Presentations

Presentations since 2012 (selected)

2022

2021

• ‘Gathering the “community” in the metropolis: Fiji Islander sociality in the Greater Tokyo Area’, Pacific History Association Conference, online, 18 November 2021.

• ‘Keeping the Bula Association alive? Generational dynamics and a UK-based Fijian migrant organisation in times of crisis’, German Anthropological Association (GAA) Biannual Conference, online, 30 September 2021.

• [with Sina Emde] ‘Fiji Islander sociality in urban and migrant environments: the case of Fijian professionals’, Online-Workshop: Environments & Socialities in Oceania: Practices of Transformation & Cooperation, 25 June 2021.

2019

• ‘The potential of multi-ethnic Fiji Islander sociality: A comparative perspective of two migrant settings (Japan & United Kingdom)’, Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l’ Océanie, Marseille, 15 March 2019.

• ‘Fiji Islander kava discourses and practices in Japan and the United Kingdom’, Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), Auckland, 14 February 2019.

• ‘Sociality: A useful tool to conceptualize multi-ethnic migrant “communities”? Insights from anthropology’, SOWIS-Lab, Department of Social Sciences, University of Siegen, 08 January 2019.

2018

• ‘The potential of Fiji Islander sociality: a comparison of inter-ethnic relations in three ethnographic settings’, Departmental Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 24 April 2018.

• ‘Exploring multi-ethnic Fiji Islander sociality in Tokyo and London’, Melanesia Research Seminar, British Museum, London, 23 March 2018.

• ‘Fiji Islander migrant organisations in Japan and the United Kingdom: (Multi-)ethnic sociality in context’, Wednesday Seminars, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, in cooperation with the Austrian South Pacific Society, Vienna, 24 January 2018.

2017

• ‘“This is not Fiji bro!” Vanua practices and discourses among indigenous Fijians in Japan and the United Kingdom’, German Anthropological Association (GAA) Biannual Conference, Berlin, 06 October 2017.

• ‘Coups d’état and soldiership in Fiji: Colonial legacies and indigenous agency’, 5th European Network in Universal and Global History Conference, Budapest, 02 September 2017.

• ‘Alternative Socialities in and beyond Oceania’, 11th European Society for Oceanists (ESFO) Conference, Munich 02 July 2017.

2016

• [with Sina Emde] ‘Urban Middle Classes, Professionalism and the Moral Economy in Contemporary Fiji’, International Conference ‘“Village” and “Town” in Oceania’, Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 02 April 2016.

2015

• ‘The 1961 British Military Recruitment Campaign in Fiji and Its Implications for Fiji Islanders in the United Kingdom’, German Anthropological Association (GAA) Biannual Conference, Marburg, Germany, 02 October 2015.

• ‘Dilemmas of Ethnographic Encounter: Reflections on Estranged Interlocutors and the Anthropologist as Community Builder’, 10th European Society for Oceanists (ESFO) Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 27 June 2015.

• ‘Doing Ethnography among Fiji Islanders in Japan and the United Kingdom’, AN441 Anthropological Field Methods and AN501 Field Research Seminar, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, 23 February 2015.

2014

• ‘Narratives of “Fijianness”: Perspectives from Urban Fiji and Japan’, Brunel Anthropology Seminar, Brunel University London, UK, 02 December 2014.

• ‘Negotiating Community Online: Social Media Use among Fiji Islanders in Japan’, Anthropology in London Day, Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK, 24 June 2014.

• [with Geir Henning Presterudstuen] ‘Bati as Bodily Work: Post-colonial Masculinities in Fiji’, 2014 Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), Kona, Hawai’i, 04-08 February 2014.

2013

• ‘Fijian Rugby Migration: Perspectives from Japan and Beyond’, World Rugby Museum, Twickenham, London, United Kingdom, 28 November 2013.

• ‘Fijian Rugby Players in Japan’, International Conference ‘Fiji Rugby Centenary’, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands, 01 July 2013.

• ‘Coups and Cults: A Comparison of Two Fijian Political Projects’, International Symposium ‘Cargo Cults and Contemporary Conflicts in Pacific Societies’, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, 26 January 2013.

2012

• ‘Questioning Community? Perceptions of Self and Belonging Among Fiji Islanders in Japan’, 9th European Society for Oceanists (ESFO) Conference, Bergen, Norway, 08 December 2012.

• ‘Fiji Islanders in Japan: Transnational Ties and Ideas of Community’, Social Research Working Group, German Institute of Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan, 14 November 2012.

• (3) ‘"Studying-up" in Pacific Anthropology: Political History, Coup Culture and Elite Discourse in the Fiji Islands,’ Departmental Seminar, Department of Anthropology, University of Tokyo, Japan, 16 July 2012.