Principal speaker
Associate Professor Dr Greg Dvorak
The Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University and the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art, Queensland Art Gallery would like to invite you to the Perspectives: Asia Seminar: presented by Dr Greg Dvorak.
This talk will provide a historical overview of the intersections of colonialism, militarism, weapons testing, climate change, and indigenous resistance over the past century in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, within the context of a broader narrative of imperialism between Japan and the United States in Oceania.
Considering the contrasts of remembering versus forgetting imperial violence, and the incredible challenges Marshall Islanders and other Micronesians have bravely overcome in the 20th and 21st century, Greg will highlight the work of several artists from the region and also explore possibilities for appreciating and nurturing local and transoceanic art in and around this vast "Sea of Islands."
Greg Dvorak is an associate professor of International Cultural Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo. With a personal background of growing up, studying, and working between the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Japan, and the United States, his research and teaching focus on Japanese and American postcolonial histories in Oceania, with an emphasis on transoceanic intersections of art, gender, militarism, and gender in popular culture. He is also the founding director of project35, a grassroots network that aims to raise awareness about the Pacific Islands region in Japan through art and scholarly exchange. As part of this initiative, he has been collaborating with local artists and researching art from Oceania, especially from Micronesia and areas that have been most impacted by Japanese and American colonialism.
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RSVP on or before Monday 27 November 2017 , by email events-gai@griffith.edu.au , or by phone 3735 4705
Event contact details
- Kahlia Bartley
- events-gai@griffith.edu.au
- 3735 4705