Scott Whitney (MA 1986) who has
been named Editor of Pacific Magazine.
He was most recently associate editor for Honolulu Magazine, where he covered the Hawaiian community, arts and
culture, and other issues. He has also worked in the Marshall Islands and
American Samoa. Pacific Magazine,
which is the only magazine to cover the entire Pacific region, has a
circulation of 16,000.
PUBLICATIONS AND VIDEOS
UH Press Publications
‘O Si Manu A
Ali‘i: A Text for the Advanced Study of Samoan Language and Culture, by ‘Aumua Mata‘itusi Simanu, is the first comprehensive guide
for teachers of Samoan oratory and the Samoan language of respect. An
authoritative resource book for students of Samoan, it contains information
necessary for understanding the social contexts for these important speech
registers. Simanu, a life-long educator and scholar of Samoan language and
culture, has taught Samoan oratory and history at the University of
Hawai‘i at Manoa for the past fourteen years. Jointly published with
Pasifika Press. ISBN 0-8248-2595-0; paper, US$35.00.
Pacific Art: Persistence,
Change, and Meaning, edited by Anita Herle, Nick Stanley, Karen Stevenson,
and Robert L Welsch, deals with
several key themes that are currently shaping studies of Pacific art. The
contributors explore the complex relations among artists, patrons, collectors, and
museums over time, as well as the different meaning given to art objects by
each. ISBN 0-8248-2556-X; cloth, $48.00.
UH Press books can be
ordered through the Orders Department, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2840
Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, HI 96822-1888. Website:
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu.
Other Publications
Micronesian Histories, An
Analytical Bibliography and Guide to Interpretations, by Nicholas J Goetzfridt
and Karen M Peacock, has been
published by Greenwood Press. With over 500 annotated citations, this book
provides a critical summary and analysis of the scholarship on Micronesian
history as it has been constructed through both standardized European
approaches and the more recent integration of indigenous viewpoints. Goetzfridt
is collection development librarian at the University of Guam. Peacock is
Pacific Curator at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Hamilton Library.
ISBN 0-313-29103-9; cloth, $79.00.
Mr Tulsi’s Store: A
Fijian Childhood, by Brij V Lal, represents the author’s
attempt to “revisit a time and a place I have taken for granted or
ignored, to reflect on an experience not recorded in written texts but which
was, at the time, profoundly important in shaping the life of the post-war
generation of Indo-Fijian children. . . . I have tried to recall the past
creatively, imaginatively, rendering factual, lived experience through the
prism of semi-fiction.” ISBN 1-74076-007-7. International price: paper,
AU$26.00 plus postage. Published by Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific
and Asian Studies, Australian National University. The website is
http://rspas-bookshop.anu.edu.au/.
Ni-Vanuatu Role Models:
Women in Their Own Right, edited by
Shirley Randell, is a collection of
two-page biographies, with color photos, of twenty distinguished women from
every major island and province of Vanuatu. The book is designed especially for
use as a text for secondary school students, but should appeal to a wider
audience. The entries, written in the women’s own words, emphasize career
choices, but they also recount significant personal life experiences. Published
by Blackstone Publishing and available from SRIA, PO Box 1702, Port Vila,
Vanuatu; e-mail: admin@sria.com.vu. 60 pages, $AU30.00.
Government by the Gun:
The Unfinished Business of Fiji’s 2000 Coup, by Robbie Robertson
(La Trobe University) and William Sutherland
(Australian National University) is an account of the long, drawn-out events of
George Speight’s coup in Fiji and an analysis of its immediate relevance
to other multiethnic countries. Published by Zed Books
(http://www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk/). ISBN 1 84277 114 0; cloth, US$65.00; ISBN 1
84277 115 9; paper, US$22.50.
The University Book Centre
at the University of the South Pacific (USP) lists the following new books:
On Eitei’s Wings:
Poetry, Prose and Artwork, by
Teweiariki Teaero, is published by
the Pacific Writing Forum. Teaero, who is from Kiribati, is one of
Oceania’s promising new artists who are working with more than one medium
to tell their stories. ISBN 9823660077; paper, US$12.00.
