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Navigating Pacific Studies
Semester Two 2013 will see the introduction of an entirely online course into the Bachelor of Pacific Studies syllabus – a first for Pacific Studies at the ANU. PASI 1011 / 6001: Navigating Pacific Studies has been jointly developed by Dr Roannie … Continue reading
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Summary of main themes emerging from the conference on Sorcery & Witchcraft-Related Killings in Melanesia, 5-7 June 2013, ANU, Canberra
This three day multi-disciplinary conference focused on the negative social consequences of belief in sorcery and witchcraft in Melanesia (the conference booklet with program, abstracts and speakers is available here). Approximately half the speakers were from PNG, Vanuatu and Solomon … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Melanesia, New Zealand, PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
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Job: Systems Administrator for PIF Secretariat
The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat has an exciting opportunity for a Systems Administrator to join their Corporate Services team in Suva, Fiji on a full time basis.
Vanuatu Community says farewell to Prof. Darrell Tryon
The Government and people of the Republic of Vanuatu were represented at the recent funeral of Professor Darrell Tryon. “Darrell was always a good friend to the people of Vanuatu, and was a great contributor to the building of our nation,” … Continue reading
Vale: Karina May Taylor (1979 – 2013)
Photo: Karina in the ANU’s Pacific Research Archive with Ms Josepha Joseph-Kapa (Head of Archives and the New Guinea Collection at the Michael Somare Library, University of Papua New Guinea). Karina Taylor, the former Archivist at the Pacific Research Archives of … Continue reading
Australia’s ban on the World Bank and the ADB lending to Fiji
If you go to the DFAT website to look at the sanctions Australia imposes on Fiji because of its military rule, you will conclude that they relate to military assistance and personal travel. You wouldn’t guess from that website, and you won’t find it from any other official one, that another sanction which Australia imposes on Fiji is that we, together with New Zealand, prevent the Asian Development Bank and [...] Continue reading
Tribute to The Late Professor Darrell Tryon (1942-2013)
by Emeritus Professor Malcolm Ross, Pacific Linguistics, ANU. Emeritus Professor Darrell Tryon, longtime researcher into the languages of Vanuatu, the Solomons and the Loyalty Islands, died in Canberra on Wednesday 15th May at the age of 70. Darrell had been … Continue reading
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Tagged France, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nouvelle Calédonie, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
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Darrell Tryon (1942-2013): A Personal Tribute
By Prof. Brij V Lal, Pacific and Asian History, ANU. By now you all will have heard of Darrell Tryon’s passing. A full account will appear in due course on his life and contribution, but for now I write simply … Continue reading
Politics, development and security in Oceania
Edited by David Hegarty and Darrell Tryon. This publication, Volume 7 in the Studies in State and Society in the Pacific series, is now available in PDF View Online ePub mobi or print copy formats from ANU Epress. “The chapters in this volume canvass political … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, European Union, Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nouvelle Calédonie, Pacific Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands
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New website for “Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania”
Professor Margaret Jolly’s ARC Laureate Project Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania has a new website.* This project “addresses a profound and long-debated question about the historical interaction between Oceanic and western constructs of the person and contemporary controversies … Continue reading
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Tagged Bougainville, Hawai'i, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
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Connecting Moana: Oceania’s Universities take the lead in Pan-Pacific Online Course Delivery
by Dr Paul D’Arcy, History, CHL. [about this image*] For the last two years a quiet educational revolution with profound implications for education outreach and collaborative teaching and research has been taking place across the entire breadth of the Pacific Islands. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, China, Fiji, French Polynesia, FSM, Guam, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nouvelle Calédonie, Papua New Guinea, PNG, Samoa, Taiwan, The Netherlands. France, Vanuatu
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Key observations on the state of New Zealand’s aid strategy
The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has released their ‘International Development Group [IDG]Strategic Plan 2012-2015 – Development that Delivers [pdf]‘, which complements and expands on the government’s ‘International Development Policy Statement [pdf]‘. The strategy sets out the vision, mission, areas of focus and results for the government aid program, which IDG administers. There’s a lot to unpack. This blog covers a few overarching observations. The Strategy is [...] Continue reading
Welcome, Lindsay Cameron!
