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Over two hundred people attended the center's twentieth annual conference in December, "Contested Ground: Knowledge and Power in Pacific Islands Studies." They heard a range of perspectives on issues affecting the changing nature of Pacific Islands studies and the structure and research and teaching agendas of Pacific Islands studies programs. Professor Ranginui WALKER, Head of Maori Studies, University of Auckland, got the conference off to a strong start with his keynote address, "Contestations of Power and Knowledge in the Politics of Culture," and the first day of the conference closed with a reception and entertainment provided by the Center for Hawaiian Studies.
Conference goers missed the presence of Malama MELEISEA and David GEGEO, who were forced to cancel at the last minute, but welcomed the addition of Vilsoni HERENIKO who spoke on "Indigenous Knowledge and Academic Imperialism."
Terence WESLEY-SMITH, conference convenor, and Vilsoni Hereniko are working on an edited volume of papers from the conference.
The joint Eleventh Pacific History Association Conference and Twenty-First Annual UH Center for Pacific Islands Studies Conference on "History, Culture, and Power in the Pacific," will be held 9-13 July 1996, at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo. Keynote speakers for the conference are Dr Lilikala KAME'ELEIHIWA, associate professor in the Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and Professor Greg DENING, Emeritus Professor, Department of History, University of Melbourne. The conference opens with a dessert reception on the evening of 9 July. Dr Kame'eleihiwa will speak the morning of 10 July, the first full day of the conference and a day largely devoted to issues of history, culture, and power in Hawai'i. Professor Dening will speak at the closing banquet the evening of 12 July.
Registration postmarked before 30 May is US$110 for general registration and US$65 for student registration. Subscribers to the hard copy format of Pacific News from Manoa and members of the Pacific History Association will receive registration flyers with each of these newsletters, which are being mailed out the first week in March. All others can request further information on registration, including meal plans and on- and off-campus housing, from Tisha HICKSON.
The following individuals have agreed to chair sessions around the indicated themes. Anyone wishing to join one of these panels should get in touch with the organizer by 15 April.
Reconceptualizing History in the Pacific
Dr Kanalu G Terry YOUNG
Center for Hawaiian Studies
University of Hawai'i at Manoa,
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822-2383
ph: (808) 956-6825; fax: (808) 956-9253
Local Histories and Vernacular Sources
Dr Karen NERO
Department of Anthropology
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland, New Zealand
ph: 64-9-373-7599, ext. 5316
fax: 64-9-373-7441
email: kln@antnov1.auckland.ac.nz
Colonialism's Cultures
Dr Grant MCCALL
PO Box 1
Centre for Pacific Studies
University of New South Wales
Kensington, New South Wales, 2033
Australia
ph: 61-2-385-3386; fax: 61-2-313-6337
email: g.mccall@unsw.edu.au
Gender Relations in Colonial Pasts and Decolonizing Presents
Ms Teresia TEAIWA
Box 3720
Samabula, Suva, Fiji
ph: 679-313-900 (USP)
fax: 679-301-305 (USP)
email: TEAIWA_T@usp.ac.fj
Sovereignty and Decolonization
Dr Brij V LAL
Division of Pacific and Asian History
Research School of Pac.and Asian Studies
Australian National University
GPO Box 4
Canberra, ACT, 0200
Australia
ph: 61-6-249-5111; fax: 61-6-249-5525;
email: brijlal@coombs.anu.edu.au
Asserting Hawaiian Identity
Mr Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole OSORIO
Center for Hawaiian Studies
University of Hawai'i at Manoa,
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96922-2383
ph: (808) 956-6825; fax: (808) 956-9253
Public Histories and History's Publics in the Pacific
Ms Fermina Brel MURRAY
442 Danbury Court
Goleta, California 93117
ph: 805-967-7189
Diasporas and Nationhood
Dr David A. CHAPPELL
Department of History
University of Hawai'i at Manoa,
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822-2383
ph: 808-956-7674; fax: 808-956-9600
Postcolonialism and the Native in the Colonized Pacific
Dr Vicente DIAZ
Humanistic Studies
University of Guam
UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923
ph: 671-734-9402; fax: 671-734-7403 email: vdiaz@uog.edu
and
Dr Roger MAAKA
Director, Maori Studies Department
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, New Zealand
ph: 64-3-364-2595; fax: 64-3-364-2999
email: r.maaka@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Christianity and Religious Transitions
Dr Heinz SCHÜTTE
5 Bd de Port Royal
75013 Paris, France
Imaging, Representation, and Photography
Dr Max QUANCHI
Queensland University of Technology
Carseldine Campus, Beams Road
PO Box 284
Zillmere 4034
Queensland, Australia
ph: 61-7-864-4563; fax: 61-7-864-4719;
email: M.Quanchi@qut.edu.au
Theaters of Encounter
Dr Michael GOLDSMITH
Dept. of Political Science and Public Policy
University of Waikato
Private Bag 3105
Hamilton, New Zealand
ph: 64-7-856-2889, x8384
fax: 64-7-856-2158;
email: mikegold@waikato.ac.nz
Law and Custom in Micronesia
Mr Daniel HALL
Criminal Justice and Legal Studies
University of Central Florida -Brevard Area Campus
1519 Clearlake Road
Cocoa, Florida 32922
ph: (407) 631-5440
Pacific Libraries: Issues and Developments
Dr Karen PEACOCK
Pacific Curator
Hamilton Library
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822
ph: (808) 956-2851; fax: (808) 956-5968
email: peacock@hawaii.edu
The Pacific Collection at the University of Hawai'i Library has received nearly $13,000 from the estate of the late Pacific Curator Emerita, R Renée HEYUM, for which Pacific scholars and the university community are extremely grateful. The Pacific Collection staff will be undertaking a fund-raising campaign in the near future, using Renée's gift as the generous beginning of their efforts.
