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International forum to discuss 1996 Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
The Queensland Art Gallery is hosting a four-day international forum to plan the 1996 Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.
The forum will be attended by 46 invited delegates, including a representative of each of the participating countries, which are Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand and Polynesia, Papua New Guinea and Melanesia, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Issues confronting artists in the region and the intellectual framework for the 1996 Triennial will be discussed during the forum at the Gallery from Friday June 30 to Monday July 3.
More than 40 Australian art specialists attended a national forum in April which discussed the Triennial's thematic and curatorial directions.
Gallery Director Doug Hall said the aim of the forums was to expand the consultative process that informed the inaugural Triennial in 1993, which was acknowledged as a ground-breaking event linking the contemporary visual art of the Asia-Pacific region.
"The 1996 Triennial, which will be held from September 26 to early 1997, will embrace additional geographical, cultural and curatorial territories, in particular with the inclusion of India and the greater participation from the Pacific region," Mr Hall said.
For further information, contact: Celestine Doyle, Promotions Officer on (07)840 7318 or Shannon Lord, Promotions Assistant on (07) 840 7162.
Women & Health in the Pacific:
Colonial & Contemporary Perspectives
Thursday 2nd - Friday 3rd November, 1995
Bawley Point Guest House, Bawley Point, NSW
Two broad questions will be explored in this workshop: How have the impacts of colonialism - cultural, political and biological - affected women's health in the Pacific? And how have women - Islander, immigrant and expatriate - responded to and understood these experiences?
Possible themes include:
We will also make plans for a larger conference 'Disease and Colonialism in the Pacific' to be held in 1997.
For further information, please contact:
Margaret Jolly, Gender Relations Project, RSPAS, ANU ACT 0200, Tel: (06) 249-3150 , Fax: (06) 257 1893
Vicki Luker, Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS, ANU ACT 0200, Tel: (06)
249-3167, Fax: (06) 249 5525, email:
mvl@coombs.anu.edu.au
The Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives (PIALA)
PIALA '95 Conference Announcement
PRESERVATION OF CULTURE THROUGH ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
WHERE: Colonia, Yap, Federated States of Micronesia
WHEN: November 6-10, 1995
Pre-Conference Workshop: November 6-7
Two day workshop devoted to the practical care of books, disaster preparedness and recovery, and managing information resources in libraries and archives.
Annual Conference: November 8-10
PIALA 95 Conference Slogans:
Wisdom is in the Basket: This is a Yapese saying explaining the use of betelnut before important discussions. Everyone present at a meeting will first take the betelnut from his basket and chew while thinking about the matter at hand. In this way, a great deal of thought (wisdom) goes into the topic to be discussed before the actual speaking begins. We feel that the basket represents the Archives and Library, and the historical and cultural information contained therein represents the "wisdom."
Information is the Outrigger of Our Future: The Outrigger represents how historical and cultural information lets us know who we are and where we came from, thus stabilizing our present existence and insuring our forward progress.
For further information, please e-mail Arlene Cohen, Program Chairman at acohen@uog9.uog.edu
Twentieth Annual University of Hawai'i Pacific Islands Studies Conference
CONTESTED GROUND:
KNOWLEDGE AND POWER IN PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES
7-9 December 1995, Honolulu, Hawai'i
This international and interdisciplinary conference will discuss the increasingly contested nature of knowledge about Pacific Islands societies and cultures, and identify new directions for the field.
The increasing prominence of indigenous voices, perspectives, and epistemologies, together with the postmodern shift within Western academic disciplines that define the field, have opened up Pacific Islands studies to a whole new array of possibilities and opportunities. Disciplinary boundaries have been eroded, conventional wisdoms challenged, and fundamental questions raised about how the subject matter should be organized and taught in schools and universities. Key themes of the conference include the relevance of indigenous ways of knowing; the role of interdisciplinary approaches; issues of power and representation; the politics of Pacific Islands scholarship; issues of gender, class and race; and the implications of recent developments for teaching and learning.
The conference is sponsored by the UH Center for Pacific Islands Studies; UH Center for Hawaiian Studies; UH Population Studies Program; and the Program for Cultural Studies, East-West Center.
The conference will be open to the public. For information, please contact the conference convenor Terence Wesley-Smith, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1890 East-West Road, Moore 215, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822. Telephone: (808) 956 7700; fax (808) 956 7053; email twsmith@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu OR Tisha Hickson at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies; email ctisha@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu; telephone (808) 956 2652; fax (808) 956 7053.
Announcement and Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals
1996 WORLD CONGRESS ON COASTAL AND MARINE TOURISM
The Ilikai Hotel
Honolulu, Hawaii.
June 19-22, 1996
Activities and developments based upon marine and coastal resources and societies, or "coastal and marine tourism," continue to be a major growth sector in international tourism. To evaluate the progress toward sustainable coastal and marine tourism since the 1990 Congress, the upcoming Congress seeks again to bring together diverse interests to discuss, debate, and create solutions, strategies, and policies for tourism development in coastal locales. Practitioners, managers, academics, non-profit organizations, and community members are invited to share ideas and propose innovative activities. Plenary, discussion, and workshop sessions will be offered.
Major topical areas encompass "sustainable development" (a: resource and habitat conservation and b: industry and community policies), technology and facility/vessel design, local or bottom-up management, and size and scale of development.
The 1996 World Congress on Coastal and Marine Tourism is inviting papers as well as workshop proposals. Abstracts must be received no later than January 31, 1996 at the address below and be in English (contact Congress Headquarters for format instructions). Authors of accepted abstracts and proposals will be notified by March 30, 1996. Accepted abstracts will be compiled and published. Proceedings and special journal issues are also anticipated.
