The Postraduate information showcase is an evening outlining the postgraduate study options that are available at UC, featuring talks and opportunities to engage with academic staff and students. The Executive Dean gave a talk covering postgraduate pathways in our faculty, and would like to thank Nicholas Wright, Kirstie McAllum, Kate Prendergast, Hilary Tapper, and Wladimir […]
Read more →Media and Communication International Research “Challenges and Opportunities of EU-Ukraine Heritage Diplomacy”: Reporting results of a Jean Monnet Policy Network to European Stakeholders Professor Natalia Chaban, Leader of Work Package 5 “Strategic Communication” in a 15-partner Jean Monnet Policy Network, presented results of Year 1 of the WP5 at several key events in Europe reporting […]
Read more →Shalabh Chopra, a PhD candidate at the Department of Media and Communication, has been awarded the Ernst Mach Fellowship by OeAD, Austria, which will facilitate a four-month-long research stay at the Diplomatic Academy, Vienna. Shalabh’s research explores India’s foreign policy narratives in the backdrop of shifting geopolitical dynamics. Shalabh also presented his research at the […]
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Ph.D. candidate Mia Angeline (Department of Media and Communication) has achieved an academic milestone with the publication of her research in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, a prestigious Q1 journal in political science and international relations. Her co-authored article, “Comparative Perceptions of the EU in the Indo-Pacific: India, Japan and Indonesia,” was published in […]
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1st place and $1000 – Georgia Adcock Bramley (MA candidate in Philosophy) with How the Trumps of the World Make Us Vulnerable 2nd place and $500 – Diwakar Khanal (PhD candidate in Sociology) with Unheard Voices: Invisible Work of Migrant Care Workers 3rd place and $300 – Sam Brett (PhD candidate in Media & Communication) with Narratives of […]
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July 18 string theory July 25 fermata (no concert) August 1 piano potpourri August 8 voices in classical and theatrical posies August 15 original compositions from UC August 22 contemporary performers Mid-semester break September 12 serious spring piano September 17 St Mary’s brass and winds September 19 winds and brass September 24 St Mary’s strings […]
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The Ilam Campus Gallery Student Series is an annual showcase of some of the current practices at the Ilam School of Fine Arts. You can see more about each exhibition via the Ilam Campus Gallery website. Exhibition opening events are 5pm on the start date of each exhibition listed below. 2025 Student Series Exhibitions: 16 Jul – […]
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The Japanese Programme and Canterbury Network of Teachers of Japanese successfully hosted their 12th annual NCEA Japanese Workshop on 4th of June, welcoming 400 secondary students from 14 Canterbury schools. Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Catherine Moran officially welcomed the students, alongside distinguished guests Mr Ken Nakamura, Director of the Consular Office of Japan, and Ms Chisato Yoshioka, National Language Advisor for […]
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The Spanish Programme of the University of Canterbury, with the support of the Embassy of Spain in New Zealand, Tui Tuia Learning Circle and the amazing collaboration of Spanish language teachers from Burnside High School, Cashmere High School, Hillmorton High School, Middleton Grange School, Rangi Ruru Girl’s School, St Andrew’s College and St Margaret’s College, […]
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On the 12th of June, Justin DeHart will be releasing a new solo album on Rattle Records that features music by Peter Garland, Pauline Oliveros, John Luther Adams, Eleanor Hovda, and John Bergamo. The recording project began during COVID lockdown and explores music that is minimal, ambient, introspective, and repetitive in nature. “I was interested […]
Read more →The Department of Media and Communication has brokered an MOU between UC and the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand (PRINZ) to foster collaboration in the field of public relations and communication. The MOU, signed in May, aims to strengthen ties between academia and the professional sector through a range of collaborative efforts, including student […]
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On 25 May, the South Island finals of the “Chinese Bridge” Chinese Speech Competition were held at the University of Canterbury, bringing together more than 50 contestants from primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions across the region. “Chinese Bridge” Chinese Speech Competition is a flagship program for Chinese language learners globally to showcase their Chinese language […]
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Two teams of 3rd-year Bachelor of Communication students have been selected to work with French and German diplomats to co-develop communication strategies for their science diplomacy initiatives. Teams of students in the core Bachelor of Communication course, COMS 330 Communication in Context, presented original social media campaigns to the Embassies of Germany and France on […]
Read more →On 15 May the Teece Museum hosted a small but successful event for High School Classics teachers. It was attended by teachers from Avonside, Hillmorton, Hornby, Lincoln and St Margarets. During the event we spoke to the teachers about our new lesson plans and teaching resources on offer, including Zeus in Pursuit: A Classics Trivia […]
