Exploring this sea of islands: 5th Pacific Islands Universities Network Conference

Our theme, ‘exploring “this sea of islands”’, engages with the work of one of the Pacific’s most revered academics, Epeli Hau’ofa. In We are the Ocean Hau’ofa wrote of Oceania: Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming. Following in the footsteps of the last four PIURN conferences, we want to make the conference extremely open and interdisciplinary: from arts to architecture, education to politics, climate science to history, Pacific studies to health, language revitalisation to oceanography.