Please note that in the interest of brevity, the Pacific Islands Studies web site URL has been shortened to http://www2.hawaii.edu/shaps/pacific/.
The Pacific Business Center at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa now has a Web site that includes an Island Marketplace page where center clients can display photographs of their products or services along with a description and contact information. The address is http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/PBCP/.
Nation of Hawai'i, a Native Hawaiian sovereignty group, has a Web site at http://www.hawaii-nation.org/ to "provide information regarding restoration of Hawaiian independence, along with cultural perspectives from the people of Hawai'i." Included on the page are background on the independence issue, policy statements, historical information, news articles, and special features.
The East-West Center's Web page, at http://www.ewc.hawaii.edu/ includes information on programs, scholarships, and fellowships, and events at the center, and information on visitor housing and housing rates at its three on-campus residence halls. Individuals with an academic affiliation may now make reservations directly by contacting East-West Center Housing Office, 1777 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96848. Tel: (808) 944-7805; fax: (808) 944-7790; e-mail: ewhousng@ewc.hawaii.edu.
The Rotuman Association of Hawai'i, Oahu, the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, the University of Hawai'i Press, and the East-West Center joined forces on 7 October 1995 to honor center faculty member Vilsoni HERENIKO at the launching of his book Woven Gods: Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma.
Lilikala KAME'ELEIHIWA, Center for Hawaiian Studies, emceed the program, which included the presentation of gifts and feast foods to Hereniko by members of the Rotuman and Tongan communities, dancing of the tautoga by Hereniko and members of the Rotuman community, a scene from Hereniko's latest play, Last Virgin in Paradise, music by Fijian singer Lagani RABUKAWAQA, performance of the Tongan tauoluga, and dancing by students in the Pan-Pacific Club.
Five more Pacific Islands students have begun their studies at UH Hilo on a United States Information Agency grant that is being administered by the Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Center. The students are: Rosia TAVITA and Harriet KIRKPATRICK (both with interests in national resource management) from Western Samoa; Mere TUKIRI (journalism) from Fiji; Havila SAAFI (business administration) from Tonga; and Kinaii KAIRO (journalism) from Kiribati.
These students, who begin their studies in January 1996, join the first round of students on the grant, who began their studies in August. All of the students are funded for the duration of their baccalaureate degree studies.
The PEACESAT Project Collection has been selected for inclusion in the National Public Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland at College Park. PEACESAT (Pan Pacific Education and Communications Experiments by Satellite) was begun in 1969 by John BYSTROM, Professor of Communication at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and continues to be headquartered at the university, linking a wide variety of educational and public service institutions and organizations located in twenty-one Pacific Island entities.
Inquiries about research in the archives may be directed to Tom CONNORS, Curator, NPB Archives, Hornbake Library, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD 20742; tel (301) 405-9255.
The center is pleased to welcome four new students into the MA program for Spring 1996:
Nalani "Aina" BADUA, BS in Early Childhood Education from Chaminade University;
Ramona "Mona" BERNARDINO, Associate in Arts with Honors, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, currently pursuing a JD at the William S Richardson School of Law as well as an MA in Pacific Islands Studies;
Beverly CHUTARO, graduate of Heidelberg College and more recently a GED English instructor in the Republic of the Marshall Islands;
Amelia PASI, BA in History Education from The Church College of Hawai'i (now known as Brigham Young University-Hawai'i Campus).
