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information, visit the conference WEB site at MULTI-ETHNIC LITERATURE http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/web/conferencc/melus97, CONFERENCE AT UH or contact Ruth HSU at the UH Department of English, 1733 Donnagho Road, Honolulu, HI 96822; University of Hawai'i at Manoa and East-West Center tel (808) 956-3058; email [email protected]. will host the first international and eleventh national conference of MELUS (Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States), 18-20 FEATURING PARADISE: April 1997 on the UHM campus. The conference on THE PACIFIC IN FILM "Exchanges, Contestations, and Alliances," will bring "Featuring Paradise: Representations of the Pacific in together teachers, critics, and writers from Hawai 'i Film" is the title of the center's annual conference, and the rest of the United States, as well as from the which will be held in Honolulu, 11 - 13 November Pacific, the Pacific Rim, and Asia. Topics include the 1997. Planned to coincide with the Hawai'i historical, economic, social, and philosophical International Film Festival, this academic conference concerns that underpin literary and other textual will address how the Pacific and Pacific Islanders production, such as film, drama, and television. have been portrayed in feature film for the past Guest speakers include Pacific writers Konai Helu hundred years. Concerned primarily with a historical IBAMAN, Haunani-Kay TRASK, SUBRAMANI, and overview and general patterns rather than isolated Albert WENDT. Opening in conjunction with the and individual films, the five panels planned for the conference is Ho'okO' e, an important exhibition of conference will focus on the themes of paradise, work by Native Hawaiian visual artists. Inspired by gender, race and class, violence, and indigenous the theme of "resistance," twenty contemporary artists filmmaking. Screenings of significant films will be a address problems of colonialism, race, genocide, and part of this conference. Those wishing to be ethnocide as well as rights over language, land, considered as panel speakers should send abstracts of natural resources, and history. TI1e exhibit will be their papers to Vilsoni HERENIKO, UH Center for held in the East-West Center Gallery from 18 April Pacific Islands Studies, 1890 East-West Road, Moore through 6 Jone and will include a series of panels 215, Honolulu, HI 96822, fax (808) 956-7053. The and informal discussions with the artists. deadline for abstracts is 2 April. Registration for the three-day conference is $60 for students and $85 for non-students. For more NEWS IN BRIEF

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' . . ,•,·_ ... . ,,.. ,. . . . . ·-· Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1996 Energy, as well as development funding from local NRC Directors Meet in Santa Fe foundations. On 10-12 November 1996, Center Director Roben C The center's 45,000 member alumni association KlSTE attended a meeting of over fifty other has launched a letter-writing campaign on behalf of directors of the nation's National Resource Centers lhe center. Although dramatic reductions are being (NRCs) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The NRCs are lhe proposed by the OMB, the budget must still go language and area study programs that receive Title through congressional review where the outcome VI grants from lhe Department of International may be a restoration of some or all of the center's Education, US Department of Education. Fundlng budget. There is evidence of a bipartisan initiative for Title VI is authorized by the US Congress, and on behalf of lhe center in some pans of Congress, the legislation is scheduled for review and and center spokeswoman, Karen KNUDSEN, says the reauthorization by lhe new congress when it center administration is encouraged by the support it convenes in early January 1997. The NRC directors has received so far. met for the purpose of reviewing the existing Title VJ Pacific Island Legislatures Mission to Hawai'i legislation and suggesting revisions for congressional A delegation from lhc Association of Pacific Island consideration. The Center for Pacific Islands Studies Legislatures (APil..) took part in the association's has bad NRC status since the early 1970s. fourth mission to Hawai'i, 12-21 December 1996. In addition to CPIS, the School for Hawaiian, Legislators included in the delegation were Asian, and Pacific Studies (SHAPS) was also representatives