Save the date: Epeli Hau’ofa Memorial Lecture at Flinders University in April 2026

Dr Faye Rosas Blanch, Professor Simone Ulalka Tur, Professor Katerina Teaiwa, Associate Professor Natalie Harkin, Associate Professor Ali Gumillya Baker and Talei Mangioni at the AAPS 2025 conference at the University of Sydney.

 

Professor Katerina Teaiwa, Associate Professor Natalie Harkin, Dr Faye Rosas Blanch, Professor Simone Tur and Associate Professor Ali Gumillya Baker present at the AAPS 2026 conference for their panel “Sista Methodology: Re-imagining the Humanities through Indigenous Creative Arts.”

 

In very exciting news, we can now share the 2026 Epeli Hau ’ofa Annual Memorial Lecture will be held in Adelaide, hosted by the inimitable Associate Professor Ali Gumillya Baker, Professor Simone Ulalka Tur, Associate Professor Natalie Harkin, and Dr Faye Rosas Blanch—together, the Unbound Collective—at Flinders University. We anticipate the lecture, and the associated ECR/HDR masterclass, being held in the week 13-17 April. More details to follow, but please get the dates in your diary now. AAPS and the Unbound Collective have a growing connection, going back to their wonderful keynote at our 2018 Conference, and also including the participation of Katerina Teaiwa, AAPS Vice-President, alongside Ali, Simone, Natalie and Faye, and together with Dr Lou Bennett AM and Dr Romaine Moreton, in the ARC Discovery Indigenous project “Reimagining the Humanities through Indigenous Creative Arts”. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty must be the grounding of any Pacific studies in this country, and we are humbled and excited to continue our conversations on Kaurna Country/Adelaide next year.

Associate Professor Victoria Stead, President of the Australian Association for Pacific Studies

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