Pacific News from Mānoa NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I No. 3 August–December 2012 and the new host communities, and how they are engaging with this global phenomenon. INSIDE The President of the Republic of Kiribati, His PACS 108 Workshop 2 Excellency Anote Tong, will present the keynote address on Watada Lecture by Teresia Teaiwa 2 Thursday, 4 April. President Tong has played a prominent Pan Pacific Association’s 2nd Trivia Night 3 role in creating regional and international awareness of the Wantok Night 3 impacts of climate change on small island places and Pacific News from Mānoa Goes All Electronic 3 communities. He is an advocate for creative responses and CPIS Seminars 4 adaptations to climate change at the local, regional, and Student and Alumni Activities 7 international levels. Faculty and Staff Activities 7 Information for registering and the schedule of speakers Publications and Moving Images 9 will be available in late February at Conferences and Meetings 11 10http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/2013conf/index.htm . Bulletin Board 11 OCEANIA RISES WAVES OF CHANGE: CLIMATE “Oceania Rises” is an event organized by CPIS students and CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS staff. The purpose of the event is to help foster multicultural and pan-Pacific unity, while privileging Pacific Islander AND IMPLICATIONS FOR HAWAIʻI voices. ”Oceania Rises” will help to promote awareness of The Center for Pacific Islands Studies is pleased to announce Pacific cultures and new approaches to academia that build its 2013 conference, “Waves of Change: Climate Change on interdisciplinary approaches to research. The theme of in the Pacific Islands and Implications for Hawai‘i.” The this event is empowerment, self-expressions, and academic two-and-a-half-day conference, 4–6 April 2013, which will innovation. The daylong event, on 4 April 2012 at the East- be held at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa (UHM), will West Center, will include discussion panels, paper explore environmental, social, cultural, political, and presentations, and creative performances from students economic impacts of climate change in the Pacific Islands. involved in Pacific Islands studies. The conference will focus specifically on climate change– related migration and the implications for Hawaiʻi and other OPENING OF HALE PASIFIKA places where climate-change victims are likely to migrate. Pacific Island societies are vulnerable to climate change and are already experiencing its environmental, economic, social, and political impacts. As Islanders adapt to the changing climate, they encounter challenges to economic security and social welfare, while increased rates of outmigration have implications for culture and identity. Climate-related transformations also raise legal questions about human rights and sovereignty. While much of the discussion to date has focused on the effects of climate change on the Pacific Islands, there are also implications for countries that provide development assistance or receive migrants. Hawai‘i, for example, is already home to significant numbers of Islanders from other parts of the region. There is a need to understand Kahu Kaleo Patterson blessing Hale Pasifika the issues faced by these potential climate-change migrants Pacific News from Mānoa August–December 2012 On 26 October, the center celebrated our new student space, Hale Pasifika, located in Henke Hall room 308. Rev Kaleo Joanne Itano, UHM Associate Vice President for Patterson and Dr Haʻaheo Guanson from the Matsunaga Academic Affairs, was invited to address the group to review Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution blessed the hale, the current articulation agreement and discuss future and CPIS MA student Daniel Maile was the master of possibilities for students interested in Pacific Islands studies ceremonies. Daniel, Terence Wesley-Smith, who may transfer between campuses. Dr Itano encouraged School of Pacific and Asian Studies Dean Ned Shultz, Coco the group to develop and articulate additional lower-division Needham, Brian Alofaituli (CPIS 2010), and student courses and to consider adding the Hawaiʻi-Asia-Pacific committee member Nikita Salas spoke about the importance (HAP) focus requirements to PACS 108 courses offered on of having a space dedicated to Pacific students at UH Mānoa. campuses other than Mānoa. In addition to delicious food, we enjoyed poems and songs After a productive exchange in the morning, the by Fulbright–Creative New Zealand (CNZ) Writer-in- afternoon focused on digital resources, with presentations by Residence Daren Kamali, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Te Regina Luna, who is the instructor of the online PACS 108 Raukura Roa, and CPIS MA students Kealiʻi MacKenzie, course offered through Outreach College at UH Mānoa. Kenneth Kuper, and Dietrix Duhaylonsod—just