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DESCRIPTION:Reflect on the fluid and adaptive natural life in the Pacific r
 egion. The panel discusses objects from the exhibition and traces the mate
 rial progress of Oceania.  Postdoctoral fellow\, Pacific Ethnology\, Sergi
 o Jarillo de la Torre’s\, research interests revolve around cultural mater
 ialisations in island Papua New Guinea. He has carried out intensive field
 work in the Trobriand Islands (Milne Bay Province)\, exploring the role of
  material and immaterial forms as mediators of cross-cultural encounters i
 n the Pacific. His thesis is a study of Massim woodcarvings as instruments
  of indigenous analysis and native agency in the face of social change. Dr
 . Jennifer Newell is curator of Pacific Ethnography. Her major research pr
 oject explores climate change and cultural change in the Pacific. Maia Nuk
 u\, Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Associate Curator for Oceanic Art
 \, Metrpolitan Museum of Art. Her doctoral research focused on early missi
 onary collections of Polynesian gods and their extraordinary materiality\,
  which sparked an interest in drawing out the often eclipsed cosmological 
 aspects of Oceanic art.  Shawn Rowlands\, curator\, Frontier Shores: Colle
 ction\, Entanglement\, and the Manufacture of Identity in Oceania\, BGC-AM
 NH Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Anthropology\, PhD Ethnographic History a
 nd Material Culture Studies\, University of New England\, BA Hons\, Popula
 r Protest and Japanese Folk Lore\, University of Queensland\, BA History\,
  University of Queensland.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Crossing Cultures in the Pacific
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