The Arts 3MT competition took place Thursday 25 July, and these are the winners: 1st place and $1000: Anna Christoforou, PhD candidate in European Studies 2nd place and $500: Brittany Ogden-Travis, PhD candidate in Media & Communication (on Zoom) 3rd place and $300: Georgia Williams, PhD candidate in Media & Communication A special thank you to the […]
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The 3 Minute Thesis competition is a great event for thesis students to get involved in, not only for the chance to practice their presentation skills, but also for the chance to win cash. 3MT is an entertaining live event where research students present their research in no more than three minutes with only one […]
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We recently had Aukaha Tau 12, an outreach event run across the University where Yr 12 Māori students come to UC for the day to explore study options and learn more about the University of Canterbury. A huge thanks to Phill Borrell from Aotahi for running our Arts session, talking about the endless opportunities studying […]
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The language department has recently run two more events, French and German Language Day, where they invited high school (and even a few primary school) students to come and experience language at UC for the day and connect with like minded people. Both days were a great success with hundreds of attendees and large highly […]
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On the 25th June the Marketing and Outreach team ran a Careers Evening event alongside the other faculties where we invited prospective students and whānau to join us on campus for the evening to learn more about career opportunities studying at UC can lead into. The Faculty of Arts ran 2 sessions, including a general […]
Read more →Nicholas Ross Smith, a Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Research (NCRE) on Europe, recently participated in the ‘Regions and Security Complexes in the Indo-Pacific’ workshop held at Waseda University, Japan. Nicholas’ participation was linked to the ‘EU in the Indo-Pacific’ (EUIP) Jean Monnet Network, an EU-funded 27 partner three-year project which is […]
Read more →We are pleased to circulate the Call for Papers for the 17th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies that will be held here at UC on 30-31 January 2025. The broad theme of the conference is ‘Changing Divisions in Europe and the Asia-Pacific: A New Cold War?’, albeit papers from a […]
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Last week our languages department had a busy week running both Spanish Day and Japanese Day. Over 1,000 students attended over the 2 days from over 15 different Canterbury High Schools. Student’s had the chance to explore the opportunities which can come from studying a language at UC, as well as attended workshops to help […]
Read more →UC Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) painting student, Hazel Rae, has been named as the runner up in The Adam Portraiture Award 2024. The Adam Portraiture Award is a biennial competition for painted portraits of New Zealanders, by New Zealanders and presents a breadth of responses to identity and representation. This year, the portraits were judged […]
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Workshops |
Date |
Time |
Location |
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Workshop 1 |
Thursday 6 June 2024 |
2-3pm |
Beatrice Tinsley 111 |
Workshop 2 |
Friday 14 June 2024 |
2-3pm |
Beatrice Tinsley 111 |
Congratulations to our Arts Research Award recipients: The Faculty Research Award in Humanities, Social Sciences or Creative Arts: Professor Natalia Chaban (LSAP) Kairangahau Māori Award for research in Māori philosophies (both traditional and contemporary) and Māori methodologies: Professor Carl Mika (Aotahi) Early Career Award for Humanities, Social Sciences and Creative and Performing Arts: Dr Nicholas […]
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This week our Digital Screen programme held their first quiz night event for the first-year students on campus. The evening was enjoyed by all including pizza, prizes and five rounds based on all things Digital Screen!
Read more →A short film by University of Canterbury Bachelor of Digital Screen students Jack Robinson, Daniel Davy, and Roland Williams. The brief was: “The Last Person on Earth, with an animal in a starring role. No sound recorded in the field. All done within 48 hours”
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HE Xsolt Hetesy, Hungarian Ambassador to NZ Friday 3 May, NCRE, Logie 613, 2-3pm HE Grzegorz Kowal, Polish Ambassador to NZ Friday 24 May, NCRE, Logie 613, 2-3pm
Read more →New Zealand’s University of Canterbury has signed a five-year exclusive agreement with the Aardman Academy, the training arm of the Aardman Animations, the British film and TV studio behind “Wallace and Gromit” and “Shaun the Sheep.”
The agreement enables the Christchurch-based university to become the only educational institution in New Zealand to specialize in Aardman’s unique version of stop-motion animation. It has the potential to upend the country’s animation industry.
