Pacific News from Manoa NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I

WARD TO LECTURE ON PACIFIC ISLAND FUTURES Pacific Island Futures: Paradise, Prosperity, or Pauperism? is the title of a public talk to be given by internationally renowned geographer R. Gerard WARD on 15 November 1991 in Honolulu. Dr Ward, who is director of the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University , has written extensively on critical issues of population and migration, rural development, and changes in the use of land and other resources in the islands. He will be speaking as the second lecturer in the Bank of Hawaii Pacific Islands Studies Distinguished Lecturer Series.

Major economic, political and social changes have accompanied the islands ' integration into the international economy over the past thirty years. These changes and the likely outcomes in the next one or two decades are the topic of Dr Ward's lecture.

The lecture will take place at 5 PM in the Keoni Auditorium of the Imin Conference Center, 1777 East-West Road. The audience is invited to stay for light refreshments following the talk.

PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES IN HAW AI' I The Sixteenth Annual Pacific Islands Studies Conference, Developing an Agenda for Pacific Islands Studies in Hawai ' i, will be held 15-16 November 1991, in the Pacific Room at the East-West Center's Jefferson Hall. Participating in the conference will be faculty and students involved in Pacific Islands studies in tertiary educational institutions across the state. The conference will provide an opportunity for those involved in Pacific Islands studies to

meet, to assess what is being done in Pacific Islands studies, and to explore directions and possible areas of cooperation for the future. One of the goals of the conference is to begin to identify an agenda for a second conference, tentatively scheduled for November 1992, which would bring together representatives from colleges and universities throughout the islands and in Australia and New Zealand to explore opportunities for regional collaboration among Pacific Islands studies programs.

A limited number of seats may be available for members of the public who would like to attend the conference. For information, call Tisha HICKSON, Outreach Coordinator, at (808) 956-2652.

CENTER FACULTY NEWS Dr Michael GRAVES and Dr Charles LAMOUREUX, from the departments of Anthropology and Botany (respectively), have received a project development award ofUS$17,600 in support of enhancing the wood charcoal identification lab at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dr Terry HUNT, Department of Anthropology, has also received a project development award totaling US$11,000 for the development of a fish skeletal reference collection for archaeological analysis.

Ms Lynette FURUHASHI, Pacific Specialist at UH Hamilton Library, has been awarded tenure and promotion to Librarian III at the University. Congratulations toMs Furuhashi, whose dedicated service and comprehensive knowledge of Pacific sources have been invaluable to students, faculty, and visiting researchers.

OCCASIONAL SEMINARS Dr Sitiveni HALAPUA, Director of the Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) at the East-West Center, presented a seminar on 12 September entitled, South Pacific Forum: Report on the 22nd Meeting, jointly sponsored with PIDP. The 22nd meeting of the fifteen-member South Pacific Forum, held in Pohnpei on 29-30 July and preceded by a leaders' retreat on 27 July, highlighted economic and

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environmental issues in the region, including the future of the Joint Commercial Commission proposed by President Bush in his meeting with Pacific Islands leaders in October 1990. Dr Halapua has been with PIDP since 1989. Prior to coming to the East-West Center, he was senior lecturer in monetary economics at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji.

On 15 October, the Center cosponsored a video screening with the Center for South Asian Studies entitled, To Learn Who We Are (Blong Save Hu Nao Yumi). This video recorded the activities of the week-long Malakula Arts festival in Vanuatu in 1985. This festival and festivals on other islands in Vanuatu were part of a major cultural revival that has flourished since independence in 1980. The video was shown as part of an interdepartmental series, Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific, presented by the Center for South Asian Studies. Dr Geoffrey WHITE, research associate in the Institute of Culture and Communication, East-West Center, introduced the program.

PACIFIC COLLECTION GETS GRANT FOR TRUST TERRITORY PHOTOS The Pacific Collection at Hamilton Library, University of

Hawai' i at Manoa, has received a US Department of Education Title II-C grant of US$148, 779, to create a digitized database using the Trust Territory Archives Photo Collection. Curator Karen PEACOCK will coordinate the project. Twelve thousand photographs, selected for their historical significance, will be scanned and linked to catalog records, and the result will be a system that allows users to perform subject searches using keywords and then view on a terminal screen the photos found. The grant will fund equipment (scanner, workstation, printer, and optical disk "jukebox" storage system) and staff consisting of a half­time librarian, computer specialist, and student workers.

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Peacock will select photographs to be digitized, and will at the same time edit the existing catalog records to add appropriate information on names of individuals, places, and events. The Trust Territory Photo Collection was a gift to the Pacific Collection from the Trust Territory Government (Micronesia) and contains some thirty thousand photographs and slides. These include photos created for use in Trust Territory publications, such as Highlights and Micronesian Reporter, as well as publicity photos for public relations, materials produced for textbooks, and photos taken to illustrate various government projects. The wide range of activities covered include such material as visits of US Congressional delegations, school graduations, the building of a traditional Palauan bai gatherings of chiefs, meetings of the Congress of Micronesia, speeches by the High Commissioner, agricultural projects, the Micronesian Olympics, and United Nations Day celebrations.

