[ANU Pacific.Institute] Call for Sessions for Australian Association for Pacific Studies "To Hell With Drowning" Conference due on 1 September 2022.

[Talei Mangioni]

Dear Pacific Institute community,

This is a reminder that the call for sessions for the Australian Association for Pacific Studies Biennial conference themed "To Hell With Drowning" will be closing in two weeks on September 1, 2022.

The conference will be happening next year from 12-14 April 2023 at the Australian National University. For further information about the conference and submissions, please go to our website here:  http://pacificstudies.org.au/conference/to-hell-with-drowning-2023/<https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faaps.wildapricot.org%2FEmailTracker%2FLinkTracker.ashx%3FlinkAndRecipientCode%3DuKUd%252fWRRGppUVRnmoZRwvIbN%252fUJsQTAIxVhaOy5PeziI5PJjYRtVx5QfN5OhAoQC1rEky9q4c%252fM4ANZsm9x5FETXcdleq9D0QzCEL8rYCsU%253d&data=05%7C01%7Ctalei.mangioni%40anu.edu.au%7Cc4e11da1480f4e68457b08da4febf71c%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C637910172130551952%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0HeAJNC%2BXyzBRJ9bM5%2BUc2YvSA0oxV%2FLoF9j7WBTv1o%3D&reserved=0>

Further information about the conference can be found below:

The 2023 AAPS conference theme emphasises the need to resist and reframe fatalist and narrow representations of Oceania. From the highlands to the islands, the conference aims to advance multiscopic understandings of Oceanic peoples relationships and relationality of places through storytelling rooted in a trans-disciplinary, critical and creative Pacific Studies. Endorsing international human rights lawyer Julian Aguon’s call<https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faaps.wildapricot.org%2FEmailTracker%2FLinkTracker.ashx%3FlinkAndRecipientCode%3DCczygbYavjVvmbEgrj5y5tO0GjQvpFpQLUWwvgiBFVblyI97Ef9lzEjQzHSvMsU0hM0hTJLGXF9v%252bVithl1bSzWjgaxNf62Mdf%252bLwLwk7zg%253d&data=05%7C01%7Ctalei.mangioni%40anu.edu.au%7Cc4e11da1480f4e68457b08da4febf71c%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C637910172130551952%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4aV3KweNXQb%2BGVL7xN%2Bd7zmR5tBdOVLVIRxcGjzmefY%3D&reserved=0> for “stories about the places we call home”, we seek stories and conversations that illuminate fierce attachments to place and the immense beauty, magic and abundance of Oceania.

The Pacific Studies community recognises both ancestral and contemporary kinships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, South Sea Islanders, Māori and Pacific Islanders. The 2023 conference will take place at the Australian National University, an institution that is located on the unceded lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people and central to the Australian coloniality that continues to impinge upon the sovereignties of First Nations of this Country and beyond in Oceania. It is also an institution central to the decolonial possibilities envisaged by Pacific Studies. This conference understands this place as a site for meaningful solidarities and approaches to Pacific Studies that are both place-based and multi-sited in scope.

We encourage submissions for three types of sessions - presenting, creating or relating, in accordance to the conference theme and one or more of those listed below:

  *   Lands, seas, skies and stars
  *   Deep time and material histories

  *   Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary Pacific Studies

  *   Climate justice, including loss and damage

  *   Reimagining peace and security

  *   Regionalisms

  *   Militarism and nuclear issues

  *   Law, legal pluralities and Oceanic justice

  *   Development and post-development

  *   Governance and politics

  *   Customs and laws

  *   Youth, diaspora and urban lives

  *   Bla(c)k power, sovereignty and transnational movements

  *   Genders, sexualities and feminisms

  *   Decolonial spirituality, ceremony and theology

  *   Ghosts, spirits and ancestors

  *   Languages and linguistic transformations

  *   Visual arts, dance, music and poetry

  *   SPORT!

  *   Collective wellbeing, care and service

  *   Community engagement and leadership

  *   Pacific biographies and life-stories

  *   Museums, archives and curatorial practice

  *   Digital and popular cultures, film, mainstream and social media

Call for sessions will close on September 1 2022 (AEST, Australian Eastern Standard Time).

For more information go to http://pacificstudies.org.au/conference/to-hell-with-drowning-2023/<https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faaps.wildapricot.org%2FEmailTracker%2FLinkTracker.ashx%3FlinkAndRecipientCode%3DuKUd%252fWRRGppUVRnmoZRwvIbN%252fUJsQTAIxVhaOy5PeziI5PJjYRtVx5QfN5OhAoQC1rEky9q4c%252fM4ANZsm9x5FETXcdleq9D0QzCEL8rYCsU%253d&data=05%7C01%7Ctalei.mangioni%40anu.edu.au%7Cc4e11da1480f4e68457b08da4febf71c%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C637910172130551952%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0HeAJNC%2BXyzBRJ9bM5%2BUc2YvSA0oxV%2FLoF9j7WBTv1o%3D&reserved=0>

Should you have any questions regarding the conference or proposed sessions, please do not hesitate to contact tohellwithdrowning2023 at gmail.com<mailto:tohellwithdrowning2023 at gmail.com>

Kind regards,

Talei


Talei Luscia Mangioni

PASI1012: Pacific Worlds Course Convenor l AAPS Secretary l PhD Candidate

School of Culture, History and Language

College of Asia and the Pacific

1.220, Coombs Building

The Australian National University

Acton ACT 2601

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