The Aardman Academy was created at a time when the studio urgently needed more animators to produce “Chicken Run.” Released in 2000, the film went on to become the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time. The Aardman Academy has since trained hundreds of world-class animators, directors, model makers and other specialists.
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UC Music Lunchtime Concerts Lunchtime concerts are held at 1:10pm every Friday of term at UC Arts at the Arts Centre. Free entry. Term 2 lunchtime concert schedule: April 26th – pianists May 3rd – winds & brass May 10th – composers & other surprises May 17th – strings May 24th – percussion in the Great Hall May 31st – voices
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Last week we had a special time celebrating our newest UC Arts Graduates! The celebrations involved both the Arts Graduation Ceremony on Thursday morning (alongside Product Design), as well as the street parade where we marched through Ōtautahi City Centre, celebrating all the new graduates from across the University. A huge thank you to all […]
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This school holidays the Teece Museum is excited to be part of the Ōtautahi Autumn Holiday Trail. The Autumn Trail is centred around the City Nature Challenge and is filled with fun activities designed to take you on a journey around the city. It is sure to be an exciting way to spend some time […]
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BLUE FLEUR: Airy and Articulate exhibition opening Sandra Bushby & Natalie Guy Opening: 5pm, Wednesday 24 April Artist talk: 12pm, Friday 26 April Bushby and Guy come together as two women artists with an admiration of each other’s work. Their interest in a joint project was spurred by a discussion of the sense of atmosphere […]
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Screen Sound lecturer Hamish Oliver and Camera and Lighting Technician Mark McNeill have been busy in our new edit suites, helping students bring their moving images to life! Animation students have been creating plasticine models and scenes in our Stop Motion studio, based on nursery rhymes, while our Sound Capture students delivered the voice over for each […]
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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).
Read more →Mass shootings in the United States are depressingly routine. As are the responses, that are generous on thoughts and prayers and miserly on anything meaningful. But the recent shooting in the mall in Allen, Texas, had an unusual element that confounded many.
Link →Erin Harrington spoke with the New York Times about how and why breastfeeding has become a key motif in contemporary body horror.
Link →The commitment to truth-telling has been pushed back as the news becomes more politicised in the US, according to UC Professor Donald Matheson. He spoke to 1NewsNZ about recent Fox News events and how it has been pulled further and further to the right as it competes with alternative media outlets.
Link →Massey university, on behalf of an all universities discussion group on air travel, is circulating this survey to try and gauge how people are feeling about air travel and how limits on air travel might impact different communities and stages of career development.
You might be aware that UC currently doesn’t offset air travel – they are developing a policy, I believe, to encourage staff to make real reductions in the amount we travel in a technical committee Professor Jan Evans-Freeman leads. This survey informs the wider debate for UC and all universities about how we as staff are currently thinking about our air travel. If you have time to fill it in, I know the organisers would appreciate this.
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You are warmly invited to the next ILAM/AOTAHI Thought Experiment: a new collaborative series of talks between Ilam School of Fine Arts + Aotahi School of Māori and Indigenous Studies Thought Experiment #2 Rooted + Routed John Vea + Jani Wilson Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū (Phillip Carter Family Auditorium) 12:30 – 1:30pm […]
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As part of the first SDGs at UC month this August, we have arranged for a Hong Kong-based facilitator to run the SDG Game for UC students. We’re picking up the bill and providing kai, because we think this will be a fun and fascinating way to engage with systems thinking, with the Sustainable Development […]
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NZ-born, Melbourne based percussionist Hamish Upton will perform a recital featuring percussion works that showcase new music from Australasia and beyond. Monday 29 July 7pm UC Arts at the Arts Centre, 3 Hereford Street, Christchurch Free entry, Tickets here Rudolf’s ‘Elescarf’ is a blistering solo for snare drum exploring crossrhythms & crossfading, punctuated by the […]
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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 at the University of Canterbury. There are five short exhibitions that form the 2024 Student Series listed below: 17 Jul – 26 Jul: Marie Lawrence, Phoebe Rouse, Lily Rose Claypole, Cherry Mitchell, […]
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What’s your type of poetry? Local poet and author Rebecca Nash invites you to explore new and old favourite forms of poetry in this workshop for young writers. Drawing on inspiration from the ancient Greek and Roman objects from the Logie Collection, attendees will be guided to respond and experiment in a variety of poetic styles.
