PARBICA 17 – The Pearl Resort, Pacific Harbour, Fiji Islands

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

Sunday 3 September
5.00pm / Registration opens
5.30pm / Welcome Reception (sponsored by The University of the South Pacific)
Monday 4 September
PARBICA Professional Program Day 1
8:30am / Registration opens
9:30am / Conference opening by the President of PARBICA and thePermanent Secretary for Education Heritage and the Arts, Fiji
Keynote speaker: Dr Jo Hanisch, National Archives of Australia
How Archives support the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals 2030
10.30am / PARBICA 17 Group Photo
10:45am / Break
11:15am / Kari James, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
PAMBU: Engaging with the Pacific Islands for 50 years
Maxine ValentineAlitiaNasila, The University of the South Pacific (Laucala Campus)
Stakeholder Engagement: Issues of Interdepartmental Collaboration, Coordination and Inclusiveness
Catherine Green
A Long Engagement
Naomi Ngirakamerang, National Archives of Palau and Noa Tapumanaia, National Archives of Tuvalu
Successful Engagement for a new Archives building
1:00pm / Lunch
1:45pm / June Naviti, Right to Information Unit, Vanuatu
Right to Information in Vanuatu
Jason Flello, The University of the South Pacific (Laucala Campus)
Build Your Own: What’s in Your Kit?
Lillie Le Dorré, Victoria University of Wellington/Archives New Zealand
Climate Change, Resilience and Pacific Archives
3:00pm / Break
3:30pm / PARBICA Business Planning Meeting
5:30pm / Close of Day 1

PARBICA 17 – The Pearl Resort, Pacific Harbour, Fiji Islands

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

Tuesday 5 September
PARBICA Professional Program Day 2
9:30am / Keynote speaker: Opeta Alefaio, National Archives of Fiji
Engage or die: a non-traditional response to old problems
10:15am / Eleanor Kleiber, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Pacific Collection
Marshall Islands Genealogies: Stakeholders, Cultural Protocol, and Repatriation
Koa Luke, ‘Ulu’ulu: The Henry Ku’ualohaGiugni Moving Image Archive of Hawai’i
Nānā I KeKumu: Look to the Source
11:00 / Break and presentation by Steamatic
11:30 / Nick Thieberger, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne
Engaging Digital Heritage with Source Communities: The Pacific and Regional Archives for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
Cristela Garcia-Spitz, Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Library
Patrolling the Past: Bringing the Papua New Guinea Colonial-Era Reports into the Digital Realm
Brandon Oswald, Island Culture Archival Support
Preserving History the Traditional Way: An Oral History Workshop
1:30pm / Lunch
2:15pm / Tukul Kaiku, University of Papua New Guinea & Simiang Bunem, Department of Implementation and Rural Development, Papua New Guinea
Stakeholder Engagement: A Case Study from Papua New Guinea; The Department of Implementation and Rural Development Record Management Project – Successful Achievements and Resulting Outcomes
2:45pm / PARBICA General Conference, Current Developments round table and tea break.
5.30pm / Close of Day 2
7:00pm / Conference dinner (sponsored by PARBICA)

PARBICA 17 – The Pearl Resort, Pacific Harbour, Fiji Islands

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

Wednesday 6 September
PARBICA Workshops
9:00am / Leadership Stream / Practitioner Stream
Workshop 1: Facilitator, Ros Russell
Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Documentary Heritage / Workshop 2:
Establishing a records management program
12:30pm / Lunch
1:30pm / Workshop 1 cont’d:
Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Documentary Heritage / Workshop 3:
Disaster preparedness for digital records
Jessica Moran, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
5:00pm / Close of Day 3
6:00pm / Dinner (sponsored by PARBICA)
Thursday 7 September
PARBICA Cultural Visits
Morning / Bus transport
Pacific Arts Village
Tour of National Archives and Library of Fiji
pm / Lunch
Free time in Suva
Bus transport to The Pearl Resort

** Please note: this program is correct as at 30 August 2017 but subject to change. **