Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Monday, 7 January 2013
‘A charred and battered peninsula’: artistic reflections on the Dardanelles and other sites of memory
New Zealand Studies Network presents:
Professor Paul Gough
‘A charred and battered peninsula’: artistic reflections on the Dardanelles and other sites of memory
6.00 to 8.00 p.m. Friday 18th January
Birkbeck, University of London (Room Malet St 254)
To book: please email info.nzsn@gmail.com
In an illustrated lecture Paul Gough will reflect upon his sojourns in the 1990s in the memory-scapes of Gallipoli, exploring the charred headlands of the Dardanelles Peninsula, the once-hidden trenches and dug-outs of New Zealand troops; and then in France, Belgium and Salonika. The resulting drawings and paintings were shown at New Zealand House in London and at the National War Memorial in Wellington. Gough has also written about the way war artists learned to describe emptiness and abandonment. His lecture will focus on how New Zealand artists have articulated their vision of war and peace.
Professor Paul Gough, painter, broadcaster and writer, has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, most recently in Canada, New Zealand and Australia, and is represented in several permanent art collections. His research interests lie in the processes and iconography of commemoration, the cultural geographies of battlefields, and the representation of peace and conflict in the 20th/21st century. Paul Gough has worked for ITV, BBC and C4 on creative arts programmes ranging from dance to drama, poetry to painting. He is currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at UWE, Bristol
Please reply to info.nzsn@gmail.com if you wish to attend.
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Rev. Samuel Marsden, Satan, and respectability of character in New South Wales and New Zealand
The New Zealand Studies Network presents Emeritus Professor Andrew Sharp
A New Zealand Studies Network (UK and Ireland) seminar Friday 30th November 6pm at Birkbeck
Room tba (ask at reception)
Rev. Samuel Marsden, Satan, and respectability of character in New South Wales and New Zealand
The years 1817-23 were very troubling for Samuel Marsden both in New Zealand and New South Wales. In New South Wales he fell foul of Governor Lachlan Macquarie. In New Zealand his relationships with the first two sets of missionaries in the Bay of Islands were uneasy. In Sydney the New Zealanders seemed evidently uncivilised and a danger to Europeans; but in the Bay, as well as inspiring fear among the missionaries and their helpers, they also inspired sexual desire (at least in some). The talk describes the way Marsden and his European contemporaries thought and talked about these matters, especially the way they prided themselves on their status and (the religious among them) feared Satan, the 'Prince of Darkness'
Andrew Sharp is Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Auckland and Chair of the NZSN. He will soon take up the 2013 University of Waikato/Creative New Zealand Residency Award to complete a book on the opinions of Samuel Marsden and his contemporaries in New Zealand, New South Wales and England. It will be called Civilisation and the Prince of Darkness.
Please book through NZSN to avoid disappointment. info.nzsn@gmail.com Website NZstudies.com
Friday, 21 September 2012
New Zealand and the South Pacific: 19th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association
New Zealand and the South Pacific
The 19th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association, together with the Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, Radboud University
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
27-29 June 2013
The New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) has a long and strong history in promoting New Zealand Studies. Building on the success of the 2006 conference in Paris, the 2008 conference in Florence, the 2009 conference in Frankfurt, and the 2012 conference in Gdansk, the 2013 gathering of the NZSA will be located at Radboud University, Nijmegen. This very special conference will be held in the Netherland's oldest city, easily connected to Amsterdam, and near the banks of the Waal river. On the Friday, there will be a special excursion, followed by a conference dinner.
Keynote speakers:
[1] New Zealand as a South Pacific nation,
[2] New Zealand in relation to any of the South Pacific countries (Polynesia, Australia, and beyond),
[3] Maori Studies,
[4] The South Pacific (with papers accepted on any of the islands and any aspect of the region, but with a priority given to Polynesia).
Definitions within these parameters are broad, with the first strand, for instance, covering much of New Zealand Studies and welcoming any papers on New Zealand as a country positioned within the South Pacific, or as a nation with a South Pacific identity.
The conference fee will include annual membership to the NZSA, which for 2013 includes a twice-yearly journal, and one book each from the New Zealand Film Classics and the New Zealand Writers series of monographs. Papers from the conference will be published in the refereed Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, published by Intellect.
The conference will accept proposals on a range of subjects including the following: literature, history, film, music, art, cultural studies, sociology, geography, tourism, war studies, politics, international relations, identity and multiculturalism, anthropology, Maori Studies, Pacific Studies, archaeology and museum studies.
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
27-29 June 2013
- Professor Michael Belgrave
- Professor Tom Brooking
- Professor Marc Delrez
- Professor Witi Ihimaera
- Professor Toon van Meijl
- Assoc. Professor Damon Salesa
- Professor Philippa Mein Smith
- Assoc. Professor Makere Stewart-Harawira
- Vincent Ward
[1] New Zealand as a South Pacific nation,
[2] New Zealand in relation to any of the South Pacific countries (Polynesia, Australia, and beyond),
[3] Maori Studies,
[4] The South Pacific (with papers accepted on any of the islands and any aspect of the region, but with a priority given to Polynesia).
Definitions within these parameters are broad, with the first strand, for instance, covering much of New Zealand Studies and welcoming any papers on New Zealand as a country positioned within the South Pacific, or as a nation with a South Pacific identity.
The conference fee will include annual membership to the NZSA, which for 2013 includes a twice-yearly journal, and one book each from the New Zealand Film Classics and the New Zealand Writers series of monographs. Papers from the conference will be published in the refereed Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, published by Intellect.