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David Monger’s new book, British First World War Propaganda: From A to Z has recently been published on Bloomsbury’s subscription site, Bloomsbury Collections. The full release of the book by Bloomsbury in hardback, paperback and ebook formats follows in July and August. The book provides 26 short, 3,000-word chapters addressing different aspects of the content, […]
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David Monger has recently received an award from the United States’ National WW1 Museum and Memorial. His article, A ‘not uncongenial task’: British propaganda veterans and propaganda’s post-First World War reputation, published in First World War Studies in 2022, was awarded the Museum’s inaugural Writing Prize ‘for a non-fiction article on the Great War and […]
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The UC Teece Museum enjoyed a super successful April holiday period. Overall, we welcomed 2534 visitors of all ages through the gallery – though the majority of our visitors were definitely under 10 years! We had two in-house activities on offer – the LEGO mini-figure hunt themed around Shakespeare aptly named ‘Much ado about mini-figures’, […]
Read more →Congratulations to John Vea (School of Creative and Digital Arts) on the opening of his exhibition, Ini Mini Mani Mou, at Te Puna o Waiwhetū | Christchurch Art Gallery. It is running until 13 July 2025, and I would highly recommend a visit. This summary is from the Te Puna oWaiwhetū website (John Vea: Ini […]
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Press release from The Piano: Emerging Christchurch Musicians Receive Scholarship Support from The Piano Two talented young musicians from Ōtautahi Christchurch have received an exciting new scholarship supporting music based projects at The Piano, one of New Zealand’s premiere performing arts venues. The Piano is proud to announce Kaitlyn Rodley (22) and Myah Somers (20) […]
Read more →Nick Smith published the article “Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand’s ‘Independent’ Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens” in the Q1 journal Global Studies Quarterly. The article offers a theory of New Zealand foreign policy and grapples with the question of where our independent power aspiration best fits in a theoretical causal chain.
Link →Mike Grimshaw (Sociology) has a chapter “With/Out: The Theo/Politics of Exile” in Language and the World: Essays in Honor of Franson Manjali, Saitya Brata Das Editor, [Springer 2025] Franson Manjali was an Indian professsor of linguistics who worked on the philosophy of language in the continental philosophy tradition. The chapter draws upon the exilic position of […]
Read more →Mike Grimshaw (sociology) was on RNZ nights to discuss the impact of AI on questions of the purpose and value of tertiary education today Is it time to rethink education for the age of AI? | RNZ
Read more →Nick Smith published the article “Conceptualizing Utu as a Foreign Policy Doctrine for Aotearoa New Zealand” in the Q1 journal Global Policy. The article argues that the Māori concept of utu – broadly defined as the notion of balance through reciprocation – would provide a useful basis as a foreign policy doctrine.
Read more →Nick Smith have published an article ‘State capacity, military modernisation, and balancing: A conditional model of state capacity neoclassical realism’ in the journal Review of International Studies
Read more →Mike Grimshaw (Sociology) has two articles in a new volume, nr 6, of Logic and Philosophy of Time , celebrating 70 years of tense-logic. These articles, drawing on extensive archival research, discuss the thought of noted philosopher Arthur Prior while he was teaching at Canterbury University College in the 1940s and 1950s, focussing on Prior […]
Read more →Michael-John Turp recently participated in a Human Robot Interaction podcast episode called “The One About Ethics”. Topics for discussion included ethics, robots and moral judgements, generative AI, creativity and moral psychology
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Emma has earnt a PHD in Indigenous Philosophy. Her thesis, ‘Voices Across a Century: Ngāi Tahu Indigenous agency in Letters to the Editor’, looks at the history of how Māori were portrayed in print media from 1850 – right through to the 1950s.
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We’re all very proud of one of this year’s Journalism majors within the Bachelor of Communication, Rosie Leishman, who is finishing her qualification through an exchange with the Danish School of Media and Journalism. She recently had a story published with RNZ where she interviewed Time’s Women of the Year 2022 recipient, Zahra Joya, about […]
Read more →Mike Grimshaw (Sociology) has published a chapter WAITING FOR WINSTON: THE 2023 ELECTION CARTOONS AS THEATRE OF THE ABSURD in the 2023 election book “Back on Track? The NZ General Election of 2023 edited by Stephen Levine (VUW) I discuss 84 cartoons, chosen form the hundreds I collected from 19 January 2023, when Arden stood […]
Read more →Nicholas Ross Smith and Lauren Bland from the National Centre for Research on Europe have published a discussion article in the Australian Journal of International Affairs on the topic of the AUKUS debate in New Zealand. Nick also talked to RNZ about the article in light of the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting.