For abstract or registration packets or other information, contact:
Dr. Jan Auyong, CMT 96 Convenor
c/o Oregon Sea Grant College Program
Oregon State University, AdS A500G
Corvallis, OR 97331-2131 USA
Tel: (503) 737-5130 _ Fax: (503) 737-2392
Internet:
auyongj@ccmail.orst.edu
Those with access to world wide web can find updates on CMT 96 at the following url:
http://seagrant.orst.edu/cmtcon.html
Centre for Australian Studies in Wales, Univ. of Wales,br>
Lampeter, Fourth Welsh Symposium - 8 to 10 July 1996.
Australian Australian Studies and the Shrinking Periphery:
Surfing the Net for Australia
If Australian Studies in Europe is distinctive from Australian Studies in Australia, it is so because of the outside perspective. The study of Australia and Australian Studies from a distance have until recently been fraught with difficulty generated by that distance. This is particularly so for Europe where this 'Tyranny of Distance' has made the study of Australia and Australian Studies exercises on the periphery of both the geographical world viewed from 'Down Under' and of Australian consciousness.
In recent years the consolidation of Europe into the fifteen states of the European Union, the integration of east and west within Europe, and the progressive turning of Australia towards its own Pacific backyard, have furthered the impression of periphery studying periphery: one world's edge looking distantly at the other. By contrast, the growth of electronic media and communication, through satellite broadcasting and through the Internet and the World-Wide Web, promises to alter the relationship between peripheries: between 'outside' and 'inside'. We need to ask what the effect will be on Australian Studies (what has it already been at the time of writing in June 1995?). The potential for increased collaborative research, electronic publishing, distance-learning packages or simply the electronic acquisition of data and information about Australia, has received a very considerable boost.
Will these new resources though, really increase the viability of Australian Studies in Europe? Will academic excuses for the well-known Australian 'European Tour', or the reverse 'research visit' to Australia, no longer be available when we can simply access the bibliographies of any Australian library via WWW? Shall we no longer have reason to commute to Conferenceville? What are the politics of access to such sources? Will they remain as free as they currently are, or will commercial pressures introduce charging which will still make visits financially the better option? Who provides the access? Who is permitted access? Who supplies the hardware?
For Information: http://www.lamp.ac.uk/oz/symp96.html
History, Culture and Power in the Pacific
The 1996 Pacific History Association Conference
Hilo, Hawaii, USA 9-13 July 1996
*Venue, Dates, Theme & Format: The XI Pacific History Association Conference will be held in Hilo, Hawaii, on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Hilo, from 9-13 July 1996. The theme of the conference will be "History, Culture and Power in the Pacific." The conference endeavors to address critically these three very formidable concepts that have informed and continue to inform the study of Pacific pasts. More particularly, this conference will examine the following:
(1) what history in the Pacific has been, is now and might become;
(2) the possibilities and issues for doing history in the Pacific posed by the convergence of academic disciplines with their multiple theories and methodologies, and by the changing politics of what remains for many areas of the region an essentially on-going process of decolonization - politically and/or intellectually;
(3) the ways in which the historical interplay between global forces and local conditions has been understood and represented, and how that interplay might be understood and represented differently using varying approaches that are more culturally nuanced and locally sensitive;
(4) the intimate, bound-together relationship between Pacific pasts and presents, and how particular forms of localized historical knowledge, expression and consciousness are now showing themselves.
The format for the exploration of these issues will involve but not necessarily be limited to presentations and discussions. Given the resurgence of vernacular forms of expression and the appropriation of new technologies and art forms, the conference also encourages cultural performances that sing, dance, chant or speak about island pasts. Cinematic, theatrical and other artistic expressions of local histories are most welcome as well.
*Panels and Panel Organizers: The following individuals have agreed to chair sessions around the indicated themes.
Reconceptualizing History in the Pacific
Dr. Kanalu G. Terry Young (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Local Histories/ Vernacular Sources
Dr. Karen Nero (University of Auckland)
Colonialism's Cultures
Dr. Grant McCall (University of New South Wales)
Gender Relations in Colonial Pasts & Decolonizing Presents
Ms. Teresia Teaiwa (Samabula, Suva, Fiji)
Sovereignty & Decolonization in the Pacific
Dr. Brij Lal (Australian National University)
Hawaiian History & Sovereignty
Mr. Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa)
Public Histories & History's Publics in the Pacific
Ms. Fermina Brel Murray (Goleta, CA 93117 USA)
Diasporas & Nationhood
Dr. David Chappell (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Post-Colonial Historiography
Dr. Vicente Diaz (University of Guam)
- and - Dr. Roger Maaka (University of Canterbury)
Christianity & Religious Transitions in the Pacific
Dr. Heinz Schutte (Paris)
Imaging, Representation & Photography in the Pacific
Dr. Max Quanchi (Queensland University of Technology)
Anyone wishing to propose and/or chair additional panels should contact the conference convener:
Dr. David Hanlon
Department of History
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822-2383 USA
ph. (808) 956-9957 / fax. (808) 956-9600
VIII Pacific Science Intercongress, July 1997
The next Pacific Science Intercongress will be hosted by the University of the South Pacific between 13-19 July 1997.
The Intercongress will give a good opportunity for scholars to address issues of importance to the islands, as the theme is ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC CENTURY.
Symposia will be held on the following themes:
Details of the VIII PACIFIC SCIENCE INTERCONGRESS, to be held at the Univ. of the South Pacific in July 1997, can be accessed on WWW site:
For further information, please contact Dr Mahendra Kumar, Chairman,
Programmes Committee at the Secretariat, The University of the South Pacific,
P.O. Box 1168, Suva, FIJI. Telephone: (679) 212691).
Email KumarM@usp.ac.fj