{"id":1452,"date":"2023-04-20T15:36:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2023-04-20T15:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:37:57","slug":"reflections-on-to-hell-with-drowning-aaps-conference-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/reflections-on-to-hell-with-drowning-aaps-conference-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on \u2018To Hell With Drowning\u2019 AAPS Conference 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With fellow M\u0101ori scholars (L-R): Sam Iti Prendergast, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Marama Salsano, Innez Haua, Karamea, Jo Maarama K\u0101mira<\/p><\/div>\n

The following is a reflective piece from Karamea Moana Wright<\/strong><\/span>, one of Te Tumu’s PhD candidates in Pacific Islands Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n

The first Australia Association for Pacific Studies\u2019 conference I participated in was held primarily online in 2021, with separate hubs in Aotearoa and Australia. Because we were in groups on our own campuses, I don\u2019t think I fully understood the magnitude or value of the conference and the association itself until this month, when I attended for the first time in person.<\/p>\n

The four days in Canberra at the Australian National University were packed with phenomenal panels, plenaries, roundtables, and whakawhanaungatanga with incredible Pacific thinkers, researchers, artists, leaders, and poets influential in our region and discipline.<\/p>\n

This conference opened my eyes in greater measure to salient contemporary conversations taking place in the field, how my own research sits within the broader landscape of M\u0101ori, Pacific, and Indigenous Studies, and to see what is possible in my work moving forward. The AAPS conference has left me hopeful, motivated, refreshed, rejuvenated, and encouraged, underscoring the necessity to return for the next AAPS conference in 2023, held in Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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