AAPS is looking for new executive board members! We need a Digital Media Officer (to maintain our website), a Secretary, and a new President. Let us know if you are interested in any of these positions and make a contribution and change to Australian Pacific Studies! These positions will be filled and voted upon at […]
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Read MoreTo celebrate Pacific culture and the Asia Pacific Triennial at QAGOMA (Queensland Gallery of Modern Art), Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Gallery Network has curated three exhibitions: Vai Niu Wai Niu Coconut Water Caboolture Regional Art Gallery 27 November 2015 – 24 February 2016 https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/general.aspx?id=142235 Samoa Tula’i… Samoa Arise! Caboolture Regional Art Gallery 27 November […]
Read MoreDear AAPS community, We’re in the process of putting together another AAPS newsletter, in time for the Annual Epeli Hau’ofa lecture and the AGM in March. The newsletter is one of the key avenues we have for communicating with one another, and with others interested in Pacific Studies. So please send us your news! Items […]
Read MoreReading Unexpected People in Unexpected Places Convenors: Tracey Banivanua Mar and Nadia Rhook Friday 6 November, 2015, 10:00–5:30 La Trobe University Franklin St City Campus, 215 Franklin St, Melbourne. In the last decade, scholars have illuminated the ways Empires, particularly of the nineteenth century were founded on and maintained by networks of people, goods, and […]
Read MoreThe forthcoming Joel Kahn Anthropology Lecture 2015 is on the topic of Mobile Branding: Creating Consumer-Citizens across the Caribbean and Pacific Thursday, 24 September, Melbourne 6pm, La Trobe University, Bundoora campus, ELT 3 Presented by: Associate Professor Heather Horst (RMIT University) The growth of the mobile phone use around the world has corresponded with an increase […]
Read MoreAustralians have long crossed the Torres Strait to make films in Papua New Guinea. Between 1906 and 1975, the territories of Papua and New Guinea were Australian protectorates, and cinema played an important role in promoting the colonial agenda to an audience at home and abroad. In the 1930s, gold prospectors penetrated the highland areas of central New Guinea with maps and bulky 35mm camera […]
Read MoreThe Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS) will have it’s 6th Biennial Conference from 1-3 April, 2016, at The Cairns Institute, James Cook University Cairns, North Queensland, Australia. The theme of the conference is Tides of Transformation: Pacific Pasts, Pacific Futures Conference Conveners: Professor Rosita Henry and Associate Professor Douglas Hunt (JCU). Through this interdisciplinary conference the AAPS, in collaboration with the Cairns Institute, […]
Read MoreThe Annual General Meeting for the Australian Association of Pacific Studies has been called: Friday 29 May (1.30-4pm) Cairns Institute, James Cook University Followed by the Inaugural Epeli Hau’ofa Annual Lecture (5-7pm) Associate Professor Tracey Banivanua-Mar in dialogue with filmaker Amie Batalibasi
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