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NEWSLETTER Of THE CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I April-June 2005
INSIDE Distinguished Artist for 2004. During his residency in April News in Brief ...... 2 of2004, he showed films of Black Grace performances and CPIS Hosts Extemal Reviewers ...... 2 de-scribed his own evolution as a dancer and the passion and F LAS F ellowsliips A warded ...... 2 soul that infuses the dancers in his company. 1-J.e also described his work with young people in the Auckland Meller Award S11bmiS$iolls Solicited ...... 2 community. Culture Moves! Dance in Oceania ...... 3 Indigenous Encounters: Grad Papers ltivited .... 3 Black Grace's appearance in Honolulu is coordinated by A Conversation with Filmmaker Sima Urale . .. 3 the Community Services Department of the UHM Outreach HAA to Host Pacific Exhibition ...... 6 College. It is supported in part by the East-West Center Arts Pacific Scholars Attend Caribbean Conference . 7 Program and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Occasional Seminars and Presentations ...... 7 Tickets may be purchased starting 26 September from any Visitors to tire Center ...... 8 UH ticket outlet, online at
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Pacific News from Manoa April-June 2005 of Pacific peoples and cultures, the universality of human experience." CPIS HOSTS EXTERNAL REVIEW Avia has Lraveled widely, and her travels to places such as In April 2005, as part of its regular review process. the staff Sydney, London, Russia, and Siberia have had a profound and faculty of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies hosted an impact on her writing. Earlier this year she traveled to external review team composed of Brij V Lal (professor and Christchurch, New Z.Caland, to be Pacific Artist-in-Residence former head of Pacific and Asian History in the Research at the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian Canterbury University. As part of her residency at the Center National University), Karen Nero (director of the Macmillan for Pacific Islands Studies, Avia will give a public Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of performance. Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand), and Robert Underwood (former acaderrtic vice president of the NEWS IN BRIEF University of Guam). The team, which spent a week at the center, met with Native Hawaiian Law Center Established core and affiliate faculty and staff, graduate and undergraduate The UHM Richardson School of Law received a federal grant students, university admmistrators, and the director and staff of approximately $600,000 to establish a Center for of the Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law. The center's primary Center. They were asked to look at the center's programs, focus will be education, research, and the preservation of funding. and structure, as well as its articulation with other invaluable historical, legal, traditional, and customary university and regional programs. Center faculty, staff, and materials. The center will also be doing extensive community students will review the team's comments and ouLreach work throughout Hawai 'i. It will offer new courses recommendations over the course of the coming year. The and encourage and support Native Hawaiian law students as center's last external review was in 1999. In addition to the they pursue legal careers and leadership roles. The center's external review, the university conducts its own internal director is Melody Kapilialoha MacKenLie. review of the center's programs every five years. New Brochure Describes CPIS Programs The Center for Pacific Islands Studies recently updated its FLAS FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED program brochure. The 20-page color brochure features The Center for Pacific Islands Studies awarded four Foreign information and photos of the center, its core and affiliate Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for the faculty, and its student, publications, and outreach programs, 2005-2006 acaderrtic year. This Pacific fellowship is made as well as the Pacific Collection at Hamilton Library. To possible by a grant to the center from the US Department of request a free copy of the brochure, send an e-mail to Edu.cation. It is designed for graduate students enrolled. at UH cpis@hawaii.edu. Manoa who arc combining language Lraining with area studies. The new awardees are • Shawn Barnes, an anthropology student doing research The Center for Pacific Islands Stu.dies on ancient human interactions in the Pacific, focusing on School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies Samoa; University of Hawai'i at Miinoa 1890 East-West Roa.ti • Alexander Morrison, an anthropology student conducting Honolulu, HJ 96822 USA research on historic preservation issues and policies in Phone: (808) 956-7700 Samoa and American Samoa; Fax: (808) 956-7053 e-mail: [email protected] Kevin Riddle, a Pacific Islands studies student who is David Hanlon, Director studying Samoan and hopes to work with non Letitia Hickson, Editor governmental organizations in the Pacific; and The newsletter can be rea.d online at: • Kelley Esch, an anthropology student studying the http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/Newsletter.htm Items in this 11ewsle1ter may be freely reprinted. conservation of natural and cultural resources in Tahiti. Acknowledgment of the source would be appreciated. To receive the newsletter electronically, contact the editor at the MELLER AW ARD SUBMISSIONS e-mail address above. The University of Hawai'i at Manoa is an The Norman Meller Research Award of $250 is given Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution. annually to the best MA research paper at UH Manoa that is in the social sciences or humanities and focuses on the 2
