Tag: Founder lecture

  • Founder Lecturer – Into Native Seas: Europeans encounter an Indigenous Ocean

    Founder Lecturer – Into Native Seas: Europeans encounter an Indigenous Ocean

    Pro Vice-Chancellor – Pacific, University of Auckland, Damon Salesa presented a powerful summary of a long history of pre-European interaction between Pacific Island peoples, drawing on the earliest reports from Dutch navigators to reinforce anthropological studies of ancient trading patterns and warfare. His talk, entitled “Into Native Seas: Europeans encounter an Indigenous Ocean”, provided a…