No. 1 January-March 2003
CONTENTS
Summer 2003 at UH Manoa
EWC/SHAPS Graduate Student Conference Draws on Pacific Interests
and Topics
News in Brief
Visitors
Occasional Seminars and Presentations
Faculty Activities
Student and Alumni Activities
Decolonizing Pacific Studies, Spring 2003
Publications and CDs
Conferences
Bulletin Board
SUMMER 2003 AT UH MANOA
Students wanting to focus
on Hawai‘i and the Pacific will have a number of courses to choose from
during UH Manoa’s summer sessions, 25 May to 3 July and 7 July to 14
August.
The anthropology
department is offering several archaeological field schools with dates that
span both summer sessions. These include field schools in Rapa Nui (led by
center affiliate faculty member Terry Hunt)
and Fiji, as well as schools on the Big Island and Maui, in Hawai‘i. The
department also offers Pacific Islands Cultures (ANTH 350), through the evening
program, from 9 June to 13 August.
Ethnobotany (BOT 105),
which focuses on plants and their influence on Hawaiian and Pacific cultures,
will be given in summer session one. Pacific Island Economies (ECON 418),
another summer session one course, will look at the historical and current
economic development of the Pacific Islands and analyze selected economic
issues such as tourism and population growth.
The ethnic studies
department will offer Hawai‘i and the Pacific (ES 320) and Land Tenure
and Use in Hawai‘i (ES 340) in both summer sessions, and the department
of geography will offer Geography of the Pacific (GEOG 365) during the second
session.
Elementary and
Intermediate Hawaiian Language classes (HAW 101 and HAW 201) will be offered in
both sessions, as will Third-Level Hawaiian (HAW 301 and 302), if there is
sufficient demand. Hawai‘i: Center of the Pacific (HWST 107) will also be
offered both sessions. This course is an introduction to the unique aspects of
the native point of view in Hawai‘i and in the larger Pacific with regard
to origins, language, religion, land, art, history, and contemporary issues.
Hawaiian hula and chant ensembles (MUS 312 and MUS 412) will also be offered
twice, with variable dates.
Karen Peacock, Pacific curator, and Jane Barnwell, Pacific specialist, will offer
Pacific Islands Information Resources (LIS 688) from 16 June to 3 July. This
course, normally offered every other summer, introduces students to Pacific
Islands resources for Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia (excluding
Hawai‘i), with an emphasis on reference works, databases, and websites.
In addition to these
and many other credit offerings, UH Manoa summer sessions offer a wide array of
noncredit courses, as well as special institutes and events. The summer school
website is http://www.summer.hawaii.edu.
EWC/SHAPS GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE DRAWS ON PACIFIC INTERESTS AND TOPICS
Pacific interests were well represented at
the East-West Center—School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Student Conference, 20–22 February 2003.
Although most of the presenters were from UH Manoa, this international
conference, which was cochaired by CPIS alumna Joanna Jacob (MA 2002), drew participants from both east and west
of the Pacific.
Kali Fermantez,
a geography student, talked about the way the native Hawaiian worldview is
expressed and understood through performance, in his paper “Making Sense
of Place through Hawaiian Performance.” In the same session,
ethno-musicologist Brian Diettrich
discussed the tensions between Christianity and the traditional performing arts
in Weno, Chuuk, in his paper “Navigating Cultural Tensions: Traditional
Performing Arts and the Church in Chuuk.” Samoa was ably represented in
actual performances at the conference. Toefuata‘i Afamasaga and Lisa Va‘ai
presented Samoan dance, and history student and CPIS alumna Luafata Simanu-Klutz (MA 2001) read from her
poems.
David Mayeda, from the Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Prevention Center, gave a paper titled “‘…you got to do so much to actually make it’: Locating Resiliency amongst Samoan Girls in Hawai‘i.” Looking at legal issues, political science student Suzanne Acord talked about Yap’s ability to combine western and traditional law to maintain traditions, in her paper “Law and Tradition in the Federated States of Micronesia.”
