Keynote Speakers

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Programme

Bronwen Douglas

Bronwen Douglas is Honorary Professor at the Australian National University in the College of Arts and Social Sciences. She is a leader in the history profession, who has made a significant contribution to anthropological history and the history of science, in particular the history of the global concept of race and its manifestations in Oceania, the history of Melanesian Christianities, the intersections of Christianity, gender, and community in postcolonial Melanesia, and the colonial histories of New Caledonia and Vanuatu.

Anne Perez Hattori

Anne Perez Hattori earned a PhD in Pacific history in 1999 and an MA in Pacific Islands studies in 1995 from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. She also holds a BBA in international business also from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, which was awarded in 1987. She is currently Professor of History and Chamorro Studies in the University of Guam’s Humanities Division, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, teaching courses and advising students in the history program, as well as in the graduate program in Micronesian studies.

Maia Nuku

Maia Nuku is currently Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Associate Curator for Oceanic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She was born in London and is of English and Maori (Ngai Tai) descent. Her doctoral research focused on early missionary collections of Polynesian gods and their extraordinary materiality, which sparked an interest in drawing out the often eclipsed cosmological aspects of Oceanic art. She followed up her involvement on the major exhibition Pacific Encounters: Art and Divinity in Polynesia 1760–1860 (2006) at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, with postdoctoral research at Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology as part of a research team exploring Oceanic collections in major European institutions—Artefacts of Encounter: 1765–1840 and Pacific Presences: Oceanic Art in European Museums.

Damon Salesa

Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa is a prizewinning scholar who specializes in the study of colonialism, empire, government and race. With a particular interest in the Pacific Islands, he also works on education, economics and development in the Pacific region, as well as in New Zealand and Australia. After studying at the University of Auckland, he completed his studies at Oxford University. He is currently Associate Professor of Pacific Studies at the Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Auckland. Previously he was Associate Professor of History, American Culture, and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.