Alumnus Alexander J DE VOOGT (MA 1993), who wrote his thesis on "Non-Alphabetic Writing Systems in the Pacific Islands," returned to the Netherlands and Leiden University in 1993 to contine his studies. His doctoral thesis at Leiden, Limits of the Mind: Toward a Characterisation of Bao Mastership," was recently published by The Research School CNWS of Leiden University. Limits of the Mind is a psychological study of mastership of Bao, a board game of East Africa, as well as a description of the game as played in Zanzibar and a history of its masters.
LEI'ATAUA Vaiao and Fay ALA'ILIMA from Western Samoa were in residence at the center during December and January, and Fay will continue to be at the center through the first quarter of 1996. They are on a Fulbright Fellowship to take a deeper look at the structure and procedures of the Samoan pre-European chiefdom and the implications for the contemporary Samoan chiefly system. As part of the grant they also visited the Australian National University, the Mitchell Library, the University of Auckland, and the Victoria University of Wellington, as well as the Cook Islands, Tonga, and Tahiti.
Richard HERR, University of Tasmania, visited the center in December. He was in Honolulu doing research on regional fisheries issues.
Robert C KISTE completed his six-month sabbatical at the end of December and officially returned to the center on 1 January. In October he attended the 1995 South Pacific Forum Meeting in Madang as part of the delegation from the Pacific Islands Development Program.
Terence WESLEY-SMITH traveled to Noumea in October for the Thirty-Fifth South Pacific Conference as an observer from the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and also attended a conference on mining and mineral resource policy issues at the Australian National University.
Stewart FIRTH, Professor Politics at Macquarie University and the author of a number of studies on the international history of the Pacific, including Nuclear Playground, gave a paper on Sovereignty and Decolonization in the Pacific Islands on 3 October. In the paper he looked at the state of decolonization in the Pacific Islands in the mid-1990s and commented on the goals and strategies of ongoing movements.
Robert C KISTE, center director, presented a report on the 1995 South Pacific Forum meeting, in which he reviewed the issues and actions of the meeting in Madang and drew some comparisons with the conferences of the South Pacific Commission.
Stephen WILD, Research Fellow in Ethnomusicology and the Arts at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in Canberra, visited the University of Hawai'i at the invitation of the Ethnomusicology Program, Department of Music, and gave a seminar on 16 October on the history, structure, and research and training practices and priorities of AIATSIS.
Treaty Claims in New Zealand: Frustration, and a Possible Way Forward was the title of Alan WARD's seminar on 2 November. Professor Ward, who has been consultant historian to the Waitangi Tribunal since 1987, reviewed the work of the Tribunal and described the current strategies of the parties and how these strategies have evolved, as well as the implications for the future work of the Tribunal. Professor Ward was on his way to Toronto as part of his ongoing research on the process of devolving judicial authority to First Peoples.
Terence WESLEY-SMITH, associate professor at the center, gave a report on 22 November on the Thirty-Fifth South Pacific Conference. In his presentation, titled Back to Square One?, he looked at political maneuvering at the Noumea meeting and the issues faced by leaders of island nations.
The spring 1996 issue of The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs is now available. It features the following articles:
"Chiefly Models in Papua New Guinea," by Richard SCAGLION;
"Between Two Laws: Tenure Regimes in the Pearl Islands," by Moshe RAPAPORT;
"Romanticizing Colonialism: Power and Pleasure in Jane Campion's The Piano," by Reshela DUPUIS; and
"The Dread Taboo, Human Sacrifice, and Pearl Harbor," by R D K HERMAN.
In addition, this issue includes a dialogue piece by Jane MOULIN, titled "What's Mine Is Yours? Cultural Borrowing in a Pacific Context"; political reviews for Micronesia and Polynesia for 1994-1995; a resources article on the New Zealand and Pacific Collection at the University of Auckland, by Stephen INNES; and book reviews.
Paula BROWN's Beyond a Mountain Valley: The Simbu of Papua New Guinea includes personal accounts of Simbu collected over thirty years as well as material from letters, diaries, and government reports that provide a compelling view of Simbu involvement with other island peoples, missionaries, government officials, business people, and tourists. Brown also provides a critique of historical anthropology over the past decade, as well as a discussion of cohorts, generations, and life-course that may serve as a model for students of historical and cultural change in tribal societies; US$36, 312 pp, ISBN 0-8248-1701-X. Order from Orders Department, University of Hawai'i Press, 2840 Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, HI 96822.