NEWS IN BRIEF
Melanesian and Pacific Studies at UPNG
The University of Papua New Guinea has established the Melanesian and Pacific Studies (MAPS) center within its School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr Steven Winduo is the founding director of the center, which was established to encourage, facilitate, and promote research by and about Melanesian and Pacific Islanders. The initial focus will be on Papua New Guinea and Melanesia but the center will work toward expanding its focus to include the broader Pacific. The center intends to network with other regional centers and seeks to establish collaborations with researchers in Melanesia and other parts of the Pacific.
Heart
of the Sea to Show on PBS
Heart
of the Sea, a film tribute to late
pioneer surfer Rell Kapolioka‘ehukai (Heart of the Sea) Sunn will be shown nationally on PBS, 6 May
2003, as part of the series Independent Lens. Codirected by California filmmakers Charlotte Lagarde and Lisa Denker, the film has been described as “a keen, deeply
moving portrait of a woman who blazed an unconventional path and breached the
predominantly male domain of professional surfing, opening the way for other
women.” The production was supported by a grant from Pacific Islanders in
Communications (PIC) in Honolulu, as well as funding from the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting and the Independent Television Service (ITVS).
American
Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai‘i will
also be shown nationally, as part of the POV series. This ITVS and PIC
copresentation follows three kumu hula (master hula teachers) in celebrating the perpetuation of culture as
it evolves on distant shores. The airing date is 5 August.
Check your local listings for the times for both these
presentations, or sign up at the PBS website to receive an emailed reminder for
American Aloha (a
href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/tvschedule.html"> http://www.pbs.org/pov/tvschedule.html).
VISITORS
·
Ms April Henderson (MA 1999), Pacific Studies,
Victoria University of Wellington
·
Dr Michelle Yeh, Director, Pacific Regional
Humanities Center, University of California at Davis
·
Professor Steven Feld, Department of Ethnomusicology,
Columbia University
·
Dr Kare Rommetveit, Director General of the
University of Bergen
·
Dr Bjorn Erik Andersen, Adviser, Office of
International Relations, University of Bergen
·
Professor Edvard Hviding, Department of Social Anthropology,
University of Bergen
·
Dr Ian Robottom, Scientific and Development
Studies, Deakin University
·
Dr Paul D'Arcy, Department of History, Victoria
University of Wellington
·
Dr Teresia Teaiwa, Head of Pacific Studies,
Victoria University of Wellington
·
Mr Larry Dinger, United States Ambassador to the
Federated States of Micronesia,
·
Mr Cato Berg, Department of Social Anthropology,
University of Bergen
·
Mr Peter Noble, Director, International Defense
Relations, Ministry of Defense, New Zealand
·
Ms Paula Falk Creech, Program Coordinator, Micronesia
and Polynesia Cultural Resources, National Park Service, United States
Department of the Interior
·
Dr Francoise Douaire-Marsaudon, Senior Researcher,
Centre de la Recherche Scientifique
·
Professor Paul van der Grijp, Department of Ethnology,
Universite de Provence
· Dr Elise Huffer, Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific
OCCASIONAL SEMINARS AND PRESENTATIONS
Steven
Feld, professor of ethnomusicology
at Columbia University, spent a week at the UH Manoa campus, in January as a
speaker in the UH Distinguished Lecture Series. Feld, a jazz musician,
cinematographer, record producer, political activist, scholar, and recipient of
the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for outstanding
achievement, displayed the breadth of his interests and scholarship in two
presentations. His evening public lecture, “Nostalgia and Modernity: On
the crisscrossed histories of Hawaiian guitars, Papua New Guinea string bands,
Appalachian soundtracks, and September 11th” explored the
global music market. His lunch-time seminar was entitled “They Have Taken
Our Mother’s Head and Are Now Going into Her Throat: Indigenous and
activist responses to transnational mining in West Papua.” It reviewed some
particulars of the relationship between transnational mining and the Indonesian
military, as well as responses to mining activities.
Jean
Louis Rallu, a demographer with
the Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques (INED), Paris, compared
demographics in American Samoa and New Caledonia in his talk, “US and
French Territories in the Pacific,” on 4 February.
