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• “Too plastic,” connecting to culture away from home, Māori in Australia – Dr Innez Haua

  We’d love to hear from you – we have a talanoa episode coming up! Send us your written or voice recorded messages via email or instagram for us to discuss on an episode. Please submit before the end of March 2025. Innez Haua PhD is a Māori scholar based at Macqurie University in Sydney, Australia. With hundreds of thousands of Māori living in Australia, Haua researches how her people connect to their cultures while living away from home. Australia’s indigenous peoples include hundreds of Mobs and Clans of First Nations peoples as well as Torres Strait Islanders - those indigenous to the islands between Australia and Papua New Guinea. Dr Innez refers to “so-called Australia” as Te Whenua Moemoea, which means the land of dreaming in te reo Māori, honouring how First Nations’ conceptualise their home. She also speaks about ‘manuhiri-tanga’ asking what it means to be a good guest and what it means to be indigenous on other peoples’ indigenous lands. Send us a textThe Moanan is not just an educational platform but an online community — connecting diasporas all over the world. We’d love to connect!Find us on all podcast streaming and social media platforms — including Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.Email [email protected]

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• Western science vs indigenous knowledge, measuring Pacific ethnic identity in psychology - Dr Sam Manuela

  We’d love to hear from you – we have a talanoa episode coming up! Send us your written or voice recorded messages via email or instagram for us to discuss on an episode. Please submit before the end of March 2025. Dr Sam Manuela (Cook Islands) is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand who is well known in the field for his research on areas regarding Pacific ethnic identities and wellbeing. In this episode, Sam speaks to the role of science within Pacific communities and how western science and indigenous knowledges can compliment, rather than compete, with one another to achieve the best outcomes for Pacific communities. Send us a textThe Moanan is not just an educational platform but an online community — connecting diasporas all over the world. We’d love to connect!Find us on all podcast streaming and social media platforms — including Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.Email [email protected]

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• What’s happening in New Caledonia? - Billy Wetewea

  We’d love to hear from you! We have a talanoa episode coming up! Send us your written or voice recorded messages via email or instagram for us to discuss on an episode. Please submit before the end of March 2025. Reverend Billy Wetewea is an indigenous Kanak leader based in Kanaky New Caledonia 🇳🇨 on a mission to spread awareness about what is happening in his homelands. Kanaky has been home to indigenous Kanak for thousands of years, with some of the richest cultural and natural resources in the world. In this episode, our guest speaks to what’s been happening in New Caledonia and how the sociopolitical conditions came to a head in 2024 when the French army was deployed to take care of the “civil unrest.” Mainstream media and news outlets were banned from travelling to New Caledonia but, in this episode, we hear from a local Kanak that’s been on the ground. Send us a textThe Moanan is not just an educational platform but an online community — connecting diasporas all over the world. We’d love to connect!Find us on all podcast streaming and social media platforms — including Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.Email [email protected]

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• Validating Indigenous Knowledge & Experiences in Universities - Sereana Naepi

  Is University still the pathway to prosperity for our communities?How are Indigenous knowledges valued within Western Universities? Bula vinaka! In this episode we are joined by Associate Professor Sereana Naepi, a Fijian researcher and lecturer in Aotearoa, New Zealand. We chat about the Indigenous experience at University's, how Indigenous knowledge is (or isn't) valued in Western education - and why this is. Plus, much more! Send us a textThe Moanan is not just an educational platform but an online community — connecting diasporas all over the world. We’d love to connect!Find us on all podcast streaming and social media platforms — including Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.Email [email protected]

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• Exploring vā/wa, indigenous architecture and the future of Pacific ideas - Leali’ifano Prof. Albert Refiti

  Leali’ifano Prof. Albert Refiti is a Samoan academic whose work spans multiple disciplines. Originally trained in contemporary architecture, his recent work has been in Pacific Indigenous concepts and theories such as vā. In this episode we talanoa about his work relating to vā/wa, differences between the diasporic and communities in the islands as well as the future of Pacific thought.Send us a textThe Moanan is not just an educational platform but an online community — connecting diasporas all over the world. We’d love to connect!Find us on all podcast streaming and social media platforms — including Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.Email [email protected]

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