Niu Waves: Contemporary
Writing from Oceania, is a collection
of contemporary poems, short stories, commentaries on Pacific art, music, and
literature, by new and aspiring writers from the Pacific. Niu Waves is a
creative writers’ collective formed in Fiji in 1995 to take a
“niu” approach. Experiments with unusual forms, words, and ideas
characterize their writings, which also aim to reach a wider public audience.
ISBN 9823660093; 168 pages, paper, US$20.00.
20th Century Fiji, edited by Stewart Firth
and Daryl Tarte, and published by
USP Solutions, tells the story of twentieth-century Fiji through the lives of
the men and women who did the most to shape Fiji. They include political
leaders, poets and artists, business people, trade unionists, soldiers, and
others. ISBN 9820104211; paper, US$27.00.
The Inheritance of Hope,
John Hunt: Apostle of Fiji, by Andrew
Thornley, is published by the USP
Institute of Pacific Studies. It
is the story of Wesleyan missionary John Hunt, whose work in Fiji took place
between 1839 and 1848. ISBN 9820201594; paper, US$24.00.
The Pacific Journalist: A
Practical Guide, edited by David Robie, is a look at regional careers in
the media. It covers items such as news writing and style, news values, media
law and ethics, radio and television journalism, photojournalism, and political
reporting. ISBN 9820103851; paper, US$25.00.
The University Book Centre
e-mail is info@uspbookcentre.com. The website is http://uspbookcentre.com.
Prices do not include postage.
Papua New Guinea Yearbook
2002, a comprehensive review of
events and developments in Papua New Guinea, is available from Robin Bromby, Specialist Books, PO Box 481,
Edgecliff, NSW 2027, Australia; e-mail: bromby@acay.com.au. It contains
articles on the integrity law and the 2002 elections: developments in the PNG
economy: environment, health, welfare, and education; mining and oil: and
industry and new investments. This is the first publication of its kind since
the 1970s. ISBN 9980-85-391-3; US$40.00, plus $8.00 air shipping.
Pacific Voices Talk
Story: Conversations of American Experience is a new publication focused on Pacific Islanders becoming American.
The first volume in a projected series, the book contains the words of fourteen
islanders from Samoa, Guam and the Philippines, New Zealand and the Cook
Islands, Tonga, and Hawaii, speaking out about their Americanization. $17.95.
Margo King-Lenson is the editor
and publisher at Tui Communications, Vacaville, California, e-mail:
tuicom@att.net. The website is http://www.tuicom.com.
A Personal Tour of Palau, by Ann Kitalong
with numerous wonderfully reproduced photographs by William E Perryclear, has just been published. It
begins with a brief history before covering the natural environment of the
islands and Palauan art and architecture. Copies are available through Bill Perryclear,
e-mail: i-photo@palaunet.com. Cloth, US$30.00; paper, US$25.00. For shipping,
add $5.00.
Kalahele: Poetry and Art, by Imaikalani Kalahele,
has been published by Kalamaku Press in Honolulu. Kalahele is a collection of 55 poems and 23 pen and ink
drawings expressing a
maka‘inana’s
(Hawaiian citizen’s) consciousness of his Hawaiian roots and culture and
his fight to keep them alive in a colonial society. 90 pages, $9.95. For more
information, contact Dennis Kawaharada
by e-mail at dennisk@hawaii.edu.
Pacific Linguistics at ANU
announces the publication of eight new titles:
A Grammar of Tetun Dili, by Catarina Williams-van
Klinken, John Hajek, and
Rachel Nordlinger
The Lolovoli Dialect of
the North-East Ambae Language, by
Catriona Hyslop
A Grammar of Limilngan: A
Language of the Mary River Region, Northern Territory, Australia, by Mark Harvey
Taba: Description of a
South Halmahera Austronesian Language,
by John Bowden
The History and Typology
of Western Austronesian Voice Systems,
edited by Fay Wouk and Malcolm Ross
Pijin: A Dictionary of
the Pidgin of the Solomon Islands/Un Dictionnaire du Pidgin des Iles Saloman, compiled by Christine Jourdan
Languages of Vanuatu: A New Survey and
Bibliography, by John Lynch and Terry Crowley
The Boy from Bundaburg:
Studies in Melanesian Linguistics in Honour of Tom Dutton, edited by Andrew Pawley,
Malcolm Ross, and Darrell Tryon.
