ACADEMIC SPEAKING HISTORY AND ARTICLES

As sole speaker

‘From the Intellect to Intuition’.
East-West Center. Honolulu, 1997.

‘The Shimmering Island: The Role of Knowledge in Pre-Contact Hawaii’
For Panel: The Transmission of Skills and the Status of Experts.
Association of Social Anthropologists of Oceania. San Diego, CA. 1997.

Revealing the Hidden Meanings: The Role of Kaona in Hawaiian Knowledge’
Easter Island in the Pacific Context, South Seas symposium. Albuquerque, 1997.

‘Seeding the Pacific’.
Travel Images, Expeditions, Encounters and Knowledge. Herzog August Bibliothek. Germany 1999.

‘From Chant to Enchantment: The Sustaining Power of Place in the Writing of Keri Hulme’. New Zealand Then … and Now: Society and Culture. London 2000.

Hidden Knowledges and the Meaning of Hawaiian Place Names.
Material Culture Seminar, University College, London 2000.

‘Many different islands: Ways of Viewing Captain Cook.
Pitcairn Island Study Group/ Captain Cook Study Unit. London 2001.

‘From Planting to Placing in Hawaii’.
Conference on the Environmental History of Asia. Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi, India. 2002.

‘Polynesia and the Stars’
MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology, Bath Spa University College. 2004.

And here is one of my academic articles, an appreciation of the Polynesian artist Sir Raymond Firth published in Anthropology Today (click here) .

Organizer of Panel of Pacific Shamans
The Relevance of Traditional Knowledge to the Modern World’
Association of American Geographers, Honolulu 1999.

Here is Rima and some other speakers on the panel of Pacific Shamans at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. Relaxing in a cafe afterwards - about the only time I wore shoes in years!