FOREWORD

The Centre for Australian and Oceanic Studies has changed its name to The Centre for Pacific Studies (CPS). Starting from this issue the Centre's Newsletter will be published in English.

The Centre for Pacific Studies is an interdisciplinary association of researchers working in Oceania (including Australia) and the Southeast Asian region. This Newsletter, however, deals exclusively with Oceania, a region for which the University of Nijmegen has become a national centre in the Netherlands. For scholars working in Southeast Asia the CPS fulfils a regional function, mainly for staff and students of the University of Nijmegen.

The Centre for Pacific Studies was officially opened on the third of April 1992. More details will be provided in the next Newsletter.

Announcement

The Centre for Pacific Studies will host the first European Colloquium on Pacific Studies (18 and 19 December 1992). For more detailed information see page 29.

We welcome editors of other newsletters on Oceania to send us copies of their newsletters in exchange for the Oceania Newsletter of the Centre for Pacific Studies. We already receive the following newsletters.

Australia News [Australian Embassy, The Hague]

Centre for South Pacific Studies: Newsletter, 5 (2) October 1991: 5 (3-6), December 1991. [The Centre for South Pacific Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney]

Deutsch Pazifische Gesellschaft: Bulletin, G-161, November 1991; G-162, Dezember 1991. [German Pacific Society, Munich]

Kunda 7 (4), December 1991. [Werkgroep PNG, Goudriaan/ Winterswijk]

Land Rights News, 2 (22) July 1991. [Northern Territory Land Councils, Alice Springs]

NARU NEWS [Australian National University; North Australia Research Unit, Darwin]

Pacific Nieuws, 10, herfst 1991. [Pacific Werkgroep, Zeist]

Pambu [Pacific Manuscript Bureau, Canberra]

Papua New Guinea Newsletter, 8(4), September 1991; 8(5) November 1991; 8(6), December 1991. [Werkgroep PNG, Goudriaan/Winterswijk.

These publications can be consulted in the Documentation Centre of the Centre for Pacific Studies: Thomas van Aquinostraat 4 (2nd Floor), Nijmegen, The Netherlands. We also receive the publications of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (see page 28).

We invite all readers to send us any information they think relevant, including research reports, announcements and short articles.