Edvard
Hviding, professor of anthropology
at the University of Bergen, visited the UH campus as part of a delegation to
discuss possible collaborations and exchanges between the two universities.
While he was here he gave a talk on 7 February on the reactivation of ritual
powers in contemporary activities in Marovo Lagoon. The talk was entitled
“‘But the Words Remain’: Present (and Powerful) Revelations
of Past Knowledge in New Georgia.”
Mark
Mosko, Professor and Head of the
Anthropology Department at Australian National University, talked on 18
February about the ritual efficacy of contemporary youth apparel in his
seminar, “Melanesian ‘Mod’: The Agency of Traditional and
Contemporary Dress among North Mekeo (PNG).”
Teresia
Teaiwa, Senior Lecturer and Head
of Pacific Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, explored some of the
ideas in her PhD dissertation in a 24 February talk, “Militarism,
Tourism, and the Native: Articulations in Oceania.”
Cato
Berg, a doctoral fellow in the
Department of Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway, was in Honolulu for
three weeks supplementing his Solomon Islands research with research in the UHM
library’s Pacific Collection. His talk on 27 February was “‘A
Chief is a Chief Wherever He Goes’: Christianity, Leadership, and Land
Rights in Western New Georgia, Solomon Islands.”
Elise
Huffer, a fellow at the Institute
of Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, discussed a
future research project in a talk on 6 March, “From Governance to Ethics
in the Pacific.” Huffer presented the need to identify a Pacific
political ethic based on contemporary Pacific values.
Jon
Van Dyke, Professor of Law at the
William S Richardson School of Law, UH Mnoa, gave a talk entitled “Pacific Island
Responses to Sea Shipments of Ultrahazardous Nuclear Materials” on 17
March. Van Dyke has been meeting with officials in the Foreign Ministry of
Vanuatu to develop ideas for addressing the risks created by the sea shipments
of radioactive wastes through the Vanuatu exclusive economic zone. He reported
on the outcome of meetings held in Nadi, Fiji, in February, to try and create a
liability regime to address possible damage scenarios.
The Honorable Robert A Underwood, former delegate from Guam to the US Congress, gave a talk on 21 March entitled “The Survival of Pacific Languages in the 21st Century: Improbable or Just Impossible?” Underwood, who was on his way to Washington, DC, to be a plenary speaker at the Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, discussed the impact that changing demographics are having on indigenous languages and talked about his own interest in, and efforts on behalf of, Chamorro.
FACULTY ACTIVITIES
Te
Vevo Tahiti na Manoa, the UH Tahitian Ensemble’s select performing group,
performed at the International Student Organization’s International Night
on 31 January and the Kapi‘olani Community College’s International
Festival on 19 March. The ensemble also appeared as part of the featured
entertainment for the Austronesian Linguistics Conference on 29 March. The
ensemble’s director is Jane Freeman Moulin,
professor of ethnomusicology and a former dancer with Tahiti’s top
professional troupes.
Terry
Hunt, associate professor of
anthropology, was invited to speak in the Hawai‘i Volcanoes National
Park’s After Dark in the Park program. Hunt’s talk on 25 February
was “Easter Island Prehistory: Success or Suicide?” The talk was
cosponsored by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies.
Several
UH faculty attended the annual meeting of the Association for Social
Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), held in Vancouver BC, 11–15 February.
Center editor Jan Rensel and her
husband, Alan Howard (UH
anthropology professor emeritus), presented a paper entitled “Back to
Rotuma” in a symposium on the personal and professional implications of
long-term fieldwork. Alan also organized an informal session on “Conceptions
of Social Relationships in Pacific Societies.” Jane Barnwell, Pacific specialist in the UH
library system, organized a “Pacific Collections” session, which
continued discussion, begun at last year’s Pacific History Association
conference, on the management of “grey literature.”
Ben
Finney and Heather Young Leslie presented papers in the
ASAO working session “Mythology.” Their papers were, respectively,
“With Myth as Our Inspiration” and “Hina’s Fish and the
Tu‘i Ha‘angana of Tonga: From Samoa with Love.” A session on
art, “The New Voyagers: Pacific Artists in the Global Art World,”
was coorganized by CPIS alumnus Eric Kjellgren
(Graduate Certificate). CPIS alumna Michelle M Kamakanoenoe Tupou (MA 2000), lecturer at Kapi‘olani
Community College, presented a paper in this session entitled “Imagining
Indigenous Image.”