Thursday, 23 August 2012
NZ Studies Network Symposium ‘Making a Literary Tradition: E. G. Wakefield, Katherine Mansfield and Vital Narratives’
THE NEW ZEALAND STUDIES NETWORK (UK &IRELAND)
Saturday 29th September, Birkbeck, University of London (room tba)
presents the symposium
‘Making a Literary Tradition: E. G. Wakefield, Katherine Mansfield and Vital Narratives’
Programme
Session 1 10.00 to 12.00 : Philip Temple: ‘Fact or Fiction: The Wakefield Literary Tradition’
Diane Brown: ‘Hooked: Addicted to Narrative’
Session 2 12.30 to 2.00 : Moira Taylor: ‘Revisiting Katharine Mansfield’
Philip Temple: Philip Temple will discuss the influential colonists, the Wakefield family, the subject of his prize winning study A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields. He will examine the remarkable sequence of books published over four generations of Wakefields from the late-18th to the mid-19th century, from Priscilla Wakefield's pioneering children's books to Jerningham Wakefield's Adventure in New Zealand and referring to Dickens's debt to Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
Diane Brown, poet, novelist, memoirist and creative writing tutor, will read some new poems, extracts from her novel, Hooked and her prose/ poetic memoir Here Comes Another Vital Moment.
Moira Taylor will recall the winter of 1973-74, the fiftieth anniversary of Katherine Mansfield’s death, and the making of a radio documentary, Her Bright Image, in which three people close to Mansfield search their memories of nearly half a century before to recall the Katherine each knew. The anniversary events include the BBC series which dramatised Mansfield's life and short stories, her hitherto unpublished letters to Bertrand Russell, a celebratory edition of the literary quarterly Adam, and an interview with Vanessa Redgrave, who portrayed Katherine in the BBC series.
to book and avoid disappointment please email info.nzsn@gmail.com
Visit NZSN on http://www.nzstudies.com/
See us on Birkbeck website http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/our-research/centres/new-zealand-studies-at-birkbeck/
Saturday 29th September, Birkbeck, University of London (room tba)
presents the symposium
‘Making a Literary Tradition: E. G. Wakefield, Katherine Mansfield and Vital Narratives’
Programme
Session 1 10.00 to 12.00 : Philip Temple: ‘Fact or Fiction: The Wakefield Literary Tradition’
Diane Brown: ‘Hooked: Addicted to Narrative’
Session 2 12.30 to 2.00 : Moira Taylor: ‘Revisiting Katharine Mansfield’
Philip Temple: Philip Temple will discuss the influential colonists, the Wakefield family, the subject of his prize winning study A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields. He will examine the remarkable sequence of books published over four generations of Wakefields from the late-18th to the mid-19th century, from Priscilla Wakefield's pioneering children's books to Jerningham Wakefield's Adventure in New Zealand and referring to Dickens's debt to Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
Diane Brown, poet, novelist, memoirist and creative writing tutor, will read some new poems, extracts from her novel, Hooked and her prose/ poetic memoir Here Comes Another Vital Moment.
Moira Taylor will recall the winter of 1973-74, the fiftieth anniversary of Katherine Mansfield’s death, and the making of a radio documentary, Her Bright Image, in which three people close to Mansfield search their memories of nearly half a century before to recall the Katherine each knew. The anniversary events include the BBC series which dramatised Mansfield's life and short stories, her hitherto unpublished letters to Bertrand Russell, a celebratory edition of the literary quarterly Adam, and an interview with Vanessa Redgrave, who portrayed Katherine in the BBC series.
to book and avoid disappointment please email info.nzsn@gmail.com
Visit NZSN on http://www.nzstudies.com/
See us on Birkbeck website http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/our-research/centres/new-zealand-studies-at-birkbeck/
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
NZ Studies Network - Three poets
THE NEW ZEALAND STUDIES NETWORK (UK &IRELAND)
presents an evening with three poets
Fleur Adcock, Anna Rickerby and Anna Jackson
6.00 to 7.30 Friday September 7th at Birkbeck (room tba)
To book please email info.nzsn@gmail.com; see www.nzstudies.com
Anna Jackson is a poet, fiction writer and academic. She was one of three poetry finalists for the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2012 with her book Thicket. Her poetry was first published in book form in AUP New Poets 1 (AUP, 1999). Since, then Anna has published five collections of poetry as well as authoring and co-editing works of literary criticism and publishing reviews, short fiction and essays on topics ranging from children’s literature to poetics, in journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas. She teaches in the English Department at Victoria University of Wellington.
Helen Rickerby’s most recent collection is Heading North (2010).She has also published My Iron Spine (2008) and Abstract Internal Furniture (2001). She was a co founder of the literary journal JAAM in 1995 and since 2005 has been its managing director. In 2004 she started the boutique publishing company Seraph Press. She currently works as a web editor for Te Ara, the online encyclopedia of New Zealand for the Ministry of Culture and Heritage. Helen was born and still lives in Wellington and has an MA in English and a Diploma in Publishing.
Fleur Adcock’s latest book of poetry Dragon Talk (2010) is her 15th since the publication of her first volume in New Zealand in 1964. She has received numerous awards for poetry, including the New Zealand National Book Award (1984), an OBE (1996), the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (2006) and the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (2008). Fleur was born in Papakura, near Drury, but spent eight years of her childhood, including the war years, in England. Although she returned with her family to New Zealand in 1947, where she married, had children and began publishing her poetry, she came back to the UK in 1963 to settle permanently.
presents an evening with three poets
Fleur Adcock, Anna Rickerby and Anna Jackson
6.00 to 7.30 Friday September 7th at Birkbeck (room tba)
To book please email info.nzsn@gmail.com; see www.nzstudies.com
Anna Jackson is a poet, fiction writer and academic. She was one of three poetry finalists for the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2012 with her book Thicket. Her poetry was first published in book form in AUP New Poets 1 (AUP, 1999). Since, then Anna has published five collections of poetry as well as authoring and co-editing works of literary criticism and publishing reviews, short fiction and essays on topics ranging from children’s literature to poetics, in journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas. She teaches in the English Department at Victoria University of Wellington.
