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Pacific News from Manoa NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I

ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON PACIFIC LITERATURE Plans for the center's nineteenth annual Pacific Islands studies conference From the Inside Out: Theorizing Pacific Literature are in the process of being finalized. The conference will be held 14-17 September 1994 at Tokai University in Honolulu. The aim of the conference is to bring together critics and writers to assess the growing body of literature written by indigenous Pacific Islanders since the 1960s.

Dr. Mudrooroo NAROGIN ofMurdoch University in Western Australia will give the keynote address . Mudrooroo is the author of seven works of fiction : Wild Cat Falling, Long Live Sandawara. Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World, Doin Wildcat, Master of the Ghost Dreaming, Wildcat Screaming, and The Quinkan. He has also written the poem sequences The Song Circle of Jacky, Dalwarra, and The Garden ofGethsemane, and a critical study, Writingfrom the Fringe.

Presenters who have been invited to give papers come from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the West Indies, New Zealand, the mainland United States, and Hawai'i. The papers include topics on different aspects of literary criticism as it pertains to the literature of the Pacific. Several papers will also be presented as panels.

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In addition, Marjorie CROCOMBE, founder and current president of the South Pacific Creative Arts Society and former director of the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland, will speak on The South Pacific Creative Arts Society and Pacific Islands Writing.

TEACHERS' WORKSHOP The annual Pacific Islands Teachers' Workshop, sponsored by the center, Teaching Pacific Literature through Drama in Education, will be held at Tokai University in Honolulu on 24-26 August. It will be a hands-on workshop designed to engage students' interest in the Pacific Islands using indigenous literature and drama for education methods.

Under the direction of internationally recognized drama in education teacher, Derek G. S1EVENS, and Rotuman playwright and teacher of Pacific Islands literature, Vilsoni HERENIKO, teachers will learn and practice ways to involve students as active participants, working cooperatively, critically, and reflectively.

In a series of five sessions, teachers will learn how to "get things going" and what kinds of strategies will best meet students' needs. Along with practicing these methodologies, teachers will be introduced to a range of indigenous writing about the Pacific Islands .

The workshop, which is cosponsored by the UH College of Education, may be taken tuition-free, for one credit, as a credit/no credit course (EDEF 5 81) with the College of Continuing Education and Community Services . Credit requires attendance on all three days and submission by 7 September of a one-class lesson plan based on indigenous literature from the islands and drama for education methodology.

Registration deadline is 25 July, and registration is limited. Workshop participants will receive a syllabus, readings, and other resource materials prior to the workshop. Limited funds are available for airfare for Neighbor Island teachers.

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For information and registration for both the workshop and conference, contact Tisha HICKSON; telephone (808) 956-2652; fax (808) 956-7053; or email: [email protected].

WRITERS' FORUM PARTICIPANTS Several renowned Pacific writers will be participants in the East-West Center's Pacific Writers' Forum which has been planned to coincide with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies annual conference. They are: Nora VAGI BRASH, Patricia GRACE, Epeli HAU' OF A, Victoria KNEUBUHL, Sudesh MISHRA, Mudroodroo NAROGlN, SUBRAMANI, Haunani-Kay TRASK, and Albert WENDT. The forum is scheduled for a six-week period from 8 August to 17 September.

PACIFIC LITERATURE SERIES The University ofHawai'i Press recently published the first books in its new series, Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature, edited by Vilsoni HERENIKO. The three books are republished classics of Pacific literature. They are: Leaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert WENDT (ISBN 0-8248-1584-X, US$14.95, paper), Once Were Warriors by Alan DUFF (ISBN 0-8248-1593-9, US$12.95), and Deep River Talk: Collected Poems by Hone TUWHARE (ISBN 0-8248-1607-2, US$14.95).

To order, write, call, or fax: University ofHawai'i Press, Order Department, 2840 Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, HI 96822. Telephone: (808) 956-68255. FAX: (808) 988-6052, or toll-free from the Americas only, (800) 650-7811.