The digitized database created under this grant will give researchers enhanced access to the collection, a source of materials of obvious value for historians, but also of great significance for research in biographical studies, architecture, ethnography, art, education, geography, fisheries, and a variety of other fields. UH Library will apply for a second year of grant funding to allow processing of an additional twelve thousand photos in 1992-93.

WHO'S WHO OF PACIFIC AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN WRITERS The who's who is concerned with writers in the new or emergent literatures of the South Pacific and Southeast Asia, a region including Commonwealth island states, French Pacific territories, and American associated islands, as well as New Zealand Maori, Australian Aboriginals, Fijian Indians, and indigenous Easter Islanders. Excluded are Indonesia, the Philippines, and Hawai' i.

The project is particularly concerned with authors and traditions in which the choice of language is problematical, even if they remain monolingual in their published career. Authors may now reside in or out of the region as a whole. Those whose mother tongue may be other than English, French, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, etc., although they subsequently choose one of these as their written medium are included. Also included are bilingual writers and those who have shifted primary language during their career.

Given the problematical nature of the concept of new literatures, not only are choices of language significant, but the determination to write as well. The project seeks to include orators, composers of ceremonial song and chant, authors of liturgical hymns, performing storytellers, traditional and modem playwrights, and the makers of other

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genres that form the national base for the emergent literatures and extend its scope to transnational status.

The project recognizes the difficulties of publishing and seeks writers who have either published very little or remain known only within local areas. It is concerned to find out why particular individuals have chosen not to continue their role as poets, storywriters, dramatists or essayists, just as it is to determine how the status of writers in general fits within emergent national culture.

The whos' who is to be published by Three Continents Press, Washington, DC. For further information and a copy of the questionnaire, please write to Dr Norman SIMMS, English Department, University ofWaikato, Private Bag, Hamilton, New Zealand.

NEW PUBLICATIONS & VIDEO Advance copies of the latest South Sea Book, France and the South Pacific: A Contemporary History, by Stephen Henningham, have just been received at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies. The Center publishes the series with University of Hawaii Press, and this particular volume, the third in the series, is copublished with Allen & Unwin Australia. France and the South Pacific sets in context recent dramatic and controversial events, including the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, protests against French nuclear testing, and the political turmoil in New Caledonia. The book reviews the French presence in the region until World War II and examines the recent history and politics of the three French Pacific territories before analyzing relations between France and independent Pacific nations. Stephen Henningham is currently Senior Research Fellow in the Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. Franceand the South Pacific (ISBN: 0 8248 1305 7) is available from University of Hawaii Press for us$15.95, softcover.

Number 1, September 1991, of Southern Crossroads, a new newsletter produced by the Australian and New Zealand

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Studies Group of the School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Hawai' i at Manoa, is now available. For more information, and/or to get on their mailing list, contact the Editor, Southern Crossroads, Australian & New Zealand Studies Group, SHAPS, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822; or phone (808) 956-4735.

Uncle Sam in Micronesia: Social Benefits, Social Costs, edited by Donald H. RUBINSTEIN and Vivian L. DAMES (US$10.00 softbound, ISBN: 1-878450-03-3), contains papers from the 9th Annual Social Work Conference, 1989, and is now available from the Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam, UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923.

A new video by Paul GRECO (producer of, The Marshall Islands: A Matter of Trust, 1988) has recently been released by Pacific Community Development. Sky of Fire, Seeds of Hope (1991, 15 min., color; A$60, VHS, PAL, or US$75, VHS, NTSC), documents a return to the Marshall Islands in search of hope and to answer the question, "How do the Marshallese build a new future for themselves?" The story told in this second video shows that there is a growing desire by many to achieve a balance between the old ways and the new. The video is available from Pacific Community Development, 58 Paxton Street, Spotswood, Australia 3015, or phone, (61) 3 391-0127.

BULLETIN BOARD Pacific Collection's Library Hours A reminder that the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections are open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:30AM-5:00PM, Tuesday 8:30AM - 8:30 PM, Friday 8:30AM - 4:45 PM, and Saturday 9:00AM - 3:45 PM. Four terminals have also been added to the Reading Room. Acquired with funds from the Hawai' i State Legislature, these four terminals will enable users to search the UH catalog and to tie into the State Library and Access (State Legislature online system).

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Pacific Periodical Searching UNCOVER, a keyword index to the tables of contents of journals, now includes coverage of Archaeology in Oceania, Contemporary Pacific, Journal of Pacific History, Journal of the Polynesian Society, Oceania, Oceanic Linguistics, Pacific Islands Monthly and Pacific Viewpoint. UNCOVER is part of the CARL system and can be accessed through any University of Hawaii Library terminal.

Degree in Asia Pacific Community Development From 1992, the Social and Cultural Studies Department at the Victoria University of Technology, St Albans, Australia, will be offering a new Asia Pacific Stream in its

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Bachelor of Arts (Community Development) degree course. The course will focus on community development in the South Pacific and Asian contexts and provide education and training for people seeking to work, or already working, in a range of community roles in the region, including youth work, rural work, community education, women's programs, environmental programs, and other community­based programs. For further information about the course or scholarship/ sponsored award arrangements, contact Dr Michael HAMEL-GREEN, Course Coordinator, Faculty of Humanities, Victoria university of Technology, St Albans Campus, McKechnie St, St Albans, Victoria 3021, Australia; or phone (61) 3 365-2139, fax 365-2242.

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