Three other books are also new from University of Hawai'i Press. Geiseler's Easter Island Report: An 1880s Anthropological Account, translated by William S AYERS and Gabriella S AYERS, provides observations of island life and archaeological remains from one of the earliest ethnological collecting expeditions; paper, US$29, 224 pp, ISBN 0-8248-1555-6, distributed for the Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawai'i. Healing Practices in the South Pacific, edited by Claire PARSONS and distributed for Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University-Hawai'i Campus, is new in paperback; US$19, 266 pp, ISBN 0-939154-56-0. Tapa in Tonga, by Wendy ARBEIT, distributed for Palm Frond Productions, provides text and pictures on the use, decoration, and techniques of production of tapa in Tonga; paper, US$9.95, 32 pp, ISBN 0-8248-1727-3.
Migrants and Their Remittances: Results of a Household Survey of Tongans and Western Samoans in Sydney, by Richard P C BROWN and Adrian WALKER, has been published as Pacific Studies Monograph 17 by University of New South Wales, Centre for South Pacific Studies; $A10 in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific, US$10 elsewhere; 92 pp, ISBN 0-7334-0420-0. Order from Centre for South Pacific Studies, UNSW, Sydney 2052, Australia.
The Palau National Code, Annotated, containing the statutory laws of Palau, is now available. The two-volume set contains the Constitution and statutes of Palau with annotations, case citations, tables, appendixes, and an index. The price is US$375 from Orakiruu Corporation, PO Box 1484, Koror, Palau, tel/fax (680) 488-3153.
The Hawaiian Journal of History, Volume 29, includes articles on Hawaiian settlement in British Columbia; early Maui plantations; US foreign policy and Hawai'i, 1893-1895; and Fritz Hart and the Honolulu Symphony; as well as notes and queries, and book reviews. The journal is published by the Hawaiian Historical Society.
The latest issue of Umanidát: A Journal of the Humanities (Vol 3, No 1, November 1995) has as its theme, Commonwealth-Twenty Years Later, with featured articles on the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas as well as creative writing and articles on other areas of Micronesia. Subscriptions at $5.00 an issue are available from Editor, Umanidát, Diocese of Chalan Kanoa, PO Box 745, Saipan, MP 96950. Fax (670) 235-3002; e-mail richard.shewman@saipan.com.
Applications are invited for the post of Professor and Head of the Department of Samoan Studies at the National University of Samoa. The university's development plan gives priority to the development of a center of excellence in Samoan studies that will meet the standards of both fa'a Samoa and international scholarship. The university has among its goals, to retrieve, analyze, maintain, advance and disseminate knowledge of Samoa, the Samoan language, and Samoan culture, including music, dance, and material, social, and technical culture.
The appointee is required to have appropriate academic qualifications in the area of Samoan language and culture, and as head of the Department of Samoan Studies will be required to organize courses in Samoan language and culture. The appointee will also be expected to collaborate with faculty in disciplines such as history, sociology, and English in order to develop multidisciplinary courses in Samoan studies.
A new campus for the National University is to be built, including an extension of the university's library resources, and the university is considering establishing an Institute of Samoan Studies.
The closing date for applications is 15 March 1996. Applications, including a curriculum vitae and the names , addresses and fax numbers of three academic referees, should be sent to the Registrar, National University of Samoa, PO Box 5768, Apia, Western Samoa.
The Fourth Tri-Annual World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education, organized and hosted by American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Peoples from throughout the United States is scheduled for 15-22 June 1996 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference workshops cover a wide range of topics, including elders as bearers of traditional knowledge and culture; indigenous and western scientific traditions; designing culturally appropriate curricula; support services for Native/First Nations students; education for Native self-determination; and governance, funding and management of indigenous institutions.
Proposals for workshops, panels, and speakers should include the title, length of session, names of presenters, and brief descriptions of the topic. Workshop proposals must be submitted by 15 March to: 1996 WIPC:E, Galles Building, 1601 Central Northeast, Albuquerque, NM 8713l. Conference details can also be obtained at this address. Information on the conference is also available on the Web at: http://www.arc.unm.edu/community/wipc_e/wipc_e.html.
The 1996 World Congress on Coastal and Marine Tourism: Experiences in Management and Development, 19-22 June 1996 in Honolulu, will bring together government representatives, community leaders, and scientists to discuss strategies for sustainable tourism development in coastal locales. For information, contact CMT96 c/o Oregon Sea Grant, Oregon State University, 500 Administrative Services, Corvallis, OR 97331-2131, USA. Tel: (541) 737-5130; fax: (541) 737-2392.
