[ANU Pacific.Institute] AAPS 2020: CFL Decolonisation and the Trans-Pacific

[Mitiana Arbon]

Australian Association for Pacific Studies 2020: CALL FOR PAPERS Decolonisation and the Trans-Pacific
(14-17 April)


The 2020 conference of the Australian Association for Pacific Studies is being organised by the Melbourne Pacific Studies Network, in partnership with the Melbourne Museum and Footscray Community Arts Centre, and with the support of Deakin University, the University of Melbourne, La Trobe University, and Victoria University.

Thematically, the conference will take as its focus the work of the late Pacific historian Tracey Banivanua Mar, and specifically her ground-breaking book Decolonisation and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2016). This is a book that, as Tracey wrote, ‘charts the sometimes parallel, sometimes intersecting, paths and border crossings of anti-colonial and Indigenous political movements that have helped to define and shape the postcolonial, or rather still decolonising, Pacific’. The conference aims to embody and respond to Tracey’s insights into decolonisation and trans-Indigenous connections, including connections between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, South Sea Islanders, Māori and Pacific Islanders. Taking inspiration from Tracey’s work, we seek to reflect on the connections between Pacific peoples and places, past and present. What are the practices of movement, activism, creativity, power, and environmental interconnectedness that traverse the region? In what ways have colonial dispossession and displacement produced, as Tracey described, ‘a unique, diasporic and stateless process of daily decolonisation characterised by a global connectivity’? How does decolonisation continue to be practiced by Pacific peoples as an ‘ongoing, ever contingent process of uncolonising … worked from the inside out’?

The Epeli Hau’ofa Annual Lecture will be delivered by Noelani Goodyear-Ka’ōpua <http://www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu/faculty/goodyearkaopua.html> (The University of Hawai’i).

Confirmed keynote panellists include: Craig Santos Perez (University of Hawai‘i), Motarilavoa Hilda Lini (ni-Vanuatu activist, former politician, and Turaga chief), Juliann Anesi (UCLA), Gary Foley (Victoria University), Kim Kruger (Victoria University), Michelle Rooney (ANU), Ronny Kareni (West Papuan musician and activist), Paola Balla (Victoria University), Alice Te Punga Somerville (Waikato University), Romaine Moreton (Director, Binung Boorigan), Torika Bolatagici (Deakin University), Hokulani Aikau (University of Hawai‘i), Katerina Teaiwa (ANU), Talei Luscia (ANU), Tony Birch (Victoria University), James Bhagwan (Fiji Council of Churches).

Venue:

The AAPS 2020 conference will take place across two locations—the Footscray Community Arts Centre (FCAC), which is located in the suburb of Footscray in Melbourne’s inner-west, and the Melbourne Museum, which is located centrally in Melbourne city, close to Parliament Train Station.

FCAC is the primary conference location. All of the conference panels and keynote sessions will be held here from Wednesday 15th April – Friday 17th April.

The Melbourne Museum will be the location for the Epeli Hau’ofa Lecture, the AAPS AGM and postgraduate masterclass on Tuesday 14th April:

  *   10am – 1pm: AGM
  *   2 – 4pm: Postgraduate Masterclass
  *   6pm – Epeli Hau’ ofa lecture *this is the official start of the conference. The annual lecture will be delivered by Noelani Goodyear-Kaopua, The University of Hawai’i

Contacts:

Conference convenors: Kalissa Alexeyeff (University of Melbourne), Victoria Stead (Deakin University) and Kim Kruger (Victoria University)

Email: pacificstudies2020 at gmail.com

Please note: Registering through eventbrite incurs a registration fee. If you would prefer not to pay this fee, please contact Geraldine Fela to arrange payment by direct deposit: geraldine.fela at monash.edu

Membership

You must be a current, paid-up member of AAPS in order to be eligible for the member rate. To access the membership discount you can purchase membership to AAPS through eventbrite when you order your ticket. Please also download and fill out <http://pacificstudies.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/aaps-application-for-membership-form-2019.pdf> this membership form<http://pacificstudies.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/aaps-application-for-membership-form-2019.pdf> and email to: members at pacificstudies.org.au

Membership entitles AAPS members to: participation and voting rights in the annual AGM; access to the annual newsletter and promotion of publications and other news within the newsletter; promotion of books and news on the AAPS website. AAPS membership also provides valuable financial support to the organisation, and to initiatives including the annual Tracey Banivanua Mar PhD prize, and the Guy Powles Travelling Scholarship which supports attendance at the biennial conference for a PhD student. We encourage AAPS members to pay for two year membership where possible, in sync with the biennial conference cycle.

Please note that a conference dinner will be organised and ticketed separately. Details to be confirmed early 2020.

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