Oceania Currents CPIS

Part 3 of a mini-series with guest host John Taukave (CPIS). "Rotuman Identity Through Storyliving" takes you along for a journey of reconnection through storytelling and music with Jon Kafoa, a Rotuman musician based in California. "Part 3: Reconnecting in Diaspora" shares Uncle Jon's experiences after his move to the U.S.

Part 2 of a mini-series with guest host John Taukave (CPIS). "Rotuman Identity Through Storyliving" takes you along for a journey of reconnection through storytelling and music with Jon Kafoa, a Rotuman musician based in California. "Part 2: Life in Rotuma" continues with Uncle Jon's musical influences on the island.

Part 1 of a mini-series with guest host John Taukave (CPIS). "Rotuman Identity Through Storyliving" takes you along for a journey of reconnection through storytelling and music with Jon Kafoa, a Rotuman musician based in California. "Part 1: Life in Rotuma" begins with Uncle Jon's early life in Rotuma.

A short bonus episode with Katerina Teaiwa discussing Project Banaba, a traveling exhibition that brings together rare historical archives and multimedia works to shed light on the history of phosphate mining on Banaba and the ongoing impacts on Banabans. Project Banaba most recently traveled to the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.

Episode two of Oceania Currents continues our conversations with Emeritus Professor Terence Wesley-Smith, Professor Katerina Teaiwa (Australian National University), and CPIS Director Alexander Mawyer. We discuss the "Mānoa school" of Pacific studies, the founding of the Pacific studies teaching program at the Australian National University, Pacific studies pedagogies, and the future of the field.

Episode one of Oceania Currents takes you on a journey of stories about our home: the Center for Pacific Islands Studies (CPIS). We speak with three people who have worked and studied at CPIS and discuss what Pacific Studies means to each of them: Emeritus Professor Terence Wesley-Smith, Professor Katerina Teaiwa (Australian National University), and CPIS Director Alexander Mawyer.