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<div>Could you please circulate this seminar notice through the Pacific Institute. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks,</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr">Dr. Siobhan McDonnell</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> resource.management <resource.management-bounces@anu.edu.au> on behalf of RE&D news and events <resource.management@anu.edu.au><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 22, 2021 9:03:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> RE&D news and events <resource.management@anu.edu.au>; CAP - Crawford PhD Candidates <crawford.phd@anu.edu.au>; re-d-all@anu.edu.au <re-d-all@anu.edu.au>; Re-d.core@anu.edu.au <Re-d.core@anu.edu.au>; re-d.hdr@anu.edu.au <re-d.hdr@anu.edu.au><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Lawrence Bamblett <Lawrence.Bamblett@anu.edu.au>; Trish Tupou <Patricia.Tupou@anu.edu.au>; Leora Kava <lkava@sfsu.edu>; Noenoe Silva <noenoek@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [RE&D] Recasting Tongan Sovereignty: Land, Gender and Indigeneity 1230-1.30 1 July, 2021</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear all,</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black">Please join me for Trish </span>Tupou’s Thesis Proposal Review seminar titled ‘
<b><span style="color:black">Recasting Tongan Sovereignty: Land, Gender and Indigeneity</span>’</b>.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Allocated time</span></b><b>/<span style="color:black">date of seminar:<span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></b><span style="color:black">12.30-1.30PM, 1<sup>st</sup> of July, 2021 </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">This seminar will be held via zoom. Please find the zoom details for the seminar below.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">With thanks,</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Siobhan</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>Seminar Abstract:</b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.8pt"><span style="color:black">Explorations of sovereignty provide insights into the relationships between the nation state and her people. Tonga is often heralded as the only Pacific Island to have remained “sovereign,”
having avoided formal colonisation. However, this sovereignty relied upon the subjugation of women and women’s bodies, as well as the re-writing of Tonga’s Indigenous ontologies of land. In my thesis I examine how Tonga’s written historical canon has often
misrepresented women as mere appendages to independence; as a murdered priestess, or a strategic ‘giving away’ of one’s sister or daughter for marriage, or as only being in relationship with the land through the formalisation of land tenure via one’s husband.
These changes in Tonga’s religious and political landscape continue to endure through the 1875 Constitution and the 1927 Land Act, both still in use today. Utilising innovative Indigenous methods such as fananga (story telling), as a vehicle to animate gendered
connections to land, as well as renegotiating the tâ vâ (time and space) of our Tongan diaspora communities I recast our understanding of Tongan sovereignty and ask, what does it mean to be a Tongan sovereign woman? How and why have women and women’s bodies
continued to threaten the validity of Tongan sovereignty and independence? And how do embodied archives of stories challenge the erasures of colonial legacies and the mapping of this violence onto ontologies of land? </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="color:black">Seminar chair: </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black">Dr. Siobhan McDonnell </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="color:black">Panel members:<span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black">Dr. Lawrence Bamblett (ANU), Professor Noenoe Silva (University of Hawai’i at Mânoa), Dr. Leora (Lee) Kava (San Francisco State University) </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Topic: Patricia (Trish) Tupou TPR Seminar</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Time: Jul 1, 2021 12:30 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney</span></p>
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