[ANU Pacific.Institute] Fw: Inaugural Epeli Hau'ofa Lecture. 29 May. Tracey Banivanua Mar and Amie Batalibasi

[Katerina Teaiwa]

Dear colleagues,


Please see below the information regarding the Australian Association for Pacific Studies inaugural Epeli Hau'ofa Annual Public Lecture to be held at the Cairns Institute in Cairns after our AGM, May 29.


best,

Katerina


Dr. Katerina Teaiwa
Head, Department of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies &
Pacific Studies Convener
School of Culture, History and Language
College of Asia and the Pacific
Australian National University

President, Australian Association for Pacific Studies
https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/teaiwa-km
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Subject: Inaugural Epeli Hau'ofa Lecture. 29 May. Tracey Banivanua Mar and Amie Batalibasi

The Cairns Institute in association with  Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS) present the:
Inaugural Epeli Hau'ofa Annual Public Lecture
 Black Australia: entangled histories on Queensland's cane fields
Associate Professor Tracey Banivanua Mar in dialogue with filmmaker Amie Batalibasi
Date: Friday 29 May 2015
Where: The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Cairns Campus
Time: 4.30 - 6.30pm
Pre-lecture refreshments: 4.00pm
Registration: the lecture is free to attend please register at: https://alumni.jcu.edu.au/EpeliHauofa

This lecture will follow the  AAPS Annual General Meeting  1.30-4pm Cairns Institute  Room D3.063. ALL WELCOME to the AGM!

About the Lecture: In the year that Faith Bandler, a giant of indigenous political struggle in Australia, passed away, this paper reflects on the legacy of Australia's nineteenth century labour trade in the Pacific. Through a survey of the collective political struggles of Queensland's South Sea Islander community, the paper explores the role that solidarity has played in the articulation of a Black politics in Australia--one that was inclusive rather than exclusive, and defined by familial, and emplaced networks of connection. In moments of resistant politics on the fringes of sugar towns in the nineteenth century, to protests against deportation in 1906, and the Black Power inspired struggles for recognition in the 1970s, South Sea Islanders, Murris and Islanders in the Pacific have together produced powerful forces for change. Although often consisting of connective and contingent moments of articulation, rather than coherent 'hard' political networks it will be argued that this is a historical narrative yet to receive the acknowledgement it deserves. For if measured from the criteria implied by Hau'ofa's eloquent plea to overcome the smallness and disconnection of the colonial era, these political moments were significant formations of internal decolonisation.

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