Read more →Nik Taylor (Human Services and Co-Director, NZCHAS) recently published “Intersectionality, feminist social work, animals and the politics of meat” in The Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms in Social Work, with Heather Fraser (Edited By Carolyn Noble, Shahana Rasool, Linda Harms-Smith, Gianinna Muñoz-Arce, Donna Baines). The abstract is below. In this chapter, we consider how animal […]
Read more →Cindy Zeiher (human services) has recently published an article in S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique. The issue, edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté and Sigi Jöttkandt is dedicated to readings of French feminist philosopher, Hélène Cixous. Cindy’s article, Écriture féminine: Spiel on Words: Reading ‘Portrait of Dora’’ closely and critically focuses on Cixous’s […]
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I enjoy meeting prospective students and their families at open days and information evenings and encouraging them to follow their interests in arts-based subjects. My message to them is, ‘Do what you love, and you’ll be surprised at the opportunities that will present themselves to you’. Arts and humanities subjects are often seen as opposite […]
Read more →Professor Bronwyn Hayward was invited to give the opening key note address to the UNFCCC SB60 Expert Dialogue on the Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change on Children and Relevant Policy Solutions , 4 June 2024. This is a specially mandated session for the 60th session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – Professor Hayward;s contribution was lfilmed and hybrid virtual to the World Conference Centre Bonn , in Germany, Hayward was asked to review the way Children had been treated in the last 10 years of climate research reports and draw on her own insight from leading research groups at UC for the UK Economic and Social Research Council funded Cycles programme (children and youth in cities life style evaluation) about how children an can be supported to flourish in low carbon ways in cities and insights from the Deep South Project about Indigenous Maori and Pacific children’s leadership and decision making in flooded communities here in Christchurch with Profs Steven Ratuva and Sacha McMeeking.
Link →Mike Grimshaw (Sociology): My thoughts on Free Speech and Academic Freedom having attended the Free Speech Union AGM and been on the Academic Freedom panel. Both Free Speech and Academic Freedom are too important to be left to the Left or the Right- or the Liberal Centre – politically. For all positions hold within them […]
Read more →Mike Grimshaw(Sociology) was interviewed by Dom George of REX Rural Exchange radio regarding on-line lectures, the state of the tertiary sector and wider societal issues of the broken social contract. This arose out his widely read article on the tertiary sector https://plainsight.nz/the-broken-system-and-broken-social-contract-of-tertiary-education-in-new-zealand/ that has been reposted across of number of on-line sites and forums.
Read more →Michael-John Turp published and article in the journal Sport, Ethics and Philosophy. The paper examines the relationship between meaning in life and morality through the case study of boxing. While sport is often pursued more for reasons of meaning than morality, philosophers have had far less to say about the former. How are the ends of […]
Read more →Mike Grimshaw (Sociology) has a chapter on AI & ethics in Technology, Users and Uses: Ethics and Human Interaction Through Technology and AI
The chapter is: Not thinking like a young, white, western, secular man: Some ethical questions of whose intelligence and what intelligence is being artificialized?
This chapter takes the form of a thought piece that raises some questions regarding issues of diversity in AI. Its starting point is that while there are myriad academic writings on this issue, most of the wider, educated, interested general public engage with the issues and wider questions of AI from non-academic sources. Therefore, this article, written from an interdisciplinary perspective and reading, engages primarily with these sources to consider how the issues of AI and diversity are presented, encountered and engaged with for such a general public. The argument proceeds by engaging with two main issues. Not only is there a noted lack of diversity in the tech industry, especially as engaged with by more journalistic sources, there are also ethical questions needing to be raised as to what constitutes the “intelligence” in AI. In this chapter questions of “intelligence” are engaged with from considering primarily non-academic source AI discussions as this is the wider public context for questions of AI. As such, this is a deliberately ‘provocative’ reading and discussion, taking as its basis that we could – or rather need to – say: non-white, non-male, non-western minds matter.
