SRU Oceania People
Sylvia Cockburn
- Sylvia CockburnResearch Student
- EmailS.Cockburn@uea.ac.uk
- Region of Interest Oceania
- Research Interests Contemporary Pacific art, heritage collections, community engagement, anthropology of museums
- PhD Thesis Rethinking relationships: museums and contemporary Pacific artists
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Heather Donoghue
- Heather DonoghuePhD Candidate
- Emailh.donoghue@uea.ac.uk
- Region of Interest Oceania
- Research Interests Art and anthropology of Melanesia and the Pacific more generally; history of collections; museum ethnography.
- PhD Thesis Material Biographies: Agency, Identity and Meanings in the Collections from the Cooke Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-4.
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Steven Hooper
- Steven HooperSRU Director, Professor of Visual Arts
- Emails.hooper@uea.ac.uk
- Tel0044 (0)1603 593022
- Academic Background PhD Social Anthropology, Cambridge
- General Research Interests Arts of the Pacific region, Fiji, North America
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Katrina Igglesden
- Katrina IgglesdenPhD Candidate
- EmailK.Igglesden@uea.ac.uk
- Region of Interest Oceania
- PhD Thesis Traditionally contemporary?: the transformation of meaning, use and significance of Fijian barkcloth, 1800 to present
- Education MPhil University of Cambridge
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Karen Jacobs
- Karen JacobsLecturer in the Arts of the Pacific
- EmailK.Jacobs@uea.ac.uk
- Tel0044 (0)1603 592747
- Academic Background BA (1996); MA Art history (non-western art) (1998), University of Ghent, Belgium; MA ‘Advanced studies in the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas’ (2000), Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia; PhD Art and Anthropology (2004), University of East Anglia; Post-doctoral research associate, University of East Anglia (2005-2009)
- General Research Interests Collecting and history of collections, representation and museum ethnography, auctions and the art market, cultural festivals, politics of clothing, contemporary Pacific art
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Rachael Murphy
- Rachael MurphyPhD Candidate
- Emailr.murphy@uea.ac.uk
- Region of Interest Oceania
- Research Interests Contemporary Australian art; contemporary art theory; museum ethnography; photography and new media; contemporary art worlds; the new museology and its legacies.
- PhD Thesis Indigenous Australia in the UK
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Amelie Roussillon
- Amelie RoussillonPhD Candidate
- EmailA.Roussillon@uea.ac.uk
- Region of Interest Oceania
- Research Interests Arts and anthropology of Oceania; history of collections; museum ethnography; archives; museum practice
- PhD Thesis From Papua New Guinea to European museums: revaluation of the trajectories of Abelam collections (working title)
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Caroline van-Santen
- Caroline van-SantenPhD Candidate
- Emailc.van-santen@uea.ac.uk
- Region of Interest Oceania
- Research Interests Polynesian history and cultures, contact history, ethnohistory, material culture studies, museum ethnography, object histories, present-day artisans and artists
- PhD Thesis Dutch visitors on Nuku Hiva, 1825: a contact history and material culture study
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Selected Oceanic objects in the Sainsbury Centre
Ceremonial shield. Melanesia, Solomon Islands, central region. Early/mid 19th century. h. 87.5 cm. UEA 632
Male figure ('Fishermen's god'). Polynesia, Cook Islands, Rarotonga. Late 18th/early 19th century.h. 40.7 cm. UEA 189
SRU Oceania News & Events
UEA recognition for SRU Impact Case study
Fijian Arts' Impact Case Study on shortlist for UEA award
Fiji book wins international award
'Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific' wins the ninth International Tribal Art Book Prize
Fijian canoe on display in Bonn
At the COP23 UN Climate Change conference
Fiji Book short-listed for award
'Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific' short-listed for the ninth International Tribal Art Book Prize
Steven Hooper receives award at Fiji High Commission
Professor Steven Hooper has been awarded the Order of Fiji at a ceremony in London
Conferences and Projects
Fijian Art Research Project
Researching collections of Fijian art in museums in the UK and abroad
Fabricating Fashion?
Three related workshops organised by the Fijian Art Research Project which brought together Pacific textile and fibre artists with curators, conservators, academics and enthusiasts.
Exhibiting Concepts, Experiencing Meanings
Current and future curatorial challenges
Convenors: Aristoteles Barcelos Neto and Steven Hooper
This international symposium celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Sainsbury Research...
Appropriating the Exotic
This symposium provided the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary study of the appropriation of the exotic in art and material culture as a cultural and material practice.
Ancient and Modern
A symposium with Professor Nelson Graburn, which examined the issues involved in displaying and caring for historical and contemporary ethnographic material.