[ANU Pacific.Institute] Invitation to Talei Mangioni's Pre-Submission Seminar - 1-2.30pm, Thursday, 4 September 2025

[Talei Mangioni]

Dear members of the Pacific Institute,

Please join the Pre Submission Presentation of CHL PhD student Talei MANGIONI.

Seminar type:    Pre-submission Seminar/Final Oral Presentation

Title:  Redio Niuklia Fri Pasifik: Critical and Creative Histories of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement

Time: 1pm - 2.30pm, Thursday, 4 September 2025 (Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney)

In-Person & Online via Zoom

Venue: Seminar Room D Coombs in the Coombs Building (Building 9), Australian National University

Zoom Meeting ID: 831 4613 3091

Passcode: 123456

Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/58kOrKDqQsqhtqSBS0ZWYQ

Abstract:  This creative thesis offers critical histories of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific movement from 1975 to 2006. Through audio documentary and exegesis, I trace how Pacific Islander activists generated a resonant grammar for nuclear abolition and collective liberation. This emerged from recurring conference gatherings and the sustained work of a robust, active and dedicated media and resources wing, which published conference proceedings, periodicals, and other educational materials. Shifting focus to explore the relationship between Pacific activist periodicals and radio stations in the Pacific, and the personal and solidarity networks that sustained them, I argue for a creative transdisciplinary and justice-inspired Pacific studies. This approach centres popular education and the historical struggles of grassroots peoples across Oceania. I contend that the efforts of these activists fostered a regionalism from below, that has shaped inspired and challenged regional leadership throughout this period.

Thanks and warm regards,

Talei
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/pacific.institute/attachments/20250827/5967808a/attachment.html>