MONDAY 13th SEPTEMBER |
TIME |
EVENT |
SPEAKER/CONVENER |
VENUE |
9am-5pm |
Registration |
OIS-OCCCC Secretariat |
Mokokilagi Bure |
11am |
Media Brief and Press Conference |
Mohit Prasad/ All invited speakers and other presenters |
Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture
and Pacific Studies (OCACPS) |
7pm |
Conference Welcome Cocktails and Opening of OIS-OCCCC Art Exhibition
Welcome Address – Dean FAL Dr Akanisi Kedrayate
Art Exhibition Overview – Professor Vilsoni Hereniko
Opening of Art Exhibition - High Commissioner for Papua New Guinea to Fiji -
His Excellency Peter Eafeare |
TUESDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER |
TIME |
EVENT |
SPEAKER/CONVENER |
VENUE |
8.30am-9.00am |
Traditional Fijian Welcome Ceremonies
Conference Dedication: Rev Dr Bruce Yeates (Associate Dean L&T FAL) |
AUSAID THEATRE 1
MC: Rev Dr Bruce Yeates
(USP-FAL/AD LTQ) |
9.00am-9.30am |
Conference Opening Address: VC Professor Rajesh Chandra |
9.30am-10.30am |
Keynote Address:
Dr Cathie Koa Dunsford |
Kaitiakitanga: Protecting Our Oceans,Islands and
Skies: Inspiring a Climate Change of Consciousness. |
10.30am-10.45am |
MORNING TEA |
|
SPEAKER/PANEL/GROUP |
PAPER/TITLE |
VENUE |
10.45am-11.15am |
Presentation I: Dr Judith Mitoma |
Water is Rising |
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Frances Koyavakauta
(USP-OCACPS) |
11.30am-12.00pm |
Paper Session I: Professor Vilsoni Hereniko |
The Human Face of Climate Change:
Notes from Rotuma and Tuvalu |
12.15pm-12.45pm |
Paper Session II: Dr Manoranjan Mohanty |
Human Dimensions, Creativity, and
Environmental (Climate) Change: Implications to Pacific |
1.00pm-2.00pm |
LUNCH |
2.15pm-2.45pm |
Paper Session IV: Dan Taulapapa McMullin |
Lologa, The Sea Flood: Meaning in Oceania
Arts in the Age of Global Warming |
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Allan Alo (USP-OCACPS) |
3.00pm-4.30pm |
Performance, Book Launch and Book Signing |
Pele’s Tsunami. Dr. Cathie Koa Dunsford,
Dr. Karin Meissenburg, Global Dialogues Press. 2010 |
AUSAID Performance Space
MC: Anurag Subramani (USP-SLAM) |
7.00pm |
Evening with a Writer: Public Event - Featuring Pio Manoa |
Convener: Dr Som Prakash
(USP-SLAM) |
MC: Anurag Subramani
(USP-SLAM) |
WEDNESDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER |
TIME |
SPEAKER/PANEL/GROUP |
PAPER/TITLE |
VENUE |
9.00am-10.00am |
Plenary Address I: Dr Susan Hawthorne |
Ecology in Poetry / Poetry in Ecology |
AUSAID THEATRE 1
Professor Sudesh Mishra (FNU) |
10.00am-10.15am |
MORNING TEA |
10.30am-11.15am |
Panel - Literature Convener Dr Som Prakash |
Panelists: Dr Som Prakash (Chair)
Seona Smiles (Comm. Consultant- FNU)
Dr Tony Weir (USP-PACE/SD)
Professor Biman C Prasad (Dean FBE-USP) |
AUSAID THEATRE 1
Professor Sudesh Mishra (FNU) |
11.30am-12.00pm |
Paper V: Dr Briar Woods |
Science in the Poetry of Oceania |
AUSAID THEATRE 1
Professor Sudesh Mishra (FNU) |
12.15pm-12.45pm |
Paper VI: Dr Elizabeth DeLoughrey |
Literatures of the Environment in Oceania:
Climate Change as Nuclear Fallout |
1.00pm-2.00pm |
LUNCH |
2.15pm-2.45pm |
Paper VII: Dr. Sina Vaai |
The Writer in Oceania: Pacific Ways of Seeing
the Environment |
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Professor Gurmeet Singh
FBE USP Assoc Dean RGA |
3.00pm-3.45pm |
Panel: Creating a Bridge Between Intellectual
Property Rights and Traditional Knowledge –
Convener Kathy Moore |
Kathy Moore (USP-Chair), Douveri Henao
(PIFS), Teweiariki Teaero (USP) |
4.00pm-4.45pm |
Community Presentation |
