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<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="5"><b>Oceanic Memory: Islands, Ecologies, Peoples</b></font></font></font></p>
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<p lang="en-US" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="4">30 November – 2 December, 2017</font></font></font></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="4">Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand</font></font></font></p>
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<p lang="en-US" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Hosted by the University of Canterbury College of Arts and the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies in conjunction with
Memory Research in Aotearoa Network</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><a name="_GoBack"></a><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><b>Keynote Speakers: Ross Gibson (University of Canberra), Elizabeth Deloughrey (University of California,
Los Angeles), Sudesh Mishra (University of the South Pacific), Steven Ratuva (Macmillan Brown Centre, University of Canterbury), Sacha McMeeking (Aotahi Maori and Indigenous Studies, University of Canterbury)</b></span></font></font></font></p>
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<p lang="en-US" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2"><b>The conference also includes a Postgraduate Workshop DAY, 29 November, as well as performances, readings and screenings (tba)
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">Memories are complex, selective and evolve over time. Some memories are hegemonic and powerful and some are subordinate
and marginalized. The dominant s</span></font></font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">tories of the Pacific are usually told by foreign historians, anthropologists, development economists, political
scientists, journalists and travel writers, who often define Pacific societies using very narrow disciplinary and cultural prisms that cast the Pacific in deficit terms. These narratives are often at odds with how Pacific peoples see themselves, live their
lives and frame their collective and individual meanings. </span></font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">This conference seeks to address the complex politics of cultural memory in the Pacific, attending to the range of contexts that shape memory
and its articulation.</span></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"> On the one hand, the threat of climate change is the most recent escalation of a long process of environmental
destruction and economic exploitation that includes the effects of colonisation, war, nuclear testing and global tourism. On the other hand, Pacific societies and cultures display strength, resilience and agency in facing the challenges of the new millennium
and developing new visions of the future. Memory plays a vital role in these processes of survival and transformation.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Questions of memory have been taken up by a wide range of disciplines — including
</font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">literary, film and media studies, art history and theory, cultural studies, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, history, law and psychology —</span></font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">
and are always inflected by the historical, political and intellectual contexts in which they are posed. This conference asks how can a focus on memory be brought into dialogue with the wider issues facing the region? How might our history and cultural location
in the Pacific inform how memory is articulated in both research and in public discourse? How might memory in the Pacific — including the politics, the poetics or aesthetics, the practices, and the technologies of memory — contribute to understandings and
interventions that address cultural, social, geopolitical, ecological, and other concerns for the region?</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Topics may include but are not limited to:</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Indigenous cultures of memory</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Colonial and postcolonial formations of memory</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Memory, place, landscape, environment</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Pacific diasporas and globalisation</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Te Ao Mâori and the Pacific</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Modernity, memory and the Pacific</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Migration, navigation, exploration, exile</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Natural history, climate change, and ecological disaster</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Testimony and catastrophe</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Species memory, extinction and extermination</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Remembering nuclear testing</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">War in the Pacific</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Military bases, Prisons, and Refugee Camps</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Pacific Time: Alternative Temporalities</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Cultural amnesia and other forms of memory loss</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">The Arts of memory: literature, film, music, digital media and the visual arts</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2">Curating memory: Museum, archive, gallery</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" size="2"><b>Organising Committee: Chris Prentice (University of Otago), Allen Meek (Massey University), Alan Wright (University of Canterbury), Steven Ratuva (University
of Canterbury), Paul Millar (University of Canterbury). </b></font></font></p>
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<p lang="en-US" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font color="#18376a"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="4"><b>ABSTRACTS</b></font></font></font></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; ORPHANS: 0; WIDOWS: 0"><font color="#18376a"><font face="Calibri, serif">Please send a 300 word abstract with short bio to alan.wright@canterbury.ac.nz </font></font></p>
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June 2017.</span></font></font></p>
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