and senators from Commonwealth of represented at Santa Fe by Dr Leonard ANDAYA, lhe Northern Marianas, Pohnpei, Yap, Palau, and Director of lhe Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Guam. The purpose of the mission, which was hosted and Or Sharon MINICHIELLO, Director of lhe Center by Hawai'i State Senator Richard MATSUURA and for Japanese Studies. Southeast Asian Studies, East the Department of Business, Economic Development Asian Studies (including Japan), and Pacific Islands & Tourism (DBEOT), was to learn about economic Studies, submitted proposals in November for the initiatives in Hawai 'i lhat might have application in next three-year NRC funding cycle (mid-August the islands. The delegation also visited organizations 1997 to mid-August 2000). The results should be with strong regional connections such as PREL announced in March or April 1997. (Pacific Resources in Education and Learning), Lawrence Johnson Appointed to US-Pacific Pacific Basin Development Council, and Tripler Trade and Investment Commission Hospital and met wilh Center Director Robert C Lawrence M JOHNSON, Chaim1an and Chief KISTE to learn about programs at lhe University of Executive Officer, Bancorp Hawaii and Bank of Hawai'i. Hawaii, is one of fifteen members of the Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Published quarterly by Policy appointed by President Bill CLINTON. The The Center for Parific ls/ands Studies commission's task is to identify initiatives that the Sc"/wol of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Stw:li.es United States should take to increase trade with '' · .... Untversily of Hawai'i at MmtQ(!, nations of Asia and lhe Pacific. The commission is : \ ''. ,· i.&!l.t/ Jt~'sf,!'West RQad ·i ·"-<·;~·:", scheduled to submit its report to lhe White House ; "·:, : . Holioiqlu, 'H/'96822 USA ....., : : sometime in early 1997. Johnson is the only member .4·,i Phone: '(808) 956· 77tiii::{in · of the commission wiUt experience in the region. His Fax: (808) 956-7053.,,· . selection reflects lhe Bank of Hawaii's long email: [email protected] involvement in lhe Pacific Islands, He is being assisted by WaU MOSMAN, Regional Economist, Robert C. Kiste, Director.. ·"· Bank of Hawaii. Letitia Hickson, Editor ·. CPIS WELCOMES NEW ltaf!~ in this newsletter may be freely reprinted. STUDENTS _Acknowledgment of the source .,P~uld be appr~gii;tted. ro receive the newsletWr ·~.le:ftroraically, The center is pleased lo welcome three new students :: ·.,' f."i?.i/4it the edit()r at t#e 'email addr.etsl#Jove. to lhe MA program for 01e spring semester: 2 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1996 Irene CALIS was born in Lebanon, attended the special concert and lecture demonstration on Friday, University of Pennsylvania, and graduated from the 1 August, at 8 pm in the Music Department University of Maryland with a BA in anthropology. Courtyard. Ms Calis worked as an intern at the Embassy of the In addition to these two special courses, the Music Republic of the Marshall Islands in Washington, DC, Department will be offering Music of Polynesia and is interested in sustainable development (MUS4781) and Tahitian Ensemble (MUS311J), initiatives in the islands. featuring Tahitian dance and dance songs, during Kealalokani C LOSCH is from Hawai'i and Summer Session I , 19 May-27 June. For information attended Windward Community College, Boston about Music Department offerings, contact Jane University, and the US Coast Guard Academy, before MOULIN, UH Department of Music, 2411 Dole graduating from University of Hawai 'i at Manoa wilh Street, Honolulu, HI 96822; email a BA in liberal studies. He has longstanding interests [email protected]; tel (808) 956-7707. in the Pacific Islands (his mother Naomi LOSCH UH Summer Session information is also available received ber MA in Pacific Islands studies in 1980) on the WEB at www.summer.hawaii.edu. and has taught in Na Pua No'cau, the Gifted and Talented Native Hawaiian Children's Program. ALUMNI NEWS Michelle Marie NELSON also grew up in Hawai 'i Andrew BISSONNETTE (MA 1992) earned his JD at and attended Kapi 'olani Community College before University of Arizona's College of Law and worked graduating from University of Hawai 'i at Manoa with with the City of Tucson, Arizona Office of a major in speech communication. Her interests arc Intergovernmental Affairs, before returning to in education, and she plans to teach Pacific Islands academia. He is currently teaching a distance studies in