t I • Pacific News from Manoa April-June 2005 Pacific Islands. Both Plan A theses and Plan B research papers and portfolios are eligible. Submissions may be made GRADUATE STUDENT SUBMISSIONS by students or by nominations from the faculty, and are not INVITED FOR INDIGENOUS limited to students in the Pacific Islands studies MA ENCOUNTERS program. The UH Center for Pacific Islands Studies invites graduate Dr Norman Meller. a political scientist and founding students to submit works to Indigenous Encounters: director of the center who passed away several years ago, Exploring Relations Between People in the Pacific, as part of bequeathed the gift to the center that makes this award the center's Occasional Paper Series. While much of Pacific possible. To be eligible for the next award, papers completed studies scholarship is framed in terms of the relations during the 2004-2005 academic year must be submitted by between indigenous peoples and colonizers, or between the 30 September 2005 lo Prof. David Hanlon. Center for Pacific West and the Islands, Jndige11ous Encounters seeks to Islands Studies, 1890 East-West Road, Moore Hall #215, highlight the relationships, exchanges, and interactions Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822. between those who live in the Islands. This includes indigenous, local, migrant, and other populations inhabiting CULTURE MOVES! DANCE IN Oceania. The goal of the collection is to have a constructive OCEANIA FROM HIVA TO HIP HOP conversation about what it means to inhabit this ocean and to You will want to mark your calendars to be in Wellington, be part of an imagined Pacific community, given our specific New Zealand, for the conference "Culture Moves! Dance in histories and contemporary experiences. Oceania from Hiva to Hip Hop," 9-12 November 2005. The Submissions should be no more than 4,000 words and conference, which will be held at the Museum of New should initially be sent electronically. The center welcomes Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, will feature three evenings of works in the form of poetry, fiction, research articles, performances and two days of panels, followed by a full day dialogue, interviews. photos, artwork. and any other form of of free-of-charge performances by New 2.ealand Pacific publishable exploration of the theme, produced by graduate community groups. who will perform throughout the scudents of any background throughout the region and within museum. the international Pacific studies community. The deadline is Dr Epeli Hau'ofa, founding director of the Oceania Centre 21 October 2005. For a detailed list of submission for Arts and Culture, Universily of the South Pacific, Suva. guidelines, please contact the volume editor. Katerina Martina Fiji, and Dr Adrienne Kaepplcr. dance ethnologist. Museum Teaiwa, by e-mail at [email protected] or by telephone at of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Washington 808-956-7700. DC, will be the conference keynote speakers. A dance notation workshop, a popping and locking master class, and a A CONVERSATION WITH contemporary dance master class will be held in conjunction FILMAKER SIMA URALE with the conference. Filmmaker Sima Urale was the Fulbrighr-Creative New For general enquiries, please contact conference 7.ealand Writer-in-Residence at the Center for Pacific Islands adminiscrator Belinda Findlay-Weepu at culturemoves Studies in 2004. On 28 September'she gave a public talk, showed clips ofher work, and answered questions from the [email protected]. For inquiries regarding the program, audience. The following are excerpts from her presentation. please contact Katerina Teaiwa at [email protected] or April Henderson at [email protected]. For enquiries on I was born on the island of Savai'i in Samoa in a village the Documenting the Dance panel and the dance costume called Fagamalo at a time when there was no electricity. It exhibition, please contact Sean Mallon at was very traditional, and it still is-no electricity, no fridges. [email protected]. The conference Web site is We were born and raised in a traditionalfale that my dad
After Velvet Dreams, £guess people just expected me to What kind of obstacles did you have to overcome do Pacific Island stories. Well I didn't want lhem to put me as a woman filmmaker? in a box there, either. To prove to them lhat I can direct It's funny, but I did a radio interview live with another stories other than Pacific island [stories], I wrote a script woman who was interviewing me about 0 Taimairi. She about the elderly. I had a white couple in it. And that film posed a feminist question to me. She presumed that I would was called Still Life. That was to show people I can have strong feminist ideas, and I totally went quiet. I didn't empathize, that I know what the issues are-whether you're know how to reply to her. She presumed that my family was white, green, from Mars or whatever, or Samoan- I can strongly patriarchal, and after a pause, live on the air, I said make these films and do them just as well as anyone else. "Sorry, I can't understand your question because for one My career, a lot of it, is actually centered on trying to break thing, my father is my mother." You pose a question like out from the mold and trying to prove myself against what that and presume that someone has grown up unequal when, people expect of me, one, as a Pacific Islander. and, two. as a in fact, it's quite opposite in my family. My father was the woman. maternal one who gave us hugs and kisses and the rest of it. And my mother was the breadwinner. So we had done role Why did you shoot 0 Tamaiti in black-and-white? reversal years before anyone else caught on. And that was in I was just telling a class today. the movie Once Were the village! So some things to do with women's issues I can Warriors had just come out. It was a powerful, moving understand, but sometimes not fully support, because my movie about domestic violence, 1101 Maori people, which is a family is quite unconventional