Pacific History Association
Early Career Researchers’ Month Webinar Series
The Pacific History Association will be holding its first “Early Career Researchers’ Month Webinar Series” in 2025. Conceived as both a platform for early career researchers whose works relate to the Pacific area and as preparation towards the association’s biennial conference, the event will take place as a series of 4 one-hour sessions held over Zoom, each one welcoming two speakers, on Thursdays 3-10-17-24 April 2025 from approx. 9 to 10 am NZST (tbc). Each speaker will have an allocated time of 15-20 minutes for their paper presentation and 10-15 minutes for questions and discussion (total 30 minutes each).
This series does not have a particular theme set, so please feel free to submit a paper proposal to the coordinators on any topic relating to the pasts of the Pacific, its islands and its peoples by 10 February 2025. Any paper proposal relating to the 2025 conference theme “Le Solosolo’ū : Resilience in the Face of Adversity” are also most welcome.
We welcome proposals from HDR students (Master’s and PhD) and recent PhD graduates in the wider humanities : history, art history, anthropology, ethnography, law, literature, philosophy, political science, international relations, … as well as from contributors from the heritage and museums sectors.
The Zoom link and programme will be circulated before the event. The event will also be open to the public, and those who wish to attend one or more sessions are more than welcome to get in touch with the coordinators to ask for the Zoom link.
Early Career Researchers’ Month Webinar Series coordinators
Jonathan RITCHIE (Deakin University)
jonathan.ritchie@deakin.edu.au
Yacine BENHALIMA (Université de la Polynésie Française & Victoria University of Wellington)
yacine.benhalima@vuw.ac.nz
Edward PINFIELD (King’s College London)
edward.pinfield@kcl.ac.uk
PHA Researchers Across COVID Seas: Past Webinars coordinated by Helen Gardner and Jacqui Leckie.
Thursday 10 November 2022:
"Rethinking Culture, History and Gender Relations in Solomon Islands". By Anna Kwai, PhD candidate, Australian National University. [No recording available]
Thursday 13 October 2022:
"USP student research roundup: in honour of Brij V. Lal". By Sonia Soakai and Eroki Rakuita, MA Candidates, USP. Chaired by Nicholas Halter (University of the South Pacific). [No recording available]
Wednesday 7 September 2022:
"Indigenous Feminist History: Futurities, Relationalities, and CHamoru Placental Politics". By Associate Professor Tina Taitano DeLisle (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities). Click here for a video recording
Friday 12 August 2022:
"Mining Futurities: Imagined Futures for the Pacific’s Three Great Phosphate Islands". By Dr Nicholas Hoare (Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University). Click here for a video recording
Thursday 7 July 2022:
"People’s Histories of Christianities: Towards reStorying Pacific Church History". By
Associate Professor Gladson Jathanna (Pacific Theological College, Suva). Click here for a video recording
12 November 2020:
"Decolonisation Interrupted: West Papuan Campaign for Independence 1961-69". By Emma Kluge (University of Sydney). Click here for a video recording
8 October 2020:
" 'A Time Bomb Lies Buried': The Road to and From Fijian Independence". By Emeritus Professor Brij V. Lal (Australian National University). Click here for a video recording
10 September 2020:
"Popular Culture and the Beginning of Cinema Culture in Western Samoa". By Dr Louise Mataia Milo (National University of Samoa). Click here for a video recording
15 August 2020:
"In search of a solution to the problem of resolving the succession to the Vanua title of the Vunivalu of the Yavusa of Sovatabua – Natewa, Vanua Levu, Fiji Islands." By Tuinawi Rakuita, Eroni Rakuita, Sevanaia Sakai, and Morgan Tuimaleali’ifano (The University of the South Pacific). [No recording available]