the Hawai' i school system. education course, Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society, through Southern Oregon ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM AND State College. TAHITIAN DRUMMING ARE J Kalani ENGLISH (MA 1995) worked on behalf SPECIAL SUMMER OFFERINGS of Micronesian leaders at the United Nations after The Music Department at University of Hawai'i at leaving the university, and has also worked at the Manoa will feature two special courses, taught by Hawai 'i State Legislature. He has just been appointed experts in their fields, during Summer Session 2. to fill the East Maui district seat on the Maui County These accelerated courses will run from 22 July-8 Council, which was left open by the death of a August. council member. Small Format Ethnographic Film (MUS479) will Heidi PRIMO, a not-quite-alumna of the Pacific be taught by ethnographic filmmaker and UCLA Islands studies program, has been working as the professor John BISHOP. 111.is is a hands-on course Climate Change Coordinator in the Office of the that will cover both camera and editing techniques. President of the Federated States of Micronesia. Her (A small number of camcorders will be available, but position has involved her internationally in climate students are encouraged to seek out their own 8mm change initiatives as she works to finish her degree. or VHS camcorder if possible.) Tahitian Drumming (MUS311J) will be taught by FACULTY ACTIVITIES Philippe Teahi TETUA, a master musician from Tahiti Geography department professor and Associate who has perfonned in Australia and Chile as well as Dean for Social Sciences, Nancy Davis LEWIS, is on four tours to Japan. He regularly plays for Tahiti's coorganizer of a session on Women, Science, and best-known traditional dance groups, including Development: Indigenous Knowledge to New Polinetia, Fetia, laora Tahiti, Paulina, Manuia Tahiti, Information Technologies for the upcoming Pacific Maeve Tahiti, and Tahiti Here. He will be teaching Science Association lntercongress in Fiji in July drumming techniques for the three basic instruments 1997. The sessions will be organized around two in the Tahitian drumming ensemble: to'ere (slit related themes, Women, Science, and Indigenous drum), fa'atetc (a single-membrane drum), and pahu Knowledge, and Women, Science, and New (a double-membraned drum). The Tahitian dance Information Technologies and will build on the group Te Vai Ura Nui will join Mr Tetua for a recommendations of the Gender Working Group of 3 Pacific News from Minoa October-December 1996 the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Pacific Islands and some contemporary trends, the Development and highlight the SPACHE teachers heard from a panel of Pacific Islanders and ECO WOMAN and the W AJNIMA TE Traditional PREL staff about reasons for emigration to Hawai 'i Medicine projects. Coorganizers are Leba Haolfaki from the Pacific Islands and cross-cultural MATAITlNt, University of the South Pacific, and interactions in the classroom. Titilia NAITINI, SPACHE. For information contact Nancy Davis Lewis, Associate Dean, College of Social SEMINARS AND TALKS Sciences, University of Hawai'i, 105 Hawai'i Hall, Jonathan WEISGALL, author of Operation Crossroads Honolulu, HI 96822; tel (808) 956-6070; fax (808) and executive producer of Radio Bikini, spoke on 956-2340; email [email protected]. "Fifty Years of the Atomic Age: Bikini Atoll, the In November Vilsoni HERENIKO went to San Pacific, and Today's Students." The talk, on 16 Francisco as an invited speaker at a meeting of the October, commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Pacific Islands Club at San Francisco State the atomic testing at Bildni and was sponsored by the University. Pacific Islander students, who are a Graduate Student Organization and the Associated growing segment of the'west coast college Students of the University of Hawai 'i. WeisgaJl community, have been petitioning their universities reviewed the legacy of the atomic tests and the for courses in Pacific Islands studies. In response, decisions leading Lo U1e tests. university administrations have asked for their help in planning these courses. Hereniko was one of On 6 November, Center Director Roben C KJSTE, several Pacific Islanders invited to speak. Several spoke on tl1e Thirty-Sixth South Pacific Conference members of the Pacific Islanders Club plan a visit to at a seminar cosponsored by the Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center. IGste