Senior Lecturer Steve Carr finalist for RT Nelson Awards for Sculpture. Selected from hundreds of applicants across New Zealand, the chosen finalists represent a diverse range of materials showcasing the broad and imaginative approaches within contemporary New Zealand sculpture. The finalists’ works will be exhibited during the 2025 NZ Art Show, held at Wellington’s TSB […]
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On 1st and 2nd November, over 20 Spanish teachers and lecturers from all over Aotearoa New Zealand gathered for the 2024 Professional Development Seminar, “Integrando tecnología, creatividad y bienestar en la clase de español” organized by the UC Spanish Programme and STANZA. The seminar was a success, offering a holistic series of workshops on technology, […]
Read more →We’re happy announce that the Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence for the first half of 2025 will be Sarah Quigley. Sarah is an internationally recognised award-wining author who works across a range of forms, from non-fiction and editorial work, to novels, poetry and short fiction. She is originally from Ōtautahi – she did her masters […]
Read more →Recent History PhD graduate, Dr Daniel Steel and Bessie Mikkelsons (Deakin University), with the support of Dr David Monger (UC History) and Dr Bart Ziino (Deakin) organised and hosted the inaugural online symposium of ENZAC – Emerging New Zealand and Australian Caucus on First World War Studies online on 31 October and 1 November. The […]
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Led by faculty Justin DeHart and Hamish Oliver, ten UC School of Music students recently spent a weekend in Greymouth performing and working with the local community.
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On October 25, 2024, a cross-national research team uniting researchers from the UC and Cherkasy National University (Ukraine) presented a 3.5 hour hybrid panel to the consortium of 15 partners of the Jean Monnet Policy Network “Challenges and opportunities for EU heritage diplomacy in Ukraine” (HER-UKR) in Leuven, Belgium. The panel presented results of the […]
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Come along to the annual Fine Arts Open Studios event in which works are on display from our 3rd, 4th, HONs and MFA studio-artists. The week will begin with an opening event on Friday 22 November, 4pm. The studios will then be open daily 10am – 4pm, Sat 23 – Thurs 28 November.
Read more →Over the last few weeks we have had some excellent news: Two colleagues have won UC Medals, which are the highest awards that the university offers. Alison Griffith– UC Teaching Medal. For her outstanding mahi in teaching at programme, Faculty and University levels for several decades. Carl Mika– UC Research Medal. For his highly influential and longstanding research and leadership […]
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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 →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 […]
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 → The annual Fine Arts Open Studios event opens this Friday 22 November at 4pm. Come and see the incredible works on display by third-year, fourth-year, Honours and Masters studio-artists Following the opening evening, the studios will be open daily 10am – 4pm, Sat 23 – Thu 28 November. Please feel free to forward this invitation to […]
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2pm, Thursday December 12 Great Hall Free Professor Mark Menzies with members of the UC community present a concert of festive chamber offerings. The two major works on the programme will be the Divertissement for Bassoon and String Quintet by Jean Françaix and the String Octet in Eb Major by Felix Mendelssohn. Accompanying these works […]
Read more →Join the Arts Digital Lab on Tuesday 29 October 11 am, Meremere 105, for this seminar from Benjamin Charles Germain Lee (University of Washington).
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The October DHRN meetup will feature a presentation from Karin Stahel on her PhD research, which is focused on the use of machine learning methods to classify historical newspaper articles by their genre and topic. Join us 1-2 pm on Thursday 24 October in Elsie Locke 313.
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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 […]
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