The 2023 PIURN conference, 'Exploring this Sea of Islands', promises to bring together researchers from across the Pacific for three days of interdisciplinary discussion and learning, as well as the chance to explore the beautiful island of Rarotonga. REGISTER NOW at Exploring this sea of islands: 5th Pacific Islands Universities Network Conference - Sciencesconf.org‍
Attendees are invited to submit abstracts through the website and suggest session and panel topics by emailing heather.worth@usp.ac.fj or mathilde.souchon@usp.ac.fj

Threading through traditional borders to weave marginalised voice, honour local knowledge and use cultural metaphor to guide method in hard-to-reach communities.

Join us as we hear from Dr Debi Futter-Puati on the metaphor of tivaevae as a research episto-methodology and how this was applied to her research on to Pacific sex, gender and sexuality education.

Please email us at info@tepunavaimarama.com if you are interested in attending.

Te Puna Vai Marama Cook Islands Centre for Research held a successful forum on "Archiving the Cook islands in a Pacific Context". Many people and organisations collect Cook Islands cultural heritage material. These parties came together at this event to share ideas and learn what each other is doing. Speakers came from Australia, New Zealand, Hawai'i and of course the Cook Islands. The event was kindly funded by the Public Affairs Division of the United States Embassy in New Zealand. This allowed the event to have a truly international, Pacific flavour.