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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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CSS Director Participates in the Pacific Connect Ideas Exchange in Sydney, Australia

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.”

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’

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”

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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