Lindsay Cameron is a new PhD student in the School of Culture, History and Language. He currently lives in Melbourne and drives to Canberra once a month for campus events and library research. His research topic is “The Convergence of … Continue reading
A fair indictment of Australia’s Pacific policy?
Professor Wadan Narsey is an Adjunct Professor at The Cairns Institute.
Jonathan Schultz’s recently completed PhD thesis, Overseeing and Overlooking: Australian Engagement with the Pacific Islands 1988-2007, presents a somewhat scathing indictment of A… Continue reading
Karina Taylor and the ANU’s Pacific Research Archives
by Assoc. Prof. Chris Ballard, Pacific History, ANU. Karina Taylor, the archivist for the ANU’s Pacific Research Archives (PRA) since its inception in February 2007, is leaving us for an exciting position at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New … Continue reading
Disaster relief for Samoa and Fiji in the wake of Cyclone Evan
The New Zealand NGO Disaster Relief Forum (NDRF) maintains a list of NGOs actively involved in assisting with emergency relief efforts in the region. Please visit the NDRF site to find out how you may contribute to disaster relief this … Continue reading
Conference: The South Pacific Agenda for Survival and Growth: A Framework for Coordinated Participation of Asian Donors?
11-13 December 2012, Port Vila, Vanuatu. “The New Zealand Asia Institute of the University of Auckland has partnered with the Pacific Institute of Public Policy to host guest speakers and academics from the Pacific, New Zealand, China, Japan, Taiwan, Australia … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, China, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, PNG, Taiwan, Tuvalu, US
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PhD positions for Pacific research project (Massey University)
Two PhD positions are offered as part of the Marsden-funded project, “Harnessing the power of business: the contested involvement of corporations in community development initiatives in the Pacific” [read about other Marsden Fund Pacific-related research in this earlier post to … Continue reading
Welcome… and congratulations, Dr James Flexner!
Dr James Flexner will be joining the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the ANU early in 2013, where he will be a postdoctoral fellow. James recently received a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council … Continue reading
Books to PNG: Professional library of The Late Malcolm Levett (1949-2010)
Dr Mike Bourke (SSGM, ANU) and Dr Mike Cookson (ANU Pacific Institute) have just sent another consignment of books to PNG. This shipment consisted of approx. 300 kg of books, many from the professional collection of the Late Malcolm Levett … Continue reading
ESfO 2012 and PHA 2012
The European Society for Oceania (ESfO 2012) and Pacific History Association (PHA 2012) held their bi-annual conferences last week on opposite ends of the world (in Bergen, Norway and Wellington, New Zealand, respectively). From early reports, both conferences were very … Continue reading
Pacific languages expert resigns as NZ government advisor
“One of the region’s most senior experts on Pacific languages has resigned from the advisory council to New Zealand’s Minister of Pacific Island Affairs. Galumalemana Hunkin… stepped down saying New Zealand’s latest Pasifica Education Plan is ignoring the needs and wishes … Continue reading
New guides for Pacific island agricultural exports
A set of six new exporting guides for Pacific Islands agriculture exporters have been released today. The guides are the result of a joint project between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Pacific Islands Trade … Continue reading
Center for Oceanian Studies at Sun Yat-Sen University (中山大学 -大洋洲研究中心)
Outrigger recently posted a note about the launch of the first centre for the study of Oceania in China.* In this follow-up post, we interview Prof. YU Chang-sen ((喻常森老师), the Deputy Executive Director of the Center for Oceanian Studies (COS) … Continue reading
AAA Conference 2012 (Pacific-related papers)
The 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has just been held in San Francisco with the theme Borders and Crossings (November 14-18). This year’s program had 717 sessions, 34 workshops, 13 innovents and 183 special events. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiji, Guam, Hawai'i, Marshall Islands, Melanesia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Palau, PNG, Polynesia, Solomon Islands, US, Vanuatu, West Papua
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“Masi” (at the Sydney Festival, 20-25 January 2013)
An unlikely and touching love story between a Fijian high chief (from Kadavu) and the daughter of Cambridge-educated schoolmasters is brought to the stage with a rich sense of heritage and pride. The ancient art of Fijian Masi (tapa) cloth-making … Continue reading
Two cheers for New Zealand aid transparency