Inquiries (but not orders)
about these linguistic texts should go to the publications administrator of
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian
National University, e-mail: jmanley@coombs.anu.edu.au. For a catalog and
ordering information see the website at http://pacling.anu.edu.au.
Historical Dictionary of
Polynesia, second edition, by Robert Craig, an emeritus professor of Pacific
history at Alaska Pacific University, is available from Scarecrow Press
(http://www.scarecrowpress.com/). It brings together historical reference data
on personalities, treaties, organizations, political parties, and other items, for
fourteen Pacific Island entities. ISBN 0-8108-4237-8; 408 pages, $65.00.
Journals
The third volume, issue one,
of the Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal has just been published. The journal claims to be the
first fully functional, web-based, American legal journal dedicated to issues
facing Asia and the Pacific. The current issue includes an article on the
political status of Chamorros of Guam and their rights to self-determination,
by Anthony Quan. The journal
website is http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj.
Videos
A Race for Rights, by filmmaker Larry Thomas,
documents the May 2000 coup in Fiji through interviews with people from all
walks of life. In doing so it contributes to a discussion aimed at
reconciliation and reconstruction in Fiji. The video, in PAL format, is 53
minutes. Further details and costs are available from the filmmaker through
e-mail: Larry.Thomas@usp.ac.fj.
CDs
Aotearoa—Land of
Hope is volume sixteen in the series
Anthology of Pacific Music produced by Mundo Etnico. In addition to Maori
music, it includes Scottish bagpipe music, Samoan dance music, Tuvaluan church
singing and dance music, and music of Pukapuka, Tokelau, Rotuma, Niue,
Rarotonga, and Korea. More information is available on the website at
http://www.MundoEtnico.nl.
Muo Remé: Dance of
the Cassowary. The Anceaux Collection 1954–1961, Anthology of Music from West Papua 1, has just been
released by Pan Records, in collaboration with the Royal Tropical Institute. It
contains examples from a number of northern West Papuan languages, as well as
parts of song texts in Tok Pisin. It is available from Pan Records, PO Box 155,
2300 AD, Leiden, The Netherlands; e-mail: paradox@dataweb.nl.
THE CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC
News and Updates
Book Reviews Now On-Line
Thanks to UH Press Journals
Director Joel Bradshaw, book
reviews published in The Contemporary Pacific are now on-line, in PDF format, for the current
issue, spring 2002, and all issues since fall 1999. The reviews, as well as the
tables of contents for these and other issues, can be accessed through the
journal’s website at http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/cp/. Click on
Issue Contents to get to all issues.
Special Offer!
The recent special offer
from The Contemporary Pacific: Journal of Island Affairs is still in effect. All new subscribers will receive
the popular fall 2001 special issue, Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the
Edge, edited by Vicente M Diaz and J Kehaulani Kauanui, free of charge. This important new work explores notions of Pacific
indigeneity in the face of diaspora and globalization. To order, contact the
Journals Department at UH Press by e-mail at uhpjourn@hawaii.edu. The mailing
address is 1840 Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822. The website at
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/cp/ has ordering information. Excellent
student rates are available. The current issue, spring 2002, has articles on
women in Vanuatu, mining in Melanesia, Freeport and the Suharto regime, and
cultural memory and World War II in Pohnpei.
CONFERENCES AND FESTIVALS
Global Public Health in Hawai‘i and
the Pacific
The focus of the first
annual Global Public Health Conference, presented by the Hawai‘i Public
Health Association and other organizations in Hawai‘i, is “Global
Public Health: Issues and Strategies for Hawai‘i and the Pacific.”
It will be held 12–13 June 2002 at the Hawai‘i Convention Center.