Helen Rickerby’s most recent collection is Heading North (2010).She has also published My Iron Spine (2008) and Abstract Internal Furniture (2001). She was a co founder of the literary journal JAAM in 1995 and since 2005 has been its managing director. In 2004 she started the boutique publishing company Seraph Press. She currently works as a web editor for Te Ara, the online encyclopedia of New Zealand for the Ministry of Culture and Heritage. Helen was born and still lives in Wellington and has an MA in English and a Diploma in Publishing.
Fleur Adcock’s latest book of poetry Dragon Talk (2010) is her 15th since the publication of her first volume in New Zealand in 1964. She has received numerous awards for poetry, including the New Zealand National Book Award (1984), an OBE (1996), the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (2006) and the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (2008). Fleur was born in Papakura, near Drury, but spent eight years of her childhood, including the war years, in England. Although she returned with her family to New Zealand in 1947, where she married, had children and began publishing her poetry, she came back to the UK in 1963 to settle permanently.
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
NZ-UK Link Foundation: Visiting Professorship Programme - 2013
NZ-UK Link Foundation: Visiting Professorship Programme - 2013
The NZ-UK Link Foundation is pleased to announce that applications are now sought for the Visiting Professorship Programme 2013. The London-based educational charity is keen to promote cultural links between New Zealand and the UK with a series of talks (four lectures, one in London and three in other venues) and events through a secondment to the School of Advanced Studies (SAS) see http://www.sas.ac.uk/ in the University of London) over a three-month period in the Spring or Autumn 2013.
Required academic focus
The Foundation anticipates that its Visiting Professor (VP) will establish a high profile in the UK, especially in London. It, therefore, seeks high calibre candidates whose research interests must contribute to an understanding and appreciation of some important aspect of the contemporary relationship between the UK and NZ. It is also essential that the proposed research field and expertise of the candidates be relevant to the Foundation’s purpose and of sufficient interest and contemporary importance as to engage leading opinion formers and key decision makers in the UK. It is felt important that the chosen VP to have rhigh communication skills and be capable of attracting and engaging the Foundation’s target audiences.
The Foundation’s VPs can come from almost any academic discipline - from history to environmental science, from economics to social policy, from political science to trade, and so on.
However, for 2013 the Foundation is particularly interested in applicants whose areas of interest are in one of the following fields:
• The economic relationship e.g. trade/financial institutions (governance and regulation/investment)
• Immigration/workforce mobility including the contribution which immigrants from each country make in the other
• Issues related to civil emergency planning - dealing with natural disasters at home and abroad
• Community issues such as the role of community groups, charities, and volunteers in providing practical support and services to society.
Applicants will be senior academics working at Professorial level.
The Foundation does not expect that candidates should be limited to those with NZ nationality but candidates must have an excellent understanding of the circumstances in both the UK and NZ so as to be able to make a significant contribution to intellectual debate about an aspect of the bilateral relationship.
Please feel free to send this to your contacts and networks in time for the deadline of 31st July 2012.
http://www.nzuklinkfoundation.org/news/
The NZ-UK Link Foundation is pleased to announce that applications are now sought for the Visiting Professorship Programme 2013. The London-based educational charity is keen to promote cultural links between New Zealand and the UK with a series of talks (four lectures, one in London and three in other venues) and events through a secondment to the School of Advanced Studies (SAS) see http://www.sas.ac.uk/ in the University of London) over a three-month period in the Spring or Autumn 2013.
Required academic focus
The Foundation anticipates that its Visiting Professor (VP) will establish a high profile in the UK, especially in London. It, therefore, seeks high calibre candidates whose research interests must contribute to an understanding and appreciation of some important aspect of the contemporary relationship between the UK and NZ. It is also essential that the proposed research field and expertise of the candidates be relevant to the Foundation’s purpose and of sufficient interest and contemporary importance as to engage leading opinion formers and key decision makers in the UK. It is felt important that the chosen VP to have rhigh communication skills and be capable of attracting and engaging the Foundation’s target audiences.
The Foundation’s VPs can come from almost any academic discipline - from history to environmental science, from economics to social policy, from political science to trade, and so on.
However, for 2013 the Foundation is particularly interested in applicants whose areas of interest are in one of the following fields:
• The economic relationship e.g. trade/financial institutions (governance and regulation/investment)
• Immigration/workforce mobility including the contribution which immigrants from each country make in the other
• Issues related to civil emergency planning - dealing with natural disasters at home and abroad
• Community issues such as the role of community groups, charities, and volunteers in providing practical support and services to society.
Applicants will be senior academics working at Professorial level.
The Foundation does not expect that candidates should be limited to those with NZ nationality but candidates must have an excellent understanding of the circumstances in both the UK and NZ so as to be able to make a significant contribution to intellectual debate about an aspect of the bilateral relationship.
Please feel free to send this to your contacts and networks in time for the deadline of 31st July 2012.
http://www.nzuklinkfoundation.org/news/
Friday, 13 July 2012
Digital New Zealand
Digital NZ - A-Tihi te Aotearoa Digital NZ is an initiative with more than 120 partners, led by the National Library of New Zealand .
Digital NZ provides access to and aims to make New Zealand digital content more useful. This includes helping people use digital material from libraries, museums, government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.
Users can find NZ digital material that is hidden or buried on the internet and search across more than 20 million digital items to discover New Zealand treasures such as amazing aerial photos, old posters and memorabilia, newspaper clippings, artworks, and publications. Items are contributed from partners including Te Papa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Art Gallery, Te Ara, NZ On Screen and many many more.