Rebecca Nash is a poet who lives in Lyttelton. She has an MA in Creative Writing from IIML and an MA in Samuel Beckett from the University of Canterbury. Her book for children, Wilbur’s Walk, was published in 2021. She is a mother to two dogs, two cats and a nine year old girl-human.
UC Teece Museum, 3 Hereford St, CHCH
Places are limited, so registration is essential. REGISTER HERE!
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BOOK LAUNCH Friday 10 May, 6.00–8.00pm LYTTELTON COFFEE COMPANY Celebrate the launch of our new publication… A RECORD COULD BE YOUR WHOLE WORLD Vinyl Records as the Total Artwork of the Late Twentieth Century Bruce Russell & Luke Wood (Eds.) This is a book about records considered ‘in themselves’. It is not about musicians, or […]
Read more → HE Lawrence Meredith, EUD Ambassador to NZ is giving a presentation Date: 30 April Venue: Rutherford 140 Time: 3-4pm. H.E. Mr Lawrence Meredith arrived in New Zealand in January 2024 as the European Union Ambassador. He has built a career in international relations and development cooperation. With a strong foundation in modern languages, holding a […]
Read more →Renowned author, broadcaster and Classicist Natalie Haynes will join Patrick O’Sullivan (UC Classics Department) to discuss her recent work on the goddesses and women of Greek myth, and what the ancient Greeks and Romans – in all the richness and complexity of their cultures – can offer us when facing some of the most challenging […]
Read more →TUESDAY 30 April 1pm-2pm, LOCKE 611 ZOOM: https://canterbury.zoom.us/j/97052696871 Dmitry Romanenko PhD candidate Evolution in representations of Ukrainians by New Zealand media: from “Win a Wife” competition to “Desperate, powerless, disoriented, with empty eyes”.
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Sunday 19 May 2024 2.00pm – 3.00pm General Admission $20.00, Concession $10.00. Buy tickets here. Venue: Great Hall Join staff and students from UC Music for a sumptuous afternoon concert featuring beloved works from well-known composers, and the premiere of a student work. The programme will feature Arvo Pärt’s hauntingly poignant work ‘Tabula Rasa’. Pärt’s minimal and evocative writing is […]
Read more →Local pianist Gabriel Baird and talented Dunedin based cellist Boudewijn Keenan will perform works by Schubert and Debussy. Boudewijn Keenan is a student at the University of Otago, studying Music and French. His passion lies with the cello, which he is studying as part of his music degree under Dr Heleen du Plessis. Boudewijn has been […]
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Visiting Canterbury Fellow Aiyun Huang from the University of Toronto, Canada presents a concert with friends featuring recent works for percussion and technology. Aiyun will share new music by New York-based composer Zosha DiCastri, Toronto-based composer Kotoka Suzuki, Montreal-based composer Nicole Lizée, and Oregon-based composer David Bithell, integrating projection, lighting, recorded and live sounds to enhance […]
Read more →Thought Experiment #1: Tītī, Te Pō, + Tūhono Kirsty Dunn + Conor Clarke Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū (Phillip Carter Family Auditorium) 12:30 – 1:30pm (2pm) Thursday 2 May, 2024 Upcoming Thought Experiments: John Vea + Jani Wilson; Carl Mika + John Chrisstoffels…more soon! Follow us on Instagram @ilamaotahi or email conor.clarke@canterbury.ac.nz to […]
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Coming up these school holidays is a creative writing workshop with NZ author Karen Healey, aimed at young writers. Be inspired by ancient Greek and Roman objects in the Teece Museum and take your writing in new directions by reimagining mythology or mythological figures in contemporary settings. Karen Healey lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. She writes speculative […]
Read more →Coffee and Classics is a regular event at the UC Teece Museum. Each session includes behind-the-scenes peek in the museum, examining and object or two from the collection, and the chance to enjoy a spot of coffee and cake together. This month guest speaker Associate Professor Victor Parker will discuss the Logie Collection coin of […]
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