Link →It’s not often a distinguished professor offers to explain the academic theory of ‘Bullshitology’ to the world, but a public talk at the University of Canterbury offers exactly that, livestreamed and free to attend. In this upcoming free public lecture – titled Bullshitologically speaking … really? – the University of Canterbury’s Te Amorangi | Pro-Vice-Chancellor Pacific, Distinguished Professor […]
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Thought Experiment #3: Time Dilemma Carl Mika & John Chrisstoffels Friday 1 August, 1 – 2pm Christchurch Art Gallery Auditorium ~ all welcome ~ Thought Experiments: a series of talks/performances between Ilam School of Fine Arts and Aotahi: School of Māori & Indigenous Studies, sharing the depth and breadth of research across our respective schools and […]
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Come celebrate 30 years since Elaine Dobson oversaw the commissioning of a gong kebyar gamelan set from Bali and its arrival at the University of Canterbury on Christmas Day, 1995! Saturday 11 October 6pm – 9pm Free entry – no ticket required Aldersgate Centre, 309 Durham Street North, Christchurch Central Featuring the UC Gamelan Ensemble […]
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Voices of Ōtākaro is a special chamber presentation which celebrates the power of verse set to melody. Sunday 17 August 2pm – 4:30pm Concession: Tickets start at $1.50 Great Hall, The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora Join talented musicians from UC Music and our community, and hear the poetry of Mary Oliver, Federico García […]
Read more →Online info-session for our NZ Scholar Awards on 29 July. Fulbright NZ Scholar Awards are for New Zealand academics, artists or professionals to lecture and/or conduct research at US institutions. To be eligible, applicants must: have a PhD or the equivalent professional or artistic training or experience; show professional distinction, leadership skills, and strong ambassadorial […]
Read more →Location: School of Fine Arts Block 2, Seminar Room Time: 4pm Date: 24th Thursday July Supervising Creative PhD & Masters Research degrees : Prof Chris Braddock This seminar discusses the complexities and challenges of supervising the Creative or Practice-Led PhD degree from the beginning of candidature through to examination. It will also be relevant […]
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Saturday 7 June, 2pm – 4pm, UC Arts at the Arts Centre, Recital Room Free entry, registration required: https://events.humanitix.com/nadham-south-indian-vocal-lecture-demonstration Join artists S Adithya Narayanam (vocal) and Avinash Jeyashankar (mridangam), in association with Revathi Performing Arts and New Zealand Carnatic Music Society, for an engaging and informative lecture demonstration. Discover the fascinating world of the human voice, uncovering […]
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Exhibition opening 5pm, Wednesday 28 May Meticulously detailed botanical models crafted from papier-mâché, glass beads, gelatin, and feathers form the starting point for Bellamy and Fauteux’s video work, Radicant. Originally manufactured by the Brendel Company in Berlin in the late nineteenth century, these models were purchased by the University of Otago as vital teaching aids […]
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Global Visions: Reo, Ahurea Research Seminar Interpreting and translating for end-of-life care: On interpersonal, emotional and linguistic challenges 5:15pm, Friday 23 May in Elsie Locke 104A | Zoom ID: 932 2633 4581 This seminar focuses on community interpreting and translation in oncological and palliative care, addressing the current state and condition of interpreting and translating […]
Read more →Not to be missed, a perfect opportunity for students and staff to hear all about working in the film industry from Matthew Metcalfe, one of New Zealand’s leading film and television producers, who has produced more than $330 million worth of productions including 28 feature films, ten tele-features and numerous TV shows and series, documentaries and […]
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Opening event is this Thursday 1 May at 5pm. Exhibition runs until Wednesday 14 May. When housing hits the headlines we hear stories of deficit, dysfunction and blame delivered by experts and political leaders. But where are the citizen voices? Can creativity play a role in addressing this media bias? Grounded in socially engaged creative […]
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This concert will feature two new large scale works for solo piano & electronics from 2024-2025, by Australian composer/performer Anthony Pateras. Monday 19 May 7pm – 8pm UC Arts at the Arts Centre, Recital Room Free entry, register here: https://events.humanitix.com/new-music-central-anthony-pateras
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Dynamic kiwi pianist Liam Wooding will collaborate with staff and students from UC to perform new music from Australasia and beyond. Monday 12 May 7pm – 8:30pm UC Arts at the Arts Centre, Recital Room Free entry, register here: https://events.humanitix.com/new-music-central-liam-wooding
Read more →Ever wondered what Tūranga would sound like to sing in? You can find out by joining the multi-storied Library Choir at Tūranga! Guided by musician LA Mitchell and friends, let’s unify our voices in this life affirming celebration of New Zealand music. Date: Sunday 11 May, 2-3pm Venue: Tautoru / TSB Space, Hapori | Community, Tūranga Free, […]
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Justin DeHart, percussionist, and Associate Professor of Music will be leading a discussion of avant-garde music in the 20th Century and its relevance today. What led to the development of this adventurous new mode of music and art making? Who were some of its champions and what did they create? Is avant-garde music still relevant in our […]
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