CSS Director Participates in the Pacific Connect Ideas Exchange in Sydney, Australia
Monday, 11 November 2019
The CSS Director, Associate Professor Togialelei Safua Akeli Amaama represented the National University of Samoa at the Pacific Connect Ideas Exchange held in Sydney, Australia (16-19 September) at the New South Wales Parliament House. Funded by the Australian International Centre for Democratic Partnerships (ICDP) and the Global Access Partners (GAP), the exchange provided the opportunity
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Letitia Peau-Folau presents on “Preserving our Samoan Heritage.”
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
Letita Peau-Folau presented on the topic ‘Preserving our Samoan Heritage’ as part of the Centre for Samoan Studies Seminar and Film Series 2019 at the National University of Samoa on Wednesday, 23rd October 2019. According to Letitia ‘Preservation on cultural heritage villages often found that historic buildings and surroundings are carefully preserved while the Samoan
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Garret Hillyer presents on ‘Approaching a Food History of Samoa’
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Garret Hillyer presented on the topic “E tuai, tuai, ta te ma’ona ai: Approaching a food history of Samoa”, as part of the CSS Seminar and Film Series on 3rd October 2019 at the National University of Samoa. According to Garret Hillyer “Though it is easy to see that food is and has been, central
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Dr Kalissa Alexeyeff presents on ‘The Shame of Migration”
Wednesday, 09 October 2019
According to Dr. Alexeyeff, “While Pacific islanders like many transnational migrants, frame labour migration in terms of economic necessity, the above comments suggest these crossing circuits of people and transfers of labour involve additional motives and desires. Anthropological scholarship has long argued that in order to account for the multi-directional traffic of people, goods, and
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Dr Fetaomi Tapu-Qiliho presents on Tuvaluan Diaspora within Oceania
Monday, 07 October 2019
Dr Fetaomi Tapu-Qiliho presented on the topic ‘Tuvaluan Diaspora within Oceania’, as part of the Centre for Samoan Studies Seminar and film series on the 26th September 2019. “The diaspora within Oceania conceptualises the existence of settler communities of Tuvaluan heritage on Kioa Island in Fiji and int he village of Elise Fou in Samoa
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Dr Suaalii-Sauni presents on A Samoan Case Study about Dialogical Challenges of Talking about Sex Relations in the Pacific
Monday, 07 October 2019
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
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First Zoom joint-class session for Development Studies students from NUS and Auckland University
Monday, 23 September 2019
On Wednesday, 18th September 2019, students in HDS 500, a Development Studies postgraduate course, had the Zoom joint-class session with the postgraduate students in Development Studies of the University of Auckland on the topic of ‘The governance of water.’ The lecture was given by Professor Andreas Neef, followed by discussions and questions on various water
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Tiffany Arthur presents on Development, Socieconomic change and Sustainable Livelihoods 1975-2019: A Re-study of four villages in Samoa
Monday, 16 September 2019
As part of the Centre for Samoan Studies Seminar and Film series, Tiffany Arthur presented a seminar on topic ‘Development, socioeconomic change and sustainable livelihoods 1975-2019: A Re-Study of four villages in Samoa on the 5th September, 2019 at the National University of Samoa. Her research “aims to provide case-based evidence contribution to discussions of
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Dionne Fonoti presents on ‘E Fili i le Po, ae Tatala i le Ao’: New Meanings in Old Samoa
Friday, 06 September 2019
Dionne Fonoti presented on the topic ‘E fili i le po, ae tatala i le ao’: New meanings in old Samoa, as part of the Centre for Samoan Studies Seminar and film series 2019. The presentation was held at the National University of Samoa on the 29th August 2019. “This Seminar presents a PhD thesis
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Dr Anna Powles presents on ‘Influence, ideas and identity: NZ’s Pacific Reset and the contested neighbourhood.’
Monday, 26 August 2019
Dr Anna Powles presented on the topic “Influence, ideas and identity: New Zealands’s Pacific reset and the contested neighbourhood at the National University of Samoa on Thursday, 22nd August 2019. Her presentation was part of the Centre for Samoan Studies Seminar and Film series. Her research in the Pacific ‘focussed on how state and non
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