DWU Conferences
Culture and Pacific-Asia Partnerships in Resource Development
Divine Word University, Madang, 18-20 October 2010
Sponsored by Divine Word University, Australian National University, and
University of Technology – Sydney
The conference will focus on fisheries, forestry, and mining.
Community Members, Students, and Academics are invited to attend.
Topics and speakers include:
- The origins of capital in natural resource extraction: does it matter?
Glenn BANKS
Institute of Development Studies; School of People, Environment and Planning; Massey University
- Asian fisheries investment in the Pacific: Asian and local identities
Kate BARCLAY
University of Technology – Sydney
- The Australian native title agreement-making landscape: Engaging in-between and negotiating cultural difference
Toni BAUMAN
Aboriginal Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Ecological spirituality for Papua New Guinea: Traditional Melanesian beliefs, Christianity, and science
Priscilla EPE
Department of Social and Religious Studies, Divine Word University
- Asian investment in PNG’s ‘agroforestry’ sector: What’s new and what’s not?
Colin FILER
Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, The Australian National University
- The representation of the Kurumbukare and Basamuk people in the PNG Media
Joel HAMAGO
Communication Arts Department, Divine Word University
- Look North Policy, Asian investment, and Papua New Guineans: A trinity formed for development?
Benedict IMBUN
University of Western Sydney
- Dependency culture and hand-out mentality in mineral resource development in Papua New Guinea
Simon KENEMA
Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews
- Tribal partnerships and developing of ancestral Maori land
Tanira KINGI
AgResearch, New Zealand
- The concept of reciprocity in resource development: the Melanesian way
Robert LAKA
Social and Religious Studies Department, Divine Word University
- Extractive industry challenges to rural communities
James LAKI
Peace Foundation Melanesia
- Who is responsible? Responding to social impacts of mining in Papua New Guinea
Martha MACINTYRE
Department of Anthropology, University of Melbourne
- We are not anti-Asian—just victims of poor governance
Patrick MATBOB
Communication Arts Department, Divine Word University
- Chinese resource projects in Africa: a change in behaviour?
Cristelle MAURIN
Department of International Law, University of Paris–Panthéon Sorbonne
- Waku in Solomon Islands: Asian investment and diplomacy
Clive MOORE
School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics; University of Queensland
- The Evolving Relationship between the FSM and China
Gonzaga (Zag) PUAS
College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
- Who are the Chinese? Understanding the new Chinese diaspora the Melanesia way.
Samuel ROTH
PNG Studies Department, Divine Word University - The Politics of Resource Ownership and Resource Development in Papua New Guinea: an overview from the 1960s to the present
Jerome SEMOS
PNG Studies Department, Divine Word University
- Fuqing Dreaming: the construction of diaspora identity among the ‘new’ Chinese in Papua New Guinea
Graeme SMITH
China Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney;
State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project, The Australian National University
- James TOPO and Ronald KUK
Mineral Resources Authority
- Views from the inside: how do future Chinese elites see the world?
Merriden VARRALL
Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University
- Sharing revenue from the PMIZ project among different landowner groups
Eva WANGIHAMA
Catholic Archdiocese of Madang
- Changing partners: Power, politics, and the rise of China in Oceania
Terence WESLEY-SMITH
Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
- The impact of foreign direct investment: Landowner associations and the Ramu nickel project
Xavier WINATA
PNG Studies Department, Faculty of Arts, Divine Word University
- Customary rights, national law, and the management of Visayan fisheries in the Philippines
Cynthia ZAYAS
University of the Philippines at Diliman - Overseas resource investment and China’s foreign policy
ZHAO Hongtu
China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
- Natural or Unnatural Partners? The effects of inequality on Gende society and their relations with mining companies
Laura ZIMMER-TAMAKOSHI
PNG National Research Institute
