A11: Global Flows of Oceania

Seminar Leaders: Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Cornell University and Vincente Diaz, University of Michigan

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Antrim

Susan Y. Najita, University of Michigan: “Entangled Histories, Global Flows: Trauma in Keri Hulme’s The Bone People”

Briar Wood, London Metropolitan University:  “Mana Wahine and the Engendered Narratives of Nationalism in New Zealand”

Seri Inthava Luangphinith, University of Hawai’i at Hilo: “Worlds Apart - Rethinking Migrancy and the Indigene”

Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY: “The Indigenous, the Other, the Diasporic: Pacific Cultural Translation in Sia Figiel, Grace Molisa, and Teresia Teaiwa”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Antrim

Juniper Ellis, Loyola College: “Transferring Moko: Global Tattoo Design”

Richard Carr, University of Alaska – Fairbank: “Toward a Global Pacific: ‘Fourth Cinema’ as Redefinition”

Alice Te Punga Somerville, Cornell University: “I’m Sorry, Paka, But Aren’t We Whale Riding in Oceania?”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Antrim

Michelle Elleray, University of Guelph: “‘White Cottages, Precisely English’: Victorian Spatiality in the South Pacific”

Johnathan Steinwand, Concordia College: “Relocating Global Encounters: Indigenous Epistemology, The Mango’s Kiss, and the Role of Historical Fiction in the Pacific”

Anna Marie Christiansen, BYU – Hawai’i: “Implications and Innovations: Native Pacific Cultural Studies and Pedagogy”