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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