AAPS is delighted to announce “Stori and Sovereignty”, a keynote panel with Tetei Bakic, Dr Mercy Masta, Mahealani Delaney, Wendy Mocke and a response from Dame Meg Taylor. This is one of the keynote panels as part of the Pacific Discourses and Destinies AAPS 2025 biennial conference at the University of Sydney, 3-6 June 2025.
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The Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS) is delighted to announce that Rev. Dr. Cliff Bird will be delivering the Epeli Hau’ofa Memorial Lecture 2025 at the “Pacific Discourses and Destinies” biennial conference at the University of Sydney.
Read MoreAustralian Association for Pacific Studies Conference 2025 Pacific Discourses and Destinies Tuesday 3 to Friday 6 June 2025 Call for Papers and Posters 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 […]
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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.
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This 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 […]
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