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Check out Oceania Currents Episode 7: Pacific Stor

Check out Oceania Currents Episode 7: Pacific Stories on Stage: "Nothing Micro About Micronesia" out now!

We are excited to share that the CPIS’ podcast, Oceania Currents’ seventh episode is now available for streaming! Listen wherever you access podcasts, or on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/show/58JeMejRKV9b1hS5AzeAEf

Nothing Micro About Micronesia is a new play created by TeAda Productions and members of the Micronesian community in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, through a series of community workshops. It is a coming-of-age story about two Micronesian boys who encounter an unlikely place after a series of conflicts between them.
In this episode, we speak with three cast members: Ova Saopeng (co-writer, co-director, cast), Kathy Martin, and Kealaula Faifili. They discuss the devising process behind the play and the impact it has had for their audiences here in Hawaiʻi.

Nothing Micro About Micronesia premiered at Honolulu Theater for Youth in March, 2024, and will be performed again on May 25, 2024, at the Kennedy Theater at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for the CAATA ConFest.

Tickets for the upcoming performance at CAATA ConFest 2024 are available at https://www.caata.net/confest24-nmam.

Please join us at the official launch of the re-en

Please join us at the official launch of the re-envisioned Pacific Islands Report website, on this Thursday, May 23, 1:00-2:30 p.m. HST on Zoom.

The launch event will feature a talk story session with authors of works published in our inaugural issue of Visions & Voices, a quarterly periodical published on the Pacific Islands Report website.

And join us for two more talk story sessions on May 30 and June 6, 1:00-2:30 p.m. HST, as we dive deeper into the theme 'Tides of Change in the Pacific Islands' with our Visions & Voices authors.

RSVP: http://bit.ly/pireportlaunch

#SaveTheDate #PIReport #VisionsAndVoices #CPIS #UHM

We are excited to celebrate Pacific Graduation TON

We are excited to celebrate Pacific Graduation TONIGHT at 6 PM in ART 132 with amazing graduates from across campus and our communities!

Not in Honolulu? Join us on the livestream: https://go.hawaii.edu/mRF

Pacific Graduation 2024 was planned and coordinated by UHM students and made possible through grants from the UHM Student Activity & Program Fee Board (SAPFB) and the Associated Students of the University of Hawaiʻi (ASUH) as well as the leadership of the Pan Pacific Association, Center for and Department of Pacific Islands Studies, Pasifika Allies Association (PA'A), UH Mānoa TIDES AANHPISI program, Fealofani O Samoa, We Are Pasifika, Native Hawaiian Student Services, UH ʻIlima SACNAS, Moʻui Maʻa Tonga, Micronesian Connections Association, and more.

Please join us for a celebration of the publicatio

Please join us for a celebration of the publication of My Land, My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire by Siobhan McDonnell. This is the latest volume in the Pacific Islands Monograph Series, published by the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies (CPIS) and University of Hawai‘i Press. (See https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/my-land-my-life-dispossession-at-the-frontier-of-desire/)

The celebration/book launch will take place TODAY, Monday, April 15 at 2:00–4:30 pm at the UHM Center for Korean Studies (1881 East-West Rd, Honolulu, HI 96822). It will feature a short program, followed by light refreshments.

To RSVP, please visit https://go.hawaii.edu/n5C.

Our friends at the Native Hawaiian Student Service

Our friends at the Native Hawaiian Student Services and the Center for Biographical Research proudly present: The 1898 Project.

The 1898 Project is a two-day summit of leading scholars and activists on American imperialism from from Hawaiʻi, Guahan, the Philippines and Puerto Rico; the how and why, its effects, and what can be done now and in the future to cope, heal, and decolonize.

Please see the full program here: https://shorturl.at/hDNR0

We are pleased to invite you to a special launch a

We are pleased to invite you to a special launch and discussion of the latest volume in the Pacific Islands Monograph Series (PIMS), My Land, My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire, with author Siobhan McDonnell!

Land, and the kinship it nurtures, is the basis for sustaining livelihoods and ways of life. My Land, My Life explores the land rush that took place in Vanuatu from 2001 to 2014 which resulted in over 10% of all customary land being leased. In this book, Siobhan McDonnell offers new insights into the drivers of capitalist land transformations. Using multi-scalar and multi-sited ethnography she describes not simply a linear march toward commodification of the landscape by foreign interests, but a complex web replete with the local powerful Indigenous men involved in manipulating power and property.

The launch and discussion will be on Monday, 15 April 2024 from 2:00 to 4:30 PM HST (Tuesday, 16 April 2024 at 11:00 AM in Port Vila and Tuesday, 16 April 2024 at 10:00 AM in Canberra) in the Center for Korean Studies building (1891 East-West Rd. Honolulu, HI 96822).

Register for this exciting gathering through link provided on the flyer!

Join our colleagues in the Center for Oral History

Join our colleagues in the Center for Oral History for an exciting talk with Dr. Mahuika (Ngāti Porou) today at 3:00 PM in Crawford 115.

