f Editorial

This issue of the Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies brings together four articles and one report. These are a foretaste of the types of discussions expected at the 27th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association, which will take place in June 2023 and will be co-hosted by Stockholm University and the University of Turku. The conference theme, Between Nations/Across Seas: The Transnational and Transcultural Pacific, is reflected in the contributions to this issue which explore questions of voyaging, navigation and exploration, early Indigenous encounters and colonial powers, Pacific activism and decolonization and the contemporary geopolitical situation in the Pacific.