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Robert C. Kiste, Director Diane K. Aoki, Editor

Items in this newsletter may be freely reprinted Acknowledgment of the source would be appreciated

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Alan Duff to Give Reading

Alan DUFF, author of the recently republished novel Once Were Warriors, will give a reading on Thursday, 16 June at 4:00pm in Burns 3121. The reading, which will be followed by a reception and a book signing, marks the launching of the new Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature series published by the UH Press. Other books in the series, Leaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert Wendt and Deep River Talk by Hone Tuwhare will be available for purchase at the reading.

Duff is a weekly columnist for Wellington's Evening Post and several other newspapers. Once Were Warriors is his first novel and was first published to great acclaim in 1990. It won the PEN Best First Book Award (which was also won by his grandfather Oliver Duff) and was runner-up in the Goodman Fielder Wattie Award. Duff also wrote a film script based on the novel.

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WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A MASTER'S DEGREE IN PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES? This article is the fourth in a series about Pacific Islands studies alumni that seeks to answer the question What can you do with a degree in Pacific Islands Studies? by looking to Pacific Islands studies alumni, many of whom are in professions directly or indirectly related to Pacific Islands studies. This article lists those alumni who work for the government of their country or state, not including teachers or professors. The information is based on a survey done in 1992, and if it needs to be updated, please write, call, fax, or e-mail.

Paul STRONA ('75) is a program evaluation analyst for the Department of Health of the Hawai' i State government. Lynn MARTlN ('81) also works for the state ofHawai'i. She is the director ofthe Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Prior to her directorship, she was folk arts coordinator for that department. William PULELOA ('75) was an aquatic biologist with the State Department of Land and Natural Resources when we last heard from him. He had also worked as a fisheries officer and administrator of the Maritime Authority in the Marshall Islands.

Jane HURD ('77) is the director of Strategic Planning, Office of International Affairs, National Telecommuni­cations and Information Administration, United States Department of Commerce. Also with the federal

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government is Anne WOODS ('90) who is a program technician for the International Institute for Development, a department of the United States Department of Agriculture, located in Washington, DC. Joseph O'HANNIGAN ('77) is a lieutenant with the Department of Defense Police. He had previously been with the Hawai' i Police Department for 23 years, working in the Waianae community. He said that the knowledge of Hawaiian and Pacific cultures gained through his studies helped him to work with the people in the Waianae community.

Aukino TAIREA ('86) is the secretary of external affairs for the government of the Cook Islands. Mathilda MIRIA-TAIREA is a lawyer with the Crown Law Office in the Cook Islands. Also from the Cook Islands is Jon JONASSEN ('82), who is currently enrolled in a PhD program at UH-~anoa and teaching at Brigham Young University at Ui' ie. He is on leave from his job as Secretary of the Ministry of Cultural Development. He previously served as secretary of foreign affairs.

Faustina REHUHER ('89) is director of the Belau National Museum, located in Koror, Republic ofBelau.

Kensak (Ralph) W ARI ('83), from Papua New Guinea, is a planning officer at the University of Papua New Guinea in the planning and implementation unit.

After he graduated in 1990, Mark SKINNER was a business development specialist at the Pacific Business Center which operates out of the College of Business Administration at UH-Manoa. His job required frequent trips to the islands associated with the United States. He recently moved back to Guam and will be the new program officer at the Guam Humanities Council.

Also in a university program is James MELLON ('91) who is the director ofthe student support services program at UH-Hilo. Because many Micronesian students attend UH-Hilo, Jim's background in the Pacific (as well as his studies) is directly related to his job. He is also involved in the newly instituted ceritificate program in Pacific Islands Studies at UH­Hilo.

Sau Chee Low ('89) should have been listed with a previous article that featured educators. She is an education officer with the Open College of the Department of Technical and Further Education in Australia. The Open College is a distance education program that serves the educational needs of people in industry, schoolleavers, and so on.

