'Islands for Sale' will be devoted to the discussion of recent developments affecting the production and reception of New Zealand and Pacific literary, visual and performance arts in a global context. It will focus on a range of issues related to the creation, reception, study, translation and marketing of these forms of expression. Whereas on the one hand New Zealand and Pacific arts are being created and circulated as deriving from culturally specific locations, they have also been received, translated, taught and marketed as part of the more broadly defined category of ‘world’ culture. In considering the position of these works in the global cultural marketplace, we invite contributors to reflect on the extent to which national and regional labels (essential to the definition and development of New Zealand and Pacific cultural expression in the postcolonial period) are being reformulated and reconfigured to accommodate the effects of diaspora, globalization and transnationalism on literary, visual and performance arts, or alternatively in order to resist the commodifying impositions of the global marketplace.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND EVENTS - more to be added:

THURSDAY 29 JUNE 2017:

• Opening Event - UK screening of 'No Man's Land' - A ground breaking cinematic performance and collaboration with over 200 musicians from around the world, filmed on-location at the Western, Eastern and Mediterranean fronts to commemorate World War I. No Man's Land is an original audio-visual experience, which features over 100 musicians from around the world. made by the New Zealand School of Music, Victoria University, produced by John Psathas (Composer), Jasmine Millet (Director) and Mathew Knight (Director of Photography).

FRIDAY 30 JUNE 2017:

• Keynote: Liz Deloughrey - Professor in English and at the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles - “Imagined Extraterritorial Spaces in the Anthropocene”.

• Panel 1: “Maori culture and appropriation”: D. Williams, Wood, Schneidemesser.

• Conference Dinner & Salon with special guests including Kevin Ireland, Karl Stead & Fleur Adcock . Book launch for Peter Bland and Jan Kemp, additional readings from Lynn Davidson, Helen O’Neill.

SATURDAY 1 JULY 2017:

• John Psathas, Professor of Composition at the New Zealand School of Music Victoria University - Doing the impossible - Operating as a culturally 'neutral' collaborator in the global creative sphere discusses how 'No Man's Land' was created and how from the Pacific he was able to facilitate a culturally neutral position when working in a global collaboration focused within a complexed and sensitive topic.

• Panel 5: Contemporary HUM launched their online platform in December 2016 to document and generate critical discussion on New Zealand visual arts and creative disciplines presented abroad. Today Pauline Autet and Winsome Wild are bringing their conversation to the conference floor. With a selected panel of artists, writers and administrators they will discuss GLOBALISATION – does the recognition of NZ artists/writers/practitioners end when working overseas? www.contemporaryhum.com. Guest Panelists include Bridget Reweti & Erana Baker (Mata Aho Collective)

• Panel 9: CAPTIVE AUDIENCES: - “How are New Zealand and Pacific artists negotiating their position in the world by capturing new audiences, followers, customers and fans?” Guest Panelists include: Lyall Hakaraia (VFD), Vanessa Eden (VOU), Michael Walling (Origins Festival), Jo Walsh (SaVAge K'lub) & convened by Mark Hamilton.