Publish What You Fund have released their 2012 aid agency transparency index and it contains good news for the New Zealand aid programme. The index is an attempt to quantify how transparently major aid donors spend their money, ranking donors based on an overall transparency score. The overall score is a composite of individual scores on various transparency related criteria. These criteria range from overarching attributes such as the presence [...] Continue reading
Conference: The Challenges for Participatory Development in Contemporary Development Practice
28-29 November 2012, Manning Clark Lecture Theatre, ANU (REGISTRATIONS CLOSED) This is the third conference as part of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) Universities Linkages, which brings scholars and aid practitioners together to discuss important development issues. The programme has a stunning … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, East Timor, Fiji, Kiribati, New Zealand, PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu
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ARC awards for 2013 related to the Pacific islands
The Pacific Institute at the ANU would like to recognise the significant effort of all academic and support staff who participated in ARC rounds in 2012 and congratulate all recipients of ARC Discovery Early Career Research Awards and ARC Discovery … Continue reading
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Tagged FSM, Guam, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
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Pacific Beats III (9 November 2012)
7-11pm Pacific Beats III at the Dee Why Uniting Church (cnr Avon and Howard Ave) Featuring Pacific and Maori cultural performances [download a flyer].
CRGA 42 (12-16 November 2012)
The Committee of Representatives of Governments and Administrations (CRGA) has partial oversight over the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). The CRGA 42 meeting will consider reports from various sections of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), including: Applied … Continue reading
Model Pacific Islands Forum (24 November 2012)
UN Youth Otago is hosting their annual Model Pacific Islands Forum on 24 November 2012 in the Moot Court (Richardson Building) at the University of Otago. “This is an opportunity to look at the structural workings of an international political … Continue reading
Marsden Fund awards (2012) for research with a Pacific focus
The Marsden Fund is New Zealand’s official funding body for research (counterpart to the Australian Research Council). On 25 October 2012, the list of recipients of Marsden Fund awards for 2013 was announced. Of the 86 projects that shared in … Continue reading
The Diplomacy Of Decolonisation
In his latest post to NewMatilda.com, Nic Maclellan argues that Australia may have to address renewed demands for decolonisation from the region when it assumes its seat on the United Nations Security Council in 2013. [Read Maclellan’s follow-up post to New Matilda, Siding … Continue reading
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Tagged American Samoa, Australia, Bougainville, French Polynesia, Guam, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Pitcairn, Tokelau, UK, USA, Wallis and Futuna, West Papua
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Gunson Essay Prize in Pacific History (due 1 Nov. 2012)
Entries to the Gunson Essay Prize in Pacific History are due by or before 1 November 2012. Postgraduate students from any country are invited to submit an essay in English between 5,000-8,000 words on any topic relating to Pacific pasts. Essays … Continue reading
Pacific Theologies Seminar (11-12 November)
11–12 November 2012 at the Centre for Ministry, North Parramatta, NSW (Australia). For more info, contact jioneh@nsw.uca.org.au or talanoaoceania@gmail.com.
Workshop Symposium: Political Life Writing in the Pacific Islands (18 October 2012)
8:30am-5:30pm, SSGM Meeting Room (#5119), Coombs Building #9, ANU. This workshop investigates the experience of writing political life history in the Pacific Islands. We are interested in the reflections of practitioners writing in this genre: how they went about constructing … Continue reading
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Tagged New Zealand, Pacific Islands, PNG, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu
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15th Tonga Research Association Conference: “Walking backwards to the future – Holomui ki Mu’a” (7-13 July 2013)
Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Manukau Campus [download flyer].
Standing upright there: the New Zealand path to a nuclear-free world
Richard Tanter, in a new post to the Nautilus Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet) blog, writes that the recent rapprochement between New Zealand and the United States is born of shared concern about the rise of China and from a … Continue reading
Call for papers: New Zealand and the South Pacific (27-29 June 2013, Nijmegen NL)
The 19th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association, together with the Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) has a long and strong history in promoting New Zealand Studies. … Continue reading