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Last issue, this column listed the librarians who have received the MAin Pacific Islands Studies. I failed to mention Sam KAlMA ('89), who is a librarian at the University of Papua New Guinea. Also, Vema HF YOUNG ('76) is a librarian in the government documents section of the Hamilton Library at UH-Manoa, and not in the serials department, as mentioned in the last newsletter.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Hattori wins Janet Bell Pacific Research Prize Anne Perez Hattori, an MA student in Pacific Islands Studies, has won the Janet Bell Pacific Research Prize for 1994. The title of her paper is Righting Civil Wrongs: The Guam Congress Walkout of 1949. This award has been offered annually since 1963, through the cooperation ofthe University ofHawai'i Foundation and the University ofHawai'i Library.

Ogden and Hamnett attend UN Conference Michael OGDEN, of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and Mike HAMNETT, Center for Development Studies of the Social Science Research Institute and CPIS faculty attended the United Nations Global Conference of the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States held in Barbados from 25 April to 6 May. Ogden attended as an academic delegate of the Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific. Hamnett attended as Hawai' i's representative in the United States delegation. The Barbados Conference is considered by many to be an early test of the global partnership formed at the Earth Summit in 1992, by which rich and poor countries agreed to act together to pursue sustainable development, that is, economic development that meets present needs without jeopardizing the welfare of future generations by undermining the environment on which all life depends.

Kiste speaks at Grinnell College Robert KISTE spoke at a conference on Environmental Refugees: Past, Present, and Future held 2 to 8 April at Grinnell College in Iowa. His address was titled Nuclear Nomads: The Bikini Case and Regional Environmental Issues in the Pacific.

Kame' eleihiwa receives grant Lilikala KAME'ELEIHIWA, Director of the Center for Hawaiian Studies and a member of the center's faculty, received a grant from the UH Research Relations Committee for her Hawaiian Kupuna Video Documetary Project.

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Last Virgin in Paradise a Hit A play written by the center's Vilsoni HERENIKO Last Virgin in Paradise was produced by Kumu Kahua Theatre from 8 April to 1 May, and received positive reviews by Honolulu critics and audiences. The show wasa sellout and will be reprised in September to coincide with the center's conference, the teachers' workshop, and the East-West Center's Pacific Writers' Forum.

JAMES NORMAN HALL PAPERS AT GRINNELL COLLEGE When Center Director Robert C KISTE was at Grinnell College in Iowa recently, he discovered that a collection of the James Norman HALL papers are held at the Grinnell College Archives of the Burling Library.

Hall, a 1910 graduate of Grinnell College, is best known as the co-author with Charles NORDHOFF, of Mutiny on the Bounty. Veterans of the Lafayette Flying Corps on the front in World War I, Nordhoff and Hall traveled to the Pacific, arriving in 1920. After a year of wandering among the islands, they settled in Tahiti, married Polynesian women, and began their successful collaboration as writers.

The collection of Hall's papers is in 26 archive boxes covering about ten linear feet of shelves. An inventory of the collection was prepared by Anne G. KINTNER and Mary KLAUSNER in 1978. Anyone interested in the material can contact Anne Kintner, Associate Librarian and College Archivist, Burling Library, PO Box 805, Grinnell, Iowa, 50112-0811. Phone: (515) 269-3364.

A copy of the inventory can also be obtained from the Pacific Collection of the Hamilton Library at the University ofHawai'i at Manoa.

CENTER VISITORS Bill GRAHAM, Public Advocate of the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal dropped by 21 April to discuss recent developments related to nuclear issues in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Toroa POHATU, of the Department of Maori Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand, arrived in Honolulu in late March. She is on study leave until October and joins the center as a visiting colleague.

Richard HERR, of the Department of Political Science at the University ofTasmania, visited from 5 to 19 April.

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He was at M~oa to continue his research on regionalism.

Professor Francis DUBUS, President of the Universite fran~aise du Pacifique (UFP) and Professor Serge DUNIS, who teaches English at UFP in Tahiti, visited the center on 26 April. The professors were accompanied by Antoine FRASSETO, French Consul General, and Charles LECUERN, Deputy Consul General, of the French Consulate in Honolulu. They were here to discuss future relations between the University of Hawai'i and UFP.

