[ANU Pacific.Institute] Reminder: Insights on West Papua Event

[Miranda Forsyth]

Dear all

Please join us tonight for what promises to be a fascinating scholarly discussion about the many complexities of issues in West Papua.  We will follow the event with a Pacific themed dinner in the Hedley Bull atrium, all are welcome.  The program is below and the flyer (with the speakers' biographical details) is attached.

Kind regards

Miranda

EVENT SCHEDULE

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6:40p.m


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7:40p.m


8:00p.m

Welcome to the Pacific Institute Annual Lecture and Acknowledgement of Country
By Miranda Forsyth, Convener of Pacific Institute and Event Moderator

Introductory Remarks by Veronica Koman

Speaker 1: Dr Jacob Rumbiak
WEST PAPUA 1942 to 2020, the legals, the politics, and the only way forward.

Speaker 2: Chris Ballard
Racism directed at Papuans has featured prominently in the latest cycle of protest and repression, with allegations of racist language widely cited as the initial provocation that led to the protests. Racist views of Papuans have a long genealogy, extending back at least as far as the beginning of the 19th century, when English authors began to write pejoratively about Papuans by comparison with Malays. Dutch colonial attitudes further entrenched these views, which became institutionalised using non-Papuan teachers and administrators before World War II. This brief historical review tracks the origins of the current situation.

Discussion
Moderated by Miranda Forsyth

Speaker 3: Reverend James Bhagwan
Negotiating Pacific Solidarity: the role of Churches and Civil Society
James will share on the work of Pacific Church and Civil Society in solidarity for West Papua. He will reflect on the recent engagement with Pacific Island Leaders at the Leaders' Meeting in Tuvalu. He will also share on the support for and role of amplifying the voice of Papuan Churches.

Speaker 4: Sophie Chao
 Development, Deforestation, Dispossession: Indigenous Experiences in Merauke, West Papua: Over the last decade, vast swaths of forest and savannah in the West Papuan district of Merauke have been converted to agribusiness plantations in the name of national food security and regional economic development. Drawing from long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the region, this presentation explores how radical landscape conversions reconfigure the multispecies lifeworld, relations, and identities of indigenous Marind communities. It also examines the challenges posed by the expanding agribusiness sector to Marind's right as indigenous people to give or withhold their free, prior, and informed consent to land-based developments that affect their livelihoods, culture, and wellbeing.

Speaker 5: Hipolitus Wangge
Political Discrimination on Nduga's Armed Conflict:  2019 is the bloodiest year for West Papuans and in West Papua. A series of armed conflicts, demonstrations, and riots have caused hundreds of civilian deaths and displaced thousands of indigenous West Papuans. The on-going armed conflict in Nduga, a central highland West Papua, displays a degree of political discrimination to overcome a long-running ethno-national conflict in West Papua


Final Discussion
Moderated by Miranda Forsyth

Closing remarks by Veronica Koman

Everyone is welcome to join us for a Pacific dinner (served in the atrium) to mark the end of the year for the Pacific Institute


Miranda Forsyth | Associate Professor | RegNet School of Regulation and Global Governance | ANU College of Asia & the Pacific | The Australian National University | Room 3.2, Coombs Extension Building | Building 8, Fellows Rd, Acton, ACT, 2601 Australia | T: +61 2 6125 1505 | M: 0429903094 |  miranda.forsyth at anu.edu.au<mailto:miranda.forsyth at anu.edu.au> | regnet.anu.edu.au<http://regnet.anu.edu.au/>

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