The conference will promote discussion of public health issues specific to the
Islands. A limited number of conference registration scholarships are available
for students and neighbor island and Pacific Island participants. The
conference website is http://www.hawaiipublichealth.org.
Samoan Pedagogy Workshop
Ia Faalaulele Lau Gagana: Samoan Pedagogy Workshop will be held 24–28
June 2002 in Honolulu. The workshop will bring together experts in Samoan
language teaching, teacher training, materials development, and Samoan language
content areas to share information and discuss curriculum development issues.
For more information see the website at
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev_home.cfm.
Environment, Culture, and Community
The Australian Studies
Centre at the University of Queensland is sponsoring a conference on
“Environment, Culture, and Community,” 2–5 July 2002 in
Brisbane, Australia. The conference will explore the role of social and
cultural processes in relation to environmental awareness. For more information
e-mail to r.blair@uq.edu.au or see the website at
http://emsah.uq.edu.au/conferences/ecc/.
Indigenous Art and the Politics of Identity
Te Putahi-a-Toi, The School
of Maori Studies, Massey University, New Zealand, is organizing a conference on
“Indigenous Art and Heritage & the Politics of Identity,” as
well as an exhibition, “Genus Pacifica.” The conference, to be held
6–9 July 2002 in Palmerston North, New Zealand, will examine the current
state of indigenous interventionist policies relative to sites of visual art
practice, delivery, dissemination, promotion, and discourse. It has been conceived
as an opportunity to strengthen links between tangata whenua artists and art commentators with their counterparts
in other areas of the Pacific and beyond. For more information contact Robert Jahnke by e-mail at
R.H.Jahnke@massey.ac.nz or see the website at http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwmaori/conference/.
Pacific Development Symposium
The Foundation for
Development Cooperation in Brisbane, Australia, invites abstracts for “Development Research Symposium:
South Pacific Future,” 22–24 July 2002. The session topics are
governance and democracy, sustainable development, managing conflict, and human
resources and capacity building. Assistance is available for a limited number
of younger researchers who are citizens of, and normally reside in, Pacific
Island countries. For more information contact the foundation by e-mail,
info@fdc.org.au, or by telephone, 61-7-3236-4633.
Pacific Archeology
“Pacific Archeology:
Assessments and Prospects” is the title for a conference in honor of the
fiftieth anniversary of the first Lapita excavation, in New Caledonia, in July
1952. The organizer of the conference, to be held 31 July–7 August 2002
in Koné and Noumea, New Caledonia, is Christophe Sand in the Department of Archeology, New Caledonia Museum.
The schedule includes paper presentations and a visit to Lapita sites.
Proposals are invited on the themes of “works in process in Pacific
archaeology” and “new methods and research topics in Pacific
archaeology.” The English-language and French-language websites are
http://www.prehistory.org/lapita/en/default.htm and
http://www.prehistorie.org/lapita/fr/default.htm.
Melanesian Arts Festival
The Melanesian Arts Festival
will take place 18–28 August 2002 in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The festival
will bring together delegations from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands,
Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji. Traditional and contemporary Melanesian arts
and crafts, including visual arts, films, and legend telling, will be featured.
For information, contact the Vanuatu Cultural Center at vks@vanuatu.com.vu.
Print Cultures Across the South Pacific
The Bibliographical Society
of Australia and New Zealand has issued a call for papers for a one-day
conference to be held in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 10 September 2002. “Expanding
Horizons: Print Cultures across the South Pacific” will precede a
three-day Australian library Conference (CONZUL), 11–13 September. For
more information e-mail
Shef Rogers, conference convenor,
at shef.rogers@stonebow.otago.ac.nz.
The Local and the Global
The theme for the 2002
American Studies Association meeting, 14–17 November 2002 in Houston,
Texas, is “The Local and the Global.” The organizers invite ideas
and presentations for sessions on a wide range of topics, including transnationalism,
local identities, sense of place, and the gendering of constructs of the local
and the global. For information see the website at
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/AmericanStudiesAssn/annualmeeting/ASA2002/CFP2002.htm.