anyway. really universal issue. . . I, myself. got asked all the time But overcoming obstacles as a woman? Definitely in the when I was in Australia or Hawai'i, if we were like that all film industry back then there were a lot of men, but in the lhe time. Maori were lumped like that-Polynesians, Pacific last five years, a lot of women filmmakers are coming up. Islanders-the next thing you know, everyone thought lhat They're producing. they're directing-it's been amuing. Jane we all looked like that. that we were all alcoholics partying Campion has helped, and other filmmakers. . . It is really away and bashing up our kids. I think it's a powerful. quite strong in New Zealand, and I think internationally too, moving film; the mistake is that the audience took that film because women come out with different types of stories. I to be because it was so powerful. it. noticed even in film school, that boys will be boys! To be When !hat film came out. l knew that whatever I made quite honest, women were actually more confrontational and had to try and move away from that particular film. With 0 dealt with deep-seated issues much more. Women bring a Taimaiti. mstead of doing the realism in Once Were Warriors. different sensitivity to filmmaking that men don't necessarily 1 did the opposite. 1 intentionally made 0 Taimaili artsy have, although I must say there are some amazing male fartsy (laughs). Once Were Warriors is all in color. I made filmmakers out there. As far as myself personally, I don't 0 Taimaiti black-and-white. Once Were Warriors is quite think I've ever had an obstacle, really, doing what I do. Yes, graphic with its violence. You see people punching each I do often deal with white males who are much older than me, other, blood going everywhere, like most action films, but but I don't have a problem with that. In fact, it's a bonus. for O Taima1ri l decided to use suggestive shooting, not What are you working on ndw? showing the violence. J shot a lot of objects being broken, This particular project I'm working on is called Moana, for glass being smashed, but intercut in between was the little the moment, a working title. The story is about a Pacific boy's face, and that shows the audience that violence is Island family who have never been back home, don't speak happening all around the boy, without [their) having to see !heir language anymore, and are in the lower socioeconomic it. I did it opposite to Once Were Warriors so that audiences level. It's about one of the little girls wanting to be a writer. could see that there are different ways of tackling issues. r She becomes a storyteller and forms stories of her family and didn't want to see people get too focused on domestic of gods !hat she's heard of. She wants to keep the stories violence. but just Lo look at the relationships of siblings 10 alive. but there's no way she can do it because these gods are one anolher, and that it is more important to look at how dying. The only way she can [keep them alive) is through children look after one another, and the huge responsibility writing. Writing is a way of trying to save your culture, in that adults place on children .... Because there are not many other words-trying to save your traditions and culture. The of us out there representing us, or there are not many films way to do it today is to try and write, and that· s what she out there, it's the kind of things that I think we as a minority does at the end of the film. The gods come through in her have to think about all the time. And it's not somelhing we imagination. The gods intertwine and come into can ignore. I'm always conscious of what's been done before contemporary today and affect her everyday life.... It's a and where we want to go in the future. cross between Lord o.f the Rings and the reality-not the 5 Pacific News from Manoa April-June 2005 issue, the ~-of Once Were Warriors. I'm trying to Samoans and my aunts love to go back home and love to blend those two together. that the old gods come back into write about that, love to reminisce about it, love to explore the real world, into this reality. what island life is like and living there, but personally 1 can't What do people in Samoa think of your films? quite do that. I don't think I ever will. I think 1 will stay PIC [Pacific Islanders in Communications) and I rook some within a western context and western ways of storytelling films to Pago. We showed the films around different because I find that's the wa) I can express myself best and villages. The reaction was good. Basically I'm a westernized not in a traditional village sense. I've become detached-not Pacific Islander, and I know that. I'm no longer the village detached, but I've had certain bonds cut off from what 1 am at kid whO grew up in the village. Sometimes it's a mistake to home. think that [people in the village) would accept what I accept. Have Maori opened the door for Pacific Islanders I'm well aware that they won't necessarily accept what I in film ? make because I'm a totally different person from Maori theatre and film have definitely paved the way and them- different views, politically very different. They made things easier for the rest of us to follow. They've enjoyed the films, but one comment was, "Why do you have opened more doors than we Pacific Islanders like to admit. .. to make negative films about us?" That was a really good . There was no Pacific Islander who had gone to Melbourne thing to say because no culture wants to look bad. But if we and applied for film school. I was the only Brown person in keep making nice films all the time ... J don't know. I'm the whole school. Sometimes you just have to stop thinking well aware of how my people want to be perceived, as little about color and just go do it because it's all about your angels that never hun their kids. But at the same time, you talent. People need to get a bit more confidence and self need to break out of