Development Studies postgrad students and CSS Lecturers at the Palauli star mounds

Postgraduate students participate in a fieldtrip to Palauli Heritage Trails

    Development Studies postgraduate students went on a field trip to the Palauli Heritage Trails on the 3rd of October 2020. They visited recently uncovered star mounds and walk ways located in the village of Vaito’omuli.  It was the first time the majority of the students had been exposed to one of Samoa’s ancient
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Police Commissioner Fuiavailiili Egon Keil and team, Director of CSS Professor Leasiolagi Meleisea Malama Meleisea, Senior Lecturer Development Studies Dr. Masami Tsujita Levi and the HDS500 Class

Police Commissioner Guest Lecturers at CSS

It was a great honour and privilege to have Police Commissioner Fuiavailiili Egon Keil as guest speaker for the postgraduate course HDS500 Development Theory and Practice on 14 September 2020 to present Samoa’s national border and security. The presentation covered a wide range of topics including transnational crimes, illegal drugs and firearms, cyber security, deportees,
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CSS welcomes new staff member

Sanele Leota who hails from the villages of Gautavai and Lalovaea is the newest staff member to join the Centre for Samoan Studies at the National University of Samoa. Mr. Leota stated that the reason he applied for the position of Samoan Studies Lecturer is because the National University of Samoa is considered the highest
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CSS Director participates in a Museums Restitution Conference in Tanzania

In early March (5th-6th) 2020, Associate Professor and Director for the Centre for Samoan Studies Safua Akeli Amaama presented at the conference Beyond Collections: New Ethics for Museums in Transition at the National Museum of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam. She presented an impulse lecture and was a panel member on the theme of ‘Reviewing
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Fulbright Scholar researches customary land in Samoa

  Donari Yahzid, 22 years old, born in Atlanta, Georgia in America with family ties in Jamaica, is a Fulbright scholar conducting research in Samoa. Her research focuses on Samoa’s customary land tenure and how it relates to international development policy. Ms. Yahzid expressed how much she’s enjoyed doing her research in Samoa. “I’ve really,
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Centre for Samoan Studies Director delivers keynote address at an International Conference

The CSS Director Associate Professor Safua Akeli Amaama was invited as a keynote address at the Conference on Health and Labour After the Pacific War: Pacific Islanders and Medical Infrastructure (20-21 Feb 2020) hosted by Flinders University (Adelaide) and York University (Canada). Her presentation titled ‘Mobilising People, Places & Practice: Public Health Care in Samoa,

Palauli Heritage Trails Officially Opened

The Palauli Heritage Trails in Savaii was officially launched last Friday. The event was blessed with a prayer conducted by the EFKS Vaito’omuli pastor, Reverend Fereti Sefo. An ava ceremony was then held by the district of Palauli for the Centre for Samoan Studies who spearheaded the Palauli Heritage Trails project. Special guests who were

New NUS Vice Chancellor welcomed with an ava ceremony

The newly appointed Vice Chancellor and President of the National University of Samoa Professor Aiono Dr. Alec Ekeroma was officially welcomed by the staff members of NUS during an ava ceremony this morning. The ava ceremony was organized and implemented by the Centre for Samoan Studies and was held at the falesamoa at NUS. The
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