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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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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CSS Staff and Students tour HMAS CHOULES
Monday, 26 August 2019
Staff and students of the Centre for Samoan Studies were invited to tour the HMAS CHOULES navy ship which visited Samoa from the 20th-26th August 2019. The CSS staff members and students were met by crew members and the captain and were taken on a tour of the ship and they also learnt about the
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Solamalemalo Hai-Yuean Tualima presents on topic ‘Protection of Traditional Knowledge in the Pacific’
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Solamalemalo Hai-Yuean Tualima had a presentation on the topic ‘Protection of traditional knowledge in the Pacific’, on the 15 August 2019, at the National University of Samoa as part of the CSS seminar and film series. According to Solamalemalo “Traditional knowledge in the Pacific from an integral part of identity, linking the past, present and
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