[ANU Pacific.Institute] Worlding Oceania symposium, April 13–16 2015

[Nicholas Mortimer]

Worlding Oceania:
Christianities, Commodities and Gendered Persons in the Pacific
Symposium of the ANU Pacific Institute and ARC Laureate Project Engendering Persons, Transforming Things
April 13–16 2015
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.
This three day symposium focuses these philosophical and political challenges on 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. We will adopt a transdisciplinary lens and combine academic presentations with performances and visual arts.
After a welcome to country and an opening keynote on the evening of April 13 successive panels over three days will consider these themes.
A draft program and symposium flyer will be distributed next week.
Please contact nicholas.mortimer at anu.edu.au<mailto:nicholas.mortimer at anu.edu.au> for further details.


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