Last Thursday 10th October the Spanish Programme held its annual party “La Fiesta del Español” to celebrate its students and the end of the academic year. Many students attended and it was a resound success with activities ranging from games, folkloric dance performances, folkloric dance workshops and piñata. Everybody enjoyed delicious pizzas in a friendly and […]
Read more →For this Arts Early Career Researchers and New Staff Seminar, Prof Carl Mika, Tamsin Sheen R&I, Sarah Wiki-Bennett R&I will be discussing the following topic: Mātauranga Māori, UC Ethics and sources of research funding support for arts related activities We hope you can join some or all of these events. Logie 613, 11am -12noon or use […]
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On October 1, the GCLS academics – Dr Victoria Escaip, Associate Professor Chia-rong Wu, Dr Wei Teng, Dr Antonio Viselli, Anne Blumenthal and Associate Professor Alistair Swale – presented an annual panel discussing cultural diplomacy in COMS 420 Public Diplomacy (coordinator: Prof Natalia Chaban of Media & Comms). This event marks the ongoing collaboration between […]
Read more →New media training workshop to build camera-fronting skills (available to the first five applicants) The Programme Overcome the challenge of speaking on camera with our practical workshop designed for UC academics. Even the most confident lecturers can feel awkward or tongue-tied when filmed by a news crew, but this session will help you build public communication […]
Read more →Having performed with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet and appeared in over 100 albums, DeHart came to Aotearoa to teach at the University of Canterbury in 2017. It feels very special for him to highlight these new works by New Zealand composers — promoting our country’s contemporary music is a much-needed mission. Article
Read more →This week the University of Canterbury hosted a group of International Agents from China, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines to join us on campus. This event provided the opportunity for the agents to explore our facilities and to get to know more about our key programmes. The Faculty of Arts hosted a tour […]
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Donald Matheson (COMS) joined TVNZ reporter and former student Thomas Mead and Hariklia Nicola, editor of CANTA, on Saturday 7 September for a panel at the UN Youth Model Parliament, held at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha. The panel discussed the relationship of media and politics and answered some excellent critical questions from rangatahi about […]
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Justin DeHart – Towards Midnight RadioNZ interview Percussionist and UC Music Associate Professor Justin DeHart has a new album out on the Rattle label: Towards Midnight. It’s his second album of New Zealand percussion music and includes works by Gareth Farr, John Psathas, Antonia Barnett-McIntosh and Phil Dadson. RNZ Concert’s Bryan Crump spoke with Justin DeHart about […]
Read more →NCRE PhD candidate, Linna Zhang has just returned from China following the tragic death of her husband, kiwi cycling legend and adventure trailblazer, Nathan Dahlberg. Described as a ‘true adventurer’ Nathan died on 23 August doing something that he loved; mountain climbing in China. Nathan is survived by Linna and their 2 children, Valentine, and […]
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Last Friday we welcomed many students and their whānau from all across the country to spend the day with us here at UC. Attendees spent the day exploring campus and attending info sessions to learn more about what UC has to offer, including many subject sessions spanning across Arts. A huge thank you to all […]
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Zoe Thompson-Moore’s A Lump of Something Wound About, presents a playful, provisional collection of loose parts – material remainders from the emergent practices that ground her ongoing creative process. These embodied threads of thought wind and unwind around the core question of how practice is both nurtured and nurturing. Ilam Campus Gallery Opening 5pm, Friday […]
Read more →This week the NCRE welcomes Celine Karaman from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University in The Netherlands. Celine is currently pursuing a research master’s degree, specialising in European Studies. Celine will undertake a 4-month internship under the supervision of Dr Milenko Petrovic researching the EU’s relationship with the Western Balkans, shifts in […]
Read more →¡Hola! The Spanish Programme is very happy to share with you the link to the final edition of the Spanish Dance Video Project New Zealand 2024. We started organizing this annual project in 2016 and we still have many schools across New Zealand participating and looking forward to it every year.
