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Talanoa series

Our series of Talanoa videos comes out of our Marsden Project (2019-2023), 'Vā Moana: space and relationality in Pacific thought and identity'.

Conference presentations

Many of the pre-recorded presentations from our 'Vā Moana: space and relationality in Pacific thought and identity' conference, held in November 2021, are available to watch here.

Edited volumes

Refiti, Albert L., Anna Christina Engels-Schwarzpaul, Lana Lopesi, Billie Lythberg, Arielle Walker and Emily Parr, eds, Vā Moana: Space and Relationality in Pacific Thought and Identity. ANU Press, forthcoming.

Engels-Schwarzpaul, Anna Christina, Lana Lopesi and Albert L. Refiti, eds, Pacific Spaces: Translations and Transmutations. Berghahn, 2022. Available in hardback and eBook here.

Recorded talks

Hoskins, Rau. "Ngā Marae Auaha – The evolution of marae in Aotearoa New Zealand." Ockham Lecture, Objectspace, Auckland, February 20, 2025. Watch.

Refiti, Albert L. "What is Pacific Architecture?" Ockham Lecture, Objectspace, Auckland, September 19, 2022. Watch.

Refiti, Albert L. "Samoan Temples: Fale‘ula, Origin of the First Samoan Temple in Manu‘a and Upolu." Polynesian Ancestral Knowledge Webinar Series, online, February 24, 2021. Watch.

Te Awekōtuku, Ngāhuia (keynote speaker); Sheridan Waitai, Albert L. Refiti, Nigel Borell and Zech Soakai (panellists). "Ngā Kākano: Decolonising and Indigenising Museums." Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland, December 7, 2020. Watch.