Fan: Nissan Island, Green Island Papua New Guinea
Photo - Courtesy of Queensland Museum
WELCOME RECEPTION
Sunday 24 March - 5.15pm - 7.00pm.
Queensland Museum - An opportunity for Symposium delegates to network after the AAPS Epeli Hau'ofa Lecture
This event is included in the registration fee for Full Delegates, Speakers & Presenters. If you do not wish/are unable to attend this event please remove this item when you get to the summary page - press 'Edit' and 'un-tick' that option.
If you are attending as a Day Delegate or would like to attend as an Accompanying Partner Tickets may be purchased for $65.00 incl. GST.
SYMPOSIUM DINNER
Wednesday 27 March - 6.00pm-10.00pm
State Library Terrace Room
$100.00 incl GST per person
The Symposium Dinner is not included in the
registration fee, but is an additional event in collaboration with the Brisbane Bougainville Community Group and East New Britain QLD Association. The meal
and entertainment will be provided by the community and all proceeds go to our
hosts for community benefit. We are excited to support the Brisbane Pacific
communities and encourage you to attend what promises to be an enjoyable and
engaging event
If you are registering as a Delegate - please indicate how many tickets you would like and this will be added to your booking.
If you are looking at attending the Dinner only and not attending the Symposium Sessions, please go to the Registration Link and add your Name & Address details - press 'next' and select 'Non-Delegate Access to Welcome Function and/or Dinner Bookings' press through to the Function Area and select the ticket(s) you need and proceed to the payment area. You will be sent a confirmation and tax invoice/receipt showing payment once the card has been successfully processed.
FREE MASTER CLASS & LECTURE
Sunday 24 March 10 am - 12 pm
Seminar Room Level 2, GOMA
AAPS MasterClass - This is a free event hosted by QAGOMA and the AAPS.
Please register with mandy.treagus@adelaide.edu.au
Dr. Frances C Koya Vaka'uta, Director Oceania Centre, USP
Frances C. Koya Vaka'uta, Frances as she is commonly known, is Director of the Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture and Pacific Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Law & Education at the University of the South Pacific in Suva. A teacher by profession, she has worked in the areas of teacher education, curriculum development, education for sustainable development, education for Small Island Developing States and culture and education at USP since 1998. Frances is passionate about Pacific art, heritage and Indigenous knowledge systems and has worked on policy writing and community development as well as Indigenous research approaches, Pacific research ethics and cultural competency. A member of the Pacific Regional Culture Strategy and Pacific Culture and Education writing group, she has more recently worked on the Fiji Culture Policy and Fiji Culture and Education Strategy and is working towards a Pacific Island Research Framework and Ethical Guidelines and a Pacific Cultural Competency Framework with Professor Konai Helu Thaman. An artist and poet working under the pseudonym 1angrynative, her work explores Pacific island heritage and contemporary issues in the islands
FREE MASTER CLASS & LECTURE
Sunday 24 March 10 am - 12 pm
Seminar Room Level 2, GOMA
AAPS MasterClass - This is a free event hosted by QAGOMA and the AAPS.
Please register with mandy.treagus@adelaide.edu.au
Dr. Frances C Koya Vaka'uta, Director Oceania Centre, USP
Frances C. Koya Vaka'uta, Frances as she is commonly known, is Director of the Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture and Pacific Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Law & Education at the University of the South Pacific in Suva. A teacher by profession, she has worked in the areas of teacher education, curriculum development, education for sustainable development, education for Small Island Developing States and culture and education at USP since 1998. Frances is passionate about Pacific art, heritage and Indigenous knowledge systems and has worked on policy writing and community development as well as Indigenous research approaches, Pacific research ethics and cultural competency. A member of the Pacific Regional Culture Strategy and Pacific Culture and Education writing group, she has more recently worked on the Fiji Culture Policy and Fiji Culture and Education Strategy and is working towards a Pacific Island Research Framework and Ethical Guidelines and a Pacific Cultural Competency Framework with Professor Konai Helu Thaman. An artist and poet working under the pseudonym 1angrynative, her work explores Pacific island heritage and contemporary issues in the islands
AAPS Epeli Hau'ofa Lecture
Sunday 24 March 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Cinema A, GOMA
This is a free lecture hosted by QAGOMA and the AAPS. To assist with catering please indicate your attendance when registering for the Symposium.
Dr. Frances C Koya Vaka'uta, Director Oceania Centre, USP
Dr. Frances C Koya Vaka'uta, Director Oceania Centre, USP
Oceania Dreaming: Reflections on Epeli Hau'ofa’s Legacy at The University of the South Pacific
This presentation provides some historical context to the energy and spirit that the late Professor Epeli Hau'ofa breathed into the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture at The University of the South Pacific as well as the re- imagining of the space and its new vision and direction. Prompted by a mission to meet the development needs of USP’s member countries, the Centre aims for a specialized brand of Pacific Island studies informed by Indigenous knowledge systems, the arts and heritage studies alongside mainstream ideas about Pacific Studies. #TeamOceania imagines a space that fosters creativity, safeguards heritage and contributes to knowledge societies in Oceania. The Centre honours the memory of the father of contemporary Pacific arts and Big Ocean thinking by reimagining this space and continuing to 'create and establish standards of excellence which match those of our ancestors.'[1]. After all, 'our fathers bent the winds.'[2]
[1] E. Hau'ofa, “Opening Address at the James Harvey Gallery”, Sydney, 27th September 2000
[2] E. Hau'ofa, We are the Ocean, University of Hawai'i Press, 2008 p.106