Hindi Studies: Dr Indu Chandra and Shalesh Kumar |
AUSAID Performance Space
MC: Shalesh Kumar (USP-SLAM) |
7.00pm |
Evening Function |
Artists and Performers Evening: Coordinators –
Allan Alo and Calvin Rore |
OCACPS
MC: Allan Alo and Calvin Rore |
THURSDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER |
TIME |
SPEAKER/PANEL/GROUP |
PAPER/TITLE |
VENUE |
9.00am-10.00am |
Plenary Speaker II: Associate Professor David Robie |
Iconic Environmental Images of Oceania:
Challenging Corporate Media for Solutions |
AUSAID THEATRE 1
Associate Professor Jito Vanualailai
(Assoc Dean RGA FSTE) |
10.00am-10.15am |
MORNING TEA |
10.30am-11.15am |
Panel – Media : Convener - Shailendra Singh |
Panel – Media : Convener - Shailendra Singh
Morris (Mylife) Alumeci Nakeke (Seaweb)
Dawn Gibson (USP Student) |
AUSAID THEATRE 1
Associate Professor Jito Vanualailai
(Assoc Dean RGA FSTE) |
11.20am-11.50am |
Paper VIII: Keron Niles |
Resilience amidst Rising Tides: Climate Change,
Trade and the Competitiveness of the Tourism
Sector in Small Island Developing States |
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Associate Professor
Paul Geraghty
(USP-SLAM) |
11.50am-12.20pm |
Paper IX: Jeremy Dorovolomo |
Children’s Writing and Drawings: Making sense
of Natural Disasters |
12.20pm-12.50pm |
Paper X: Shaiza Janif |
Narratives of a Lost Land |
1.00pm-2.00pm |
LUNCH |
2.00pm-2.30pm |
Paper XI: Nilesh Bilimoria |
Sustainable Development Is An Ethical and
Moral Ideal But Does It Have in Essence
Practical Legal Effect? |
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Ashwin Raj
(USP-SLAM) |
2.30pm-3.15pm |
Panel – EAP: Dr Rajni Chand |
Teaching Across Curriculum: Focus on Climate
Change - Dr Rajni Chand, Rajend Prasad,
Premila Devi and Renuka Prasad |
3.30pm- 4.30pm |
Paper XII: Theatre Presentation - Dr Ian Gaskell |
1-2-3 Jump! The Global Warming Play |
AUSAID Performance Space
MC: Shailesh Lal (FNU) |
5.00pm-6.00pm |
Book Launch - Dr Cathie Koa Dunsford and Dr Karrin
Meissenburg - Tatau Oceania Imprint and
Global Dialogues Press |
Songs of the Jahajin – Poems
Mohit Prasad |
AUSAID Performance Space
MC: Seona Smiles |
7.00pm |
Evening Function |
Writers Evening:
Coordinator Anurag Subramani |
AUSAID Performance Space
MC: A Subramani |
FRIDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER |
TIME |
SPEAKER/PANEL/GROUP |
PAPER/TITLE |
VENUE |
9.00am-10.00am |
Closing Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Karin Meissenburg |
Working Cross-Culturally With Literary and
Environmental Activists |
AUSAID THEATRE 1
Shailendra Singh
Act HOS SLAM USP |
10.00am-10.15am |
MORNING TEA |
10.30am-11.00am |
Paper Session XIII: Dr Otto Heim |
Breathing Space: Ecology and Sovereignty
in Pacific Island Poetry |
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Nash Sorariba (USP-SLAM) |
11.00pm-11.45pm |
Paper XIV: Felicity Heffernan
Craig Marlow
Catherine Morgan |
One Sheep and a Tree: Climate Change in
Fiji - a Child Centered View on Climate
Change Project (Within an International context) |
12.00pm-1.00pm |
Film Screening |
“There Once was an Island: Te Henua e
Nnoho” by Permission of Director/Producer
Briar March and Producer Lyn Collie |
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MC: Anurag Subramani |
1.00pm-2.00pm |
LUNCH |
2.30pm-4.00pm |
Community Presentation |
Fijian Studies: Associate Professor Paul
Geraghty and Mereisi Kamoe |
AUSAID Performance Space |
4.00pm-5.00pm |
Conference Concluding Statements: Dr Mohit Prasad |
7.00pm |
Evening Function |
Conference Dinner |
