Pacific News from Mānoa NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I No. 3 September–December 2013 INSIDE Historiography of Changes and Continuities in Power Relations in Le Nuʻu o Teine of Sāoluafata.” Her current WOVEN WORDS: REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AT UH MĀNOA 2 research projects focus on women and power in the Pacific, PACIFIC ISLANDS MONOGRAPH SERIES ................................... 2 longevity of texting orthography in Samoan, sex and CAPTURING WAVES OF CHANGE ............................................... 4 5TH ANNUAL SĀMOA ALA MAI CONFERENCE ......................... 5 violence in the writings of modern Samoan authors, lāuga PACIFIC ISLANDS WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM ......... 5 (oratory) as an academic framework, and a historiography of STUDENT INTERVIEW: NIKITA SALAS ........................................ 6 sisters and wives in nation building since the New Zealand STUDENT AND ALUMNI ACTIVITIES .......................................... 7 era. FACULTY AND STAFF ACTIVITIES .............................................. 9 OUTREACH EVENTS .................................................................... 11 Fata is involved with community outreach to social PACIFIC COLLECTION NEWS .................................................... 14 service providers and high school students in Hawaiʻi. She is PUBLICATIONS AND MOVING IMAGES ................................... 14 also the driving force behind PACITA: Pacific Islanders in CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS ............................................... 17 BULLETIN BOARD ....................................................................... 18 the Arts showcase of performing and visual arts at UH Mānoa. She will share this expertise with the center’s advisory Outreach Committee. Alice Te Punga Somerville (Māori – Te Ātiawa) is an CPIS WELCOMES NEW AFFILIATE FACULTY MEMBERS associate professor of Pacific literatures in the UHM Department of English. Born and raised in Aotearoa/New The Center for Pacific Islands Studies is delighted to Zealand, with a PhD from Cornell, she taught at Victoria announce that Laufata “Fata” Simanu-Klutz (CPIS MA, University of Wellington for several years before taking up 2001) and Alice Te Punga Somerville have joined the Pacific her present position in August 2012. She relocated to Islands Studies affiliate instructional faculty. Courses taught Hawaiʻi with her husband, by affiliate faculty are part of the center’s instructional Vula Vakarau. Since arriving program, and affiliate faculty serve on student committees at UH Mānoa she has taught and the center’s editorial boards. Pacific literature at the Dr Simanu-Klutz is an assistant professor in the UHM undergraduate and graduate Department of Indo- levels; she has also introduced Pacific Languages and courses on Pacific shorts (short Literatures. She teaches fiction and short film), Pacific Samoan language, genre fiction, and indigenous literature, and history as novels. Alice is supervising a well as upper level courses number of UHM graduate students, including CPIS students. on Samoan literature. Fata She also supports the center as a member of the editorial taught in schools in Sāmoa board of The Contemporary Pacific. Alice’s research sits at and American Sāmoa the intersections of literary studies, Pacific studies, prior to moving to Hawaiʻi indigenous studies, and history; her first book, Once Were in the 1980s to complete Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania (Minnesota 2012), graduate studies in curriculum, instruction, reading, and explores the connections (and disconnections) between language arts. Fata’s PhD thesis in Pacific history, completed Māori and Pacific people at the regional and national levels. at UH Mānoa, is titled, “‘Ā Malu i Fale, ‘E Malu Foʻi i Along with other short projects, she is presently working on Fafo,’ Samoan Women and Power: Towards a two book projects: “Kanohi ki te Kanohi: Indigenous- Pacific News from Mānoa September–December 2013 Indigenous Encounters” and “Ghost Writers: The Māori that is my personal journey. The following poetic song was Books You’ve Never Read.” She also writes the occasional written during the residency in collaboration with D Kealiʻi poem. MacKenzie as a tribute to each of our grandparents. These woven words represent the ties that bind each of us across WOVEN WORDS: REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AT time and space. UH MĀNOA By Leilani Tamu, 2013 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence They say that every journey begins with a first step. But in my experience, every journey begins with a connection. When I think about my three months at UH Mānoa as the 2013 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence, it is the connections that were made, nurtured, and