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Download Conference Book 目次 Contents 會議介紹與歡迎詞 Conference Introduction and Welcome Remarks 1 會議議程 Agenda 3 專題演講 Keynote Speeches 13 會議論文摘要 Presentation Abstracts 19 December 3 21 Roundtable: Path (conference theme) 21 Engagements, Narratives and Impacts of WWII 22 Comparative Colonialism: Colonial Regimes Across the Pacific 26 Crossing Divides: Movements of People and Objects in Contemporary Taiwan 29 Pan‐Pacific Indigenous Resource Management: Part 1 33 Genres of Articulation: Cultural Nationalism and Beyond 37 Colonial Encounters as Contact Zone 40 Micronesia History & Identity 42 Reconsidering Asian Diasporas in the Pacific 45 Outreach Teaching & Appropriate Education Models for Pacific Communities 48 Climate Change, Disasters & Pacific Agency 52 Contestations and Negotiations of History and Landscape 56 Studying History Through Music 58 December 5 61 Visualization and Exhibition of Nature and Culture in the Pacific 61 Pan‐Pacific Indigenous Resource Management: Part 2 64 Methodologies & Themes in Reconstructing Hidden Cultural Histories 68 The Rise and Fall of Denominations 71 Pacific Transnationalism: Welcome, Rejection, Entanglement: Part 1 74 Special Event: Exchanging Reflections on Ethnographic Filming 77 Rethinking Relations to Land 78 Pacific Transnationalism: Welcome, Rejection, Entanglement: Part 2 82 ‘Swift Injustice’: Punitive Expeditions in East Asia and the Western Pacific: Part 1 85 Fluid Frontiers: Oceania & Asia in Historical Perspectice: Part 1 88 Iconicity, Performance & Consumption of Culture & Ethnicity 91 Historicizing Gender and Power Relations in the Pacific 93 The Growth of Mormonism in the Pacific Rim: Samoa, Taiwan, Micronesia, and Indonesia 96 ‘Swift Injustice’: Punitive Expeditions in East Asia and the Western Pacific: Part 2 99 Fluid Frontiers: Oceania & Asia in Historical Perspectice: Part 2 102 Genealogies and Alternative Histories 106 December 6 109 Asian & Pacific Origins and Intimacies 109 Working with Christianity: Language, Place and Identity 113 Revisiting Histories of International Relation & Rethinking the Future in Pacific‐Asia Connections 116 The Paths of Plants & Animals and Their Implications 119 Contemporary Micronesia 121 Pan‐Pacific Indigenous Resource Management: Part 3 123 Migration of Rice: Cultivation and Co‐evolutionary Cultural Systems 126 Classification & Mobility of Persons & Boundaries 130 Libraries, Museums & Archives 132 Tā‐Vā: Toward a Moana “Time‐Space” Theory of Reality 134 部落參訪 Cultural Tours 137 附錄 Appendix 141 會議籌辦單位 Organizing Committee 143 發表人與主持人名單 List of Presenters & Chairs 151 會議場地資訊 Venue Information 156 會議交通資訊 Traffic Information 160 住宿資訊 Accommodation Information 161 一般資訊 Useful Information 162 常用日常會話翻譯 Useful Phrases for Visitors in Taiwan 164 台灣原住民族問候語 Greetings in Formosan Indigenous Languages 166 南島語同源詞 Cognate Words in Austronesian Languages 166 會議介紹與歡迎詞 Conference Introduction and Welcome Remarks Lalan, Chalan, Tala, Ara (Path)‐‐Reconnecting Pacific‐Asia Histories The 21st biennial conference of the Pacific History Association takes place in Taiwan, the island on the pathway of Austronesian migrations to the Pacific. Since the 17th century, Taiwan has reconnected to the Pacific through trading activities; and has also experienced multiple colonial regimes, and participated in World War Two as a Japanese colony. Recently, growing ties between Pacific Island communities and Asia make this a good time to reflect on the journeys our ancestors have traveled, and to further reconnect Pacific‐Asian histories. The theme of the conference is “Lalan, Chalan, Tala, Ara (Path)‐‐Reconnecting Pacific‐Asia Histories”. In Proto‐Austronesian, *zalan refers to path, way or means to do something. Cognate forms which are widely found throughout the Pacific such as lalan/dalan (Taiwan, Southeast