The Honorable Josiah H. BEEMAN, visited on 28 April en route to New Zealand, where he will take up a post as the new United States ambassador to New Zealand.

Michael J YBARRA, staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal visited on 29 April. He was returning from the Marshall Islands, where he visited Bikini Atoll, and was en route to Fiji and Tonga. Ybarra is preparing a series on contemporary events in the Pacific. While here, he did research in the Pacific Collection at Hamilton Library.

Donald RUBINSTEIN, from the University of Guam, visited the center on 29 April. He is the newly elected chair of the Guam Humanities Council and was en route to Washington DC to attend a conference in that capacity.

OCCASIONAL SEMINARS On 6 April, David HANLON presented a seminar on Remaking Micronesia: A Reflection on the Cultural and Strategic Policies of Economic Development in American Micronesia, 1945-1968. Hanlon is associate professor of history at the University ofHawai'i at Manoa and editor of The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of island Affairs.

Adrienne L. KAEPPLER, Curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, gave a seminar on 12 April on Poetry in Motion: Text, Movement, Poetics, and Politics in Tonga. Kaeppler's informal presentation included videos of Tongan dance made from 1965 to 1967. The discussion concerned the poetics and politics of the verbal and visual dimensions of Tongan dance.

Nineteenth-Century Pacific Whaling: A New Look at Some Old Evidence was the topic of a seminar given by visiting colleague Barrie MACDONALD on 11 April. Macdonald is a professor of history at Massey

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University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and was a visiting colleague at the center from January until 12 April, when he travelled to the east coast to continue his research. Professor Macdonald's current research is on the impact of nineteenth-century whaling on Pacific Island societies.

Jennifer BRYANT of the University of the South Pacific gave a seminar on Human Settlements in the Atolls: Managing an Urban Future on 12 April. Bryant is a Reader in Geography in the School of Social and Economic Development. Her current research focuses on urban environmental degradation in the Pacific.

Richard HERR presented a seminar on Australia and the Pacific Islands in the Post Cold War Era. Herr is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tasmania, and has been head of the department since 1991. He is most widely known for his research and writing on South Pacific regional affairs, particularly in the areas of regional organization and security.

On 18 April, the video Em I Graun Blong Yumi (This is Our Land): Popular Theatre and the Melanesian Environment was shown. The screening was followed by a panel discussion featuring William TAKAKU, director of the National Theatre of Papua New Guinea, Robson UBUK, artistic director of the Raun Raun Theatre of Papua New Guinea, Moses STEVENS, ni­Vanuatu journalist who was then on internship at Hawai'i Public Radio, and John FUGUI, a graduate student in Pacific Islands Studies and an East-West Center grantee from the Solomon Islands. Don SCHUG, a graduate student in geography and degree participant in the East-West Center's Program on Environment, who recently returned from a research trip to Papua New Guinea, introduced the video.

John KOFEL, Executive Director of the Pacific Region Educational Laboratory (PREL), spoke on What's New At PREL on 20 April. Dr. Kofel spoke on the initiatives put into place recently that enhance the technological and communication capabilities of educators in the Pacific.

Randolph R. THAMAN, professor of Pacific Islands Biogeography at the University of the South Pacific, presented a seminar on Biological Diversity: The Basis for Cultural Survival on Pacific Islands. Thaman has written extensively on agricultural diversity and traditional knowledge, the deterioration of traditional food systems, agricultural land use, and food and national development in the Pacific.

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BULLETIN BOARD

Vacancies in Sociology at University of Auckland Two vacancies exist in the Department of Sociology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Vacancy UAC. 422- Lectureship in Sociological Research Methodology. Applications are sought from candidates with expertise in Social Research Methodology. The person sought will ideally be conversant with central debates in methodology and with both qualitiative and quantitative research techniques. The appointee should be able and willing to teach in each of these areas and to assume primary teaching responsibilities in the area of research methodology.