what society wants, and in the end esteem to go out there and just do what they want to. you've got to be true to yourself and do the story that you Sometimes you need to ignore and put aside the cultural want to tell. issues and the racial issues, and just get on with it to obtain How do you work with editors, cinematographers, some of those skills and knowledge. You can get all hopped and others on your films? up and ... next thing you know, we're all fighting each I'm a complete control freak. Those cinematographers. I tell other and not going anywhere. But having a lot of self them exactly what to point at and how to frame it, and what's confidence and self-esteem is important. Where do you get in the shot. Some directors don't work like that. I warn them that? You get that by finding some pnde in your culture and before I work with them, "Keep in mind, I'm a complete your people and having role models. It's a bit of a vicious control freak. I'm going to tell you what to point at." I cycle in that you need role models in the first place. l think think for me it's because ... maybe I'm too egotistical, I it's a wonderful. exciting time for all of us. The industry in don't know (laughs). I love literalizing the entire productton. New Zealand at the moment is just amazing .... There are knowing what the lights look like, what it's going to look so many stories to explore and so many gaps to fill. There like, shaping wardrobe, everything. The wonderful thing are not just two films out there, there will be more, and the about cinematographers and editors, people that you work more that are out there, the more people will understand with, is that I always make sure I get ones who can tell me about us. Filmmaking is a way of reaching across to the to my face, because if they're scared of me and can't say what other side of the world. they want, what a bummer. I lose out because they're not prepared to put in their thoughts and bounce off me. They HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS TO are really good for feedback. I've had editors tell me I'm HOST PACIFIC EXHIBITION wrong, and it's true. It's all part of sharing and talking about ideas. But the bottom line is I know that I'm going to get The Honolulu Academy of Arts will present an exhibition of my cut, and that's it. Pacific objects collected during the voyages of Captain James Would you ever consider making a film in Cook between 1768 and 1779. "Life in lhe Pacific of the S amoa? 1700s: The Cook/Forster Collection of the George August University of Gottingen" will run between 23 February and To be quite honest with you, doing a film back home for me, 14 May 2006. The exhibition items, which until now have personally, is probably the touchiest, hardest thing for me to been available only for private study purposes at the do-hardest for me because I left Samoa when I was little. university in Gottingen, represent the most comprehensive So to go back and try and recapture something that isn't me presentation of eighteenth-century cultural objects from the anymore, I'm afrajd that it won't be very truthful because Pacific ever presented in Hawai'i or the Pacific. The now I am a Pacific Islander who loves movies, loves to go exhibition will present some 500 objects from New Zealand, nightclubbing, and loves to do western things. Other 6 Tonga, Tahiti and the Society Islands, the Marquesas. Pacific News from Manoa April-June 2005 Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides), New Caledonia, (UWl-St. Augustine), Dr Patsy Lewis (UWI-Mona), Hawai' i. and the Northwest Coast of America. Most of the Dr Carolyn Cooper (UWJ-Mona), Dr Matthew Smith objects are from Tonga, Tahiti, and New Zealand. (UWI-Mona), and Dr Biman Chand Prasad (USP). For more The academy plans an educational program of lectures, information, see the IOG Web site, performances, films, and other related activities as part of this
PACIFIC SCHOLARS ATTEND THE CENTER OCCASIONAL SEMINARS CARIBBEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION AND PRESENTATIONS CONFERENCE The Center for Pacific Islands Studies cosponsored three From 30 May through 4 June, members of the EWC-UHM Pacific talks in April that were part of the UHM Department Islands of Globalization (IOG) project joined faculty from the of Anthropology Colloquium Series. Yuko Otsuka, a UHM University of the South Pacific (USP) and the University of assistant professor of linguistics, gave a talk, "Tongan as an the West Indies (UWI) at the Caribbean Studies Association Endangered Language? A New Look at Language Conference in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. CPIS Endangerment in Polynesia," on 7 April. Dominica faculty Terence Wesley-Smith and Katerina Teaiwa and other Tolentino. a PhD candidate in the Department of members of the IOG team conducted two sessions featuring Anthropology, gave a talk, '"/ Famalao'an yan i hinennge panelists speaking about the IOG project. They introduced siha': The Role of the Techa in Chamorro Catholic Culture Caribbeanists to the diversity of the Pacific Islands, reflected on Guam," on 14 April. On 21 April, Alex Golub, a PhD on personal experiences with both regions, explored common candidate in anthropology at the University of Chicago, gave themes and issues relevant to both areas, and discussed a talk, "'Their Traditions Are Intact, Even after Civilization': possible future collaborative opportunities. In addition, the How Mining Executives Imagine Traditional Papua New IOG project presented a featured talk by Dr Epeli Hau'ofa on Guinean Society, and What We Can Do about It." his own experiences in both regions, his thinking and writing On 6 May, Peter Ninnes, a visiting colleague at the about issues of globalization and culture, and his current Center for Pacific Islands Studies from University of New work at the USP Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture. England in Arrnidale, Australia, gave