PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN THE 21st CENTURY

    A British Museum Study Day

    with Survival International and the Pacific Islands Society

     

    Saturday 31 January 2004

    Stevenson Theatre, Clore Education Centre (below the British Museum Great Court)

     

    Europe's romantic images of the Pacific Islands and Islanders aspirations for their own Pacific Way were severely challenged in the late 20th century. Various countries in the region suffered from political and economic crises, civil strife, human rights abuses and environmental damage.

     

    What are the prospects for the future? This Study Day will update us on possible solutions as well as problems. It will introduce the British Museum, Survival International and the Pacific Islands Society as resources for learning more about the Pacific Islands, past and present.

     

    Programme

    10.00 Registration

    10.15  Island welcome  Kiribati-Tuvalu Association (KTA)

    Introducing Pacific Islands issues Dr Christian Clerk, Pacific Islands Society

    10.40 Papua: Land and Life  Sophie Grig, Survival International

    11.20  Coffee in the foyer

    11.40  Kiribati as seen from afar: Pacific Islanders in Britain Rotee Walsh (KTA)

    12.10  Pacific Islands cultures in the British Museum  Dr Lissant Bolton, British Museum

     

    12.25  Lunch

    The Pacific Islands in the Wellcome Gallery  talks by British Museum curators

    Pacific Islands dancing by the KTA, in the foyer

     

    2.0         Failing states in the Pacific Islands:The Solomon Islands experience

    Heinz Schurmann-Zeggel, Amnesty International

    2.40      Cultural research and development: The Vanuatu Cultural Centre Dr Lissant Bolton

    3.20      Tea in the foyer

    3.40 Open discussion, with the panel of speakers

    4.30 Close

     

    Cost: £28, concessions £18.00 (including BM Friends, Survival registered supporters and Pacific Islands Society members). To book:

    ·  send a cheque (payable to The British Museum Great Court Ltd.) with your name and address to 

       Pacific Islands Study Day, The British Museum Box Office, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG.

    ·   or book online at www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/whatson/events

    ·   or call the Box Office on 020 7323 8181, between 10.00 and 17.30 daily