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Seminar
‰¥þGrounding Pacific Studies: Land, Development, and Conflicts in Oceania,‰¥ÿ by Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka, Research Fellow, East-West Center Pacific Islands Development Program.

Date: 1 May 2008
Time: 12:00䴋1:30 pm
Place: UHM Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

Land-related discourses provide an invaluable insight into Pacific Island societies. This is because such discourses engage cultures, histories, oral traditions, politics, economics, globalization, mobility, gender, diaspora, and many other issues that have become the preoccupation of Pacific Studies. Land is the site, subject, and object of intellectual and spiritual interactions, as well as the source of social identity and of subsistence and economic livelihood. It is also often the site and object of social conflicts.

This presentation examines the multi-dimensional role of land in contemporary Pacific Island societies, with a particular focus on land as the site and factor of economic development and social conflicts. It explores the changes to traditional land tenure systems, the dynamics of land policies and legislation, and the impacts on contemporary Pacific Island societies.

Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka was a lecturer in history and political science at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. Born in Haimarao, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Kabutaulaka is a leading expert on the Solomon Islands and was chief negotiator for Guadalcanal Province and the Isatabu Freedom Movement (IFM) at the Solomon Islands Peace Conference in 2000. He has written extensively on political development and the peace process in the Solomon Islands as well as on rural development and forestry.


Seminar
Steven Winduo, Visiting Professor, University of Minesota (August 2007䴋May 2008), and Professor of English, University of Papua New Guinea

Date: 8 May 2008
Time: 12:00䴋1:30 pm
Place: UHM Center for Korean Studies Auditorium


Seminar
Greg Dvorak, Australian National University PhD, post-doctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo

Date: 13 May 2008
Time: 12:00䴋1:30 pm
Place: UHM Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

 

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