a talk titled "Building Participants saw the conference as a highly effective Peace in Bougainville: Gender, Development, and Education means of solidifying relationships and linkages between for Post-Conflict Recovery." Ninnes, who is coordinator of people and institutions in the Pacific Islands and the the Centre for Research on Education in Context, in the Caribbean. A core group of interested scholars have School of Education at the University of New England, has committed to moving these linkages forward and continuing been analyzing the work of a grassroots NGO, the Leitana discussions about future collaboration. One tangible Nehan Women's Development Agency, which is working outcome was the commitment to explore the creation of a toward peace and reconciliation in Bougainville, Papua New professional Pacific and Caribbean Studies Association. Guinea. Islands of Globalization, a collaborative research and Reina Whaitiri, a visiting colleague with the UH Manoa instructional project of the East-West Center's Pacific Islands Department of English, gave a talk on 4 May, "Poetry: The Development Program (PIDP) and the UH Center for Pacific Art of Pasifika." Whaitiri, who is of Kaitabu, Waitaha, and Islands Studies, is funded by the Ford Foundation. The Katimamoe descent from the South Island of Aotearoa New project seeks to enhance understandings of the origins, nature, Zealand and who teaches English at the University of and consequences of globalization from the perspective of Auckland, argued for a reconsideration of Pacific forms of small island societies and in the context of changing notions poetry and the engagement that young people and students, in of "islandness." The project team is establishing particular, have with these forms of poetry. collaborative relationships with educational institutions in On June 9, the center cosponsored a talk by Julian the Pacific and Caribbean to explore linkages between the Burger, coordinator of the Indigenous and Minorities Unit al regions and develop shared curricula. the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for In addition to Drs Wesley-Smith and Teaiwa, core Human Rights. Burger described the evolution of the UN members of the IOG team include Dr Jerry Finin (PIDP), programs and offices focusing on indigenous peoples, Scott Kroeker (PJDP and CPIS alumnus), Dr Esther Figueroa culminating in the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. (Juniroa Productions), Monique Wedderburn (PIDP), Dr Burger was hosted by the Department of Anthropology's Hamid Ghani (UWI-St Augustine), Dr Patricia Mohammed 7 ·---~ -
Pacific News from Minoa April-June 2005 indigenous anthropology class, taught by Lahela Perry, CPIS Yung-Sen Yang, Center for Teachers' Education, certificate student. National Taitung Universicy, Republic of China • Kuei-Jung Yu. Bunun Tribe, Center of Indigenous VISITORS TO THE CENTER Education and Research, National Taitung University, Republic of China. Among the visitors lo the center during the period April through June 2005 were FACULTY ACTMTIES • Russell Benjamin, Department of Political Science, Northeastern Illinois University Most of the CPIS faculty and staff will attend the sixth • Ju-Hui Chang, Department of Elementary Education, conference of European Society for Oceanists (ESfO), National Taitung University, Republic of China "Pacific Challenges: Questioning Concepts, Rethinking Conflicts," in Marseille, France, 6-8 July 2005. David • Beverly Chutaro, College of the Marshall Islands Hanlon's paper is "Making History and Connections Amid • Ross Cordy, Hawaiian and Pacific Studies Program, the Silence." Katerina Teaiwa's paper is "Choreographing University of Hawai'i- West O'ahu Regionalism: Dance Politics in the Pacific." Terence Wesley • Kathy Czar, Seabury Hall School, Maui Smith's paper is "The Limits of Self-Determination: • Cheryl Gibbs, International Education Programs Service, Conflict, State Failure, and Regional Intervention in US Department of Education Oceania." Jan Rensel 's paper (with Alan Howard) is • Brett Graham, Artist, Aotearoa New Zealand "Presenting Rotuma to the World: The Making of The !.And • Michael Howard. Department of Anthropology, Simon Has Eyes." Fraser University, Canada Vilsoni Hereniko's film The !.And Has Eyes will also be • Chen-Wen Hsieh. Amis Tribe. Center of Indigenous shown at the conference. The film was declared the winner of Education and Research, National Taitung University, the Premiere Festival Prize for the best overall entry in the Republic of China inaugural Wairoa Maori Film Festival in Aotearoa New • Tung-Hsing Hsiung, Dean of Teacher's College, Zealand. The award, sponsored by the National Geographic National Taitung University, Republic of China All Roads Film Project, was presented to Hereniko at the festival's awards ceremony on 4 June. Hereniko also attended • Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen, Norway the Shanghai International Film Festival award ceremony on Takiora Ingram, Pacific Writers' Connection, Hawai'i • 19 June, where his film was in competition. Of the 200 • Brij Lal, Department of Pacific and Asian History, international feature films scheduled to screen in Shanghai, Australian National University only 15 were selected for competition. • Lamont Lindstrom, Department of Anthropology, Tulsa Over the summer Katerina Teaiwa is participating in University presentations and discussions on Pacific migration with .Brij Fono McCarthy, Department of Art, Auckland Lal (ANU) and Max Quanchi (Queensland University of University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand Technology) in Salzburg and Vienna, sponsored by the • Brian Macdonald-Milne, Corpus Christi College, Austrian South Pacific Society. She is also giving a Cambridge University, United Kingdom presentation at the "Middle Passages" conference in Perth. • Karen Nero. Director, Macmillan Brown Centre for Australia, titled "Triona, Triaster, Tri-Ellis, Trienza, Triadic: Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Home, Land, and the Ships of the British Phosphate Zealand Company" and a presentation at the "Landscapes, Exiles. Belongings" conference, also in Perth, titled "Exiles in Peter Ninnes, School of Education, University of New Paradise? Creative survival on Rabi in Fiji." England, Australia Congratulations to Barry Rolett (Department of • James Peoples, East Asian Studies Program, Ohio Anthropology) and Davianna McGregor (Ethnic Studies Wesleyan University Program) for their recent promotions to professor. Davianna • Finoti Tohi. Artist, Aotearoa New Zealand was also honored recently as a recipient of a 2005 Hung Wo • Robert Underwood, University of Guam and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation Award for Faculty Chien-Lung Wang, Chair, Center oflndigenous Service to the Community. According to tier citation, "Her Education and Research, National Taitung University knowledge of Hawaiian history and culture has allowed her to • Emil Wolfgramm, President, Maui Po'ohala forge linkages among disparate individuals and groups that Corporation, Hawai'i result in positive community impacts." 8 ~W~I UNIVERSITY OF H AWAI'I P RESS
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Foculitng on recent developments in Santa Isabel, the forum will bring together local leaders with participants from Papua STUDENT AND ALUMNI ACTIVITIES New Guinea, Vanuatu, and other parts of the Solomons to The Center for Pacific Islands Studies is delighted to welcome discuss problems and prospects for traditional leadership eight new MA students who will be joining us in August: (''chiefs") in local governance. The meeting is sponsored by the East-West Center Pacific Islands Development Program • Teresa Ann Brugh graduated from Southampton College and Santa Isabel Province. It will take place during a in New York with a BS in psychobiology. She joined weeklong cultural festival hosted by the province. the Peace Corps and has been living and working in Palau for the past two years, working on conununity Richardson School of Law Professor Jon M Van Dyke is biological and marine environmental needs. She intends the author of two recent articles: "Regionalism, Fisheries, to use her MA to pursue her environmental interests in and Environmental Challenges in the Pacific," in the San the Pacific. Diego /111ernational Law Journal (2004) and (with Emily A Gardner and Joseph R Morgan) "Whales, Submarines, and • Dominique Cordy graduated from the University of Acuve Sonar." in the Ocean Yearbook (2004). California- Davis with a BA in anthropology. She was born in Guam and lived briefly on Yap and Kosrae and in Anthropology assistant professor Heather Young Leslie is Aotearoa New Zealand before moving to Hawai'i. She is the author (with Sean Moore and Carrie Lavis) of "Subjective interested in the interaction between globalization and Well-Being and Life Satisfaction in Tonga," in Social local cultures and intends to look at literature and music Indicators Research, volume 70 (2005). as forms of resistance and cultural preservation. Anthropology associate professor Terry Hunt is the • Lorenz Rudolf Gonschor has a degree in anthropology author (with Carl P Lipo) of "Mapping Prehistoric Statue from Eberhard-Karls Universital in Tiibingen, Germany. Roads on Easter Island," in Antiquity, volume 79 (2005). UH He has a long-standing interest in cultural, historical, and archaeology student Britton L Shepardson's article "The Role political issues in the Pacific and would like to pursue a of Rapa Nui (Easter lsland) Statuary as Ten-itorial Boundary comparative analysis of sovereignty and independence Markers" appeared in the same issue. movements in French Polynesia, Hawai'i, and Rapa Nui. Ethnomusicology Professor Jane Moulin presented a • Katherine Connell Higgins graduated from University of paper, "The Marks of a Sensual Person: Music and Dance Massachusetts at Amherst with a BA in art history. She Performance in French Polynesia," at the Dutch Society for spent a year living on Maloelap Atoll in the Republic of Ethnomusicology and World Music conference "Music and the Marshall Islands, and has been working for City of the Art of Seduction" in Amsterdam. For the conference of Boston Parks and Recreation. She would like to pursue the International Council for Traditional Music in Sheffield, her interest in Pacific arts. England, she is presenting a paper, "Each Bird Has its Own Song: Music in the Marquesan Church." She also organized • Judith Humbert graduated with a BA in education and the panel on music and Christianity in the Pacific, which culture from The Evergreen State College and attended will include presentations by two UHM ethnomusicology Antioch New England Graduate School. Her interest in students, Brian Diettrich ("Communities of Faith, Networks cross-cultural studies was piqued by an independent of Culture: Chuukese Church Music in the Diaspora") and research project in which she studied sacred places and Kuki Tuiasosopo ("Pese Ma Vi'iga I Le Awa: The Sacred holistic health with indigenous elders in Aotearoa New Music of the Congregational Church of Jesus in Samoa"). Zealand and several other places. She intends to pursue Jane will be teaching in Paris during the fall semester 2005 her interests in cultural preservation and cross-cultural as part of a joint program between the Sorbonne and the awareness. She has been appointed the CPIS graduate University of Hawai'i Study Abroad Center. assistant, to provide editorial and publications support to publications manager, Jan Rensel. Jack Ward, associate professor in the Department of Hawaiian and lndo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, was a • Sara Beth Lightner graduated from Brown University with BAs in urban studies and history and has been visiting professor at the Universite de la Polynesie Franyai~e (UPF) during parts of March and April 2005. He taught serving in the Peace Corps in rural and urban Vanuatu, Polynesian languages dialectologies to students in the license as a teacher and curriculum developer. She would like to explore issues facing young Pacific Islanders. Sara is the level (third year) of the Reo Ma'ohi program. He also 9 .