Please watch it until the very end and if you like it help us to spread it by sharing it in your social media! It’s a wonderful project, and the Spanish students and teachers dancing in the video did an awesome job!
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This event has been cancelled The Arts Centre Chamber Series Concert: Voices of Ōtākaro has been cancelled due to performer illness. It was a difficult decision however after careful consideration we believe it’s in the best interest of the attendees, organisers, and all those involved. For those of you who have already purchased tickets, The Arts […]
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Read up Music Associate Professor Justin DeHart’s feature in New Zealand Listener about his latest album Towards Midnight and his upcoming CMNZ tour with Hannah Darroch. Richard Betts, from Listener, says, “Since he arrived here in 2017 to teach at the University of Canterbury, few musicians have been more active” and noted that his activities are “definitely […]
Read more →Christopher Ulutupu – 2024 Artist in residence Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies Artist in Residence: 23rd August – 5th November 2024 Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Whakatů, of Niuean, Samoan, and German heritage. Ulutupu’s practice uses moving-image and photography to explore the Pacific diaspora in Aotearoa. This work began by researching postcards of Sāmoa created in the […]
Read more →We are looking forward to giving a tour of our facilities to our Faculty of Arts colleagues on Thursday, 29 August. The next phase of the build is now completed, and we are very proud to present to you our Wairakei (sound hub) and Jack Mann (Virtual Production and Green Screen) developments. You would have […]
Read more →NCRE is hosting an intern from the University of Oxford, Rowan Dennett, for the month of August as part of the Oxford Crankstart internship programme. Rowan is assisting Nick Smith with the NCRE’s EU in the Indo-Pacific Jean Monnet Network. In Oxford, Rowan studies Geography, with interests in Geopolitics, Diplomacy, Environmental Governance, and International Development, […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →Ahead of the pink tsunami of Barbie-mania from the new live-action movie, author of Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces, UC History Professor Katie Pickles talks about Barbie’s influence over the years. “This mass-produced plastic doll wasn’t like any of the ragdolls or baby dolls all through history. This one was teaching you how you should look, what body type and what body weight you should be.”
Link →Chinese politics expert Professor Anne-Marie Brady spoke to Corin Dann on RNZ about Prime Minister Hipkins meeting with President Xi. A significant milestone where expectation management is key rather than communication differences, says Prof Brady
Link →UC Political Science and International Relations Professor Alex Tan joined TVNZ Q&A show to discuss Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ diplomatic trip to China.
Link →On the Conversation Political Science and International Relations Lecturer Linda Mussell speaks about the several Canadian provinces that will no longer allow the CBSA to detain immigrants in provincial jails.
Link →Jeremy Moses and Sian Troath have published a piece in The Conversation on New Zealand’s policy on autonomous weapons systems and how this relates to its interest in joining Pillar 2 of AUKUS.
Link →On the Conversation, Associate Professor Jeremy Moses and Postdoctoral Fellow Sian Troath comment on New Zealand’s potential participation in military technology sharing.
Link →Nick Smith recently published in International Affairs: “New Zealand’s ‘Maori foreign policy’ and China: a case of instrumental relationality?”, International Affairs (2023) This is the first ever “global IR” piece from a te ao Maori perspective. International Affairs is one of the top IR journals (currently ranked 6th on the SSCI index).
