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Pacific Studies
Taiwan on Air March 9, 2023

Book Chat: Oceanic Writing

A Discussion with Liao Hung-chi

Liao Hung-chi

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
In this episode, our host, Ti-han Chang, conducted an interview chat with the ecowriter, Liao Hung-chi about his oceanic and cetacean writings. The interview covers the writer's view on the …

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Discussions with scholars of the Pacific region about their new books

SSEAC Stories January 26, 2023

Shaping Civilisations

The Sea in Asian History

Eric Tagliocozzo

Hosted by Natali Pearson
The ocean is more connective device than barrier, bringing together diverse topics, time-periods and geographies. It has linked and connected the various littorals of Asia into a segmented, yet at …
American West January 3, 2023

Imperial Zions

Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has always been globally situated, argues Montana State history professor Amanda Hendrix-Komoto in Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the …
African American Studies December 20, 2022

Pasifika Black

Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World

Quito Swan

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Oceania is a vast sea of islands, large scale political struggles and immensely significant historical phenomena. Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the African World (NYU Press, 2022) is a compelling …
Human Rights December 16, 2022

Chasing Wrongs and Rights

My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World

Elaine Pearson

Hosted by Nicholas Bequelin
Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World (Simon & Schuster, 2022) by Elaine Pearson, the Asia Director at Human Rights Watch, is an intimate account …
Religion December 10, 2022

Fire on the Island

Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu

Tom Bratrud

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision.’ However, it ended dramatically when two …
Law November 25, 2022

Foreign Judges in the Pacific

Anna Dziedzic

Hosted by Jane Richards
While it might ordinarily be assumed that judges who sit on constitutional courts will be local citizens, in the islands of the Pacific, more than three-quarters of judges are foreign. This is …
Language November 15, 2022

Speak Not

Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language

James Griffiths

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet's linguistic diversity leaping towards extinction. The science of how languages are acquired is becoming more advanced and the …
Medicine September 21, 2022

Tik Merauke

An Epidemic Like No Other

John Richens

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
A medical doctor with an inquisitive mind and a traveling spirit, John Richens thought he had hit upon an exemplary public health case study – the story of donovanosis among …
General History August 5, 2022

Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975

Colonial and Foreign Aid Policy in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia

Nicholas Ferns

Hosted by Bernard Keo
In the voluminous literature on the history of modernisation theory and its associated concept of development since the end of World War II, much of the focus lies on the …
British Studies July 27, 2022

Grappling with the Bomb

Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb Tests

Nic Maclellan

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Nic Maclellan's book Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb Tests (ANU Press, 2017) is a history of Britain’s 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In …
Anthropology June 15, 2022

Coconut Colonialism

Workers and the Globalization of Samoa

Holger Droessler

Hosted by Alex Golub
In Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa (Harvard UP, 2022), Holger Droessler provides a novel history of the impact of globalization on Sāmoa and vice versa. Using a …
Literature April 21, 2022

Sista, Stanap Strong!

A Vanuatu Women's Anthology

Mikaela Nyman, Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen, and Nicole Colmar

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology (Te Herenaa Waka UP, 2021) is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women—and the first of its kind …
African American Studies March 30, 2022

Hawai'i Is My Haven

Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific

Nitasha Tamar Sharma

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Hawai'i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (Duke UP, 2021) maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from …
Anthropology March 29, 2022

In the Shadow of the Palms

More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua

Sophie Chao

Hosted by Alex Golub
This episode we speak with Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022). Her new book examines the lives of Marind …
Recall This Book March 17, 2022

Polynesia, Sea of Islands

A Discussion with Christina Thompson

Christina Thompson

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
John and Elizabeth talk cultural renewal with Christina Thompson in this rebroadcast of a 2019 Recall this Book conversation. Her Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia both relates the history …
Australian and New Zealand Studies November 16, 2021

Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha

Edited and Translated by Ross Calman

Tamihana Te Rauparaha

Hosted by Ed Amon
Te Rauparaha is most well known today as the composer of the haka ‘Ka mate’, made famous the world over by the All Blacks. A major figure in nineteenth-century history …
Anthropology August 20, 2021

Everything Ancient Was Once New

Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki

Emalani Case

Hosted by Alex Golub
In Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawai‘i to Kahiki (U Hawaii Press, 2021), Emalani Case draws on her own life experiences to explore the politics and ethics of being Native Hawaiian …
General History August 12, 2021

Tautai

Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Taʻisi O.F. Nelson

Patricia O'Brien

Hosted by Holger Droessler
In Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O.F. Nelson (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017), O’Brien chronicles the life of a man described as the “archenemy” of New Zealand …
General History July 21, 2021

Everything Ancient Was Once New

Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki

Emalani Case

Hosted by Holger Droessler
In Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki (U Hawaii Press, 2021), Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is …