PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS
PACIFIC PRESERVATION
SYMPOSIUM 2006
January 17-19, 2006
Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands
Sponsored by
Micronesian Endowment for Historic
Preservation
National Park Service, Department of
Interior
The Pacific Preservation Symposium 2006 is co-sponsored by the
Micronesian Endowment for Historic Preservation and the National
Park Service, Department of Interior. Its contents are solely the
responsibility of the presenters and do not necessarily represent the
official position or policies of the Micronesian Endowment of Historic
Preservation or those of the National Park Service, Department of
Interior.
Pacific Preservation Symposium 2006
Program
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2006
8:00-9:00 AM
Registration
9:00-9:30 AM
Welcome by Chair, Program Overview and Comments: Dirk HR
Spennemann, Ph.D. A/Professor, Institute of Land, Water and
Society, Charles Sturt University, Australia
9:30-9:45 AM
Break
Conceptual Framing (Session Chair: Dirk Spennemann)
9:45-10:30 AM
Keynote Speaker: Rufino Mauricio, Ph.D.
10:30-11:15 AM
Thomas King, Ph.D., How Micronesia Changed The U.S Historic Preservation
Program -- And The Importance Of Keeping It From Changing Back
11:15-12:00 AM
Fr. Francis X. Hezel, “Resources, Research, Protection” is the symposium motto.
What are the resources? What kind of research is needed? What is it that we
protect?
12:00-1:00 PM
Lunch Break
1:00-1:45 PM
William Chapman, Ph.D., What Are Cultural Resources? Expanding the Scope
of Assessments
1:45-2:30 PM
Dirk A. Ballendorf, Ed.D, Non-Physical Aspects of Historic Preservation:
Proceed with Caution
2:30-3:15 PM
Rlene Santos Steffy, Overview of Oral History in Guam and Micronesia
3:15-3:30 PM
Break
Training and Outreach (Session Chair: William Chapman)
3:30-4:15 PM
Michael Graves, Ph.D., Outreach, Education, and Historic Preservation in
Archaeological Training Programs
4:15-5:00 PM
William Stanley Ayres, Ph.D., Archaeological Training Programs in Micronesian
Island Nations
Current Management Issues (Session Chair: Frank Thomas)
5:00-5:45 PM
Brian and Nancy Vander Velde, Catching the Drift: Impacts of Oceanic Drift
Material in the Marshall Islands
5:45-6:00 PM
Discussion
6:00 PM
End of Day
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2006
Current Management Issues (Chair: Frank Thomas)
8:30-9:15 AM
Leslie Mead, Historic Preservation and Cultural Resource Management on
Kwajalein Atoll
9:15-10:00 AM
Suzanne Finney, Inventory and Documentation of Maloelap Atoll:
Making Sense of the Surveys
10:00-10:15 AM
Break
10:15-11:00 AM
Rita Olsudong, Heritage and Communities
11:00-11:45 AM
Victor April, Relationship between the dead and the living in prehistoric Chamorro
society
11:45AM-1:00PM
Lunch break
1:00-1:45 PM
Tom King, TIGHAR and the TBD in Jaluit: Complexities to be Considered in
Planning Submerged Historic Aircraft Recovery
Pacific War (Chair: Tom King)
1:45-2:30 PM
Bruce Petty, The Battle for Saipan
2:30-3:15 PM
Suzanne Falgout, Memories of War, Micronesians in the Pacific Theater of WWII
3:15–3:30 PM
Break
Documentation and Outreach (Chair: Dirk Ballendorf)
3:30-4:15 PM
Jane Barnwell, tba
4:15-5:00 PM
Dirk Spennemann, Ph.D., Digital Micronesia: Opportunities and Challenges
5:00-5:45 PM
Dr. Eric & Mrs. Cris Lindborg: Debrum Historic Photography Database
Production
5:45-6:00 PM
Discussion On Documentation and Outreach
6:00 PM
End of Day
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2006
Canoes and Navigation (Chair: Lynda Aguon)
8:30-9:15 AM
Dennis Alessio, Program and History of the Canoes of the Marshall Islands
9:15-10:00 AM
Michael F. Caldwell, Ph.D., "The Educational Implications Caroline Islander
Voyaging Activity to the Philippines: The Result of Intelligence, Education and
Purposeful Activity or Simply Weather Provoked Accidents ?"
10:00-10:45 AM
Joe Genz, Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Republic of the Marshall
Islands: A Perspective from Cultural Anthropological Research on Traditional
Navigation
10:45-11:00 AM
Break
Management Futures (Chair: David Look)
11:00-11:45 AM
Dirk Spennemann, Ph.D., Heritage Futures in the CNMI: Value Trends
regarding Historic Preservation as expressed by the Education System
11:45AM-12:15 PM
Felicia Beardsley, Ph.D., "Restoration of Traditional Knowledge to Enhance SelfSufficiency".
12;15–1:00 PM
Dirk Spennemann and Jon O’Neill, Digital Futures in Micronesia: twenty-first
century cultural management and the role of the Micronesian expatriate
communities in Hawaii and the mainland USA
1:00-1:30
Discussion and wrap-up