Australian Association for Pacific Studies Conference 2025 Pacific Discourses and Destinies Tuesday 3 to Friday 6 June 2025 Call for Panels Warm Pacific Greetings! The Australian Association for Pacific Studies biennial conference is an opportunity to create and sustain critical conversations and collaborations, across the transdisciplinary field of Pacific studies. Hosted in 2025 by The […]
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AAPS is thrilled to kickstart the AAPS Postgraduate/ECR seminar series with a session featuring Dr. Marco de Jong, winner of the 2024 Tracey Banivanua Mar PhD Prize.
Read MoreThe Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS) asserts its solidarity with the Palestinian people. We add our voice to the call for an immediate ceasefire, and for an end to the decades of occupation, displacement, and violence that have preceded this moment. As scholars and students, we express our grief and outrage at the destruction […]
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The Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS) is delighted to announce that the video documentation and written transcript of the AAPS Epeli Hau’ofa Memorial Lecture 2024 titled “The Ocean Is Us” delivered by Reverend James Shri Bhagwan is now available online.
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We are delighted to announce that our winner of the Tracey Banivanua-Mar PhD prize is Dr Marco de Jong and our highly commended is Dr Timaima Tuvuki.
Read MoreNamed after the late Pacific historian, and colleague and friend to many within the AAPS community, the prize recognises the most outstanding PhD thesis by an AAPS student member working in the field of Pacific Studies.
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Thanks to Joy Lehuanani Enomoto for capturing some of these moments from the “To Hell With Drowning” AAPS 2023 biennial conference on Ngunnawal/Ngunawal/Ngambri Country at the Australian National University.
Read MoreThis prize is named after the late historian Tracey Banivanua Mar. This prestigious prize recognises the most outstanding doctoral thesis in the field of Pacific Studies across disciplinary boundaries. It honours the values that Tracey held dear. First and foremost among these is scholarly excellence; Tracey always said she had to work twice as hard […]
Read MoreAAPS is delighted to announce the winner of the Tracey Banivanua Mar PhD Prize. Named after the late Tracey Banivanua Mar, a Pacific historian, colleague, and friend to many within the AAPS community, the prize recognises the most outstanding PhD thesis by an AAPS student member working in the field of Pacific Studies. This year, […]
Read MoreWinner of the 2020 Tracey Banivanua Mar PhD Prize, and two highly commended awardees, announced. AAPS is thrilled to announce the winner of the inaugural Tracey Banivanua Mar PhD Prize. Named after the late Pacific historian, and colleague and friend to many within the AAPS community, the prize recognises the most outstanding PhD thesis by […]
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