Vilsoni Hereniko

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | UH Manoa · Academy for Creative Media

Although I am a strong advocate for access to collections in museums and although I see new technologies as a necessary part of this goal, I do not think that technology and its associated impacts and benefits should be the end goal. Rather, they should exist collaboratively with physical museums that mirror the robust developments in digital techn...

What is the future of curatorial practice? How can the relationships between Indigenous people in the Pacific, collections in Euro-American institutions, and curatorial knowledge in museums globally be (re)conceptualised in reciprocal and symmetrical ways? Is there an ideal model, a ‘curatopia,’ whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia, which ca...

This is an afterword to a book called "CUROTOPIA: Museums and the Future of Curatorship" edited by Philipp Schorch and Conal McCarthy. This brief essay makes a case for virtual museums as a means by which Pacific Islanders could gain access to cultural treasures of their ancestors that are housed in overseas museums.

I didn't understand, and I couldn't forgive him. My first memorable encounter with Epeli Hau'ofa was in 1991. I had taken leave the previous year from the University of the South Pacific, where I was teaching full time, to write my PhD dissertation at the East-West Center in Hawai'i. During that time I wrote like a madman, driven by the knowledge t...

The Contemporary Pacific 18.1 (2006) 59-69 Albert Wendt, the famous Samoan novelist and poet, has been in the Citizens' Chair at the English Department of the University of Hawai'i since August 2004, having taken a leave of absence from the University of Auckland where he has taught for the past sixteen years. A few months after Al's arrival, I hea...

The reasons behind Fiji’s military coup of 19 May 2000 are complex, and cannot be fully understood on a purely rational or empirical level. An interdisciplinary approach that embraces culture and history, informed by fiction, poetry, and drama, as well as personal experience, offers insights into Fijian-Indian relations. In this paper I explore the...

Oubramani asserts that the forces of globalism must be resisted by Pacific intellectuals and writers. He says they can do this primarily by using ver nacular languages and epistemologies, the result of which is a change in the locus of power, from without to within. The emergence of a new lan guage of critique that does not mimic that of the west,...

The Contemporary Pacific 13.1 (2001) 163-168 Subramani asserts that the forces of globalism must be resisted by Pacific intellectuals and writers. He says they can do this primarily by using vernacular languages and epistemologies, the result of which is a change in the locus of power, from without to within. The emergence of a new language of crit...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of the South Pacific, 1990. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 357-373). Photocopy.

There are as many different teaching methods as there are teachers, though of course not all methods are equally conducive to learning. Unfortuna-tely, teachers coming out of universities or training colleges are often ill-informed about the possibilities for applying drama methods as a viable option facilitating effective teaching and learning. Dr...

Improvised or rehearsed clowning, in ritual and secular contexts, is an important avenue for the criticism of the power structure and those who ignore the norms of society in Polynesia. The humorous nature of criticism as well as the distancing effect of theater create a context in which those being criticized rarely take offense. In the 1990S, how...

Alan Duff's novel Once Were Warriors is the first work of fiction to be published in the Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature series of the University of Hawai'i Press. One reason for choosing this novel was that it had recently been published in AotearoalNew Zealand (I990) and was causing considerable controversy. All of a sudden, this relativ...

This document refers to and includes a video clip of "The Land Has Eyes." The complete video "The Land Has Eyes" can be viewed via this link: http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=56301