You can also create your own collections or sets of material (and browse those of others), or for those more technically minded, get access to NZ search data for your own projects. All the data used in this search service is available for free public use and a developers section provides access to an API key and further details.
Current sets on the site are diverse and include seed catalogues, Marmite, sickness and medicine, and my own created Commonwealth set http://digitalnz.org/user_sets/094341b5326ecc2b as an example showing different media (cartoons, photographs, text, audio, television and documentary) and a range of Commonwealth related material and topics.
Digital NZ provides access to and aims to make New Zealand digital content more useful. This includes helping people use digital material from libraries, museums, government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.
Users can find NZ digital material that is hidden or buried on the internet and search across more than 20 million digital items to discover New Zealand treasures such as amazing aerial photos, old posters and memorabilia, newspaper clippings, artworks, and publications. Items are contributed from partners including Te Papa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Art Gallery, Te Ara, NZ On Screen and many many more.
You can also create your own collections or sets of material (and browse those of others), or for those more technically minded, get access to NZ search data for your own projects. All the data used in this search service is available for free public use and a developers section provides access to an API key and further details.
Current sets on the site are diverse and include seed catalogues, Marmite, sickness and medicine, and my own created Commonwealth set http://digitalnz.org/user_sets/094341b5326ecc2b as an example showing different media (cartoons, photographs, text, audio, television and documentary) and a range of Commonwealth related material and topics.
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Maori in statistics - Statistics New Zealand
A new portal for statistics about Maori has been launched on Statistics New Zealand's website. The new section provides a snapshot of Maori in New Zealand and gives an insight into their well-being and development.
The site includes statistics on a broad range of topics, including Maori agricultural participation; life satisfaction; culture and identity; Maori language; education; employment and unemployment; disability; housing; population; internal migration; and time use.
The resource, named Te Ao Marama 2012, is bilingual and available at http://www.stats.govt.nz/maori
The site includes statistics on a broad range of topics, including Maori agricultural participation; life satisfaction; culture and identity; Maori language; education; employment and unemployment; disability; housing; population; internal migration; and time use.
The resource, named Te Ao Marama 2012, is bilingual and available at http://www.stats.govt.nz/maori
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
New Zealand Studies Network: Kids in the City
The New Zealand Studies Association (UK & Ireland) is pleased to announce
"Kids in the City"
A lecture by Dr Penelope Carroll, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
Tuesday 19th June 2012 at 6 p.m.
Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St (Room 612)
Dr Carroll will talk on her team’s study of children in inner city Auckland, New Zealand, on how different neighbourhoods are experienced by children and parents. Interviews have been conducted with primary school children aged 9 to 11 from schools in six urban neighbourhoods
The study is catalysed by decreasing physical activity, rising obesity, over monitoring of children, and urban intensification.The children were given a GPS and accelerometer, and they kept a travel diary of where they went.
Penelope Carroll, MA (Politics), Grad Dip Psychology, Post Grad Dip Cognitive Therapy, PhD (Health Sciences) is a researcher in public health at SHORE and Whariki Research Centre, School of Public Health, Massey University, Auckland. She obtained her PhD in health sciences from Otago University (Wellington, New Zealand) and has an extensive background in media and communications. Current research activities include the interface between social science research and policy, housing and health inequalities and the well-being of children in urban environments
For booking and details email info.nzsn@gmail.com
"Kids in the City"
A lecture by Dr Penelope Carroll, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
Tuesday 19th June 2012 at 6 p.m.
Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St (Room 612)
Dr Carroll will talk on her team’s study of children in inner city Auckland, New Zealand, on how different neighbourhoods are experienced by children and parents. Interviews have been conducted with primary school children aged 9 to 11 from schools in six urban neighbourhoods
The study is catalysed by decreasing physical activity, rising obesity, over monitoring of children, and urban intensification.The children were given a GPS and accelerometer, and they kept a travel diary of where they went.
Penelope Carroll, MA (Politics), Grad Dip Psychology, Post Grad Dip Cognitive Therapy, PhD (Health Sciences) is a researcher in public health at SHORE and Whariki Research Centre, School of Public Health, Massey University, Auckland. She obtained her PhD in health sciences from Otago University (Wellington, New Zealand) and has an extensive background in media and communications. Current research activities include the interface between social science research and policy, housing and health inequalities and the well-being of children in urban environments
For booking and details email info.nzsn@gmail.com
Monday, 2 April 2012
New Senate House Library archives collection listed
Recently added to the Senate House Library collection is additional material from the book collector Ron Heisler
The Ron Heisler collection (MS1186) incluides a number of files relating to Commonwealth studies, including material on Sri Lankan Trotskyism, comprising of memoranda, news bulletins, and correspondence, dating from c1975 to 2007; correspondence from c1947-1960 with the South African trade unionist and socialist, Solly Sachs, who was author of The Choice Before South Africa (1952), The Rebel's Daughters (also called Garment workers in action) (1957), with L Forman The South African Treason Trial (1959) and The Anatomy of Apartheid (1965); and a number of photographs signed by the New Zealand writer, social reformer and member of the Chinese Communist Party, Rewi Alley.
The Ron Heisler collection (MS1186) incluides a number of files relating to Commonwealth studies, including material on Sri Lankan Trotskyism, comprising of memoranda, news bulletins, and correspondence, dating from c1975 to 2007; correspondence from c1947-1960 with the South African trade unionist and socialist, Solly Sachs, who was author of The Choice Before South Africa (1952), The Rebel's Daughters (also called Garment workers in action) (1957), with L Forman The South African Treason Trial (1959) and The Anatomy of Apartheid (1965); and a number of photographs signed by the New Zealand writer, social reformer and member of the Chinese Communist Party, Rewi Alley.
