Lição
Oceanic peoples
Katerina Teaiwa
Australian National University
16 de novembro de 2022, 9h30
Evento online
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Apresentação
Professor Katerina Teaiwa is an interdisciplinary scholar, artist and award winning teacher of Banaban, I-Kiribati and African American heritage born and raised in Fiji. She is Professor of Pacific Studies in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, at the Australian National University (ANU), and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Katerina was founder and convener of the first Pacific Studies teaching program at ANU, Head of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies in CHL, founder of the ANU Pasifika Australia Outreach Program, and co-founder and co-chair of the ANU Family Friendly Committee. Katerina also has a background in contemporary Pacific dance and was a founding member of the Oceania Dance Theatre at the University of the South Pacific. She is currently a practising visual artist with an ongoing research-based exhibition "Project Banaba" originally commissioned by Carriageworks, Sydney, and curated by Yuki Kihara.
Katerina was President of the Australian Association for Pacific Studies 2012-2017 and is currently Vice-President.
She is Chair of the Oceania Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Art Editor for The Contemporary Pacific: a journal of Island Affairs, and editorial board member of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology.
In 2022 Katerina won two national teaching excellence awards from Universities Australia including the overall "Australian University Teacher of the Year 2021."