On 26 April 1984, West Papuan anthropologist, ethno-musicologist and musician Arnold Ap was murdered by the Indonesian military. Ap co-founded Mambesak with Sam Kapissa and Eddie Mofu – the band preserved traditional songs that still inspire the movement for Papua Merdeka.

Absolutely thrilled to have such a stellar cast of editors help us create this multivolume work, including Leah Lui-Chivizhe Chris Urwin Lynette Russell AM Talei Luscia A TePungaSomerville and so many others: culturalhistoryofoceania.blog/people-2/

Delighted to share a new project that Katerina Teaiwa🔥🚣🏿🌊 and I have been working on for the past year - a new six-volume history of Oceania (Australia and the Pacific) - 60,000 years: culturalhistoryofoceania.blog

Watching TV and realising how her mind was colonised made Hinamoeura Cross fight for the people of French Polynesia who still suffer the consequences of nuclear tests. Meet her at #NukeEXPO in Oslo 26th April at nasjonalmuseet

ICRC Norges Røde Kors
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Israel is one of the many countries participating in RIMPAC this year which, means they will be here in Hawai'i this summer doing military exercises. There are real concerns regarding the safety of women and children in Hawai'i. #demilitarizeOceania #cancelRIMPAC

DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA EXCLUSIVE:
A 14-month investigation by Eve Cogan + Stephanie Tran has found a massive scandal that barely any other media has touched; 100s of millions of $ flowing into #Australian universities from the Pentagon and arms companies since 2007:…

Australia’s Defence Minister has launched a new National Defence Strategy and an ‘Integrated Investment Program’. They’re focussed on the Indo-Pacific region and the US alliance, but here’s some of the passing references to the Pacific Islands. THREAD.
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AN A1 EXAMPLE OF HOW NOT TO DO A CLIMATE CHANGE VIDEO IN THE PACIFIC (OR ANYWHERE). From the weird presenter with over-dramatic pauses, to the language of 'leaving as a saviour', to the focus on the white male engineer... STOP 60 Minutes Australia -in 2024? No.

Great article! Positionality statements where (often White) scholars dump a robotic or overly emotional block of text in the preface can be so manipulative... meanwhile I appreciate ppl who skilfully/purposefully weave their own lifestory/lived experience throughout their writing

Australian policies designed to prevent Aboriginal babies being born as recently as the 1970s. Honoured to work with Julia Hurst and Jaky Troy on this. theconversation.com/friday-essay-t…

The 2024 AAPS Epeli Hau’ofa Annual Memorial Lecture titled “The Ocean Is Us” delivered by Rev. James Shri Bhagwan James Bhagwan is now online via YouTube! Watch the thought-provoking lecture, here: youtu.be/CsJu3FWHmSo?fe…

Yessss agree. Seeing Canberra, Cambridge, Durham and even Honolulu and Wellington (sometimes) in Pacific Studies can be boring 🥱... but I LOVE seeing ppl citing ideas and theory published in Port Moresby, Port Vila, Suva, Jayapura, Noumea, Papeete and so many more!!

Canberra happening tonight! 💕 get your tickets from the NFSA here:
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CANBERRA: A diverse mini festival of hot-off-the-press short documentaries from inside West Papua and Indonesia screens in Canberra at the National Film and Sound Archives on 11 April 2024 at 4:20pm.

- Ticketing for the Canberra screening via:
tickets.nfsa.gov.au/.../West-Papua…...

This ABC story is exactly why we need War Powers Reform.

It is not up to US officials to decide on how our military is used. And it shouldn't just be up to the PM.

The whole Parliament should vote on whether we join overseas wars.

#auspol
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An amazing opportunity to sit together with researchers and academics who all have a love for our Pasifika Household and hold in in their own way the question of Justice and Peace for Oceania...
Viva la Revolution!

Wonderful #AAPS2024 postgrad dialogue with Rev. James Shri Bhagwan talking about life as a prac-ademic, spirituality and justice in the #OceanOfPeace , accompaniment, allyship and accountability in Pacific studies, activism and beyond! Edmund Rice Centre

Vinaka to James Bhagwan for a brilliant, inspiring AAPS Epeli Hau’ofa annual lecture on the “ocean of peace” co-hosted with Australian Museum Edmund Rice Centre 🌊💛 Congratulations to the winner of the Tracey Banivanua-Mar PhD thesis prize Marco de Jong & honourable mention, Timaima Tuvuki

We cannot let 'Ocean of Peace' become militarized or reduced to rhetoric.