PIALA Conference
The Chuuk Association of
Libraries is hosting the twelfth annual Pacific Islands Association of
Libraries and Archives (PIALA) conference on Weno Island, Chuuk, the week of 18
November 2002. The theme is “Libraries, Museums, and Archives: The
Coconut Tree of Life.” Proposal abstracts of no more than 300 words
should be sent to Lynn Sipenuk by
15 June. Her address is PO Box 91, Weno Island, Chuuk, FM 96942; e-mail:
lynnsipenuk@mail.fm. The website is http://www.uog.edu/rfk/piala/piala.html.
Food, Nourishment, and Lifestyle in Oceania
The theme for the fifteenth
CORAIL symposium, 28–30 November 2002, is “Food, Nourishment, and
Lifestyle in Oceania.” The deadline for proposals is 15 June. Topics to
be addressed include: From Food to Feast, Foodstuff and Recipes, Food Preservation
and Consumption, Food and Social Rank, and Food and Gender Systems. The
symposium is hosted by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community in Noumea, New
Caledonia. For more information, contact Sonia Lacabanne,
chair, by e-mail at lacabanne@univ-nc.nc.
Fabric(ation)s of the Postcolonial
The Institute for Identity
and Cultural Difference (ICD) and the Institute for Social Change and Critical
Inquiry (ISCCI) at the University of Wollongong, Australia, are sponsoring a
conference on “Fabric(ation)s of the Postcolonial,” 29
November–1 December 2002. The conference will focus on textile production
and trade and their links with national, ethnic, and personal identity, as well
as with literary studies, postcolonial theory, and globalization. For information,
see the website at
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/iscci/projects/fabrications/f_index.html.
PIPSA Conference
The Pacific Islands
Political Studies Association (PIPSA) Conference will be held 4–6
December 2002 in Noosa, Queensland, Australia. The theme is “Pacific
Islands Security: Old Challenges, New Threats.” The host is the
University of the Sunshine Coast, and the convenor is Dr Ivan Molloy, e-mail: imolloy@usc.edu.au. A
website for the conference is being planned.
Remaking Asia Pacific Studies
“Remaking Asia Pacific
Studies: Knowledge, Power, and Pedagogy,” is a conference hosted by the
School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies, UH Manoa, 4–7 December
2002. The conference seeks to remake Asia Pacific studies around a curriculum that
better reflects movements of people and ideas across boundaries, as well as the
complexities of global-local relations. The organizers welcome proposals for a
limited number of panel presentations. Proposals are due 14 July 2002. For more
information contact Terence Wesley-Smith
by e-mail at twsmith@hawaii.edu.
15th
Pacific History Association Conference
The fifteenth Pacific
History Association (PHA) Conference will be held at the National University of
Samoa in Apia, 9–13 December 2002. The theme is “Addressing Past
Differences and Easing the Tensions.” Convenors are Asofou So‘o, e-mail: asofou@yahoo.com or
a.soo@nus.edu.ws, and Morgan Tuimaleali‘ifano,
e-mail: tuimalea_am@usp.ac.fj. The host institutions are the Institute of
Samoan Studies, National University of Samoa, and the Department of History and
Politics at the University of the South Pacific. Some of the panel themes are
histories of tribal ancestors and colonial hierarchies, progression of rights
and values, village/district histories and governance, historical metaphors and
mythical realities, diaspora, indigenized churches, gender and cultural
identity, and negotiating indigenous identities. For more information, consult
the conference website at http://www.usp.ac.fj/pha.
ASAO in 2003
The 2003 meeting of the
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania will be held 12–15
February 2003 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Additional information is on the
ASAO website at http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/asao/pacific/hawaiki.html. (See the
call for papers on Pacific art under Bulletin Board in this issue.)
Melville and the Pacific
An international conference
on “Melville and the Pacific” will be held on Maui, 3–7 June
2003. Copies of 1–2 page proposals should be sent (not as attachments) to
both cochairs: Charlene Avallone (avallone@lava.net)
and Carolyn Karcher
(ckarcher@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu) by 1 June 2002. For more information see the
website at http://www.brightsight.com/Melville.
