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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style>(With apologies for cross-posting!)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style>The Micronesian and Australian Friends Association (MAFA) and Pasifika
Student Society are pleased to present the following upcoming Seminar with guest speaker
<b style><span style="color:rgb(46,116,181)">Dr. Glenn Petersen:</span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="color:rgb(46,116,181)">Friday,
November 7<sup>th</sup> 3:30pm</span></b></p>
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the Foyer</span></b><b style><span style="color:rgb(46,116,181)"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b style><span style>Does “Micronesia” Mean Anything
Anymore? </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style>Because of decisions made in the wake of the 1975 Micronesian
Constitutional Convention, the eastern and central Caroline Islands took for
themselves the “Micronesia” label as the Federated States of Micronesia, and
other political entities in the greater Micronesian culture area have gradually
come to differentiate or distance themselves from “Micronesia.” I want to
discuss some of the implications of this, especially for attempts to understand
continuities in both patterns of areal integration and the relevance of
traditional sociopolitical forms and processes for contemporary social life in
the region.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">Glenn Petersen teaches
anthropology, international affairs, and geography at the City University of New
York, and has chaired the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at its
Bernard Baruch campus for 20 years. He has been conducting ethnographic
research in Micronesia since the early 1970s, focusing both on patterns of
traditional chieftainship and social organization and on the Micronesians’
struggle to end American colonial rule in their islands. He has also served as
a member of the Federated States of Micronesia’s Permanent Mission to the
United Nations. Among his books are <i>One Man Cannot Rule a Thousand: Fission
in a Ponapean Chiefdom</i>; <i>Decentralization and Micronesian Federalism;
Ethnicity and Interests at the 1990 the Federated States of Micronesia
Constitutional Convention</i>; and <i>Traditional Micronesian Societies:
Adaptation, Integration, and Political Organization.</i></p>
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<br><img alt="Inline image 1" src="cid:ii_1495f6854d232992" height="114" width="325"><br><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=62f22acbfd&view=att&th=13423dded935b480&attid=0.1&disp=inline&realattid=f_gvzgyci80&zw" height="96" width="72"><br><b>Ingrid Ahlgren</b>, PhD Candidate<br>Resources, Environment and Development (READ)<br>Australian National University<br><br></div>
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