was the Center for Pacific Islands Studies in spring of an invited observer at the conference, representing 1997. the center. In his talk he included comments on the Karen PEACOCK, UH Pacific Curator, gave the mood of optimism at the meeting and on the keynote address at the very successful sixth annual recommendations of the SPC review team. conference of the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives (PIALA), a regional "Wandering Heroes- Theirs and Ours: Reflections organization representing U1e Marshall islands, FSM, on Comparison and Culture Areas in South New Guam, CNMI, and Palau. Peacock's speech, "Fishing Gujnea" was the title for Mark BUSSE's seminar on for Answers: Library Services in Micronesia," 8 November. Busse, who is Assistant Director for encouraged island libraries to collect local Science and Research at the Papua New Guinea publications such as statistical documents, census National Museum, introduced the indigenous image reports, newsletters, and telephone directories. of the wandering hero as a way of understanding indigenous ideas about history, perspective, and Also from UH. Eileen HERRING from the library's cultural comparison. Science and Technology Reference Department presented a talk on the free agricullure and aquaculture search service available for US-related CENTER VISITORS Pacific nations, and Peacock gave a second talk on John HENDERSON, University of Canterbury in building a basic Pacific reference collection. They Christchurch, New Zealand, visited the center on were joined by CPIS alumna Margo VITARELLI who his way to the Pacific Islands Political Science gave a well-received session on the use of graphics in Association meeting 111 the Republic of Palau. He libraries, which gave each participant hands-on stopped over in Honolulu to do some research in experience with graphics design. the Pacific Collection at Hamilton Library. Robert C KISTE and Tisha HICKSON spoke to Marade! GALE, Director of the Micronesia and more than 200 Hawai 'i State Department of South Pacific Program at the University of Oregon, Education teachers in a half-day workshop on 26 slopped by the center rn December while she was in November. The workshop, which was organized by Honolulu for a conference. She took the time to the DOE and PREL (Pacific Resources for Education update the center on the activities of her program. and Learning), was primarily for teachers working Bill WARREN stopped at the center en route from with students whose second language is English. In Washington, DC, in early January. He has been addition to getting an overview of diversity in the 4 serving in the Office for Pacific Island Affairs in the Pacific News from Ma noa October-December 1996 US Slate Depar011ent and was on his way to Western Changing Forestry Regimes in Vanuatu: Samoa where he will be charge d'affaires in the Is Sustainable Management Possible? American Embassy. In his career as a foreign service Ralph Regenvanu, Stephen W Wyatt, and officer, he previously served in Palau and the Luca Taccom Federated States of Mjcronesia. Regional Dynamics and Conservation in Papua New Guinea: TI1e Lakekamu Ri ver Basin Project NEW PUBLICATIONS Stuart Kirsch AND RESOURCES Incremental Agroforestry: Enriching Pacific Landscapes UH Press Books and Journals William C Clarke and Ra11dolph R Thama11 Tire Pacific Way: A Memoir, by TI1e Right Dialogue Honourable Ratu Sir Kamisese MARA, has just been Regulating the Forest Industry in Papua New published by UH Press in association with the UH Guinea: An Interview with Brian D Brunton Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the Pacific Brian D Brunton and Kathleen Barlow Islands Development Program, East-West Center. Solomon Island Nongovcrnmenl Organizations: According to the author, "the book is not a Major Environmental Actors biography or a history, hUl some of my personal John Rouglum recollections and views of events as they seemed to Resources me of significance in U1e development of Fiji." In il, Logging Ule Southwestern Pacific; Bibliographic however, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara has included an Review Essay Jamon Halvaksz and Elizabeth Hochberg account of his o ri gi n~ and his early days. ISBN 0- Political Reviews 8248-1893-8; cloth, US$42; paperback, US$14.95. Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, l July Tokelau: A Hiswrical £1/r11ogroplry, by Judith 1995 to 30 June 1996 HUNTSMAN and AnLony HOOPER, is the outcome of Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July more than twenty years of intensive research on the 1995 to 30 June 1996 three atolls of Tokelau. 