Polynesian Visual Arts;

Meanings and histories in Pacific and European cultural contexts, 1760-1860

 

                   

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A postgraduate forum on current research was held on Wednesday 16th- Thursday 17th November 2005

 ‘He iwi kee, he iwi kee, titiro atu, titiro mai!’

‘One strange people and another, looking at each other!’

(From a Maori haka)

haka is by Merimeri Penfold

 

Moments of Contact in Oceania

Following the success of the postgraduate forum held at the Sainsbury Research Unit in June 2004, we would like to invite postgraduates, junior researchers, and museum curators involved in Oceanic research to attend this event.  Once again, the event will be informal, offering an opportunity for researchers to discuss work in progress or develop ideas.  Those who wish to make a presentation are invited to submit an abstract by Monday 7th November 2005 (see below).

The theme of the forum this year will be moments of contact between the peoples of Oceania and Europeans.  Topics might include:-

 

  • The art of contact – artistic responses to cross-cultural encounters.
  • Objects of desire – what was collected by Europeans and what was collected by local peoples.
  • Missionary contact.
  • Fieldwork contact  - researchers’ experiences of contact.

For those wishing to present a paper, abstracts (maximum 200 words) including the title of your paper and your name, should be sent, by Monday 7th November 2005 to Julia Martin at the Sainsbury Research Unit, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ.  Papers should be approximately 20 minutes long, leaving 10 minutes for discussion.  We would like to emphasise the open and informal nature of this meeting.  Speakers are encouraged to present work in progress and discuss any specific problems they may be having in managing their material. 

 

This conference forms part of the AHRC-funded project Polynesian Visual Arts: meanings and histories in Pacific and European cultural contexts, 1760-1850, which is based at the Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia.  See the Project Home Page for more details.

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