<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">School of Culture, History and Language</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">ANU College of Asia and the Pacific</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"></span></div><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Department of Pacific and Asian History</span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">2014 Seminar Series </span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><br><br></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Monday, 11 August, 3:00pm - 4:30pm</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><br><br>Seminar Room B, Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU</span></div><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p><h1 align="center" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Behind the Masks: the future of mortuary ceremonies in managing ancestral land for Nalik people </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"></span></h1><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Thesis Proposal Review</span></div><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Jenny Homerang</span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><br></span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">School of Culture, History and Language, </span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><br><strong>College of Asia & the Pacific, the Australian National University</strong></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"></span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Behind the celebrated <em>malagan</em> masks displayed in Nalik mortuary ceremonies, members of clan lineages perform relational activities critical for the well-being of their communities. These ceremonies, which are shared with approximately 40,000 people in ten linguistic groups across the northern region of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea, provide the principal vehicle for these communities to manage various processes including the maintenance and transfer of ancestral land.<em> </em>These land processes require members of a clan lineage who have been gifted land by the clan lineage hosting the mortuary ceremony to publicly acknowledge and reconcile their 'debt to the land'. The Nalik people, of whom I am a member, continue to practice ancestral land management through three of their main mortuary ceremonies. My proposed research aims to present a historical account of Nalik conceptions of the management of ancestral land in their mortuary ceremonies. Within an Indigenous research framework, my research will explore how Nalik people relate to their ancestral land; how they manage land through mortuary ceremonies; and how their practice of managing land has changed in the past and present, and into the future. A central motivation for this research is to tell Nalik stories of ancestral land and mortuary ceremonies that are grounded in a Nalik worldview.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">All welcome. You are invited to join the speaker for drinks after the seminar at Fellows Bar, University House </span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><br><br></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Enquiries: <br>Danton Leary <<a href="mailto:danton.leary@anu.edu.au" style="color: purple;">danton.leary@anu.edu.au</a>></span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">_______________________________________________</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Pah.seminars mailing list</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><a href="mailto:Chl.pah@mailman.anu.edu.au" style="color: purple;">pah.seminars@mailman.anu.edu.au</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><a href="http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/pah.seminars" style="color: purple;">http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/pah.seminars</a></span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p><br><br><div>
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