Mural touch up
July 2021
With permission from the new principal, Solomon Enos has touched up the mural at Honolulu Central Middle School. Thanks to a bright colour wash, it has a new leash of life, and the student signatures can still be seen!
Read moreTeaching Matters podcast
May 2021
Dr Shari Sabeti talks to Dr Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle about the Marshallese Arts Project. This episode of the Teaching Matters podcast accompanies their March-April 2021 series on internationalisation, curated by Dr Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle.
Read moreEducation in the Marshall Islands presentation
April 2021
Dr Shari Sabeti shares her experiences conducting arts-based research in the Marshall Islands and highlights barriers to secondary access in the country. This work is part of the Universal Access to Secondary Education in the Asia-Pacific Region project, funded by the GCRF.
Read moreBBC Radio 4 – The Day of Two Suns
February 2021
Prof Michelle Keown’s BBC radio 4 interview with James Nokise, a comedian and stage performer from New Zealand, explores the role of Pacific wordsmiths, from song writers to poets, who have used their craft to protest against nuclear testing. This includes excerpts from Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s antinuclear poetry. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fpnh
Read more2019 – 2020
January 2020
A planned visit to Honolulu and Majuro (2019-2020) was suspended due to travel restrictions related to COVID-19. However, schemes of work and teaching packs for ‘History Project’ were developed by Shari Sabeti. These are aliened with the Hawai’i Board of Education curriculum and the Marshall Islands Curriculum and were shared…
Read moreMarshallese Teachers visit Edinburgh
March 2019
Four teachers and an education official from the Marshall Islands attended an education conference at the University of Edinburgh. Alongside workshops relating to MAP and digital education, they attended events at Dynamic Earth and Bruntsfield Primary School. They joined Scottish pupils at a climate change protest at the Scottish parliament.
Read morePhotography exhibitions
April 2018
Christine Germano returned to the Marshall Islands to stage two exhibitions (at USP Majuro and in Ebeye) of the photographs taken during her photography workshops with the Ejit, Majuro Cooperative and Ebeye schoolchildren.
Read moreFilming
March 2018
Sara Penrhyn Jones returned to the Marshall Islands to undertake further filming and research for her documentary film focusing on the nuclear legacy and current environmental challenges in the Marshall Islands.
Read moreFieldwork: Enewetak, Bikini, Runit
February 2018
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Michelle Keown and Aileen Sefeti travelled with the Okeanos-RMI canoe and its crew to Enewetak and Bikini atolls (sites of the Cold-War US nuclear tests), and also visited Runit Dome (a concrete structure within a bomb crater covering a mass of nuclear waste), where Kathy was recorded reading…
Read moreFieldwork: Majuro, Ebeye, Hilo
November 2017
The project team ran a symposium (for practising/trainee teachers and project participants) at USP Long Island that outlined findings by project social scientists (Alex Plows, Polly Atatoa-Carr and Shari Sabeti) on cultural identity, wellbeing, and the value of arts education. Ejit and Coop schoolchildren also attended the symposium, reading poetry…
Read morePhotography workshops
September 2017
Christine Germano travelled to Ebeye to run photography workshops and photowalks at Kwajalein Island High School and Ebeye Middle School.
Read moreAHRC International Development Summit
June 2017
Michelle Keown and Solomon Enos were invited to the AHRC International Development Summit in London (themed around ‘mobilising global voices’) to introduce the MAP project to funders, other delegates, and international aid/development NGOs.
Read moreFieldwork: Ejit, Majuro, Honolulu
April 2017
In April and May 2017, the team carried out the first phase of fieldwork, undertaking creative writing, photography and mural-making workshops with Marshallese schoolchildren at Ejit Elementary School, Majuro Co-operative School (in the Marshall Islands) and Central Middle School in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. The team also undertook focus-group discussions and card-sorting…
Read moreInternational Nuclear Legacy Conference
March 2017
Michelle Keown was invited to give a plenary presentation at the first International Nuclear Legacy Conference in Majuro, focusing on the project and on the nuclear legacy as explored in indigenous Pacific literature and the visual arts.
Read morePlanning the project
November 2016
The MAP project began, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), under the Global Challenges Research Fund initiative (GCRF). Michelle Keown, Principal Investigator on the project, travelled to the Marshall Islands to interview for a project Research Assistant and Interpreter,…
Read more‘History Project’ comic
July 2016
After Michelle Keown (Project Lead) received a University of Edinburgh Innovative Initiative Grant, a collaboration between Michelle, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Maori-Niuean artist Munro Te Whata began in order to adapt Kathy’s antinuclear poem ‘History Project’ into a comic. Michelle did the storyboarding and textual adaptation, and Munro produced the comic…
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