[ANU Pacific.Institute] Worlding Oceania symposium, April 13-16

[Nicholas Mortimer]

Dear Colleagues

We invite you to join us for our Worlding Oceania symposium which is being held here at the ANU next week from April 13-16. Details below:

Worlding Oceania:
Christianities, Commodities and Gendered Persons in the Pacific

Symposium of ARC Laureate Project
Engendering Persons, Transforming Things

Monday 13 – Thursday 16 April 2015
APCD Lecture Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Centre
The Australian National University

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.

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.

Please find attached the program and details of the first of three plenary public lectures. Registrations for the symposium can be made here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/worlding-oceania-christianities-commodities-and-gendered-persons-in-the-pacific-tickets-16474492651>.




*APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING*


Nicholas Mortimer | 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






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