One of Aotearoa New Zealand’s great scholars and AWF 2024 Guest Curator Professor Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa joins Susana Lei’ataua in this keynote conversation on his career-spanning and Ockham NZ Book Awards shortlisted essay collection An Indigenous Ocean.

Spanning geopolitics to spirituality, ancient knowledge to trade, migration to empire, it invites readers to see the Pacific differently and positions its people – whose horizons span more than a quarter of the globe – at the centre of their stories.