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
New Zealand and Europe: Borders, Nations, Identities
New Zealand and Europe: Borders, Nations, Identities
The 18th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association, together with the Department of Political Science, University of Gdansk
Gdansk, Poland
6-8 July 2012
The New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) has a long and strong history in promoting New Zealand Studies. Building on the success of the 2006 conference in Paris, the 2008 conference in Florence, and the 2009 conference in Frankfurt, the 2012 gathering of the NZSA will be located at the University of Gdansk, Poland. This very special conference will be held near the historic city centre of Gdansk with its vibrant culture. On the Saturday, there will be a special guided tour of the city with a boat trip, followed by a conference dinner. Keynote speakers: Alan Duff, Professor Witi Ihimaera, DCNZM, Dr Paul Latawski, Dr Michal Lesniewski, Dr Brian McDonnell, Dr Chris Pugsley, Professor Khyla Russell, Professor Jacek Tebinka, Dr Dariusz Zdziech
Proposals for 20 minute papers must be sent by 1 May to Ian Conrich (email: ian@ianconrich.co.uk) or Marcin Waldoch (marcin.waldoch@gmail.com). The conference will consider all papers that address issues related to New Zealand and Europe, within the context of any of the sub themes - borders, nations, identities. As a section of the conference, it will also consider papers on Maori identity and the Pacific. The conference fee will include annual membership to the NZSA, which for 2012 includes 2 free books. Papers from the conference will be published in issue no.3 of the refereed journal, NZSA Bulletin of New Zealand Studies. Moreover, two new book series - 'New Zealand Writers', and 'New Zealand Film Classics' - will be launched at the conference and delegates will be invited to contribute to future volumes.
The conference will accept proposals on a range of subjects including the following: warfare, land and borders; national identities; political relations between nations; migration, refugees and diasporas (refugees during periods of war or periods of political conflict); Maori identity and the Pacific, New Zealand literature or films set in Europe, or European writers or filmmakers in New Zealand; European cultural influence on New Zealand; the reception and exposure of New Zealand culture in Europe; representations of New Zealand in European museums and collections; voyaging, historical travels and expeditions to New Zealand; science and knowledge transfer; tourism.
The 18th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association, together with the Department of Political Science, University of Gdansk
Gdansk, Poland
6-8 July 2012
The New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) has a long and strong history in promoting New Zealand Studies. Building on the success of the 2006 conference in Paris, the 2008 conference in Florence, and the 2009 conference in Frankfurt, the 2012 gathering of the NZSA will be located at the University of Gdansk, Poland. This very special conference will be held near the historic city centre of Gdansk with its vibrant culture. On the Saturday, there will be a special guided tour of the city with a boat trip, followed by a conference dinner. Keynote speakers: Alan Duff, Professor Witi Ihimaera, DCNZM, Dr Paul Latawski, Dr Michal Lesniewski, Dr Brian McDonnell, Dr Chris Pugsley, Professor Khyla Russell, Professor Jacek Tebinka, Dr Dariusz Zdziech
Proposals for 20 minute papers must be sent by 1 May to Ian Conrich (email: ian@ianconrich.co.uk) or Marcin Waldoch (marcin.waldoch@gmail.com). The conference will consider all papers that address issues related to New Zealand and Europe, within the context of any of the sub themes - borders, nations, identities. As a section of the conference, it will also consider papers on Maori identity and the Pacific. The conference fee will include annual membership to the NZSA, which for 2012 includes 2 free books. Papers from the conference will be published in issue no.3 of the refereed journal, NZSA Bulletin of New Zealand Studies. Moreover, two new book series - 'New Zealand Writers', and 'New Zealand Film Classics' - will be launched at the conference and delegates will be invited to contribute to future volumes.
The conference will accept proposals on a range of subjects including the following: warfare, land and borders; national identities; political relations between nations; migration, refugees and diasporas (refugees during periods of war or periods of political conflict); Maori identity and the Pacific, New Zealand literature or films set in Europe, or European writers or filmmakers in New Zealand; European cultural influence on New Zealand; the reception and exposure of New Zealand culture in Europe; representations of New Zealand in European museums and collections; voyaging, historical travels and expeditions to New Zealand; science and knowledge transfer; tourism.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online; Open Access journal from Royal Society of New Zelaand
Kotuitui is an online opan access (free to view) journal published by the Royal Society of New Zealand and hosted by Taylor and Francis.
The journal aims to showcase the increasing number of collaborative research endeavours across the social sciences. Although of particular relevance to New Zealand, the journal’s subject matter is of worldwide relevance and interest to researchers in universities, research institutes, and other centres. The Maori name ‘Kotuitui’ means ‘interweaving’, and reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the journal.
Kotuitui publishes original research papers, short communications, book reviews, and letters. Although the journal predominately highlights research in the New Zealand context, international submissions are welcomed. The journal’s subject matter includes contributions from long-established fields (including psychology, economics, human geography, sociology, education, political science, anthropology, social work, population studies, and history); as well as more recent disciplinary and inter-disciplinary fields such as public policy, development studies, conflict resolution, gender studies, international relations, security studies, human rights, cultural and ethnic studies, ethics, criminology, health, sustainability, communications, and media studies.
The journal is freely available online, facilitating the distribution of New Zealand social science knowledge both nationally and internationally. Papers with likely high impact will be fast-tracked for rapid publication.
The journal aims to showcase the increasing number of collaborative research endeavours across the social sciences. Although of particular relevance to New Zealand, the journal’s subject matter is of worldwide relevance and interest to researchers in universities, research institutes, and other centres. The Maori name ‘Kotuitui’ means ‘interweaving’, and reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the journal.
