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<div>We invite you to join us for our <i>Worlding Oceania</i> symposium which is being held here at the ANU next week from April 13-16. Details below:</div>
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<div><i>Worlding Oceania:<br>
Christianities, Commodities and Gendered Persons in the Pacific</i><br>
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Symposium of ARC Laureate Project<br>
<i>Engendering Persons, Transforming Things</i><br>
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Monday 13 – Thursday 16 April 2015<br>
APCD Lecture Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Centre<br>
The Australian National University<br>
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Epeli Hau’ofa inspired us to think about the Pacific in expansive terms, not as small, isolated islands diminished by colonialism, development and globalisation but through the connecting ocean of both indigeneity and diaspora, through transnational connections
and flows of people, things, ideas and values. But large challenges remain in how we do research in Oceania, in negotiating the relation between indigenous and introduced languages and knowledges and in conceptualising ‘worlding’ in Oceania beyond monolithic
and monochromatic views of globalisation.<br>
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Worlding Oceania focuses on these philosophical and political challenges through a transdisciplinary lens to explore questions about how Christianities and commodity economics have been indigenised in the Pacific, about their imbricated but contested relation
in both colonial and contemporary epochs and how this has transformed ideals and practices of gendered personhood in Oceania.</div>
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<div>Please find attached the program and details of the first of three plenary public lectures. Registrations for the symposium can be made <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/worlding-oceania-christianities-commodities-and-gendered-persons-in-the-pacific-tickets-16474492651">here</a>.
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<div>*APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING*</div>
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<div><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="font-size:15px; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#1f497d" size="2"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:10pt"><b>Nicholas Mortimer</b></span></font></span><span class="x_Apple-style-span" style="font-size:15px"><font color="#1f497d" size="2"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:10pt"> |
ARC Laureate Administrator | HC Coombs Building (#9) | The Australian National University | Canberra ACT 0200 | Australia | Tel: +61 2 61253148 | Mobile: +61 (0)416 625 145 </span></font></span></div>
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