Dr. Tamasailau Suaalii-Sauni as part of the Centre for Samoan Studies Seminar and Film series presented on the topic, ‘Love under the palms: The dialogical challenges of talking about sex relations in the Pacific: A Samoan case study’, on the 19 September 2019 at the National University of Samoa.
Her seminar presentation “draws on an ongoing collective capacity building project which began with a NUS reading group almost 10 years ago It examines the value of privileging indigenous conceptual and philosophical frameworks for entry into dialogues on ‘the sexual’ and ‘the relational’ in ‘sex relations’ for anti-violence help services working with Pacific victims of sexual violence.”
Dr Tamasailau currently teaches in the Criminology programme at the University of Auckland. She held teaching fellow, research fellow, lecturing and deputy director positions within the University of Auckland’s department of Sociology, department of Maori and Pacific health, and Centre for Pacific Studies from 1998-2008. She has taken up other positions before returning to the University of Auckland in 2016 as the Associate Professor in Sociology/Criminology.