Vilsoni
Hereniko and Katerina Teaiwa spoke at the 13–16 February
conference “Cultural Diversity in a Globalizing World,” in
Honolulu. Hereniko’s paper, “Indigenizing the Camera: Then There
were None and The Maori Merchant
of Venice,” and Teaiwa’s
paper, “Making Waves: The Work of the Oceania Centre for Arts and
Culture,” were featured in a session on globalization and indigenous
resistance.
Vilsoni
Hereniko has been invited as a featured speaker at a conference being organized
by the British Museum in London. The conference, “Translating Things: Clothing and Innovation in the
Pacific,” will be held 23–25 June 2003. His presentation, in a
session entitled “Clothing, Art and Performance,” will focus on the
relationship between ritual clowning and fine mats on Rotuma. As part of his
presentation, he will screen clips from his about-to-be completed feature film,
The Land Has Eyes, to illustrate
his thesis.
David Chappell will be attending the July meeting in Brisbane of the Australian Association for French Studies, where he will give a paper on the liberation discourse of Kanak radical Nidoish Naisseline in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
STUDENT AND ALUMNI ACTIVITIES
CPIS
alumnus High Chief Pulefaasisina Palauni Tuiasosopo
(MA 1994), Director of Samoan and Pacific Studies at American Samoa Community
College, has joined the Board of Directors of Pacific Islanders in
Communications, in Honolulu.
Congratulations
to alumnus Joakim Peter (MA 1994),
who will be in Honolulu the first week in April to receive the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Western Association of Educational Opportunity
Personnel (WESTOP). The association is devoted to furthering access to
educational opportunities for economically and educationally disadvantaged
persons and persons with disabilities.
CPIS student Jennifer Thayer was featured in an “Island Life” article in the 25 March Honolulu Advertiser. The article described the creative work that Jennifer and three other friends are engaged in and the supportive network that these artists have built. Jennifer creates organic asymmetrical pieces made of silver, shells, leather, and gemstones for her Hinu line of jewelry.
DECOLONIZING PACIFIC STUDIES
The Contemporary Pacific,
Spring 2003
The latest issue of The
Contemporary Pacific, 15:1, Spring 2003, features articles that began
their lives as papers at the 2000 annual CPIS conference, “Honoring the
Past, Creating the Future,” held to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
the Center for Pacific Islands Studies. This special issue, entitled
“Back to the Future: Decolonizing Pacific Studies” and edited by
Vilsoni Hereniko and Terence Wesley-Smith, draws on presentations
from sessions on decolonizing Pacific studies, inter-disciplinary approaches,
new technologies, and regional collaborations.
This issue is “special” for a
second reason. The members of the editorial board are excited to be featuring
the paintings of one of the Pacific’s foremost artists, John Pule—in a striking cover in color
and throughout the issue in black-and-white. According to editor Vilsoni
Hereniko, Pule, who is also a novelist, poet, and multimedia performance
artist, “draws from the art traditions of his ancestors, particularly
Niuean barkcloth (hiapo), as well as his family and personal histories and
experiences…We have never seen [familiar images] rendered or juxtaposed
with such passion and originality in any other artist’s work.”
The issue’s contents include
Articles
Decolonizing Pacific Studies: Indigenous Perspectives,
Knowledge, and Wisdom in Higher Education
Konai
Helu Thaman
Beyond the "English Method of Tattooing":
Decentering the Practice of History in Oceania
David
Hanlon
Between Knowledges: Pacific Studies and Academic
Disciplines
Edvard
Hviding
Interdisciplinary Approaches in Pacific Studies:
Understanding the Fiji Coup of 19 May 2000
Vilsoni
Hereniko
Honoring the Past and Creating the Future in
Hyperspace: New Technologies and Cultural Specificity
Marsha
Kinder
Net Gains? Pacific Studies in Cyberspace
Terence
Wesley-Smith
Future Directions for Pacific Studies
Stewart
Firth
Political Reviews
Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2001
to 30 June 2002
Anne Perez Hattori, Samuel F McPhetres, Donald
Shuster
Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2001 to
30 June 2002
Frederic Angleviel, Tracie Ku‘uipo Cummings,
Kerry James, Jon Tikivanotau M Jonassen, Margaret Mutu
In addition there are 14 book and media
reviews.
