Mo'na: Our Pasts Before Us

22nd Pacific History Association Conference

May 19-21, 2016

Guam, Mariana Islands

 

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The Pacific History Association invites scholars to participate in the 22nd PHA Conference from May 19-21, 2016, in Guam, Mariana Islands.  PHA members include scholars doing research in the fields of history, anthropology, social sciences, literature, music, language, education, indigenous studies, cultural studies, and in other fields significant in Oceania’s history. We therefore sincerely welcome worldwide scholars interested in similar issues to participate in the conference and exchange ideas.

 

The conference theme, “Mo’na: Our Pasts Before Us,” invokes Pan-Pacific ways of negotiating the past, present, and future that blur conventional western notions of History as linear, progressive and finite. With this theme, we also seek out linkages to the Festival of Pacific Arts which Guam will host immediately following our conference.

 

Conference Registration through the conference website will commence on Sept. 15, 2015, with early registration continuing through Feb. 29, 2016.  The Early Registration fee is US$200, while Early Student Registration is US$100.  Late Registration, open from Mar. 1 – May 5, 2016, will include fees of US$250 for general registrants and US$150 for students.

 

PHA is also pleased to welcome the Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on Music and Dance of Oceania, a Non-Governmental Organization in formal consultative relations with UNESCO.  Those interested in presenting papers related to Oceania's music and dance traditions are invited to submit abstracts to PHA, while also contacting Brian Diettrich (brian.diettrich@vuw.ac.nz) for more information.

 

Paper abstracts may be submitted for inclusion in one of the conference's general sessions or in one of the specific panels listed below. To be considered for possible inclusion in one of these panels, please email the panel chairperson(s) directly for more information, or identify your panel preference on the Abstract Submission form. 

 

Submission for Abstracts has now Closed

 

Panel Title	Panel Chairperson(s) and Contact Information
Pacific Presences: Oceanic Art and European Museums	Julie Adams, The British Museum, JAdams@britishmuseum.org Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge
Not By Food Alone: Uses and Meanings of Pacific Coconuts	Judith A. Bennett, University of Otago, judy.bennett@otago.ac.nz
Reflections on Nationalism(s) in Oceania: Global Influences and Indigenous Perspectives	David Chappell, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, dchappel@hawaii.edu
Continuing Legacies of the Pacific War: Histories, Memories, and Rituals of Remembrance	Andrew Connelly, Australian National Univ, andrew.connelly@anu.edu.au Matthew Kelly, Archaeological and Heritage Mgmt, MKelly@ahms.com.au Ryota Nishino, University of the South Pacific, ryota.nishino@usp.ac.fj
Chant in Guåhan and Across the Pacific	Ojeya Cruz Banks, University of Otago, ojeya.cruzbanks@otago.ac.nz Dakota Alcantara-Camacho, dakotacamacho@gmail.com
Militatarization in the Pacific	Vicente M. Diaz, University of Minnesota, vmdiaz@umn.edu
Music and Dance of Oceania Symposium: International Council for Traditional Music	Brian Diettrich, Victoria University of Wellington, brian.diettrich@vuw.ac.nz
Trans-Pacific Movements in Mission and Church	Helen Gardner, Deakin University, helen.gardner@deakin.edu.au Jane Samson, University of Alberta, jane.samson@ualberta.ca
The Future of the Past: Mâori History in Contemporary Reflections	Aroha Harris, University of Auckland, a.harris@auckland.ac.nz
The Pacific War, Decolonization, and Community	Devan Jensen, Brigham Young University, devan_jensen@byu.edu Hiagi Wesley, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, hiagi.wesley@byuh.edu
Indigenous Knowledge and Contemporary Development: Experience from Taiwan	Da-wei Kuan, National Cheng-Chi University, daya@nccu.edu.tw
Navigating Marshall Islands Histories	Monica LaBriola, University of Hawai`i-West O`ahu, labriola@hawaii.edu
Neglected and Forgotten Diseases In the Pacific Islands	Jacqueline Leckie, University of Otago, jacqui.leckie@otago.ac.nz
Micronesia During Spanish Colonial Times: New Readings of Old Sources	Carlos Madrid, Instituto Cervantes de Manila, cmadridap@hotmail.com
Revitalizing Pacific Library and Archive Collections	Kylie Moloney, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, kylie.moloney@anu.edu.au Eleanor Kleiber, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, ekleiber@hawaii.edu
History as 'Making the Future Now' through Pacific Video and Performance Art	Moana Nepia, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, nepia@hawaii.edu
Uruon Chuuk: Restoring Micronesian Voices to Micronesian Histories	Gonzaga (Zag) Puas, Australian National University, zag_lewis@yahoo.com Paul D’Arcy, Australian National University, paul.darcy@anu.edu.au
Photographing the Pacific	Max Quanchi, University of the South Pacific, quanchi_a@usp.ac.fj
Teaching Pacific History – or, how to absorb new themes and paradigms	Max Quanchi, University of the South Pacific, quanchi_a@usp.ac.fj
History, Independence, and the Recent Past in  Papua New Guinea	Alex Golub, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, golub@hawaii.edu Jonathan Ritchie, Deakin Univ, jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Tattoo and Gender in the Pacific, Yesterday and Today	Serge Tcherkezoff, Center for Pacific Studies in France: CREDO, serge@pacific-dialogues.fr Sebastien Galliot, CREDO, sinapati@gmail.com Sean Mallon, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, seanm@tepapa.govt.nz
Indigenous Micronesian and Pacific Feminist Historiography	Teresia Teaiwa, Victoria Univ of Wellington, Teresia.Teaiwa@vuw.ac.nz Tina Taitano DeLisle, University of Minnesota, ctdelisle@gmail.com Vicente M. Diaz, University of Minnesota, vmdiaz@umn.edu
Afro-Diasporic Women Artists on History and Blackness in the Pacific	Teresia Teaiwa, Victoria University of Wellington, Teresia.Teaiwa@vuw.ac.nz Ojeya Cruz Banks, University of Otago, ojeya.cruzbanks@otago.ac.nz Alisha Lola Jones, Indiana University, jonesall@indiana.edu
Oceanic Masculinities in Island/er Pasts and Presents	James Viernes, University of Guam, james.viernes@gmail.com
Histories that Matter: The Past, Present, and Future of China in the Pacific	Terence Wesley-Smith, Univ of Hawai`i at Mānoa, twsmith@hawaii.edu

 

Moana Nepia, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa

nepia@hawaii.edu