Kotuitui publishes original research papers, short communications, book reviews, and letters. Although the journal predominately highlights research in the New Zealand context, international submissions are welcomed. The journal’s subject matter includes contributions from long-established fields (including psychology, economics, human geography, sociology, education, political science, anthropology, social work, population studies, and history); as well as more recent disciplinary and inter-disciplinary fields such as public policy, development studies, conflict resolution, gender studies, international relations, security studies, human rights, cultural and ethnic studies, ethics, criminology, health, sustainability, communications, and media studies.
The journal is freely available online, facilitating the distribution of New Zealand social science knowledge both nationally and internationally. Papers with likely high impact will be fast-tracked for rapid publication.
Friday, 13 January 2012
New Zealand Studies Network (UK and Ireland) Inaugural Conference - New Zealand’s Cultures: Sources, Histories, Futures
New Zealand Studies Network (UK and Ireland) Inaugural Conference - New Zealand’s Cultures: Sources, Histories, Futures
Hosts: Birkbeck, University of London and the University of Northampton
Friday 6 July to Saturday 7 July 2012 at Birkbeck, University of London
This conference aims to examine the ‘making of New Zealanders’ in the past, present and future. It will focus on New Zealand and its many different cultures, exploring their origins, historical sources and influences, contemporary changes and future developments. It aims to embrace as many as possible of the disciplinary fields within the humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences.
We anticipate that the cultures that will be explored will include not only the more obvious national, ethnic and religious ones, but the practices and mindsets of governmental, professional, business, educational, religious and sporting subcultures, and of cultures found in other daily occupations and interests, such as eating, drinking and entertainment.
We are interested in how elements of national culture have been imported from the Pacific, the UK, the USA, Europe and Australia, and how they have been exported through migration, disapora, and the media. We welcome proposals that approach New Zealand’s cultures from alternative, ‘outsider’ perspectives, and those that consider whether or not New Zealand's cultures exhibit any remarkable ‘exceptionalism’ .
Topics might well be located in or refer to one or more of the following categories of culture:
In the evening of 6th July, will be the launch of the 25 New Zealand Poets for the UK Poetry Archive 2011, with Directors, Sir Andrew Motion and Richard Carrington, Co-ordinating Director Jan Kemp, and readings by some of the poets.
Friday 6 July to Saturday 7 July 2012 at Birkbeck, University of London
- National
- Local
- Political
- Ethnic
- Immigrant/diasporic/minority
- Professional
- Business
- Creative Arts
- Gastronomic
- Sporting
- Historical / critical writing
- Environmental
- Religion
Keynote speakers: Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas; Hugh Lauder (Professor of Education and Political Economy, University of Bath). Others to be confirmed.
Abstracts: for 20 minute papers of c 250 words plus brief biosketch by 31 March to info.nzsn@gmail.com Intending delegates should be current members of the NZSN. For details of how to join see the NZSN website at http://www.nzstudies.com/. The website will post regular updates of the conference, including accommodation, registration fees etc.
For any queries write to the convenors, Professor Janet Wilson at janet.wilson@northampton.ac.uk and Andrew Sharp at a.sharp@auckland.ac.nz
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Illustrated London News Collection. New Zealand collection 1842-1902
Illustrated London News Collection. New Zealand collection 1842-1902
The Illustrated News Collection ia an interesting digitisation project from the University of Waikato Library who have scanned all images and text relating to New Zealand from the Illustrated London News during this period.
The Illustrated London News was a picture newspaper that ran for over 150 years, its first issue appearing on 14 May 1842. The paper was published weekly until 1971 when it became a monthly. It provided a general source of news but its main appeal lay in its use of woodcuts and engravings to enhance the text. Later, photographs were introduced to provide the illustrations. The paper was highly popular and successful and, while it had an emphasis on Britain, world events were covered, especially where Britain was involved or affected. To this end, Britain's imperial interests and the emerging colony of New Zealand received some coverage especially during the period of the New Zealand Wars.
This database produced by the University of Waikato Library includes scanned images of the all the text and illustrations that refer to events in New Zealand during the first sixty years from volume 1 in 1842 to volume 121 in 1902. The entries can be searched by keyword or you can browse in chronological order.
Key topics covered include social, economic and political history. The Senate House Library also has access to the printed copies of the Illustrated London News.
The Illustrated News Collection ia an interesting digitisation project from the University of Waikato Library who have scanned all images and text relating to New Zealand from the Illustrated London News during this period.
The Illustrated London News was a picture newspaper that ran for over 150 years, its first issue appearing on 14 May 1842. The paper was published weekly until 1971 when it became a monthly. It provided a general source of news but its main appeal lay in its use of woodcuts and engravings to enhance the text. Later, photographs were introduced to provide the illustrations. The paper was highly popular and successful and, while it had an emphasis on Britain, world events were covered, especially where Britain was involved or affected. To this end, Britain's imperial interests and the emerging colony of New Zealand received some coverage especially during the period of the New Zealand Wars.
This database produced by the University of Waikato Library includes scanned images of the all the text and illustrations that refer to events in New Zealand during the first sixty years from volume 1 in 1842 to volume 121 in 1902. The entries can be searched by keyword or you can browse in chronological order.
Key topics covered include social, economic and political history. The Senate House Library also has access to the printed copies of the Illustrated London News.
Friday, 2 December 2011
New Zealand Official Yearbook
Statistics New Zealand has decided to stop producing a printed version of the New Zealand Official Yearbook.