Mahukia is the immediate past president of the National Oral History Association of New Zealand and Associate Professor in History, School of Humanities Media and Creative Communication at Massey University, New Zealand. He is the author of the groundbreaking book, Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective, which provides a provoking discussion on decolonizing the field of oral history and acknowledges that Indigenous oral accounts are oral history. According to Dr. Amy Starecheski, Director of the Oral History Master of Arts Program at Columbia University described it as, "a book deeply needed by the field of oral history [...] that has the potential to destabilize productively and transform how we as oral historians think about our work."

Location: Crawford Hall 115
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm HST
Day: Tuesday, April 2nd

Feel free to join if you are able, and please forward to others who may be interested.

If you are interested in attending this talk, please fill out this RSVP: https://forms.gle/7VWoAZtQP65YAzh69

This event is cosponsored by the Center for Oral History, the Department of Ethnic Studies, the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, and the Center for Biographical Research.

Join Honolulu Theatre for Youth TODAY for the worl

Join Honolulu Theatre for Youth TODAY for the world premiere of Nothing Micro about Micronesia by TeAda Productions.

Audiences will enjoy the original songs, movement, and thought-provoking scenarios that take place in this coming-of-age story about three youths who meet at a high school in Hawaiʻi and are magically transported on an adventure across islands of Micronesia. The characters must navigate between life in Hawaiʻi and the traditions of their ancestors while facing the rising tides of their uncertain futures.

For info and tickets go to www.htyweb.org !

Celebrate the launch of Arielle Taitano Loweʻs bo

Celebrate the launch of Arielle Taitano Loweʻs book Ocean Mother with poetry, live readings, and book-signings!

Saturday, March 23, 2024, 5:30pm
Ka Waiwai
1110 University Avenue
Honolulu, HI 96826

Sunday, March 24, 2024, 1:00pm
DaShop
3565 Harding Avenue
Honolulu, HI 96816

Ocean Mother is Lowe’s debut collection of poems that weave memories from her childhood living in Guam, realizations made across the ocean, and upon her return home.

This book launch is organized by UOG Press and is funded by an Equity-in-Verse grant from Poetry Foundation.

You can pre-order Ocean Mother at https://uogpress.com/products/ocean-mother. Order can be shipped to your mailing address, or you may pick up your copy at any Ocean Mother book events (such as the book launch) in person in Oʻahu.

Planning for the 10th Celebrate Micronesia Festiva

Planning for the 10th Celebrate Micronesia Festival at Bishop Museum is underway, and we are looking for volunteers to fill key positions at the event, especially since the Festival is during the summer (Saturday, 15 June— the last weekend of FestPAC). If you are interested in being part of this epic and historic event, here is the Volunteer Interest Form link: CMF Volunteer Form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU9j_Jrllpn_tOwBmTelCd-g4-pTGqqMrpcroPb2gK66_ZUw/viewform)

Please email PIDP@eastwestcenter.org with any questions.

The Pan Pacific Association, a student-led organiz

The Pan Pacific Association, a student-led organization at UH Mānoa focused on building community for Pacific Islanders on campus, will be hosting the 4th Annual Pacific Graduation on 9 May 2024!

Please encourage your students to register by scanning the QR code and join us in celebration of our accomplishments alongside ohana and friends!

Please email panpacificassociation@gmail.com for any questions and/or concerns! Mahalo nui!

Our friends at PIDP is calling for submissions for

Our friends at PIDP is calling for submissions for the upcoming inaugural issue of Visions & Voices. Visions & Voices seeks articles, commentary, essays, or short manuscripts addressing issues relevant to the Pacific Islands. The deadline for submissions for is 31 March 2024.

Submissions should be between 800 and 1,200 words and written for a general audience. Please email submissions to pireport@eastwestcenter.org

For detailed submission guidelines and additional information about the publication, visit www.pireport.org/submissions. Thank you for considering this opportunity to contribute to the dialogue on Pacific island matters, and do not hesitate to share far and wide with your networks for anyone who may be interested in submitting.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 P

Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Peter J. Rappa Resilient and Sustainable Coasts Fellowship at the University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program. This is a paid (stipend of $7,000) 8-week fellowship opportunity during summer 2024 for full-time students (both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply).

Please share this announcement and the attached fellowship description with your networks, and in particular any undergraduate or graduate students who might be interested in applying. Any questions on the fellowship or application process can be directed to Hawaiʻi Sea Grant Assistant Director for Research and Fellowships, Maya Walton (waltonm@hawaii.edu, 808-956-6992).

Get ready with TIDES for the professional world! D

Please join us in a seminar session with Nic Macle

Please join us in a seminar session with Nic Maclellan, a correspondent for Islands Business, a news, current affairs and business magazine in Fiji. He had published widely on French policy in the Pacific Islands and is co-author of La France dans le Pacifique- de Bougainville a Moruroa and After Moruroa- France in the South Pacific. This session will take place on March 6th at 2:30-3:30PM in UHM Moore Hall Rm 258.

The discussion will be about France relations in the Pacific and the contradictions between its Indo-Pacific Strategy and its stated commitment to the Blue Pacific agenda promoted by members of the Pacific Islands Forum. Drawing on interviews with Kanak and Mā'ohi leaders, the seminar will discuss Franceʻs geopolitical interests in the region, and the contrasting priorities of Islanders in the francophone Pacific.

We hope to see you all there in community for this exciting talk!

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