111e book is both a comparati ve ethnographic study of the islands of And Book Reviews. Tokelau and a narrati ve record of the pas t. The UH Press books and journals can be ordered ethnographic study is set in the 1970s, but the through the Orders (or Journals) Department, authors hint at Ule substanti al changes that were to University of llawai 'i Press, 2840 Kolowalu Street, fo llow in the next decade. ISBN 0-8 148- 19 12-8; Honolulu , HI 96822- 1888. cloth, US$39. The book has also been published by Other Print Resources Universily of Aut: kland Press, ISBN 1-86940-153-0, New from Bishop Museum Press is A Legendary cloth, NZ$69.95. Tradition of Kamap11a'a, Th e Hawaiian Pig-God. by The spri ng 1997 issue of The Contemporary Lilikala KAM E'ELEJHIWA. The book is a thoroughly Pacific: A ./011rnal of Island Affairs is a special issue, annotated translation of He Mo'olelo Ka'ao o Logging rhe So11 1hwesrem Pacific: Perspecrives from Kamaptw 'a, a version ol the Kamapua' a epic that Papua New G1ti11ea, Solomon Islands, and Van uatu, appeared anonymously in Ule Hawaiian-language

edited by KaU1lcen BARLOW and Steven WlNDUO. 1 newspaper Ka U. 0 o ka uilrui in 1891. As such it Included in the t:Ontents: ofter insights into nmcteenth-century Hawaiian Articles culture, as well as that of ancient times. ISBN 0- I mroduction 930897-91-9, paper, US$22.95, and limited edition Kmhlee 11 Barlow and S1eve11 Wi11duo hardcover, US$39.95. Forest Exploration in Papua New Guinea Faing11 City: A Modem Mekeo Clan in Papua Simon Scwlei New Guinea, by Steen BERGENDORFF. is the author's The Struggle tor Control of Solomon Uni versily of Lund doctoral thesis, pu blished as pan Island Forests of the Lund Monographs in Social Anthropology Ian Frazer scn cs. The book is an analysis of the historical transformauon ol the culture and clueftainship of Lh e Mekeo as well as an account of the creation of one 5 clan. Fa.ingu City. ISSN 11 0 1-9948; paper, US$35 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1996 plus postage. Order from Department of contact State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Folk Ans Program, 44 Merchant St., Honolulu, HI Attn. Suzanne Tugcu, Frcdcriksholms Kanai 4, 96813; tel (808) 586-0306. I 220 Copenhagen K, Denmark: email Bank of Hawaii has published a series or [email protected]. illustrated reports on Pacific economies with The Solomon islands Campaign. Guadalcanal to information on history, government structure, Rabaul: Historiography and Annotated population, GDP, imports and exports, employment. Bibliography, by Eugene L RASOR, is new from and income sources. The latest in the series arc Greenwood Publishing Group. The book provides a reports on New Caledonia. French Polynesia, and Fiji. comprehensive survey of the literature on the To obtain copies of Lhe reports, contact Bank of Solomon Islands campaign and also poims to gaps in Hawaii Economics Department, PO Box 2900. lhe literature and areas where further research is Honolulu, HI 96846. Tel (808) 537-8307; fax (808) needed. ISBN 0-313-30059-3; US$65. Order from 536-9433; http://www.boh.com/econ/. GPO Inc., PO Box 5007, Westport CT 06881-5007. Videotape The Pacific History Association has several Pacific rslanders in Communications (PIC) has publications for sale: Pacific History: Papers from several new videotapes available for purchase. the 8th Pacific History Conference. Lines Across the includrng lhe Lwo-presentation scnes Storytellers of Si!a, Colonial inheritance m the Post Colonial lire Pacific, which was broadcast nationwide on PBS Pacific, Messy Entanglements: Papers from the in December 1996. Also newly available is Uwki I 0th Pacific History Co11jere11ce, and Our History Fono: Resolving the Future, a documentary on in Our Own Words. For information, contact dcmncracy in Tonga. To obtain a video catalog, Dr Jackie LECKIE, Secretary/Treasurer PHA, contact PJC at l 221 Kapi 'ol ani Boulevard, Sulle 6A- Anthropology Department, University of Otago, 4, llonolulu, HI 968 14; email [email protected]; PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand; email tel (808) 591-0059; fax (808) 591-1114. More [email protected]. information on PIC is available on their WEB site Pacific Health Dialog: Journal of Community at hllp://planet-hawaii.com/-pacislandcrs. Health and Clinical Medirn1e for the Pacific is issued twice a year at a cost