Decolonizing Positionality: Articulating the Vanua and Grounding Critical Pacific Islander Studies In Land-Based Pedagogy

DECOLONIZING POSITIONALITY:

ARTICULATING THE VANUA AND GROUNDING CRITICAL PACIFIC ISLANDER STUDIES IN LAND-BASED PEDAGOGY

INAUGURAL CRITICAL PACIFIC ISLANDER STUDIES SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM

AT UC BERKELEY - FALL 2024

DR. PONIPATE ROKOLEKUTU

Ponipate Rokolekutu is Assistant Professor of Critical Pacific Islands and Oceania Studies in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University. Dr. Rokolekutu's genealogical roots as an iTaukei from Fiji deeply informs his work. He is from the lineage of the Mata ni Vanua to the Tui Kuku, within the iTokatoka of Vosatoranikuku, of the Vanua of Nailagolaba.

DATE AND TIME

23 OCTOBER 2024

5:30PM - 7:30PM PST

HYBRID EVENT

FOR RESIDENCY DETAILS AND TO REGISTER, VISIT: HTTP://CEJCE.BERKELEY.EDU/CPIS-ASR

Co-sponsorsed by: Critical Pacific Islands Studies Collective (CP/SC), Critical Pacific Islands and Oceania Studies (CPIOS) at San Francisco State University, Department of Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University, and Multicultural Community Center