| Graduate Seminar
Islands of Globalization SPRING 2006 PACS 690 Syllabus (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
This graduate seminar seeks to understand the nature and consequences of globalization when viewed from the perspective of islands, paying special attention to how Pacific and Caribbean cultures creatively engage with global forces. Participants will use innovative cross-regional research strategies to examine the diverse histories, experiences and ideas that increasingly define these “islands of globalization”. Islands of Globalization is offered in collaboration with a similar seminar at Cornell University taught by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, and UH students will use web-based video and text technologies to interact with counterparts there and possibly at the University of the South Pacific and the University of the West Indies. Some of the Cornell students will visit UH 19-24 March. The seminar will be coordinated by Terence Wesley-Smith (Center for Pacific Islands Studies, Moore 211), and Gerard Finin (Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West
Center). Guest discussants include Prof. Katerina Teaiwa (Center for Pacific Islands Studies), Dr. Esther Figueroa (independent filmmaker with Juniroa Productions Inc.), Dr. Tarcisius Kabutaulaka (PIDP), and
Scott Kroeker (PIDP). |
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Featured Speaker: Cassandra Pybus - Black Refugees of the American Revolution
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What does globalization look like from the perspective of islanders in the Pacific and Caribbean? How have these two oceanic regions been forged out of indigenous histories, colonial transformations and creative island survival strategies? What do they have in common and what is different? What kinds of ideas and materials flow between them? 