____,,__ __j i;;;;;;;;;~;ii======~===-~· Pacific News from Manoa April-June 2005 recipient of an East-West Center Degree Fellowship Congratulations and a warm aloha to our newest MA scholarship. graduates. as of May 2005: • Tehani Meleomakani Ing Maragos graduated from the Pualani E Kauila, whose Plan B paper was "The Original University of Puget Sound with a BA in creative People of Lana'i," an autobiographical story of writing. She would like to combine her studies of the foreigners and natives who have made the island of Pacific with creative writing in order to write about Lana'i, her birthplace, what it is today. Aunty Pua works Polynesia and to teach. in the library at Kamakakiiokalani Center for Hawaiian James Reid Stiefvater graduated with a BA in Pacific Studies. Islands studies from Brigham Young University-Hawai'i • Barbara Patria, whose Plan B paper was "Ku'u Mo·oJelo Campus. He intends to concentrate his studies on Ke Ahupua'a 0 Kahana Ame Eminent Domain/My Melanesia and plans lo teach. Story of the Kahana Ahupua'a and Eminent Domain." • Ronald Clayton Williams graduated from UH Manoa Andreu Suzuki, whose Plan A paper was "Connecting with a BA in Hawaiian studies. He plans to study Back to Dis Place: Music and ldentity of the Cultural Polynesian history, culture, and language and to use his Renaissance of Hawai'i." interest in film to creaie cultural educational videos to be • Katie Wright, whose Plan B paper was "Duke used in Hawaiian language immersion schools. Kahanamoku: Cultural lcon.'' • Jesse David Yorck graduated from UH Manoa with a BA And early congratulations to August 2005 graduate in anthropology, focusing on archaeology. He would like Kimberlee Alana Gaylord. whose Plan A paper was to pursue his interests in cultural resource management "Correcting Burial Wrongs Because the Dead Have Rights: and preservation. An Analysis of Native Hawaiian Burial Issues and the We would also like to formally welcome Suzanne Frazer, Associated Burial Preservation Laws in Hawai·i.·· a graduate student in dance, who is studying toward a We also bid farewell and aloha to Brooke Nevill, who Certificate in Pacific Islands Studies. Suzanne, who is from will graduate Ill August. Brooke has been an incredibly Australia, has an extensive background in dance and will valuable graduate assistant for the past year with CPIS, serve as the performance director for the "Culture Moves! assisting with the publications and outreach programs. Her Dance in Oceania from Hiva to Hip Hop" conference in thesis was "Consequences of Good lntemions: Exploring Wellington in November 2005. Land Rights in the Commonwealth of Lhe Northern Mariana The center would also like to extend our welcome to four Islands." students who are recipients fo the 2004 East-West Center On the alumni side, Anne Perez Hattori (MA 1995) is South Pacific Islands Scholarships and who will begin their currently an associate professor of history and Micronesian studies in August 2005 studies at the University of Guam. Her book, Colo11ial Dis • Ms Eslyn Tourana Kaltongga, from Vanuatu, an Ease: US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros <~f'Guam, undergraduate majoring in journalism; 1898-1941. was published last year (a flyer is enclosed with • Mr Solomon Kantha, from Papua New Guinea, a this newsletter). Keota Nakanish1 (MA 2000) is Executive graduate student in political science; DirecLor of Halau Ku Mana, a Hawaiian charter school. • Ms Amerita Leilani Ravuvu, from Fiji, an undergraduate Congratulations to Matthew Ka'opio (MA 2004)! His book majoring in environmental studies; and Written i11 the Sky has just been published by Mutual Publishing (see Publications) • Mr Tony Vaefanga Siamomua, from Samoa, a graduate student in economics. THE CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC 17:2 Chikako Yamauchi is on a UH-sponsored exchange program with Victoria University of Wellington. She is The latest issue of the center's journal, The Contemporary doing coun;ework and fieldwork and starting her thesis. Her Pacific, is now available. Contents: thesis is a creative project based on her interaction with the ARTICLES landscapes. skyscapes, and seascapes of Aotearoa New Australian Foreign Policy and the RAMS! Jn1ervention in Zealand. lt draws on Pacific traditions of voyaging and Pacific Solomon Islands understandings of the land, sea, and sky. This trimester she Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulalw is taking Maori language, a creative writing workshop on Beyond Governance in Samoa: Understanding Samoan writing the landscape, and a directed reading with Teresia Political Thought Teaiwa. Elise Huffer and Aso/011 So'o 10 Pacific News from Manoa April-June 2005 DIALOOUEl Reflections on Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific, edited PUBLICATIONS, MOVING IMAGES, by David Chappell AND CDS In Quest of Dialogue on a "Hot" Subject David Chappell Available from UH Press The Nuclear Issue in the South Pacific: Labor Parties, Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua Trade Union Movements. and Pacific Island Churches in International Relations New Guinea, 1875-1935. by Brenda Johnson Clay, addresses Jean-Marc Regnault the subject of colonialism with its myriad political controls, economic inequalities, and social hierarchies. Clay A Comment on "The Nuclear Issue in the South Pacific" Stewart Firth concentrates a critical gaze on the discursive side of colonialism through close readings of a series of western The Nuclear Age in the Pacific Islands Nie Maclellan texts on the people of New Ireland from the 1870s to the Response to Regnault 1930s-when the status of the New Ireland- New Britain Bruno Barri/lot and .John Taroanui Doom region changed from precolonial to German control and French Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific, or When finally to a League of Nations- mandated Australian France Makes Light of Its Duty to Remember administration. 