Marianas History Conference 2025
Dates: August 29–31, 2025
Location: Unibetsedåt Guåhan (University of Guam), Mangilao Guam
The Seventh Marianas History Conference (MHC) returns to the goals of telling the history and cultivating the connections between the peoples of the Mariana Islands. This conference takes as its point of departure weaving. Generations of Mariana weavers have bound together separate fibers to make useful and beautiful objects: from baskets to ocean-faring vessels. The processes and objects contain and express values central to the peoples of the Marianas. In this spirit, the 7th MHC will provide a space to weave stories, tell our histories, bind ourselves together, and connect to our pasts to remake “One Archipelago.”
We welcome all historical proposals related to the Marianas. We will give special
consideration to proposals that address art, genealogy, and that deepen the connections
between Guåhan and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas.
In 2011 a group of like-minded people from the Mariana Islands decided it was high time to have a Marianas History Conference, one that focused on the history and experiences of the people of all the Mariana Islands. The initial group of organizers, led by Scott Russell of the Northern Marianas and Rosanna Barcinas of Guam, came up with the theme, “One Archipelago, Many Stories,” which highlighted the deep and rich history of the Mariana Islands as well as bridged the political division of the archipelago –– a division that exists today.
Dates: August 29–31, 2025
Friday, August 29, 2025
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Guam Museum
Saturday, August 30, 2025
8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Unibetsedåt Guåhan (University of Guam)
Sunday, August 31, 2025
8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Unibetsedåt Guåhan (University of Guam)