of NZ$69 or US$49. The March WEB Sites and Publications 1996 issue focused on noncommunicable disease in Micronesian Seminar has published an addiuonal lhc Pacific and included a report on the Pacific thirteen documents on its WEB site at Regional Tobacco Control and Prevention meeting in http://microstate.com/micscm/papers.htm. Included Saipan in July 1995. Previous issues have focused on arc several papers on cducalion on Micronesia as well AIDS. STD. and sexuality in the Pacific and as papers on Micronesian suicide incidence and its population, women, and development. Order from social context, FSM migration to Guam, PHO Manager, Resource Books Ltd, PO Box 25-598. indigeniLation as a missmnary goal, and some Remeura, Auckland, New Zealand; tel (64) 9-575- thoughts on the topic or human rights. 8030; fax (64) 9-575-8055. Under construction on the WEB is a Hawai"i­ Pacific Economic 811lletin, Vol 11 , No 2, bascd site for Rotuma. Planned for lhc site. at November 1996. is now available. Included are www2.hawaii.cdu/ocearuc/rotuma/os/hanua.html, 1s a economic surveys of Papua New Guinea. Western message board and a news page. The stte will Samoa, and Nauru, as well as artides on labor cosls, eventually be expanded to include sound clips of tackling environmental threats, monetary policy, and Rotuman phrases. video clips, and an interactive law enforcement, and book reviews. dictionary among 0U1cr Hems. Musics of Hawai'i: "It All Comes from the Heart" is a unique audiocassctte series and book presenting CONFERENCES a representative sampling of the artistically rich Tenth Annual Hawaiian Archaeology Conference traditional musics that are a vital part of Hawai 'i's The conference will be held I 1-13 April 1997 at mulucultural communny. There are ninety-seven Puhi, Kaua'i. The tentative program calls for field musical selections on five casscltes and a 152-pagc trips and Lhe keynote address on lhe first day book with historical, cultural, and musicological ol lh~ conference and papers on the last lwo days. information on the cultural grnups. For il1formation, 6 For more information, contact Dr William KIKUCHI, Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1996 Kaua'i Community College, 3-1901 Kaumuali'i Hwy, Pacific Arts Conference Libu'e, Hawai'i 96766; tel (808) 245-8218; email The next Pacific Arts Association (PAA) conference [email protected]. will be held in Port Moresby at the Papua New From Myth to MineraJs Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery, 8-13 Dates of the conference "From Myth to Minerals: September 1997. The conference convenor and Place, Narrative, Land, and Transformation in New President of the PAA is Soroi Marepo EOE, director Guinea and Australia" have shifted from April to 17- of the museum. For more information write to him 20 July 1997 in order to make it easier for northem­ at the PNG National Museum and Art Gallery, hemisphere academics to attend. The venue has also PO 5560, Boroko, NCD, Papua New Guinea. been switched, to the Australian National University, Tel 675-325-1779. Eoe and others at the museum Canberra. For further information contact James can also be reached through email at Wejner, [email protected],cdu.au, or, after 8 [email protected]. March, Alan RUMSEY, [email protected]. Future of the Marshall Islands Pacific Science Inter-Congress From Dependency to Freedom: A Symposium The University of the South Pacific is hosting the Charting the Future of the Marshall Islands will be Pacific Science Inter-Congress, 13-19 July 1997. The held 3 October 1997 at Hofstra University, theme is "Islands in the Pacific Century." For Hempstead, Long Island, New York. The organizers infonnation, contact Vlll Pacific Science Association are inviting papers dealing with actions, policies, and Inter-Congress Secretariat, c/o School of Pure & organizations that will have an impact on the future Applied Sciences, The University of the South of the Marshallese and their relationship to the world. Pacific, Suva, Fiji; tel (679) 212691; fax (679) Proposals should be submitted no later than 21 314007. February 1997. For information, contact Patrick H MAHONEY, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 244 Wood South Seas Symposium: Easter Island Street, Room A-109, Lexington, MA 02173-9108; tel South Seas Symposium: Easter Island in the Pacific (617) 981-6 193; fax (617) 981-0110; email Context, with scientific presentations on Polynesian [email protected]. social organization, prehistoric adaptation, archaeology