2005, 360 pages. ISBN 0-8248-2916-6, Gabriel Tetiarahi cloth, US$55.00. Reply UH Press books can be ordered through the Orders Jean-Marc Regnault Department, University of Hawai'i Press, 2840 Kolowalu DIALOGUE2 Street, Honolulu, Hl 96822-1888; Web site Wilhelm Heinrich Solf, German colonial governor of Samoa lslander, write about the experiences of crossing from 1900 to 1910. Published by Harrassowitz Verlag. 2005, boundaries in contemporary Melanesia. 2004, 105 pages, 320 pages. ISBN 3-447-05134-5, paperback, EUR 68. ISBN 9980-9962-2-6, paperback, USSJ 2.00. Where Our Hearts Still Lie: A Life ofHarry and Honor Zia Writers of Waria: Raitim Story Bilong lAip, edited Maude in the Pacific. by Susan Woodburn, tells the story of by Sakarepe Keosai Kamene and Steven Edmund the lives of the Maudes during their twenty years in the Winduo, is a special publication on work done among Gilbert Islands. Published by Crawford House. 2005, 350 the Zia people of the Waria area of Morobe. It is the pages. ISBN 1-86333-245-6, paperback, A$39.95. product of a collaborative effort among scholars, War Shields: New Guinea, New Britain, Solomon members of the Zia Trust, participants of the Writers Islands, edited by Harry Beran and Barry Craig, is the first Workshop, and the Zia community. 2004, 80 pages. comprehensive book on the war shields of Melanesia. It ISBN 9980-9962-0-X, paperback, US$10.00. illustrates more than 100 types of shields. Published by MAPS publications are available by writing to Crawford House. 2005, 200 pages. ISBN 1-86333-223-5, Melanesian and Pacific Studies. University of Papua New paperback, A$49.95. Guinea, PO Box 320, University Post Office, National Indigenous Peoples and Migranls ofNorthern Papua, Capital District, Papua New Guinea. For information, Indonesia, edited by Michael C Howard and Naffi Sanggenafa, contact Steven Winduo at [email protected]. provides a contemporary look at social, cultural, and The latest issue of the Radboud University Centre for economic aspects of the lives of peoples in Indonesia's Pacific and Asian Studies Oceania Newslener (June 2005) is province of Papua. Many chapters focus on economic poMed at by Wendt, is also a celebration and history of cultural renewal Professor Graham Hassall ([email protected]) or in lhe Pacific. The film was made for TV One in New Professor Don Paterson ([email protected]). Zealand. PIALA 2005 Minginui (2005. 51 minutes), a film by Summer Agnew The Pacific Islands Associations of Libraries. Archives and and Adam Luxton, tells a story of the gradual decline of the Museums (PIALA) will hold its 2005 annual conference in abandoned. natl vc logging village of Minginui on the North Kosrae, 7-10 November 2005. The theme is "Resources Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Today the village is Today and Leaming Tomorrow." The organizers seek a inhabited mainly by the people of Ngati Whare, some, but balance of workshops, information-sharing sessions, research not all. of whom are content in their isolation and low rent, presentations, and panel discussions. as well as poster sustained by cultural solidarity. The film includes archival sessions. Please send presentation proposals to Aaron H footage and interviews. Sigrah, e-mail: [email protected] or fax: 691-370-2045, C Ds by 1 September 2005. Kosrae, by Doweiti Luey, is a new CD of Micronesian Pacific History Workshop music. Most of the songs are originals by Doweiti and speak "Telling Pacific Lives," a Pacific history workshop, will be of love, relationships, and family. The CD features Lance hosted by the Division of Pacific and Asian History, Motogawa on keyboard and Selwyn Valdez on guitar. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian Released by L Star Productions/Pacific Rim Records. National University, Canberra, Australia. 5-7 December Tuwhare is a collection of poems by acclaimed Aotearoa 2005. It will consider biography in its broadest sense-in a New Zealand poet Hone Tuwhare. set to contemporary variety of media, genres, and formats. Four overarching original music written by some of Aotearoa's best Maori and themes-framing lives, the stuff of life, story lines, and Pakehli musicians. Hone Tuwhare is the first Maori poet to telling lives/changing lives-will structure discussion. have published his work in English. "No Ordinary Sun" was Interested persons should contact Brij V Lal at published in 1964. He was named an Arts Foundation of New [email protected]. Zealand Icon Artii.1 in 2003. Available at reconciliation and justice, oceans and islands, aesthetics Conferences Announced in Previous Newsletters and art. orality and learning, space and time, reciprocity • The fifteenth annual conference of the Women's Studies and contract. and residence and identity. Abstracts of Program, Southern Connecticut State University. "Asian about 250 words for proposed papers of 20-minute & Pacific Women: Indigenous and Dinsporic," will be duration should be e-mailed to Larry Thomas, USP held at Southern Connecticut State University, 28-29 Department of Literature and Language, October 2005. The conference e-mail is [email protected], by 30 November 2005. [email protected]. • "Moving Masculinities: Crossing Regional and BULLETIN BOARD Historical Borders" will be held at the Australian National University, 30 November-2 December 2005. Submissions Invited for 2005 Dreadlocks For more information. see the Web site at Dreadlocks, the annual publication of the Department of University of Hawai'i at Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies 1890 East-West Road. Moore 2 15 Honolulu, Hawai' i 96822 USA p [