CMT96 runs concurrently with the Seventh Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology, PACON 96, which will be held in Honolulu, 17-22 June. The theme of PACON 96 is Solutions for the Pacific Century, and the meeting will have a technical program dealing with topics from ocean remote sensing to oceanography to ecotourism and marine bioremediation. For information, contact PACON International. Tel: (808) 956-6163; fax (808) 956-2580; e-mail: pacon@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu.
The European Society for Oceanists (ESO) has issued a call for papers for its third conference, Pacific Peoples in the Pacific Century: Society, Culture and Nature, which will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-15 December 1996. Proposed working sessions will address the following topics: local perspectives on environment and resources; epistemologies of nature; resource exploitation and political-environmental activism; reaction, resistance, and creative agency; local economic history; archaeology and prehistoric transformation; globalization and a changing world order; a new Pacific in "The Pacific Century"; media and material culture; and people and rainforest: human-forest interaction.
Papers are invited on any of these ten topics. Short abstracts
of papers should be submitted by
1 September 1996, preferably by e-mail. All correspondence should
be sent to Bente WOLFF, Institute of Anthropology, University
of Copenhagen, Frederiksholms Kanal 4, DK-1220 Copenhagen K, Denmark;
fax 45 35323456, tel 45 33473233; e-mail es-bw@palais.natmus.min.dk.
Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) announces its 1996 Television Program Grant Open Call for the development of programs, produced by and about the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands, for US national public television, Applicants must be independent producers, non-profit organizations, or public television stations. Individuals must be US citizens, permanent resident aliens, or aliens authorized by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to work in the United States.
The open grant call is made possible through funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Grants up to $10,000 are available for research, development, and scripting. Grants up to $50,000 are available for works-in-progress, including production, post-production, marketing, and distribution. The types of programs include documentaries, docu-dramas, children's programming and animation.
Seven copies of each proposal must be received in the PIC office by 30 April 1996. For information and an application form, contact Pacific Islanders in Communications, 1221 Kapi'olani Boulevard, Suite 6A-4, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96814. Tel (808) 591-0059; fax (808) 591-1114; e-mail piccom@elele.peacesat.hawaii.edu.
Pacific Islanders in Communication (PIC) announces a call for entries for its 1996 film festival, to be held in Guam, American Samoa, and Hawai'i. All genres and lengths of work produced by indigenous Pacific Islander producers and directors are welcome. Formats: 16mm, 35mm, 3/4" and 1/2" NTSC and PAL VHS. There is no entry fee. The deadline is 30 April 1996. For information, call or write PIC at the address in the preceding notice.
Pacific Islanders in Communication (PIC) is sponsoring its first annual writing competition with the opportunity for winners' work to be developed into a finished television piece. There will also be a separate high school competitive section. Work submitted may be in the form of a short story, screenplay, or tape. The deadline is 1 June 1996, and there is no entry fee. For complete application guidelines, contact Pacific Islanders in Communications, 1221 Kapi'olani Boulevard, Suite 6A-4, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96814. Tel (808) 591-0059; fax (808) 591-1114; e-mail piccom@elele.peacesat.hawaii.edu.
Chapter contributions are being solicited for an edited textbook for university-level Pacific Islands geography courses, to be published by Bess Press. The focus will be on issues of continuity and change. The topics that the editor seeks manuscripts on include climate, ocean studies, agriculture, demography, urbanization, land and lagoon tenure regimes, belief systems, language, law, and art. Guidelines for contributors are available from Moshe RAPAPORT, Department of Geography, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822; e-mail: rapaport@hawaii.edu; fax: (808) 956-3512.
A call for papers has been issued for "Culture and Citizenship," the inaugural conference of the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, to be held in Brisbane, 30 September-2 October 1996. The conference seeks to make a contribution to debates on the place of citizenship in national and international cultural and media policy by addressing two questions: What is the relationship between citizenship, culture, and government? and What role should media, arts, and culture play in shaping citizenship? Papers and plenaries will generate dialogue between academics and policy professionals, exploring points of translation between civic aspirations and policy programs.
Abstracts are invited in the following topic areas:
The Manager
Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy
Faculty of Humanities
Griffith University
Nathan 4111
Australia
tel 61-7-3875-5350; fax 61-7-3875-5511
e-mail b.jeppesen@hum.gu.edu.au
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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
email: ctisha@hawaii.edu
http://www2.hawaii.edu/shaps/pacific/
Robert C. Kiste, Director
Letitia Hickson, Editor
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