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The Latin America & Spain Film Festival is a cultural event dedicated to contemporary cinematographic productions from Latin America and Spain. This year’s festival, coordinated by the UC Spanish Programme and Viva la Vida Events, will be hosted at the University of Canterbury and the Christchurch Art Gallery. This event is free, and everyone is […]
Read more →The Arts Digital Lab invites you to our digital research symposium on Monday 21 October, 9.30 am – 3.30 pm in Meremere 105. Hear from research assistants and PIs about the Arts Digital Seed Fund projects currently in progress, followed by a discussion about digital research possibilities in the Arts
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Please join us 9am-2pm on 23 October in Locke 104A for a series of roundtables entitled Never let a good crisis go to waste: Language and Crisis in which we will discuss what is at stake when we consider the intersection of ‘crisis’ and ‘language.’ The event is free and catered therefore, it is essential […]
Read more →Saturday 26 October, 5pm Ngaio Marsh Theatre The showings include works from our Cinematic arts, Screenwriting and Screen Sound majors, as well as showreels made by the Animation majors. Showcase 2024 The ticket is for both screenings, but you can choose if you come to one or both events. Each screening shows different movies, and […]
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Global Visions: Reo, Ahurea Research Seminar – 4pm 11 October Elsie Locke 104A | Zoom ID: 952 5802 9547 Exploring the complexities of Chinese heritage language intergenerational transmission: A study of linguistically mixed families in New Zealand, Nancy Chu (GCLS) Research indicates that a language shift from the native language of immigrant families to the […]
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This weekend, the UC Gamelan Ensemble led by Associate Professor Justin DeHart will travel to Wellington to perform at Te Papa. This event marks 50 years since the first gamelan instruments arrived in New Zealand. In 1995, the School of Music at the University of Canterbury purchased two sets of Balinese gamelan instruments (Gong Kebyar […]
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Join UC composers as they present new work in consideration for the UC Lilburn Prize. Monday 7 October 7pm UC Arts at the Arts Centre Register for a FREE ticket here
Read more →Join Assoicate Professor Ruth McManus and anthropoligist and funer director Jennine Bailey for a dicussion on Death and Dying in New Zealand. Tue 1 October, 6pm UC Arts at the Arts Centre, Recital Room Free entry, register here
Read more →The Arts Research Committee is currently reviewing the strategic plan for second semester actions. The committee is also hosting an early career and new staff seminar series again this year and we thank everyone who volunteered to speak. We are always keen for a diversity of voices and research experiences across our Faculty so if […]
Read more →As we continue to explore the emerging world of AI, we invite you to join us for a unique opportunity to gain insight into the advancements and applications of AI technologies in the media industry. This free event, hosted by Kōawa Creative Technologies Precinct and the University of Canterbury, will feature a guest lecture from […]
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Digital Humanities Research Network Meetup: Workshop Report on Quantitative Studies of Philosophy Josh Wilson-Black will present a report from the recent two-day workshop “Quantitative Studies of Philosophy” in which a variety of exciting digital humanities projects in philosophy were presented. He’ll describe some of the work which was presented, including his own (supported by an […]
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Bridging Cultures and Disciplines: The Role of Technology in Shaping Future Societies This talk will recap the evolution of the Industrial Revolutions, from the Fourth to the anticipated Fifth. Each revolution, driven by technology, impacts society in both positive and negative ways. Saurabh will explore the societal effects of technologies like Artificial Intelligence, examining their […]
Read more →On 13th September, Associate Professor Justin DeHart will perform a solo concert in Auckland to celebrate 50 years of Phil Dadson’s seminal percussion group, From Scratch. Justin will be premiering Kōrero Kōhatu – a conversation with stones, a commissioned piece written by Dadson and recently released on Justin’s album, Towards Midnight, NZ Percussion Vol. 2 on Rattle Records. Head […]
Read more →The following speakers from Arts will be participating:
Senior Lecturer Dr Erin Harrington – Why Scary Stories Are Good For You
Senior Lecturer Above the Bar Dr Tara Ross – Reimagining Journalism Fit for a Climate Crisis
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AKO|LEARN Clinics The Educational Technologists from Future Learning and Development are once again running clinic/info sessions – this time focusing on grading and assessment feedback in AKO|LEARN. Whether you’re a seasoned educator or just getting started, this session is your golden ticket to streamlining your grading process. We’ll explore topics like: best marking practices, ensuring your assessments […]
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This week, Justin DeHart embarks on a Chamber Music New Zealand tour with flutist, Hannah Darroch. They’ll be doing classics from the duo repertoire (Farr, Takemitsu, Harrison) and other works from contemporary composers. Justin is also debuting a newly commissioned marimba solo by Celeste Oram with text from Alison Glenny’s The Bird Collector. You can […]
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