Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade (MFAT) CEO, Afioga Peseta Noumea Simi, Guest Lecturers at CSS
Wednesday, 07 April 2021
Despite her super busy schedule, Peseta kindly presented on Samoa’s Development Aid Coordination and Management in HDS501 Development Partnerships on 24 March 2021. This is one of 3 core courses for Postgraduate Diploma and Master’s in Development Studies, that enables students to develop an understanding of the ways in which Samoa’s development projects and programmes
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Guest Speaker Professor Camacho at UCLA gives Lecture to Postgraduate & Master Course Students during a Zoom Class
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Students enrolled in course HDS510 – Development and Environment in the Pacific (an elective course for postgraduate diploma and MA in Development Studies Program) had the great honor to have Professor Keith L Camacho as their guest speaker via Zoom last week Friday, 19 March 2021. He gave a lecture on Militarization in Micronesia, which
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CSS welcomes new staff member
Friday, 20 March 2020
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
Thursday, 19 March 2020
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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New NUS Vice Chancellor welcomed with an ava ceremony
Friday, 31 January 2020
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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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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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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Mathew Durling presents on topic ‘Archaeology brought me here’
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Mathew Durling gave a seminar on Thursday, 8 August 2019 at the National University of Samoa as part of the Centre for Samoan Studies Seminar and Film series. Mathew’s presentation defined what GIS is and how this system supports the Arachaeology and Cultural Heritage division at the Centre for Samoan Studies. Mathew’s career in Geographic
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