Histories of Migrant Knowledges in and across the Transpacific: Agencies, Scales, Translations
28 May – 4 June 2019, Berkeley
Program Brochure [PDF Download]
Participants & Projects
| Arbon, Mitiana (Australian National U) |
Primitive Values: Christie’s and Sotheby’s Auction Catalogues and the Framings of |
| Brazier, Hayley (U of Oregon) |
Illustrating the Seafloor: Visualizing History at the Bottom of the Pacific |
| Chen, Wei-ti (College of Charleston) |
Cosmopolitan Medicine Nationalized: the Making of Japanese State-Empire and Overseas Physicians in a Global World |
| Comyn, Sarah (U of Dublin) |
Transpacific Agency in the Mechanics’ Institute of the Victorian Goldfields |
| Faleolo, Ruth (U of Queensland) |
A Mixed Method Analysis of Pasifika Well-Being, Migration and Agency in Brisbane |
| Frain, Sylvia (Auckland U of Technology) |
Digital Oceanic Knowledge(s) |
| Hamm, Connor (UCLA) |
The Art of Survival: Creative Responses to Global Warming and Climate Migration in the Pacific Islands |
| Hennessy, Bianca (Australian National U) |
More Specific than Transpacific: How Notions of Place Invoke Ways of Thinking in Pacific Studies |
| Hermes, Karin Louise (HU Berlin) |
On the Significance of the Kalo or Taro Plant for Settler Solidarities in Decolonial Resistance in Hawai‘i |
| Hogue, Rebecca (UC Davis) |
Pacific Women Speak: Indigenous Women’s Anti-Nuclear Narratives |
| Lim, Rachel (UC Berkeley) |
The Diasporic Archives: History, Nation, and the Belonging among Korean Descendants in Mexico |
| Mangioni, Talei Luscia (Australian National U) |
NucleaRising! An Historical Ethnography of Anti-Nuclear Consciousness in Oceania |
| Oberiano, Kristin (Harvard U) |
Guam-Bound: Filipino Diaspora and Chamoru Indigeneity in Guåhan, 1898-1997 |
| Powell, Emma (Victoria U of Wellington) |
“Ka ‘apai mai au i tōku ngaru ki konei”, I will carry my wave here: (Re)scaling Cook Islands Migrations Through Discursive Genealogies |
| Rigler, Nathaniel (Victoria U of Wellington) |
Breaking the Lines: Identity Construction and Maintenance Through Coconut Oil Consumption |
| Suliman, Samid (Griffith U) |
Collaborating, Experimenting, Creating: Rethinking Migration Governance in Oceania for a Changing Climate |
| Tabe, Tammy (U of the South Pacific) |
Colonial Archives and the Politics of Migration Memories |
| Trimboli, Daniella (Deakin U) |
Cultural Difference in the Future Tense: Performing the Attainment of Inclusion in Migrant Digital Storytelling |
| Zborover, Danny (Institute for Field Research, USA) |
Before the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Indigenous, Spanish, and Pirates on the Mexican Pacific Coast |
