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Bursting Boundaries: Places, Gender and Disciplines

The Millennial Conference of the Pacific History Association, Coombs Building and Menzies Library of the Australian National University, Monday 26^th to Thursday 29^th of June, 2000, inclusive.

Those wishing to present a paper should contact one or more of:

• Making Histories in New Media (Paul Turnbull = paul.turnbull@anu.edu.au);
• The Burdens of Citizenship (Michael Morgan = michaelm@coombs.anu.edu.au);
• Negotiating Indigenous Identities in Australia (Jennifer Martiniello = jennim@education.canberra.edu.au and Sonia Smallacombe = sona.smallacombe@atsic.gov.au);
• Gender and Cultural Identity (Katerina Teaiwa = teaiwa_t@usp.ac.fj, marked: "for Katerina");
• Being Non-Indigenous in bicultural and multicultural contexts (Alaine Chanter = arc@comserver.canberra.edu.au);
• Pacific history beyond the bound(arie)s of History (Bronwen Douglas = bronwen.douglas@anu.edu.au);
• Globalism and Regionalism: interacting Australian, New Zealand and Island histories (Donald Denoon and Greg Rawlings = dxd@coombs.anu.edu.au);
• Participants as Historians, and Historians as Participants (Brij Lal = brijlal@coombs.anu.edu.au and hank@coombs.anu.edu.au);
• Beyond Missionaries (Christine Weir & Tevita Baleiwaqa = cweir@coombs.anu.edu.au);
• Outside the frame/edge - Pacific images in film and photography (Max Quanchi = quanchi@pop.qut.edu.au);

Prof.dr. Donald Denoon at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Division of Pacific & Asian History
Fax (02) 6249 5525; Tel (02) 6249 2298
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/Depts/RSPAS/PAH/index.htm
Email: dxd@coombs.anu.edu.au

 
Integration of Natural and Social Sciences in the New Pacific Millennium

10^th Pacific Science Inter-Congress, Guam, June 1-6, 2001.

The Pacific Science Association and the University of Guam present the Integration of Natural and Social Sciences in the New Pacific Millennium Congress.

The Pacific Science Association (PSA) is a regional, non-governmental scientific organization founded in 1920. The objectives of the Association are to promote cooperation and communication in science and technology among the communities of the Pacific region. PSA seeks to review common scientific concerns and priorities in the Pacific Basin, and to provide a multidisciplinary forum for discussion of these concerns through Congresses and Inter-Congresses and other scientific meetings. PSA has strengthened the bond among Pacific peoples by promoting a feeling of cooperation among the scientists of all the Pacific countries.

I 1973, the University of Guam proudly hosted an Inter-Congress, and in 1992, the Coral Reef Symposium. The Symposium was sponsored in part by PSA.

For membership information about the Pacific Science Association, contact the Executive Secretary: P.O. Box 17801, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96817 USA (email: psa@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org).

 
Tentative Symposia

• Agriculture issues in the Pacific Rim
• Changing patterns of health in the Asia Pacific region
• Coral reef conservation
• Cultural diversity and historic preservation
• Global and regional weather, climate, and climate change
• Language and cultural globalization in the Asia Pacific region
• Mathematics and science education and communication
• Natural hazards: predicting, mitigating, preventing, and assessing
• Oceanic librarianship
• Political development
• Population growth, resource development, and environmental penalties
• Sustainable tourism
• Unity and disunity in the sciences: Pacific perspectives
• Water quality and quantity issues in the Pacific Basin

 
Call for Papers

The Call for Papers will be issued in July 2000. The deadline for abstract submission is February 1, 2001.

All correspondence and inquiries should be addressed to:

Joyce Marie Camacho, Ph.D.
10th PSI-C Coordinator
Graduate School & Research
University of Guam Station
Mangilao, Guam 96923
Tel: +1 671.735.2169/70
Fax: +1 671.734.3676/2296
E-mail: jcamacho@uog9.uog.edu
Website: www.10psicguam.html

 
Papua New Guinea Food and Nutrition 2000 Conference

The Papua New Guinea Food and Nutrition 2000 Conference is going to be held over the period 26^th to 30^th of June, 2000. It will be located at the University of Technology at Lae. Under the guidance of the chairman of the steering committee (Mr Valentine Kambori) the conference is shaping up to have a significant impact on policy in PNG. Mr Kambori is very keen that policy ideas are extracted from each session, together with implications for programmes and action plans, and brought together as a government "white paper".

The conference planning committee draws on experience of persons from the PNG National Agricultural Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Livestock, the Australian National University, the AusAID-funded ACNARS project, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, PNG University of Technology and some private companies in PNG.

At this stage, there are over 90 papers being offered. The first day will be devoted to broad policy issues on food security, human nutrition and food production in PNG. The second day will be devoted to various aspects of the 1997 drought and frosts. For the next two days, the conference will split into two groups, with sessions devoted to other aspects of food security, crop production, animal production, information, extension, marketing, human nutrition and resource management issues. On the final morning (Friday 30^th June), the policy, programme and actions' implications will be presented and summarized in another plenary session.

Previous Food Crop Conferences in 1975, 1980 and 1983 have been influential in changing government policy in PNG, especially the landmark 1980 conference. It is hoped that this conference will have the same influence. The proceedings will be published, as have those of the three earlier PNG food (and nutrition) conferences.

Enquiries regarding papers and attendance should be sent to:

Ms Sharryl Ivahupa
NARI
PO Box 4415
Lae
Telephone: 4721751
nari@datec.com.pg