of stone architecture. the environment, Pacific History Association and language and traditions, will be held 5-10 The Pacific History Association's twelfth conference August 1997 at the University of New Mexico. will be held in July 1998 in Honiara, Solomon Polynesian dances, crafts, and cultural events will also Islands. The conference will include four days of be pan of the conference. For travel and registration papers and other sessions and one day of excursions information, contact Far Horizons Archaeological to the National Art Gallery, the National Cultural and Cultural Trips, Inc., PO Box 91900, Centre, and sites associated with World War 2 Albuquerque NM 87199-1900. Email Guadalcanal campaigns. Coconvenors are Tom journey@farhori zons .com. W AITERE, Solomon Islands College of Higher Education (SICHE), and Max QUANCHI, Queensland PACON Conference: Resource Development University of Technology. Interested persons should PAC ON 97, Resource Development-Environment contact Max Quanchi at School of Humanities, issues and the Sustainable Development of Coastal Queensland University of Technology, Beams Road, Waters will be held 6-8 August 1997 at the Chinese Carseldine, Queensland, Australia 4034; email University of Hong Kong. The conference brings [email protected]; fax 61-7-38644719. together marine scientists, engineers, industrial organizations, and policymakers on issues related BULLETIN BOARD to marine science and technology and the appropriate applications of this technology. Position for Conservation Biologist For information, contact PACON 97, PACON World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is seeking an International, PO Box 11568, Honolulu, HI 96828; Environmental Coordinator to work with local tel (808) 956-6163; fax (808) 956-2580; email communities in the Gulf and Southern Highlands [email protected]. regions of Papua New Guinea to develop and implement strategies for conservation and sustainable 7 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1996 resource use. At least five years' field experience in In June 1996, with support from Conservation natural resource management or biological International, the CCPS issued its first directory of assessment or a related field is required. Experience more than 70 Pacific scholars from North America, working with customary landowners in PNG as well Europe, and the Pacific Islands who were interested as skill in Tok Pisin or Motu is desirable. Interested in lending their expertise to conservation efforts. persons should send resume and cover letter to WWF, Persons interested in joining CCPS and being Human Resources Dept 564, 1250 24th Street, NW, included in a second edition of the directory should Washington, DC 20037. request an information form from Dr Michael French SMITH, 8331 Sixteenth Street, Silver Spring, Maritime Archaeology Surveying Course MD 20910, USA; tel (301) 587-2154; email The Marine Option Program at the University of [email protected]. Information for the Hawai'i at Manoa will offer a maritime archaeology directory should be turned in by 30 April 1997. techniques course during the summer of 1997 on the Big Island. The five-week course, 16 June-18 July, Pacific Asian Law Journal (PALJ) includes lectures, field trips, and underwater training The first issue of the P ALJ was compiled by the exercises in archaeological surveying techniques. University of Hawai'i at Manoa Pacific Asian Legal Applications are available from UH Marine Option Studies Student Association (PALSSO) in 1996. Program, 1000 Pope Road, #229, Honolulu, ID P ALSSO hopes to made this an annual publication 96822. and is seeking submissions from law students, attorneys, judges, scholars, and other members of the Committee of Concerned Pacific Scholars Pacific and Asia regions. Legal topics range from CCPS was formed to encourage collaboration among constitutional issues and comparative law to Pacific scholars, Pacific Islands conservation activists, indigenous rights, environmental protection, land use, and international conservation organizations working and international trade. Submissions should be sent in the Pacific Islands, with a particular focus on the to Pacific Asian Law Journal, c/o PALSSO, William S western Pacific. The committee is considering Richardson School of Law, 2515 Dole Street, seeking funding for an international conference to Honolulu, HI 96822, explore further collaboration between these gwups.-

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