treasured that stand out as the highlight of my time in Hawaiʻi. Woven together, relationships bind Pacific people across oceans of Diasporic Dreams perceived distance, and in coming to Mānoa I am confident A Poetic Song Written in Collaboration with that, despite my now being back in Aotearoa, that bond is David Kealiʻi Mānoa, Hawaiʻi, November 2013 one that will last a lifetime. During my residency at the Center for Pacific Islands Verse 1 Studies, I spent an equal amount of time in the library wrapped in your love, woven memories researching and writing, as I did engaging in discussion with arrive on the back of the fourth wind students, staff, and community members. It was through each word a tender parcel these relationships that the true value of my residency was carefully folded into notes and melodious aloha realized. While in Hawaiʻi I gained new and fresh insights into a wide range of issues and perspectives of relevance to Chorus me as a Pacific Islands scholar. On reflection, much of the a mele to carry across generations creative benefit from the residency was the impact that these the love of our ancestors experiences had not only on my poetic and editorial work but inscribed with longing also on me as a person. To all of those who made a always to return with them contribution to my time at Mānoa, a sincere faʻafetai lava: home each of you has played a role in shaping the creative work Verse 2 songs plaited through ukulele, guitar, refrain a calm rocking of your moʻopuna The Center for Pacific Islands Studies an unfurled git to carry them School of Pacific and Asian Studies across the currents and remind them University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa of all the meanings for love 1890 East-West Road, Moore 215 Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822 USA Verse 3 Phone: (808) 956-7700 Fax: (808) 956-7053 wrapped in your love, woven memories Email: cpis(at)hawaii.edu call me back, call me home Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/ to the islands of your heart Terence Wesley-Smith, Director to the gentle strum Katherine Higgins, Editor of your guitar Items in this newsletter may be freely reprinted. Acknowledgment of the source would be appreciated. PACIFIC ISLANDS MONOGRAPH SERIES To receive the newsletter electronically, contact the editor at the email address above. The Center for Pacific Islands Studies is pleased to announce The newsletter is now available through a blog format at the publication of two new volumes in its Pacific Islands http://blog.hawaii.edu/cpis. Monograph Series (PIMS)—Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is an Equal the Origins of Malaita Kastom by David Akin (University of Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution. Michigan) and Kanak Awakening: The Rise of Nationalism in New Caledonia by David Chappell, UHM History Department and CPIS affiliate faculty. 2 Pacific News from Mānoa September–December 2013 Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaita Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaita Kastom by David Akin (PIMS 26) draws on extensive Kastom was launched in a ceremony at the Australian archival and field research to present a practice-based National University (ANU) on 5 November 2013, coinciding analysis of colonial officers’ interactions with Malaitans in with the Solomon Islands Transition Workshop. Esau the years leading up to and during Maasina Rule. A primary Kekeubata, a nurse aid from East Kwaio on Malaita and a focus is the place of good friend of the author, David Akin, gave the opening knowledge in the colonial speech to launch the book. Esau expressed his appreciation to administration. Many David for inviting him and facilitating his travel to Canberra scholars have explored how to participate in the workshop and launch the book. Mr various regimes deployed Kekeubata told the guests at the launch that the people of “colonial knowledge” of Kwaio welcome researchers, but they must get permission subject populations in Asia before doing any research, otherwise they will be “killed”— and Africa to reorder and meaning they will be misinformed. PIMS editor Tarcisius rule them. The British Kabutaulaka, was also present and spoke at the launch. imported to the Solomons Matthew Allen’s Greed and Grievance: Ex-Militants’ models for “native Perspectives on the Conflict in Solomon Islands, 1998–2003, administration” based on published by the University of Hawaiʻi Press, was also such an approach, launched during the Solomon Islands Transition Workshop. particularly schemes of Kanak Awakening: The Rise of Nationalism in New indirect rule developed in Caledonia by David Chappell (PIMS 27) was also published Africa. The concept of in November 2013. This study examines the rise in New “custom” was basic to these schemes and to European Caledonia of rival identity understandings