the kind of Kelea Levy (CPIS GA) and Julie Walsh (CPIS Curriculum event we had envisioned for Hale Pasifika. Specialist) introduced a draft version of a Pacific Islands Studies Wiki with multimedia resources for PACS 108 PACS 108 WORKSHOP instructors. The Wiki is designed to mirror the common themes or units of the course, and UH system instructors On 2 November, the CPIS teaching faculty hosted faculty have been invited to add or comment on the resources. from various UH system campuses to explore articulation Additionally, the working group discussed developing a agreements, course content, and teaching methods, and to digital textbook and inviting authors and colleagues from present a new development in creating digital resources for across the region to contribute, as undergraduate study of the today’s 21st century students. Pacific has expanded considerably in recent years with Currently PACS 108 is taught at UH Mānoa, Kapi‘olani programs at the Australian National University, University of Community College, UH West Oʻahu, and Leeward the South Pacific, Victoria University of Wellington, and Community College, and all four campuses share an University of Auckland. articulation agreement that ensures students receive credit for this course when transferring between campuses. WATADA LECTURE BY TERESIA During summer 2012, John-Gabriel James (Hawaii CC), Ian Masterson (Windward CC), and Kealani Cook (Maui TEAIWA CC) received stipends to develop PACS 108 courses for their respective campuses that would align with the articulation agreement course student learning outcomes and description. At the November gathering, current PACS 108 instructors provided feedback on the draft syllabi and shared resources and teaching strategies with the group. The Center for Pacific Islands Studies School of Pacific and Asian Studies University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa 1890 East-West Road, Moore 215 Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822 USA Phone: (808) 956-7700 Fax: (808) 956-7053 E-mail: [email protected] Terence Wesley-Smith (left) and Teresia Teaiwa (center) Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/ with CPIS students Maria Barcinas, Kenneth Kuper, Kathy Terence Wesley-Smith, Director Jetnil-Kijiner, Kealiʻi MacKenzie, and Jesi Bennett Katherine Higgins, Editor Items in this newsletter may be freely reprinted. The Church of the Crossroads, Honolulu, invited Teresia Acknowledgment of the source would be appreciated. Teaiwa to present the 2012 Watada Lecture in November. Dr To receive the newsletter electronically, contact the editor Teaiwa, Senior Lecturer of Pacific Studies at Victoria at the email address above. University of Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand, was asked The newsletter is now available through a blog format at to address the issue of militarism in the Pacific, which is the http://blog.hawaii.edu/cpis theme of the 2012 lecture series. CPIS cosponsored Teresia’s The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is an Equal visit, and on 8 November she visited classes and gave a Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution. public presentation “Fiji. Women. Soldiers. And Poetry” at Halau o Haumea, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies. Teresia spoke about research she conducted between 2 Pacific News from Mānoa August–December 2012 2008 and 2010, collecting oral histories of women from Fiji who had served in either the British Army (BA) or Fiji Military Forces (FMF). She shared excerpts and reflections from her book manuscript on Fiji’s three generations of women soldiers: a British Army cohort from 1961, an FMF cohort from 1988, and a post-1998 cohort comprising both BA and FMF recruits. She described how she has approached writing her book and how she has tried to empathize with her research participants while maintaining a critical analytical position vis-à-vis the military and militarism. Her presentation was situated in the broader context of the cultural, economic, and political challenges raised by the extensive militarization of Fiji society since the 1970s and the disturbing cycle of military coups the country has experienced over the last twenty-five years. Teresia also shared poetry inspired by her research with women soldiers. Jonathan Osorio, CPIS affiliate faculty and Professor at Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, opened the evening; reflections on militarization were offered by Hawaiian Studies MA student ʻIlima Long and CPIS MA student Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner; and Jon Osorio and Ikaika Hussey ended the evening with songs. The event was cosponsored by Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies and the Church of the Crossroads. PAN PACIFIC ASSOCIATION’S 2ND TRIVIA NIGHT Tarcisius Kabulaulaka (CPIS) and Jonathan Porter (PPA) presenting prizes to the 1st place team