The Pacific Islands Studies Initiative’s spring virtual symposium series is titled “Pedagogies for Indigeneity and Diaspora: Pacific Studies at Home and Abroad.” Please share with your networks and invite your classes.

With a host of guests, we will be discussing: What does it mean to teach Pacific Studies in the current moment? What are the pedagogies, both old and new, that Pacific Islander scholars, activists, teachers, and performers are drawing on to educate and foster knowledge relevant to Pacific Islander people?

Please find our schedule below. More information and links to register are here: https://transform.utah.edu/pi-studies/symposium/.

All events will be online via Zoom and will be love captioned. The recordings will be made available afterwards on our YouTube page.

Thursday, April 8, 3-4:30pm

“We sweat & cry saltwater, so we know that the ocean is really in our blood”: Pacific Islander Diasporas and the Environment

 Innocenta Sound Kikku (TeAda Productions)

Leilani Chan (TeAda Productions)

Tammy Tabe (University of the South Pacific)

Olivia Quintanilla (UC San Diego)

Makaio Kimbrough (University of Utah), moderator

Friday, April 9, 1-2:30pm

“The Classroom as a Metaphorical Canoe”: Pacific Islander Diasporas and Education

 Melsihna Folau (Pacific Heritage Academy)

Finausina Teisa Tovo (College of San Mateo)

Damon Salesa (University of Auckland)

Kēhaulani Vaughn (University of Utah), moderator

Friday, April 9, 3-4:30pm

“Decolonization of s/pacific bodies”: Pacific Islander Diasporas and Health

 Juliann Anesi (University of California, Los Angeles)

Josie Howard (We Are Oceania)

Vili Nosa (University of Auckland)

Jake Fitisemanu, moderator. Register for the April 8th and 9th events here (you can access all or any one of the April panels from this registration link) : https://tinyurl.com/2pcwybmu