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©Daniel Waswas 2005 'Looking straight (future): Looking sideways (surrounding)' THE PACIFIC IN AUSTRALIA CONFERENCE 2006 For commercial purposes or publication we ask that copyright approval and acknowledgement of Author's and source can be quickly obtained through Emailing our Office with your request. If approval is not sort we will view the matter as an infringement against 'copyright'. News clippings remain the copyright of the individual Newspapers concerned - EMAIL US All material in this Web Site is Copyright © K. Sigrah & S. M. King 2001 All Rights Reserved.
The Australian launch of ABARA BANABA was held at the recent four day - 'The Pacific in Australia - Australia in The Pacific Conference' between Tuesday 24 to Friday 27 January 2006 at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Carseldine campus, Brisbane. Ken Sigrah and Stacey King, spokespersons for ABARA BANABA had two papers/abstracts accepted and they were presented at the conference. A highlight of the conference was young Banaban academic Dr Katerina Teaiwa as a keynote speaker from the University of Hawaii.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The conference highlighted Australian excellence in disciplinary and interdisciplinary humanities research, scholarship and tertiary teaching about the Pacific Islands and included the launch of AAAPS, (the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies), an initiative to promote the teaching and study of the Pacific Islands in Australian Universities. Nationally Australians have maintained a major role in Pacific Studies research and could fairly be said to lead several fields in a global context. It is also pleasing that this conference also launched the platform for a long overdue national organization to promote teaching and research in Pacific Studies. The conference welcomed delegates and encouraged collaboration, collegiality and dialogue over the the four days of meetings, dialogue/forum and paper presentations. The conference also was a forum for the research, presentation and preservation carried out by archives, museums and galleries as well as university teaching and research. The conference was supported by ICE-APS (the federally-funded International Centre of Excellence in Asian and Pacific Studies), The Asia Pacific Futures Research Network (APRFN), the Centre for Social Change Research (QUT), the Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) and the Centre for Social Change Research and QPACifika (a Southeast Queensland Performing Arts project).
Keynote speakers and plenary sessions included:
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Banabans - Dr Katerina Teaiwa and Ken Sigrah discussing Banaban issues during conference Interim President AAAPS - Associate Prof. Grant McCall and Stacey King at the Banaba Audio Visual Display at conference CONFERENCE THEMES The themes of the conference included: Hunters and Collectors
Copy of letter to Australian Government calling on recognition for Banaba's contribution to Australia history - Drafted and signed by conference delegates The following papers/abstracts were written and delivered as 20 minute Power Point presentations by the Banaban delegation. Copies are now available for download by clicking on the 'DOWNLOAD NOW' highlighted link. These files are large and depending on the speed of your modem can take some time to download. Larger versions of the images shown on this page can be viewed by 'double clicking' on each image. A copy of our Banaban Papers/Abstracts are available as a .pdf format which requires Acrobat Reader to read it. To get a FREE copy of Acrobat Reader
INDEX - Australia - Pacific 2006 Papers/Abstracts WORD OF THANKS The Banaban delegation would like to thank Associate Professor Grant McCall, UNSW and Dr Max Quanchi from QUT for their invitation to attend this conference. It was a wonderful opportunity for our Banaban delegation to once again present the Banaban case and to use this conference to launch an Australian campaign of ABARA BANABA. It was very encouraging to meet with so many talented and prominent Pacific specialists and the many offers of support we received. We would also like to thank all those conference delegates that drafted and signed a LETTER calling on the Australian Government to recognise the Banabans contribution to Australian history. If you would like any further information on our papers of the oral presentations at this launch, please contact us at - admin@banaban.com |