A press release from Statistics New Zealand states that "Research shows that the way people search for information has changed dramatically. Increasingly, people expect to find the most up-to-date data online, meaning that providing a book with static data is no longer in tune with their needs. As a result, we have seen a significant reduction in sales of the Yearbook in recent years and consider that the costs now outweigh the benefits of producing a printed version."
Statistics New Zealand will be looking at ways of making the kind of information previously found in the Yearbook available online, but note that an online Yearbook may not be an exact replication of the printed version. They plan to consult widely during our investigations and welcome any suggestions on how to make Yearbook data and information available in a way that best meets its readers' needs. If you have any feedback please email info@stats.govt.nz
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library holds a full run of the print Official Yearbooks, first published in 1892. These remain an important historical record and a quick reference source for historical statistics throughout New Zealand's history.
A press release from Statistics New Zealand states that "Research shows that the way people search for information has changed dramatically. Increasingly, people expect to find the most up-to-date data online, meaning that providing a book with static data is no longer in tune with their needs. As a result, we have seen a significant reduction in sales of the Yearbook in recent years and consider that the costs now outweigh the benefits of producing a printed version."
Statistics New Zealand will be looking at ways of making the kind of information previously found in the Yearbook available online, but note that an online Yearbook may not be an exact replication of the printed version. They plan to consult widely during our investigations and welcome any suggestions on how to make Yearbook data and information available in a way that best meets its readers' needs. If you have any feedback please email info@stats.govt.nz
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library holds a full run of the print Official Yearbooks, first published in 1892. These remain an important historical record and a quick reference source for historical statistics throughout New Zealand's history.
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
New Zealand Studies Network Event - Disciplining the Europeans: Earliest Maori engagement with pen, paper, school
New Zealand Studies Network Event
Disciplining the Europeans: Earliest Maori engagement with pen, paper, school
28th October 2011, 6pm
Room: 251 Malet Street, Birkbeck (Off Torrington Square)
This illustrated talk gives an account of how Englishmen were invited by Maori leaders – who were aware of the dangers of such an invitation – to establish the first school in New Zealand (the school was built in 1816). The talk will focus on the earliest Maori instruction of the European teachers, the Maori desire for writing, and make new connections with England through a series of unpublished letters about the Industrial Revolution written by two young Maori men who stayed in Shropshire in 1818, and saw ‘the iron run down like water’.
The research was carried out by Professor Alison Jones and Professor Kuni Jenkins. Professor Jones will also talk about the possibilities and impossibilities in telling ‘other people’s stories’.
Alison Jones is a Professor of Education at the University of Auckland. She currently teaches and writes in the field of Maori-Pakeha (indigenous-settler) educational relationships. She and Kuni Jenkins have completed a book entitled Words Between Us: He Korero: First Maori-Pakeha Conversations on Paper, due from Huia Publishers, NZ, later this year.
Alison works on the Maori Missionary Register and on Tuai and Titere, and Maori/Pakeha Conversations in the 19th century
Disciplining the Europeans: Earliest Maori engagement with pen, paper, school
28th October 2011, 6pm
Room: 251 Malet Street, Birkbeck (Off Torrington Square)
This illustrated talk gives an account of how Englishmen were invited by Maori leaders – who were aware of the dangers of such an invitation – to establish the first school in New Zealand (the school was built in 1816). The talk will focus on the earliest Maori instruction of the European teachers, the Maori desire for writing, and make new connections with England through a series of unpublished letters about the Industrial Revolution written by two young Maori men who stayed in Shropshire in 1818, and saw ‘the iron run down like water’.
The research was carried out by Professor Alison Jones and Professor Kuni Jenkins. Professor Jones will also talk about the possibilities and impossibilities in telling ‘other people’s stories’.
Alison Jones is a Professor of Education at the University of Auckland. She currently teaches and writes in the field of Maori-Pakeha (indigenous-settler) educational relationships. She and Kuni Jenkins have completed a book entitled Words Between Us: He Korero: First Maori-Pakeha Conversations on Paper, due from Huia Publishers, NZ, later this year.
Alison works on the Maori Missionary Register and on Tuai and Titere, and Maori/Pakeha Conversations in the 19th century
Friday, 7 October 2011
NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professorship Lectures Programme
THE NZ-UK LINK FOUNDATION VISITING PROFESSORSHIP
LECTURES PROGRAMME 2011-12
The NZ-UK Link Foundation, in conjunction with the School of Advanced Study, University of London, is delighted to announce that its second Visiting Professor, Jonathan Gardner, will deliver the Foundation’s series of Visiting Professorship lectures between October and December 2011.
The Foundation’s purpose is to make a significant contribution to the bilateral NZ-UK relationship in a changing world. For more information, please visit http://www.nzuklinkfoundation.org/
Booking is essential: Please contact Steve Rowland-Jones NZ-UK.Link@hotmail.co.uk
New Zealand is generally regarded as a world leader in marine protection because it has established 33 full ‘no take’ Marine Reserves, with several more planned. The UK currently has three statutory Marine Nature Reserves, in addition to a number of other types of Marine Protected Areas where some fishing is permitted. Professor Gardner is a marine biologist with extensive research expertise in the fields of Marine Protected Areas, biodiversity conservation and population genetics. During his lecture series Professor Gardner will bring together these fields to address the UK’s new Marine Bill, drawing on New Zealand’s own Marine Protected Area Policy and Implementation Plan. The Foundation believes that his work will contribute to a greater understanding of how Marine Protected Areas can most effectively be set up and run to achieve their conservation goals and help protect marine biodiversity.
