Guest Research Seminar: Weaving New Pacific Futures.
Date: Wed, 18 June 2025
Time: 10am - 11am
Location: Building EA.1.31, Parramatta South campus, Western Sydney University
RSVP: Research Seminar: Weaving New Pacific Futures
You are invited to join ICS and HCA hosted Guest Research Seminar: Weaving New Pacific Futures.
From its colonial foundations to its increasingly neoliberal frameworks, academia has given little space for Pacific scholarship to thrive internationally. Building an academic career for Pacific scholars is therefore fraught with inequities, cultural (un)safety and structural exclusion. Despite this, Pacific scholars continue to carve out pathways through the academy, with many journeys centred on acts of service and knowledge production that serve their communities.
Hear from Lefaoali’i Associate Professor Dion Enari (Unitec) and Seuta’afili Dr Patrick Thomsen (University of Auckland) as they weave together personal narrative, cultural knowledge and academic life to reflect on how Pacific scholars navigate and transform academic spaces while holding firm to Pacific indigenous ways.
See following flyer for further details.
