E komo mai!

[Updated 03/29/2022 HST]

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Mahalo nui loa for your interest in our upcoming CPIS Student Conference presented in partnership with the Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP). We are excited to align our 2022 conference theme with the recently released seventh volume in our Teaching Oceania Series, Pacific Studies: A Transformational Movement (free access here).

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Pacific Studies: A Transformational Movement explores the ways in which students, scholars, and activists have "imagined and made" (following Teaiwa 2014) Pacific Studies across campuses, disciplines, movements, and oceans. Foundational scholars such as Epeli Hauʻofa, Walter Lini, Teresia Teaiwa, Haunani-Kay Trask, Albert Wendt, Terence Wesley-Smith, and Steven Edmund Winduo, in conversation with many others, articulated a vision for scholarship not merely about Oceania, but for Oceania: this is a scholarship engaged in struggles for decolonization and everyday acts of resistance, and a scholarship that is both inclusive and empowering. The volume brings together contributions from Emalani Case, Vicente Diaz, Christine T. DeLise, Leora (Lee) Kava, Kenneth Gofigan Kuper, D. Keali'i MacKenzie, Serena Michel, Angela L. Robinson, and Vehia Wheeler.

It is from this broader vision that we invite you to join us at the conference in dialogue on 11 April 2022.

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This year’s conference engages, critically examines, and celebrates social justice movements and organizing, as well as all the ways our work within and beyond the academy has been transformational in the Pacific. We invite submissions that explore this theme in any way, but are especially interested in those that speak to the following topics:

Social justice movements in Oceania 

Decolonization, demilitarization, and sovereignty

Transformational Pacific leadership

Transboundary relations and Oceanic solidarities

Indigenous resistance and resilience

Activism within and beyond the disciplines

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Registration

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Please register at http://go.hawaii.edu/xmW by 22 March 2022 at 10 pm Hawai‘i Standard Time (HST). 

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Send all inquiries directly to cpiscon@hawaii.edu.

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Special thanks to Joy Enomoto, Dejan Ann Kahilina'i Perez, Talei Mangioni, Vanessa Griffin, Claire Slatter, Eleanor  Klieber, Stu Dawrs, and Rimuu William for their work and support of Volume 7.

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The 10th Annual Center for Pacific Islands Studies Student Conference is co-sponsored by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies (CPIS) and the Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP).

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Photo: USP student Philip Subu holding West Papua Morning Star flag during 2018 Melanesian Arts Festival. Courtesy of Joy Enomoto.