[ANU Pacific.Institute] Katerina Teaiwa: 'Islands, Archives and Ancestors', 2024 ANU Archives Annual Lecture

[Christopher Ballard]

Passing on a message from Ewan Maidment:

Katerina Teaiwa, Professor of Pacific Studies in the College of Asia and the Pacific at ANU, will deliver the ANU Archives annual lecture, 'Islands, Archives and Ancestors', on Thursday 14 November, 5.30-7.00pm in the McDonald Room, Menzies Library.

It is an in-person event.  Seating is limited.
Registration at:
https://archives.anu.edu.au/news/2024-anu-archives-annual-lecture-professor-katerina-teaiwa
Seating numbers are limited.
The lecture will be recorded and made available online after the event.
Refreshments will be served after the lecture.

Professor Katerina Teaiwa will reflect on her process of exploring several archives and collections connected to Australia's long history of phosphate mining in the central Pacific. Over two decades she has used creative methods to transform her research into textual, choreographic, visual and material forms that challenged colonial and extractive histories and narratives. Her interdisciplinary methods and activism are focused on repairing and safeguarding her ancestral island of Banaba in what is now Kiribati. Twenty-two million tonnes of Banaban phosphate were extracted over 80 years for Australian and New Zealand fertiliser production and farming, transforming the island into an industrial wasteland.

Ewan Maidment
FNBAC Secretary



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