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The Pacific Colonial Shadow: New Approaches

On Friday 19 August the UQ Anthropology Museum will open an exhibition on Solomon Islands, “Solomon Islands: Re-enchantment and the Colonial Shadow” curated by Dr Diana Young, director of the museum, in collaboration with Solomon Islands scholars including Emeritus Professor Clive Moore, Dr Graham Baines and Associate Professor Annie Ross. The brief for the exhibition […]

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Decolonisation and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of the Empire

Congratulations to AAPS member Associate Professor Tracey Banivanua-Mar on her new book Decolonisation and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of the Empire. For more information click here.

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Pasifika Law and Culture Conference 2016

Click here to download the abstract submission form Send to lagi.tuimavave@vuw.ac.nz  by Wednesday 4 May, 5pm  

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Tides of Transformation – Conference April 1-3 2016

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Executive Members needed, AGM 3 April 2016. Cairns

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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AAPS conference Cairns April 1-3, REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

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Three exhibitions celebrating Pacific cultures

To 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 […]

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Call for submissions for 2019 AAPS Newsletter

Dear 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 […]

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Counter Networks of Empire

Reading 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 […]

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Mobile Branding: Creating Consumer-Citizens across the Caribbean and Pacific

The 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 […]

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