Pacific Sessions at EWC International Graduate Student Conference

The 20th International Graduate Student Conference will run from Thursday, February 11 through Saturday, February 13. The conference is organized into multiple parallel sessions which will be live streamed. Registration is open to all.

Collated below are the sessions dealing with the Pacific region or subject matter. The full agenda is available online.

Friday, February 12

• Parallel Session 1 (8:30am – 10:15am)
  • 1.1.2 The Biology and Aquaculture Potential of an Endemic Fijian Fish, Mesopristes kneri, (Bleeker, 1876) Family Terapontidae
  • 1.1.3 Exploring Microbial Indicators of Coastal Ecosystem Health across a Human-Use Gradient on Tutuila, American Samoa
• Parallel Session 2 (10:30am – 12:15pm)
  • 2.1.1 Setting Migration Contexts: Internal Migration and Capitalism in the Marshall Islands
  • 2.1.2 “She showed me Hawaiʻi”: Finding Women in Early Filipino Labor Migration History
• Poster Session I (12:30pm – 1:30pm)
  • 1.1 Beaches, Temples, and Flying Proas: Reflections on Five Years of Efforts to Foster Learner-Centered pedagogies at the University of Guam
  • 1.4 Improving the Microbiological Safety of Avocados in Hawaiʻi
• Parallel Session 3 (1:30pm – 3:15pm)
  • 3.1.2 The Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons learnt in implementing Public-Private Partnerships for better health service delivery in Papua New Guinea: A Case Study
  • 3.1.3 Understanding Core Issues that Contribute to Cancer Health Disparities among Micronesian Women
  • 3.1.4 A Review on Deep Cultural Targeting Strategies and Use of Spiritual Activities in Health Interventions with Native Hawaiian Populations
  • 3.2.3 Bride Price: A Gender Issue and an Obstacle to Papua New Guinea’s Development and Security
  • 3.3.1 What’s SWOT in ridge-to-reef environmental monitoring? A SWOT analysis for the Ba River Catchment in Fiji
  • 3.3.4 Conceptions and misconceptions of the Vanua: A Critical Literature Review.
• Parallel Session 4 (3:30pm – 5:15pm)
  • 4.1.3 Critical Evaluation of Cultural Identity in Curriculum: A Collaborative Critical Action Research
  • 4.1.4 Indigenous Education Sovereignty through Hawaiian Culture–and Place–based Education
• “This is the Way We Rise” Film Screening and Talk Story (7:00pm – 8:00pm, Feb 12)

Saturday, February 13

• Parallel Session 5 (8:30am – 10:15am)
  • 5.1.1 Chinese Academic Representations of Pacific Island Countries
  • 5.3.4 Resilience Repressed: Where Knowledge Production and Lived Experience Diverge
• Parallel Session 6 (10:30am – 12:15pm)
  • 6.3.5 Leis of Disability Justice Knowledge from a Grassroots Fiji Perspective: Creating Spaces for Being
• Poster Session II (12:30pm – 1:30pm)
  • 2.2 Presenting and Communicating Academic Identity across Personal Networks and Disciplines in Papua New Guinea
• Parallel Session 7 (1:30pm – 3:15pm)
  • 7.2.2 Håyi Hao: A Look Behind Cultural Identification in Guåhan