Vacancy UAC. 423 -Lectureship in Sociology of Gender. Applicants should have expertise in the Sociology of Gender or related areas including gender studies, sexuality, feminist social theory. The appointee will be expected to assume primary responsibilities for teaching in the area of gender.

For both vacancies candidates should possess advanced qualifications in sociology (PhD or equivalent), a diverse research experience, strong research record, and some teaching experience. The appointees will be invited to teach in a second area. While the department is particularly interested in developing the Sociology of Public Policy, the Sociology of the Family, and strengthening Social Theory and Ethnicity, applicants should indicate other areas of teaching and research in which they are currently engaged or are developing.The appointee will be expected to demonstrate, or to develop, a research commitment to societies in the Australia, New Zealand, Pacific, or Asian regions. Commencing salary will be in the range ofNZ$37,440- NZ$49,088 per annum.

For further information, conditions of appointment, and method of application, contact the Academic Appointments Office, telephone: 64 9 373 7999, ext. 5790; fax: 64 9 373 7454. Three copies of applications should reach the Registrar by 1 July 1994.

Pacific Region Educational Laboratory More than a thousand Pacific educators will meet from 10-12 August 1994, in Saipan, Commonwealth ofthe Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), for the 11th Annual Pacific Educational Conference sponsored by the Pacific Region Educational Laboratory, based in Honolulu. The theme for this year's conference is The Pacific Family: Partners in Education. Keynote speaker will be Juan N. BABAUTA, the CNMI's Representative to the United

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States. More than one hundred workshops will be conducted at the three-day conference. PREL is now recruiting workshop presenters for this event. For more information, contact PREL Conference, 828 Fort Street Mall, Suite 500, Honolulu, HI 96813.

PTC The Pacific Telecommunication Council's Mid-Year Seminar will be held in Sydney, Australia at the Regent of Sydney Hotel from 29 June to 1 July. This seminar titled Bridging National and Business Cultures: Strategic Alliances in Communications is being hosted by Telstra Corporation Limited of Australia. The conference will take place at a time of intense activity in the media, computing, and telecommunications industries around the region and the globe.

The PTC seeks exhibitors and paper proposals for its seventeenth annual conference and exhibition to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, 22-26 January, 1995. The theme for PTC '95 is Convergence: Closing the Gap. Deadline for paper proposals is 15 June 1994. For more information contact PTC at 2454 South Beretania Street, Suite 302, Honolulu, HI 96826. Telephone: (808) 941-3789. Fax: (808) 944-4874.

Pacific History Association Conference The Tenth Pacific History Association Conference will be held on 5-12 July, 1994 on Tarawa in the Republic of Kiribati. The theme ofthe conference will be Towards 2000: Continuity, Challenges, and Constraints. Panel themes will include: Cross Cultural Approaches to

University ofHawai'i at M~inoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies 1890 East-West Road, Moore Hall215 Honolulu, Hawai' i 96822 USA

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Biography, Labor Migration, Pacific History, and Kiribati History. For more information, contact Sister Alaima TALU, PO Box 20, Bairaki, Republic of Kiribati. Phone: (686) 21213. Fax: (686) 21269.

Marquesan Studies Conference A Marquesan studies conference, The Marquesas: From the Past into the Future, will be held on Taiohae on the island ofNuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, from 14-18 July, 1995. It will be the first international conference sponsored by the Pa' evi' i Center for Marquesan Studies, located in Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands. It is hoped that a wide range of disciplines will be represented. The conference is being planned in conjunction with activities commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Mendafia and Quiros in the Marquesas. The four days of meetings will be followed by an optional five-day program of festivities throughout the archipelago. The official language is French, however, translation into English and Marquesan will be provided. Contributions from anglophone researchers are welcomed and encouraged. If interested, contact the organizers immediately, as facilities in the Marquesas are limited and arrangements must be made so that everyone can be accommodated. Contact: David ADDISON, Department of Anthropology, University ofHawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96822. Phone: (808) 956-8305. Fax: (808) 956-4893. E-mail: daddison@uhunix. uhcc.hawaii.edu.