Description: “Learning Oceania” featured panel presentations by invited speakers and respondents, as well as roundtable and plenary discussions of relevant themes. The themes investigated by workshop participants included the current and future state of Pacific studies; the intersection and interaction of a Pacific studies doctoral program with Native studies, Development studies, and other area studies programs; theoretical, methodological, and topical borrowings from relevant disciplines and interdisciplinary programs; and alternative media, pedagogical issues, and the place of local knowledges in a Pacific studies doctoral program.
Dates: November 13-15, 2003
Location: UHM Korean Studies Center
Featured speaker(s): Teresia Teaiwa, Pacific Studies, Victoria University of Wellington; Eric Waddell, Geography, Laval University; Jonathan Osorio, Hawaiian Studies, UH Mānoa; Vijay Naidu, Development Studies, Victoria University of Wellington; Margaret Jolly, Center for Gender Relations, Australian National University; David Welchman Gegeo, Center for Collaborative Education and Professional Studies, California State University at Monterey Bay; Vicente Diaz, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies, University of Michigan; and Geoffrey White, East-West Center Pacific Islands Development Program and Anthropology, UH Mānoa
Sponsors/Co-sponsors: Center for Pacific Island Studies
Convener: