Professor Katie Pickles is a leading scholar of feminist and postcolonial history. She has published widely on settler colonialism, exploring themes of gender, empire and national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, Australia and Britain. She has published four books, including the recent monograph Heroines in History. Her books have identified elite women as agents of global […]
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Ilam Campus Gallery is currently presenting an exhibition by Terry Urbahn which includes pieces made in collaboration with UC Fine Arts students. Exhibition ends Wednesday 9 April
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On March 3, 2025, UC Media and Communication (Professor Natalia Chaban and Dr Daria Kuznetsova), in collaboration with UC English (Professor Paul Millar) and the team of researchers from Cherkasy National University (ChNU, Ukraine), led the launch meeting of the Year 2 of international consortium researching EU-Ukraine heritage diplomacy and its securitization at times of […]
Read more →To kick off the new year, the Marketing team for Faculty of Arts have recently started a LinkedIn page to help highlight what’s happening across the Faculty and to further grow our community engagement – please feel free to follow us to stay up to date! We’d love for you to tag us in your […]
Read more →Audio Description Tours are a new way to experience the ancient artefacts on display in the Teece Museum. Each one hour audio tour will give visitors the chance to look, listen and feel, as they learn more about the ancient world. These tours are designed particularly with the needs of blind and low-vision visitors in […]
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Philip Armstrong’s new book Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature has just been published by Routledge. It comprises six linked studies of the ways in which British, European, and North American literatures have portrayed and been shaped by various kinds of disorienting or wondrous encounters with the nonhuman natural world: earthquakes, forests, storms, animals, and the […]
Read more →Reminder, applications for the Arts Digital Seed Fund close on 10 March. We haven’t received many applications yet, so if you were thinking of applying, please get in touch with the Arts Digital Lab (email kaspar.middendorf@canterbury.ac.nz) to discuss your project idea. The five supported projects will receive up to 200 hours of RA time each. […]
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Media and Communication’s research team, working in the framework of the Jean Monnet Policy Network “Opportunities and challenges of the EU’s heritage diplomacy towards Ukraine” (HER-UKR) supported by the European Commission, presented a virtual panel at a regional conference of the European Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ESAANZ) 2024, organised in Melbourne (Australia). […]
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On December 17, 2024, UC Media and Communication Department ran its Post Graduate Conference 2024 — an annual event which features research by our MStratCom, MAs, Honours and PhDs. The 2024 Conference featured 24 papers, organised in panels chaired by the Media and Communication academic staff. The six panels at the conference were organised following […]
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On 11 – 12 December 2024, UC Media and Communication hosted the Inaugural International Symposium “War, Academia, Women: Ukrainian Female Academics as Knowledge Producers and Community Agents in New Zealand and Australia” (co-organised by Dr Daria Kuznetsova and Professor Natalia Chaban of UC and Dr Olga Boichak of University of Sydney). This Symposium, supported by […]
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On December 10, 2024, two student research teams working within the framework of the UC’s research centre Public Diplomacy and Political Communication Centre (directed by Professor Natalia Chaban) presented their findings about narratives and frames of Ukraine to a UK diplomat to New Zealand, Alexander Hill. The two research teams presented results of their analysis […]
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On December 5, 2024, Student Research Hub of the Public Diplomacy and Political Communication Forum (PF-PCF) (directed by Prof Natalia Chaban, UC Media & Comms) presented its analysis of the EU’s digital diplomacy towards New Zealand. The team visited the embassy of the EU to New Zealand in Wellington where students presented their findings and […]
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HE Vasyl Myroshnychenko, the Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia and New Zealand, visited the UC for the first time on 23-24 January 2025. The Ambassador met with the UC’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Cheryl de la Rey as well as Ukrainian academics working at the UC. The Ambassador was hosted by the Department of Media and Communication, […]
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Kōawa Studios at the University of Canterbury has announced a major commercial step into the movie business after international feature film Holy Days used its state-of-the-art facilities. See The Press story here and 1News: New Christchurch film studio boosts production prospects
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On December 5, 2024, team of five students working within the framework of the PD-PCF Hub (led by Professor Natalia Chaban) reported results of their analysis of frames and narratives of France in New Zealand’s leading media, with a special focus on the images of France in the RSTI issue-area. Students presented results to the […]
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On Friday 14 February we welcomed our new cohort of students on to campus where they spent the day attending orientation sessions, exploring campus and getting prepared to start their journey’s here at UC. It was great to see so many new students full of energy and excitement to be here! A big thank you […]
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Performances and activities by staff and MLAs from the Confucius Institute at the University of Canterbury (CIUC) added vibrancy to the 2025 Happy Chinese New Year Festival, celebrating the Year of the Snake. The grand event was co-hosted by the Christchurch City Council and the Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China in Christchurch from […]
Read more →NCRE is pleased to welcome Distinguished Professor Michael Reiterer as a Visiting Erskine Fellow to the University of Canterbury (13 February – 28th March). Professor Reiterer is based at the Brussels School of Governance, has previously served as EU Ambassador to South Korea and is currently a partner in the NCRE’s EU in the Indo […]
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 […]
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 →Join in celebrating UC graduates and the vital role you, as UC staff, have played in their success. As part of the celebrations from 8-11 April, a street parade is being held in the central city with all April graduates encouraged to attend. You are invited to come and line the streets to cheer graduates on […]
Read more →Sponsored by Chamber Music News Zealand, School of Music faculty Mark Menzies and Justin DeHart will be performing in a chamber ensemble of instrumentalists with Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir this weekend in Dunedin and Wānaka. Robert Wiremu (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Porou) commemorates the tragedy of Air New Zealand Flight TE901 by reimagining Wolfgang Amadeus […]
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Join a Special Guest Lecture “Communicating NATO in the Indo-Pacific: Multilateral Diplomacy in the Changing World” (hosted by Public Diplomacy and Political Communication Forum, UC Media & Comms) on Tuesday, 18 March, 12-1:30pm, in Te Moana Room (Rehua, Room 226). It is presented by Dr Pietro De Matteis, a Programme Officer of the NATO Public […]
Read more →UC Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities, 3 Hereford St, CHCH. Thursday, 10 Apr, 10am – 5pm NZST. $30 + booking fee. Morning and afternoon tea included. Purchase tickets HERE. The Teece Museum is hosting a National Services Te Paerangi workshop, facilitated by Michael O’Neill will cover: Fundamentals: Learn the basics of digital imaging including the fundamentals of photography, equipment […]
Read more →Recital Room, UC Arts city location, 3 Hereford St, CHCH Wednesday 2 April, 5.30pm. Doors open 5.15pm Entry is FREE, but seats are limited so registration is essential – https://events.humanitix.com/a-masterclass-in-storytelling The UC Department of Classics invite you to join them for a special evening talk by guest speaker Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Minchin. The Odyssey is a good story. […]
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Discover the personal stories of ten people from New Zealand, Germany, and Eastern Europe whose lives were shaped by the Berlin Wall. Explore diverse perspectives on this historic event and share your own Mauergeschichte!
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Nau mai haere mai to a Sunday gathering of poets in community: here, queer, low key, accessible and COVID-conscious. Featuring Tusiata Avia, Jennifer Shields, Alia Govin-Fowler and Ava Rose, and MC’d by Josiah Morgan! With an open mic to welcome established and emerging voices alike. Brought to you by our creative writing programme in partnership […]
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Monday, 31 March7 – 8pm UC Arts at the Arts Centre, Recital Room Free entry, register here Deborah Wai Kapohe (Soprano) & Anria Breytenbach (Piano) present a programme of Classical & Contemporary Songs from South Africa, Spain, France & Aotearoa, including songs by Marais, Lilburn and Rodrigo (45 minutes in length). Please note some of the songs […]
Read more →All concerts 1:10 at the Recital Room, UC Arts February 28th: Piano & pianists – happy birthday Mr Emerson! March 7th: Strings around in town March 14th: Potpourri of student performers: volunteers are requested! March 21st: Winds & brass ~ and guests March 28th: Voices of UC April 4th: Contemporary performers & performances ~~~~break~~~~ May 2nd: Voices […]
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Opening event: 5pm, Wednesday 17 February Aritst talk: 12pm, Thursday 27 February About the exhibition: Do you find that there is a spiritual greatness that operates and gives rise to difference within the material realm of deadlines and being able to be transportable – that All-ness, marvelling at its magnificence, and the reflection of the […]
Read more →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).
Link →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 […]
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