Bonnie Etherington

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Upcoming

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• Presenting for "Feeling Gulfs, Sensing Seas: Ocean Ecologies from the Pacific to the Atlantic" at the American Studies Association Meeting. New Orleans, Nov. 2022.

• Chair & Presenter, "Global Visions of Modernity from Oceania" at the Cultures of Modernity Conference. Auckland, Dec. 2022.

 

Selected Recent Presentations/ Events

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• “Not Without Story: Mapping Geographies of Palm Oil in Borneo and West Papua.” American Comparative Literature Association Meeting. Online, June 2022.

• Guest Speaker for California's Eroding Coastline podcast, " 'Knee Deep': Foregrounding Indigenous Authors." With Alison Maas for Bodega Marine Lab and UC Davis. April 2022.

• Guest Speaker for 'How the Humble SPAM Became a Go-To Food in Hawai'i', video by Tiffany Chang for The Click. 27 Jan. 2022.

• Hui Co-convenor, "Writing Illness," NonfictioNow, Wellington, NZ. Dec 2021.

• Guest Speaker for The Deathwalker's Guide to Life (podcast). 12 Dec 2021.

• Seminar Participant, "The Poetics of Sovereignty," American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Virtual. April 2021.

• Roundtable, “Indigenous Art and Activism along the Mississippi River and its Tributaries,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference. Toronto, Canada. May 2020 [Cancelled due to Covid-19].

• Paper, “Poetic Text(ile)s: Material Genealogies and Trans-Pacific Writing with Penina Ava Taesali and Emelihter Kihleng,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Seattle, WA. Jan. 2020: Winner of the Annette Kolodny Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, presented by the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages.

• Paper, “What to do with SPAM? Gastro-Poetics in Militarized Seas,” Presidential Fellow Speaker Series, Northwestern University. 30 Oct. 2019.

• Invited Speaker, Creative Thinking Project, University of Auckland, New Zealand. 16 Sept. 2019.

• Invited Speaker, Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop on collaborative projects and career diversity in the humanities. Chicago, IL. 26 Jul. 2019.

• Roundtable Chair & Organizer, “Wansolwara: The Trans-Indigenous Ocean With West Papua,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference. Waikato, NZ. June 26-29, 2019.

• Invited Speaker, Narrative writing workshop for the Prison & Neighbourhood Art Project (PNAP). Stateville Correctional Centre, 18 Apr. 2019.   

• Paper, “Contaminate, Contamination: Thinking Dirty in the Marshall Islands,” Keyword Roundtable for the Waste Matters Symposium, Kaplan Institute Environmental Humanities Workshop Series. Northwestern University, 11 April 2019.

• Invited Talk, “West Papua in the New Oceania: Through a Literary Lens,” as part of the New Oceania Literary Series at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 13 March 2019.

 

 

Elsewhere in the Media

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• "From West Papua to Wellington: scholar and novelist appointed to the English, and Literary and Creative Communication Programme," School of English, Film, Theatre, Media and Communication, and Art History News, 3 Dec 2021.

• "How do you make invisible ecological disaster visible?," Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine, 24 Sept. 2020.

• The Graduate School Spotlight, Northwestern University, Nov 2018.

• "Meet a Kiwi Author: Bonnie Etherington." ANZ LitLovers LitBlog, 25 March 2018.

• Interview on Fresh FM for Top of the South Writers. 21 April 2017.

• Interview on Plains FM, Bookenz programme. 28 March 2017.

• "Novelist Bonnie Etherington Remembers Her Childhood in West Papua." Standing Room Only, Radio NZ, 19 March 2017.

• "Grief, Repression, Life and Death in West Papua's Highlands." David Robie, Café Pacific, 18 March 2017.

• "Author Praised for Opening Readers' Eyes to Repression." Kendall Hutt, Pacific Media Watch, 15 March 2017.

• "Debut Novel Offers Glimpse Into Grief Amid Growing Up in West Papua." Kendall Hutt, Asia Pacific Report, 14 March 2017.