The U. H.

Mnoa History Department

and

The Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society

present

Melanesian Emerson:
Bernard Narokobi and the Creation of
Papua New Guinean Cultural
Nationalism

A History Forum Public Lecture By

Prof. Alex Golub
Department of Anthropology
University of Hawaii at Mnoa

Monday, November 17
th

12:30 2:00
Sakamaki Hall A201
History Department Library
University of Hawaii at Mnoa

Free and Open to the Public

Prof. Golub will explore the achievements of Bernard Narokobi, a major
thinker during PNGs independence movement. Narokobi passed away in
2010 and there is only limited scholarship on his writings and achievements.
Using those writings and interviews with people who knew him, Prof. Golub
intends to write an historical anthropology of the recent past. He is the
author most recently of Leviathans at the Gold Mine: Creating Indigenous
and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea (Duke University Press, 2014).

For information, please contact Prof. Peter Hoffenberg at 956-8497 or peterh@hawaii.edu