Conferences Announced in Previous
Newsletters
Australian Historical
Association conference, 3–7
July 2002 at Griffith University in Brisbane. The website for the conference is
http://www.gu.edu.au/conference/aha2002.
European Society for
Oceanists (ESfO) conference “Recovering the Past: Resources,
Representations, and Ethics of Research in Oceania,” 4–6 July 2002
in Vienna. The conference website is http://www.univie.ac.at/esfo-conference.
International Small
Islands Studies Association
conference, 26–30 June 2002, at the University of Prince Edward Island.
The website for the conference is http://www.upei.ca/islandstudies/islandsvii/.
BULLETIN BOARD
UH Pacific Collection News
The Hawai‘i Pacific
Journal Index is now a part of UH Hamilton Library’s Voyager database. To
access this invaluable index to magazines and journals published in or about
Hawai‘i and the Pacific, go to
http://libweb.hawaii.edu/uhmlib/databases/hpji.html. Click through to the next
page, select Hawai‘i Pacific Journal Index, and click Connect. Basic
Search options with the index are very limited; Guided Search works best.
An updated list of
University of Hawai‘i dissertations and theses related to the Pacific can
be found on the Pacific Collection’s website at
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~speccoll/pacificd&t.htm. The list includes all
dissertations and theses completed from 1923 through 2000.
PIC Media Fund Deadline
Pacific Islanders in
Communications (PIC) announces its Media Fund 2002 for the funding of public
television programs that illuminate the indigenous Pacific Islander experience.
PIC is particularly interested in innovative projects that bring untold stories
to a broad American audience. Details and the application form are on the
Internet at http://www.piccom.org/open_call.html. The application deadline is 2
August 2002.
Pacific Art Session at ASAO: Call for Papers
“The New Voyagers:
Pacific Artists in the Global Art World” is a session proposed for the
February 2003 Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) meeting.
The session will explore the range of arts being produced in Pacific societies
today and the ways Pacific artists and their works engage and contest with
forces within the global art system The organizers welcome participation by
Pacific Island artists, members of regional museums and cultural institutions,
and anyone engaged in promoting Pacific arts in the global area. Interested
persons should contact Pamela Rosi,
e-mail:
e-prosi@attbi.com, or Eric Kjellgren,
e-mail: eric.kjellgren@metmuseum.org.
Hawaiian and Pacific Studies Chairman
The Bishop Museum, in
Honolulu, seeks a Hawaiian and Pacific Studies Chairman. The chairman is
responsible for directing and managing staff and operations in Hawaiian and
Pacific studies, including collections-based research, contract archaeology,
and collections management, care, and access. Resumes may be sent to Bishop
Museum, Human Resources Department, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, HI 96817 or
e-mailed to marciab@bishopmuseum.org. Further information is available on the
website at http://www.bishopmuseum.org/.
Anthropology Position at University of
Canterbury
The University of
Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, invites applications from social and
cultural anthropologists for a continuing lecturer position in the Department
of Sociology and Anthropology. Preference will be given to candidates with
expertise in the field of kinship and family and a regional specialization in
the Pacific, Southeast Asia, or East Asia. Closing date for applications is 31
May 2002. For more information, e-mail Nikki Luisetti
at n.luisetti@regy.canterbury.ac.nz.
Kagoshima Seeks Visiting Pacific Researcher
Kagoshima University
Research Center for the Pacific Islands seeks a visiting professor or associate
professor for a six to eleven-month period between 1 May 2003 and 25 March
2004. The center aims to promote interdisciplinary research on islands in
Oceania through five projects: people-nature interactions, physical geography,
social and cultural changes, medical approach to human ecology, and political
and economic functions of island nations. For more information e-mail the
center director at tatoken@kuas.kagoshima-u.ac.jp.
Pacific News from Manoa
is published quarterly by
The Center for Pacific Islands Studies
School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
Phone: (808) 956-7700
Fax: (808) 956-7053
E-mail: cpis@hawaii.edu
Website: www.hawaii.edu/cpis/
Robert C Kiste, Director
Letitia Hickson, Editor
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