Asia), chalan (Chamorro), tala (Solomon Islands) and ara/ala (Polynesia) are some examples that exhibit the strong connections of people and places since ancestral times. The path originates from the past, and points to the future; it links tradition to the present; and it denotes both history and future prospects as an inter‐linked whole. Three prominent scholars─Judith Bennett, Sun Da‐chuan (Paelabang Danapan) and Francis X. Hezel—will deliver keynote speeches as anchors of the conference. From encompassing and envisioning perspectives they map and remap the world. Panels and research papers in the conference explore Pacific‐Asia histories from numerous approaches. Some highlights include the discussions of linking Pacific and Asia from prehistoric to contemporary era, colonial regimes and various actors, genres of historical memories and alternative histories, indigenous knowledge and dynamic engagements with the environment, religious encounters, ethnographic filming and music, and new advancement and innovations in research and teaching of history. There are three venues for this conference. For the first part of the conference we convene at the National Taiwan University campus, located in Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan. We then travel to Taitung to be closer to the indigenous communities for the second part of the conference. Sessions will take place in the campus of the National Taitung University, and we close the conference at the National Museum of Prehistory. Located in southeast Taiwan, Taitung is famous for its rich Austronesian cultures and the beautiful scenery between coastal mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Tours to Austronesian villages, archaeological sites and the Prehistoric Museum, and presentations of cultural performances are also included in the conference agenda. We hope this journey would be a 1 great opportunity for visiting and local participants to engage in intellectual and cultural sharing and exchanges. We need to know our path(s) in the past in order to find our way(s) to the future. Through this conference, we hope that the study of Pacific history will pave new paths of connections, and generate creative prospects and possibilities. Pei‐yi Guo President of Taiwan Society for Pacific Studies Associate Research Professor Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 2 會議議程 Agenda December 3 (Wed) Time Panel / activity Location 8:30‐9:00 Registration GIS NTU Room A 9:00‐9:30 Opening GIS NTU Moderator: Yuan‐chao Tung Room A 9:30‐10:30 Keynote GIS NTU Judith Bennett Room A The Pacific: Worlds within Worlds Chair: Jacqueline Leckie 10:30‐10:50 Break 10:50‐12:20 Roundtable: Path (conference theme) GIS NTU Organizer & Chair: Pei‐yi Guo Room A Discussants: Daya Da‐wei Kuan, Teresia Teaiwa, Anne Perez Hattori, Yi‐tze Lee, Chieh‐fu Jeff Cheng Engagements, Narratives and Impacts of WWII GIS NTU Chair: Shi‐chi Mike Lan Room C 1. Shingo Iitaka Mining, Bombing, and Touring: Dark Tourism and War Memory in Palau 2. Hiromitsu Iwamoto Memories and Realities of Japanese Occupation of New Guinea 3. Jillian Thiele Seventh‐day Adventist Solomon Islanders Contribution to WW2 4. Shi‐chi Mike Lan Path of War, Path of Memory: Taiwanese in the Pacific/War Comparative Colonialism: Colonial Regimes Across the Pacific GIS NTU Chair: Weichung Cheng Room D 1. Stephanie Mawson Convicts or Conquistadors? Seventeenth Century Migrations of Spanish Soldiers across the Pacific 2. Juan Ignacio Toro Escudero From the Spanish Colony to the “International Settlement”, the British Colonial Empire and Portuguese Reminiscences in Eastern Asia: Antonio Ramos Espejo and the Begining of Cinema in China and the Philippines 3. Grant McCall Colonialism and Autonomy in Hispanonesia: The Case of Rapanui (Easter Island) 4. 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