Please join us for the fourth and final ev ent of our Spring Speaker Series\, Decolonizing Migration.
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Abstract
What forms of connection are possible between Indigenous people in any one Indigenous site? When Pacific people move to another Pacific place\, in wh at ways do they affirm and extend connections with relatives\, and in what ways do they reproduce structures of Indigenous oppression and elimination? How might the concept of ‘cousins\,’ which pops up in so much Indigenous w riting about transnational connections\, contribute to how we think about I ndigenous migration? This talk will ask these questions by drawing from res earch undertaken for my current monograph-in-process\, ‘Belonging Together: Indigenous Pacific engagements with periodicals 1900-1975’ which holds Aot earoa New Zealand alongside Australia\, Fiji and Hawai’i. Each of the sites is simultaneously home to specific Indigenous Pacific peoples and home to members of Pacific communities who have migrated there – la rgely along imperial networks – in the past two centuries. Ultimately\, how can we recall and envision the ways in which Indigenous Pacific peoples (l ocal and migrant/ diasporic) connect along and beyond the imaginaries of co ntemporary states and regionalisms and\, perhaps\, the imaginaries we have of ourselves?
Speaker bio
Professor Alice Te Punga Somerville (Māori – Te Āti Awa\ , Taranaki) joined the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures in 2021. She holds a joint appointment with the UBC Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She came to UBC from the University of Waikato in New Zealand\, and has previously taught i n Australia\, Hawai’i and elsewhere in New Zealand. Professor Te Punga Some rville is a scholar\, poet and irredentist. At its heart\, her research and teaching engages texts in order to centre Indigenous expansiveness and de- centre colonialism. Her MA (Auckland) and PhD (Cornell) focused on Māori wr itten literatures\; as she sought broader contexts for thinking about the w riting of her own community\, she developed a twin interest and expertise i n Indigenous studies and Pacific studies.
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