Abstracts of the
articles and full text of the book and media reviews is available on-line at http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/cp. Readers whose institutions subscribe to Project MUSE
can read the full text of each issue on-line at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/contemporary_pacific/.
PUBLICATIONS AND CDS
UH Press Publications
Unfolding the Moon: Enacting
Women’s Kastom in Vanuatu, by Lissant Bolton, documents the period in the
1990s in Vanuatu when it began to be acknowledged that “women had kastom too.” In the
book she considers the circumstances that led to recognizing women’s role
in kastom and the effects this had on the island of Ambae. ISBN
0-8248-2535-7, cloth, US$39.00.
Tongans Overseas: Between Two Shores, by Helen Morton Lee, explores the complexities of
identity construction in the context of Tongan migration. Using traditional
ethnographic fieldwork and Internet discussion, Morton looks at the varied ways
in which individuals, particularly younger Tongans raised outside Tonga, seek a
sense of belonging. ISBN 0-8248-2654-X, paper, US$21.95.
Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian
Spirits, by Caren Loebel-Fried,
brings ancient Hawaiian legends to life in sixty block prints. The legends are
narrated in a “read-aloud” style. ISBN 0-8248-2537-3, cloth,
$18.95.
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
To Let You Know and Other Plays, by Fiji playwright
and filmmaker Larry Thomas, was
recently launched at the University of the South Pacific. Published by the
Pacific Writing Forum in Suva, this collection includes “To Let You
Know,” “The Anniversary Present,” and “Searching for
the Smile.” In his introduction, Ian Gaskell
describes these recent plays by Thomas as experimental, incorporating
techniques beyond naturalistic drama. ISBN 982-366-010-7, paper, US$15.95 plus
postage. Available from the USP Book Centre, email: info@uspbookcentre.com.
Breaking Spears and Mending Hearts:
Peacemakers and Restorative Justice in Bougainville, by Pat Howley, looks at the horror of the civil
war in Bougainville and the reconciliation that was part of its aftermath. The
author is a Marist teaching brother who has worked in Papua New Guinea since
1966. Published by Zed Books and available in Australia, New Zealand, and the
Pacific from Federation Press. ISBN 1-84277-246-5, cloth, US$65; ISBN
1-84277-247-3, paper, US$25.00
Passage of Change: Law, Society &
Governance in the Pacific, edited by Anita Jowitt
and Tess Newton Cain, is an
interdisciplinary collection that explores corruption, the role of customary
law in modern legal systems, the place of human rights in the Pacific,
environmental issues, and the structure of the state. Contributors include
Susan Bothman, Laurence Cordonnery, Sinclair Dinnen, Ian Fraser, Graham Hassall,
Edward Hill, Robert Hughes, Owen Jessep, Anita Jowitt,
Vijay Naidu, Anthony Regan, Tess Newton Cain, and Jean Zorn. Published by Pandanus Books (ANU). ISBN 1-7406-025-5.
For pricing details, send an email to thelma.sims@anu.edu.au.
On Becoming “Old” in Early
Tahiti and Early Hawaii: A Comparison, by Douglas Oliver, emeritus professor of anthropology at UH Manoa,
compares the Tahitians’ attitudes on old age and related matters with the
attitudes of Hawaiians. Oliver describes ideas and practices relating to
subsistence, geography, and religion, as well as concepts relating to
individuals and life stages, on his way to trying to understand why certain
cultures deal with old age in particular ways. The text is in both English and
French. Published by Societe Des Etudes Oceaniennes, BP 1958, 98 713 Papeete,
Tahiti. ISBN 2-904-171-52-X.
