Please be aware that this is a draft program speakers and time will be
subject to change.
Tentative program
9-10am
Sessions
10am1pm
Lunch
1-2pm
Tuesday
22 April
Wednesday
23 April
Thursday
24 April
Friday
25 April
Saturday
26 April
Keynote: TBC
Keynote:
Damon
Salesa
Keynote:
Emelda
Davies
Free Time
Casula
Powerhouse
PostGraduate
Focus
Session 1
Casula
Powerhouse
Search for
Stability
Populations
on the move
Activism in
the Pacific
Performance /
performing
Pacific
Futures
Archaeology
Now
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Archaeology
Now
PostGraduate
Focus
Session 2
Casula
Powerhouse
Search for
Stability
Sessions
2-5pm
Performance /
performing
Evening
6-7pm
Sydney Ideas
Keynote:
Stewart Firth
Pacific
futures
Focus on
West Papua:
5-6pm
AGM
5-6pm
Tony
Heorake,
Archaeology
Now
5-6pm
Sydney
Ideas Panel:
War in the
Pacific,
1914-1918
Tuesday 22 April 2014
9 to 10am: Keynote speaker
TBC
10 to 1pm: Concurrent sessions
Search for Stability
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Joanne Wallis, The Pacific: from ‘arc of instability’ to ‘arc of opportunity’
Sue Ingram, Assessing stability through a political settlement lens: Bougainville and
Timor-Leste compared
Helen Hill, Timor-Leste and Globalization – Costs and Benefits of Links with the
Pacific Islands region
Scott Robertson, New Caledonia, France and the Problem of Citizenship
Kerryn Baker, Is there a ‘Pacific model’ of quota adoption? The roles of local and
external actors in gender quota campaigns in the Pacific Islands region
Performance/performing: Capturing performance
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Linda Barwick (University of Sydney)
Andrew Moutu (National Museum & Art Gallery, Papua New Guinea)
Mandy Treagus (University of Adelaide)
Tom Dick (The Planet Spins group)
1 to 2pm: Lunch
2 to 5pm: Concurrent sessions
Search for Stability
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Michael Leach, Timor-Leste: Prospects for stability beyond the era of international
peacekeeping
Gordon Peake, More Jakarta, Less Juba: The Influence of Indonesia on police
development in Timor-Leste
Andrey Dalmado, Displacement and Nationalism among the East Timorese in West
Timor, (Australian National University)
Lia Kent, The legacy of Indonesian military sexual relationships: an issue for TimorLeste/Indonesian relations?
Pyone Myat Thu, Cross-border Relations and Return in a Timorese Village
Performance/performing: Performing
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Raymond Blanco (National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association)
Diane Loasche (University of New South Wales)
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Elizabeth Bonshek (Canberra University)
Michelle McCarthy (University of Bergen)
Gregory Howard (University of Victoria)
6 to 7pm: Sydney Ideas Keynote, Stewart Firth
Wednesday 23 April 2014
9 to 10am: Keynote speaker
Damon Salesa, Pacific Futures, (University of Auckland)
10am to 1pm: Concurrent sessions
Populations on the move
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Sarah Mecartney (UN-Habitat)
Helen Lee (La Trobe University)
Irene Paulsen (University of Victoria)
Jennifer Feng and Sean Anderson (University of Sydney)
Jenny Bryant (University of Otago)
Luke Craven (University of Sydney)
Rachel Smith (University of Manchester)
Kirstie Patrou (University of Sydney)
The Future in the Past: knowledge, politics, compensation
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Michael Davis (University of Sydney)
Miranda Johnson (University of Sydney)
Ian Fry (Australian National University)
1 to 2pm: Lunch
2 to 5pm: Concurrent sessions
Planning for a New Future: education, health and environmental issues
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Alexandra McCormick (University of Sydney)
Elke Mitchell (University of Melbourne)
Nick Conner (Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW)
Afternoon panel: Travelling, anchoring: shared and place-based approaches to pacific
Studies
A collaborative workshop convened by the Pacific Studies Program from the University
of the South Pacific, Australian National University, Victoria University, Wellington, and
University of Hawaii, Manoa.
5 to 6pm: AGM – All conference participants are encouraged to attend.
Thursday 24 April 2014
9 to 10am: Keynote speaker
Emelda Davies, Recognition for Australian South Sea Islanders, (Australian South Sea
Islanders)
10am to 1pm: Concurrent sessions
Archaeology now: Solomon Islands & Island Melanesia
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Tim Thomas The archaeology of Tetepare Island, (University of Otago)
Johannes Moser The lithic inventory of the flint-knapping workshop 'Apunirereha',
Malaita, Solomon Islands, (German Archaeological Institute)
Peter Shepherd, (University of Auckland)
Melissa Carter, (University of Sydney)
Natalie Blake, Pamua, (University of Sydney)
Tim Denham, Australian National University
Robin Torrence & Jim Specht, The role of historical linguistics in the interpretation
of the archaeological past in the Pacific, (Australian Museum)
1 to 2pm: Lunch
2 to 5pm: Concurrent sessions
Archaeology now: Written and Spoken Word in Pacific Archaeology
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Matthew Kelly, Archaeological Recording of World War Two Military sites in PNG:
Opportunities and Problems, (AMBA)
Steve Brown, Landscapes/seascapes of bombing: the case of Bikini Atoll, (University
of Sydney)
Jeremy Ash, Missions in Torres Strait, (Monash University)
James Flexner, (Australian National University)
Annika Korsgaard, (University of Sydney)
Martin Gibbs, Spanish in the Solomon Islands
Chris Ballard, The Once and Future Chief: A biography in multiple registers for Roi
Mata of Efate, (Australian National University)
David Roe, Pitcairn Island, (Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority)
Matthew Spriggs, Australians in paradise: Thomas G. Thrum, John F.G. Stokes and
archaeology in Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century, (Australian National
University)
Community forum: Focus on West Papua
5 to 6pm: Keynote speaker
Tony Heorake, Archaeology Now, (Solomon Islands National Museum)
Friday 25 April 2014
10am to 1pm: Post-graduate focus session 1
1 to 2pm: Lunch
2 to 5pm: Post-graduate focus session 2
5 to 6pm: Sydney Ideas Panel
War in the Pacific, 1914-1918
Saturday 26 April 2014
9am to 5pm: Trip to Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, NSW. Transport to Casula is
included in the conference registration cost.