Speaking

Academic: conferences & guest talks

Advocacy: speeches, radio/podcasts, community workshops

∼2017∼

21/11/2017    Invited guest in “Einführung in die Kulturen Polynesiens: Hawai’i” (“Introduction to Polynesian Cultures: Hawai’i”), Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany

Navigating and resisting climate change with aloha ‘āina

16/08/2017     The Coalition Berlin’s Soli-Demo “Berlin Stands with Charlottesville”

Solidarity speech for Guam and the Pacific

20/07/2017    Invited guest in “Contemporary First Nations Literary and Visual Self-Representations as Anticolonial Interventions”, Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

From Mauna Kea to Standing Rock: contemporary indigenous movements of resistance and sovereignty

29/06 – 02/07/2017    European Society for Oceanists 2017 Conference: “Experiencing Pacific Environments”, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Panel chair: “Pacific histories in and out of Oceania”

Kuleana – A Moral Responsibility to Re-examine Hawaiian Histories

05/05 – 06/05/2017    GSNAS Conference 2017: “The Revolution Will Not Be Peer Reviewed: American Disconnects and the Production of Knowledge”, Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

“We are not Americans!’” – Indigenous Sovereignty in Hawai’i in the Age of Trump

25/04/2017     The Coalition Berlin’s “Gala für Alle” protest against Ivanka Trump at the W20 Summit 2017

Speech from the “GALA FÜR ALLE” protest

∼2016∼

03/12/2016     reboot.fm Radio 88.4 FM Berlin: “Talking Feminisms”

#10 From Mauna Kea To Standing Rock

04/07 – 07/07/2016     Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA) 2016 Conference: “Footprints and futures: the time of anthropology”, Durham University, UK

Conversations with university students in urban PNG on self, belonging, and identities

09/05/2016     Invited guest in “Einführung in die Ethnographie Polynesiens: Hawai’i” (“Introduction to Ethnography in Polynesia: Hawai’i”), Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany

“We are Protectors, not Protestors”: Aloha ‘Āina für den Schutz des Mauna Kea

18/04/2016     Pazifik-Gruppe Hamburg, Bramfelder Laterne Weltladen, Hamburg, Germany

Hawai’i – 50. Bundesstaat der USA oder besetztes Königreich?

12/02 – 14/02/2016     “Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen im Pazifik”. Pazifik-Netzwerk-Tagung in Neuendettelsau, Germany

Aloha ‘Āina and Sovereignty in the “Fake State” of Hawai’i

∼2015∼

06/11 – 07/11/2015     Pacific Waves: Reverberations from Oceania, School of English, University of Sussex, UK

Facing Future – Reclaiming Past: Academic Storytelling and Inspired Activism to Protect Mauna Kea

17/05/2015     Invited guest in “The Anthropology of Space and Place”, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

#WeAreMaunaKea: aloha ‘āina and protecting sacred spaces in Hawai’i

∼2014∼

28/04 – 29/04/2014     Micronesian and Australian Friends Association (MAFA) “Micronesia in Focus” Symposium, Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Aloha, e komo mai: Micronesians in Hawai’i

22/04 – 26/04/2014     Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS) Conference “Oceanscapes cooperation across the Pacific”, University of Sydney, Australia

Cultural identity formations and national consciousness among the urban youth in Papua New Guinea

02/04 – 04/04/2014     24th SPAS Graduate Student Conference, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i

The struggle for Papua Merdeka: How the Indonesian government shaped Melanesian nationalism and identity in West Papua

∼2013∼

14/02 – 16/02/2013     12th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai’i

Pasifika Poetry and the Female Voice: An Exploration of Cultural Identity in the Pacific Diaspora