South Sea Maidens: Western Fantasy and
Sexual Politics in the South Pacific, by Michael Sturma, traces the origins and transmutations of an enduring
icon. Published by Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-31674-0. US$62.00.
Awareness Raising on Court Rules
Relating to Domestic Violence in Vanuatu, by Shirley Randell, is a report to AusAID on a
project that was designed to help people understand and use the new Domestic
Violence Protection Court Orders in Vanuatu. Published by Blackstone
Publishing. ISBN 982-329-027-X, 72 pages. The price is US$8 or AUD$14, plus
postage.
Other recent books from Blackstone
Publishing include: Women and Good Governance, by the late Grace
Mera Molisa; Ni-Vanuatu Role
Models: Women in Their Own Right, edited by Shirley Randell; and Republic
of Vanuatu National Elections 2 May 2002: Report of the Elections Observer
Group, edited by Shirley Randell. For pricing details, contact
SRIA/Blackstone Publications in Vanuatu at admin@sria.com.vu
or by telephone at (678) 23639.
Crisis: The
Collapse of the National Bank of Fiji, by Roman Grynberg,
Doug Munro, and Michael White, has been reprinted by the
University of the South Pacific Book Centre. The book documents the saga of
Fiji’s biggest financial scandal. ISBN 982-01-0517-X. The price,
US$22.50, includes postage.
Journals
A new Pacific journal, Fijian Studies:
A Journal of Contemporary Fiji, has just been established by the Fiji Institute of
Applied Studies in Lautoka, Fiji. The editorial board is chaired by Brij V Lal at Australian National University.
The journal will be published twice a year, in May and November, and will
feature articles that deal with contemporary Fijian issues in the humanities
and the social sciences. The journal will also have a dialogue/talanoa section and a reviews
section. Submissions should be sent to The Editor, Fijian
Studies: A Journal of Contemporary Fiji,
Fiji Institute of Applied Studies, PO Box 7580, Lautoka, Fiji.
The latest issue of Journal of the
Polynesian Society (111:4, December 2002) is now available, with
articles on returning the gift (utu) in intergroup relations, ti ovens in
Polynesia, and Henderson Island crania and their implications for Southeastern
Polynesian prehistory.
The latest issue of Pacific
Studies (25:3, September 2002) has articles on preserving
colonial heritage in postcolonial Micronesia; postcolonial politics and
colonial media representations in New Caledonia; rascals, the state, and civil
society in Papua New Guinea; and locating the proto-Oceanic homeland.
CDs
Ousenia, a new CD of original
Fijian songs by Manoa (Twisti) Suguta,
has just been launched by the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture at the
University of the South Pacific in Suva. The announcement describes
Suguta’s music as throbbing with verve and vocal rhythm new to the
Pacific. Along with vocals by Suguta and Sailasa Tora, the recording features the didgeridoo, panpipe, lali (Fijian slit gong), piano,
and keyboard. For information, contact the Oceania Centre at Oceania@usp.ac.fj.
CONFERENCES
Indigenizing
the University
“Indigenizing the University,” a symposium
focusing on indigenous political theory, indigenous methods of research, and
the structural changes needed to include indigenous peoples at every level in
the university, will be held 28–30 April 2003 on the UH Manoa campus. The
keynote speakers are Linda Tuhiwai Smith,
Taiaiake Alfred, and Graham Smith. The Center for Pacific Islands
Studies is a cosponsor of the symposium, which is presented by the UH Manoa
Department of Political Science. For information, contact the organizer, Noenoe
Silva, by telephone at (808)
956-8030 or by email at noenoe@hawaii.edu.
The website is http:
//www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu/temp/indigenizing
.
Tatau/Tattoo: Embodied Art and Cultural Exchange
The departments of Pacific studies and art history at
Victoria University of Wellington will host “Tatau/Tattoo: Embodied Art
and Cultural Exchange, c. 1760–c. 2000,” 21–23 August 2003,
in Wellington, New Zealand. The conference features work by two research
groups: one funded by the Getty Foundation and directed by Professor Nicholas Thomas of Goldsmiths College, University
of London, and the second funded by a Marsden grant and led by Professor
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku of the
University of Waikato. Scholars from Australian National University, National
University of Samoa, University of Connecticut, University of London, Te Papa
Tongarewa, University of Waikato, and Victoria University of Wellington will
present their work on tatau/tattoo and engage in dialogue with academics, artists,
and the wider community in Wellington, New Zealand.
