Paper proposals are now invited for the Working Sessions described below, each of which has space for ten participants. Delegates should contact the relevant Working Session organizers, with their paper proposal including name, affiliation and an abstract of up to 250 words (all in rich text format). Delegates should plan for presentations of up to twenty minutes long, leaving ten minutes for discussion.
Delegates will be able to register, book accommodation, meals and events etc and make payments through the conference website online shop. Delegates are reminded that registration and the acceptance of a paper are separate matters.
Deadline for submission: 31st January 2010.
Working sessions
WS6-1: Exchanging Knowledge ON Oceania: Archives, Libraries and Digital Resources
Arlette Apkarian (CREDO) and Judith Hannoun (CREDO, MAP)
Contact: documentation@pacific-credo.fr
WS6-2: The Pacific Islands and Asia: New Knowledge Encounters for the 21st Century
Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam)
Contact: n.besnier@uva.nl
WS6-3: Public and Private Engagements: Anthropology Beyond the Sacred Grove
Colin Filer (ANU), David Martin (ANU) and James Weiner (ANU)
Contact: James.Weiner@anu.edu.au
WS6-4: Pacific Anglonesia / Franconesia
Ingjerd Hoem (Oslo) and Serge Tcherkezoff (CREDO)
Contact: i.hoem@online.no
WS6-5: Anthropology of Value in Oceania
Susanne Kuehling (Regina) and Andrew Moutu (Adelaide)
Contact: susanne.kuehling@googlemail.com
WS6-6: Configuring the 'Urban' in Melanesian Anthropology
Adam Reed (University of St Andrews)
Contact: ader@st-andrews.ac.uk
WS6-7: Voices in Contemporary 'Cargoistic' Discourse
Michael W Scott (LSE)
Contact: m.w.scott@lse.ac.uk
WS6-8: State Constitution and its Alternatives in Oceania
Jaap Timmer (Macquarie) and Anna-Karina Hermkens (Nijmegen)
Contact: jakob.timmer@gmail.com
WS7-1: The 'Newness' of New Media in Oceania
Joshua A Bell (Smithsonian Institution) and Ilana Gershon (Indiana University)
Contact: igershon@indiana.edu
WS7-2: Land, Laws and People in the Pacific
Susan Farran (Dundee)
Contact: S.E.Farran@dundee.ac.uk
WS7-3: Transforming Concepts of Aging in the Contemporary Pacific
Verena Keck (Heidelberg & Frankfurt) and Anita von Poser (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle)
Contact: anita.poser@web.de
WS7-4: Capacity Building: Critical Analyses of the New Model for Knowledge Transfer in Pacific Development
Heather Young-Leslie (Hawaii) and Martha Macintyre (Melbourne)
Contact: hyleslie@hawaii.edu
WS7-5: Bridging Boundaries: The Circulation and Localisation of Christianity in Oceania
Fiona Magowan (Queen’s, Belfast) and Carolyn Schwarz (State University Of New York)
Contact: schwarca@potsdam.edu
WS7-6: Future Selves in the Pacific: Projects, Politics and Interests
Will Rollason (University of St Andrews)
Contact: wr21@st-andrews.ac.uk
WS7-7: Perceiving Pacific Peoples: Race and Gender as Categories of Analysis in European Interpretations of Oceania
Marja van Tilburg (Groningen)
Contact: m.w.a.van.tilburg@rug.nl
WS7-8: Ecologies of Climate Change: Addressing New Challenges for Pacific Island Livelihoods
Sofia Vougioukalou (School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent)
Contact: S.A.Vougioukalou@kent.ac.uk
WS7-9: Exchanging Knowledge through Museums: Melanesian Contexts
Lissant Bolton (The British Museum)
Contact: lbolton@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
WS8-1: Interrogating Interventionism: Antinomies of Conflict and Intervention in the Western Pacific
Matthew Allen (ANU) and Sinclair Dinnen (ANU)
Contact: matthew.allen@anu.edu.au
WS8-2: Education, Collaboration, Reciprocation: Exchanging Knowledge in Settler and Non-Settler States
Melissa Demian (University of Kent)
Contact: M.Demian@kent.ac.uk
WS8-3: Resources, Individualism and Neoliberalism in Melanesia
Alex Golub (Hawaii) and Nick Bainton (CSRM, University of Queensland)
Contact: n.bainton@smi.uq.edu.au
WS8-4: Village and Town in Oceania
Holger Jebens (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Alexis von Poser (Marsilius-Kolleg, University of Heidelberg)
Contact: jebens@em.uni-frankfurt.de
WS8-5: Models of Health in Oceania: Publics, Policy and Advocacy
Mike Poltorak (School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent) and Gaia Cottino (Roma)
Contact: msp@kent.ac.uk
WS8-6: Kinship: Knowledge, Practice, Theory and Comparison
Christina Toren (University of St Andrews), Simonne Pauwels (CREDO) and Lorenzo Brutti (CREDO)
Contact: ct51@st-andrews.ac.uk
WS8-7: Knowledge Exchange Between Oceanic Peoples and European Museums
Wonu Veys (National Museum Of Ethnology, Leiden)
Contact: wonu.veys@volkenkunde.nl
