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<div class="">Dear Pacific Institute Colleagues,</div>
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<div class="">On behalf of the Executive Board for the Australian Association for Pacific Studies, I am delighted to let you know about some of the features of our <a href="http://pacificstudies.org.au" class=""><b class=""></a><a href="http://pacificstudies.org.au/" class="">n</a>ew
website</b> launched in May this year.</div>
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<div class="">The website promotes key developments in Australian Pacific Studies and the activities of current AAPS members. Our growing <a href="http://pacificstudies.org.au/?page_id=83" class="">blog</a> includes news, reports, and events, both within AAPS
and in the wider Australian Pacific Studies context. An extensive array of <b class="">member publications and books</b> are displayed on our <a href="http://pacificstudies.org.au/?page_id=7" class="">publications page</a>.</div>
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<div class="">Our <b class="">events calendar</b> includes Pacific Studies events from Australia and around the world. If you know of a forthcoming event, or regularly organise Pacific events you’d like promoted on our website, please contact me at <a href="mailto:admin@pacificstudies.org.au" class="">admin@pacificstudies.org.au</a> to
be added to our calendar.</div>
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<div class="">Likewise, let me know if you have suggestions for Pacific Studies organisations or networks that we should add to our <a href="http://pacificstudies.org.au/?page_id=85" class="">links</a>, and please add us to your links and bookmarks: <a href="http://pacificstudies.org.au/" class="">http://pacificstudies.org.au/</a></div>
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<div class="">The website also hosts an array of <b class="">current and historical AAPS information</b>, including:</div>
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<div class="">- A video of a wonderful <a href="http://pacificstudies.org.au/?page_id=23" class="">talk by Professor Gracelyn Smallwood</a>, in conversation with Jeff McMullen, calling for <b class="">recognition for Australian South Sea Islanders</b>, recorded
in 2013:</div>
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<div class="">- Past publications produced by the Association, including the AAPS <a href="http://pacificstudies.org.au/?page_id=255" class=""><b class="">report into A National Strategy for Pacific Studies</b></a><b class=""> </b>commissioned in 2009, and <b class=""><a href="http://pacificstudies.org.au/?page_id=19" class="">AAPS
newsletters</a>.</b></div>
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<div class="">We also have details of our <a href="http://pacificstudies.org.au/?page_id=43" class=""><b class="">forthcoming conference</b></a>—note the 30 September deadline for submission of panel topics!</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Current AAPS members</b> have the opportunity to contribute to the blog and have their Pacific Studies publications and images promoted on the website — see our <a href="http://pacificstudies.org.au/?page_id=8" class="">joining information</a> on
membership fees and how to join or renew your membership.</div>
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<div class="">Regards,</div>
Rachel<br class="">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b class="" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri;">Rachel Morgain</b><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri;"> | ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Department
of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies | School of Culture, History and Language </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri;">|</span><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri;"> ANU
College of Asia and the Pacific </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri;">|</span><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri;">HC
Coombs Building (#9) | The Australian</span><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri;">National University | Canberra
ACT 2601 | Australia | Tel: +61 2 61255940</span></p>
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