The conference will coincide with the opening, on 22
August at the Adam Art Gallery, of an exhibition of photographs of Samoan
tattooing in New Zealand and elsewhere by photographer Mark Adams, at the Adam Art Gallery on 22
August.
For conference registration details and further
information contact tatau-conference@vuw.ac.nz or the conference administrator, Graeme Whimp, at gwhimp@anet.co.nz.
Rethinking
Pacific Educational Aid
“International
Conference on Rethinking Pacific Educational Aid,” organized by Victoria
University of Wellington (VUW) and the University of the South Pacific (USP),
will be held 20–22 October 2003. The tentative location is Nadi, but the
venue is yet to be confirmed. The conference is part of the Rethinking Pacific
Education Initiative (RPEI), an initiative by Pacific educators aimed at
encouraging leadership by Pacific educators for the educational development of
their own communities. The convenors are Dr Kabini Sanga (VUW) and Dr ‘Ana Taufe‘ulungaki (USP). They would like to encourage
papers that help rethink scholarships and training, educational finance,
multi-donor activities, institutional strengthening projects, curriculum
development, planning consultants and consultancies, quality, accountability,
and other aspects of education. Abstracts are due by 31 August. Expressions of
interest may be sent to Cherie Chu
at Cherie.Chu@vuw.ac.nz
.
Festival of Pacific Arts
The 9th
Festival of Pacific Arts will be held in the Republic of Palau, 22–31
July 2004. The festival website is http:
//www.festival-pacific-arts.org/.
Conferences
Announced in Previous Newsletters
·
An international
conference on “Melville and the Pacific” will be held on Maui, in
Hawai‘i, 3–7 June 2003. The website is
http://www.brightsight.com/Melville.
·
The 2003 Global Public
Health Conference, presented by the Hawai‘i Public Health Association and
the UH Globalization Research Center, will be held in Honolulu, 4–6 June
2003. The conference is being presented in association with the UHM Center for
Pacific Islands Studies. The website is http://www.hawaiipublichealth.org.
·
The seventh symposium of
the Pacific Arts Association, “REpositioning Pacific Arts: Artists,
Objects, Histories,” will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand,
23–26 June. The website is http://www.conference.co.nz/paa.
·
The sixth Indigenous
World Women and Wellness Gathering, “Celebrating the Heartbeat of
Indigenous Wharetangata,” will be held in Rotorua, New Zealand,
13–18 November. See http://www.wairoa.co.nz/wiwwc/gathering.html
for more information.
BULLETIN BOARD
EWC
Visiting Fellow Program
The
East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, has visiting fellowships that enable
scholars to undertake research and prepare publications, on an annual theme,
while in residence at the center. The theme for the 2002–2003 fellowships
is Challenges of Interdependence in Asia-Pacific. Visiting fellows have been
selected and include Dr Peter Larmour,
Australian National University, whose topic is “Foreign
Flowers: Power, Institutions and Policy Transfer in the Pacific Islands.”
The theme for the 2003–2004 East-West Center Visiting Fellowships will be
announced in April or May 2003. To request a copy of the fellowship
announcement when it becomes available, contact the East-West Center at fellowships@eastwestcenter.org .
The website is http://www.eastwestcenter.org/res-vf.asp.
Children’s
Books in Pacific Languages
The Pacific publishing team continues to grow at
Learning Media/Te Pou Taki Korero, the New Zealand Government–owned
educational publishing company. The Tapu series of children’s books and
CDs in Pacific language now includes almost five hundred resources. There is
also an eight-language early childhood picture book series, as well as a
Samoan-language journal, Folauga.
To offer writing for children to any of the editors, email the team’s
project assistant Toline Filo at toline@learningmedia.co.na. The
team’s book designers are also looking for more Pacific artists
interested in illustrating children’s books. They can be contacted at the
same email address.
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