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2026 ASAO WHOVA Draft Schedule
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Breaks within sessions to be determined by session coordinators
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Time (Pacific Standard Time)SessionsLocation (Whova Link)
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Wednesday 4 February
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14:00-16:00Board Meeting
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16:00- 18:00Opening Plenary
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18:00-19:00Welcome Gathering
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Thursday 5 February
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Symposium
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12:00-15:00Middlemen and Brokers in Oceania Revisited
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11:00-15:00Conspiracy Thinking in the Pacific
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Informal
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12:00-13:30Emerging Scholars Talanoa
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Working
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13:00-17:00 Maps and Mapping in Oceania
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Informal
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14:00-15:302022-2032 International Decade of Indigenous Languages: Pacific Languages
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14:00-15:30When Brownies Do Brown Things in Brown Spaces
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15:30-16:30Common Time
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Informal
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16:30-19:30ASAO’s Collaboration and Reciprocity (CORE) Program
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16:30-18:00Colonial Legacies, Bicultural Navigations, and Oceanian Creativity
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Symposium
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16:30-20:30Labour Mobility and the Reconfiguration of Pacific Worlds
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Friday 6 February
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Working
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14:00-18:00Breakdown in Hela and Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
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14:00-18:00Mud
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Informal
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14:00-15:30“Fixing” Peoples, Places, and Languages across the Pacific
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14:00-15:30Pacific Pigs and Their People
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15:30-16:30Book Talks: Authors TBC
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Informal
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16:30-18:00Vā Hina: Moana Nui Embodied Relationality
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16:30-18:00Under, Over, and On Top of the Volcano: The Lure, Lore, and Science of Volcanos in the Pacific
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Distinguished Lecture
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18:00-20:00Distinguished Lecture - Professor Alice Te Punga Somerville
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Saturday 7 February
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Informal
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9:00-10:30Pacific Equity or Western Equality? Electoral Rules and Other Examples of Affirmative Action
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Special Roundatable
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10:30-13:30Roundtable on Ancient Navigation
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13:30-14:00Common Time
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14:00-15:30 Tāvāism – Contemporary Philosophy, Theory, Knowledge, and Practice
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15:30-16:00Common Time
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Working
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16:00-17:30Teaching Te Moananui-ā-Kiwa/Kea
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17:30-18:00Common Time
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Informal
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18:00-19:30Pacific Diaspora
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Sunday 8 February
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Informal
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14:00-17:00
AI and Indigenous Knowledge Systems Protections: Data Privacy in Research, Publications, Anti-Deep Personalization, Anti-Smart Matchmaking from a Samoan Academic that is Part of America’s First Class Action Settlement Between Authors and Publishers
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14:00-15:30Care and Contested Bodies: Women’s Well-being, Health, and Agency in Oceania
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15:30-16:00Common Time
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Informal
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16:00-17:30Grief, Love, and Legacy: Death and Inheritance in Pacific Societies Across Islands and Diaspora
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17:30-19:30Closing Plenary
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