Professor Jonathan Gardner, who is British born, has been based at Wellington’s Victoria University since April 1994. In December 1994 he became an active member of the South Coast Marine Reserve Coalition, a group set up to promote the establishment of a marine reserve on Wellington’s south coast at Island Bay, in front of the University’s marine laboratory. The Taputeranga Marine Reserve was formally opened in August 2008, almost 20 years after it was first mooted. Professor Gardner is therefore a long time activist for marine protection and has longstanding, first-hand experience of the marine reserve process. He has published more than 50 papers on various aspects of marine protected areas and on aspects of the population genetics of coastal plants and animals.
Mon 17 Oct 2011 6:00pm followed by reception
Venue: The Royal Society, Kohn Centre, London SW1
The importance of Marine Reserves & Marine Protected Areas - the New Zealand experience
In this lecture Professor Gardner will outline the development of Marine Reserves in New Zealand and the strengths and weaknesses of the legislation used to establish reserves. He will describe the different types of Marine Protected Areas in New Zealand and outline the roles played by different sectors in both supporting and opposing the establishment of Marine Reserves. He will assess the limitations and successes of marine protection strategies and will look forward to the new Marine Protected Areas strategy for New Zealand.
Thu 3 Nov 2011 6:00pm followed by reception
Venue: Plymouth University
The design of a Marine Protected Areas network
In this lecture Professor Gardner will discuss what genetics and connectivity tell us about the structuring of populations of New Zealand coastal species. He will outline the essential requirement of science to underpin the establishment of Marine Protected Areas as well as the relevance of genetic connectivity to Marine Protected Area networks. He will describe the New Zealand approach to marine conservation, including a review of New Zealand coastal species, the assessment of population genetic structuring and genetic connectivity, and the contribution of these to New Zealand’s Marine Protected Area network. He will also discuss future directions for science as it can contribute to network design.
Tue 29 Nov 2011 1.15pm
Venue: York University
Do Marine Reserves deliver conservation benefits?
In this lecture Professor Gardner will address the rationale, purpose and establishment of Marine Reserves in New Zealand and describe the expected conservation outcomes. He will explore the processes of monitoring, including the establishment of baselines, ‘before & after’ surveys, internal and external comparisons and habitat mapping. He will ask how Marine Reserve success can best be measured and indicate ways in which reserves can be used as long term conservation tools.
Wed 7 Dec 2011 6:00 pm followed by reception
Venue: Zoological Society of London, Huxley Theatre, Regents Park, London
The future of Marine Protected Areas
This lecture will concern Professor Gardner’s own personal view of Marine Protected Areas. He will review where Marine Protected Areas have been and where they are going in terms of global changes, what Marine Protected Areas can and cannot achieve and what science is needed to support the development of a network of Marine Protected Areas. He will discuss optimum timeframes for the establishment of Marine
Protected Areas as well as for sound conservation outcomes. He will give some examples of successes and failures and the lessons to be learned from these positive and negative experiences.
LECTURES PROGRAMME 2011-12
The NZ-UK Link Foundation, in conjunction with the School of Advanced Study, University of London, is delighted to announce that its second Visiting Professor, Jonathan Gardner, will deliver the Foundation’s series of Visiting Professorship lectures between October and December 2011.
The Foundation’s purpose is to make a significant contribution to the bilateral NZ-UK relationship in a changing world. For more information, please visit http://www.nzuklinkfoundation.org/
Booking is essential: Please contact Steve Rowland-Jones NZ-UK.Link@hotmail.co.uk
New Zealand is generally regarded as a world leader in marine protection because it has established 33 full ‘no take’ Marine Reserves, with several more planned. The UK currently has three statutory Marine Nature Reserves, in addition to a number of other types of Marine Protected Areas where some fishing is permitted. Professor Gardner is a marine biologist with extensive research expertise in the fields of Marine Protected Areas, biodiversity conservation and population genetics. During his lecture series Professor Gardner will bring together these fields to address the UK’s new Marine Bill, drawing on New Zealand’s own Marine Protected Area Policy and Implementation Plan. The Foundation believes that his work will contribute to a greater understanding of how Marine Protected Areas can most effectively be set up and run to achieve their conservation goals and help protect marine biodiversity.
Professor Jonathan Gardner, who is British born, has been based at Wellington’s Victoria University since April 1994. In December 1994 he became an active member of the South Coast Marine Reserve Coalition, a group set up to promote the establishment of a marine reserve on Wellington’s south coast at Island Bay, in front of the University’s marine laboratory. The Taputeranga Marine Reserve was formally opened in August 2008, almost 20 years after it was first mooted. Professor Gardner is therefore a long time activist for marine protection and has longstanding, first-hand experience of the marine reserve process. He has published more than 50 papers on various aspects of marine protected areas and on aspects of the population genetics of coastal plants and animals.
Mon 17 Oct 2011 6:00pm followed by reception
Venue: The Royal Society, Kohn Centre, London SW1
The importance of Marine Reserves & Marine Protected Areas - the New Zealand experience
In this lecture Professor Gardner will outline the development of Marine Reserves in New Zealand and the strengths and weaknesses of the legislation used to establish reserves. He will describe the different types of Marine Protected Areas in New Zealand and outline the roles played by different sectors in both supporting and opposing the establishment of Marine Reserves. He will assess the limitations and successes of marine protection strategies and will look forward to the new Marine Protected Areas strategy for New Zealand.
Thu 3 Nov 2011 6:00pm followed by reception
Venue: Plymouth University
The design of a Marine Protected Areas network
In this lecture Professor Gardner will discuss what genetics and connectivity tell us about the structuring of populations of New Zealand coastal species. He will outline the essential requirement of science to underpin the establishment of Marine Protected Areas as well as the relevance of genetic connectivity to Marine Protected Area networks. He will describe the New Zealand approach to marine conservation, including a review of New Zealand coastal species, the assessment of population genetic structuring and genetic connectivity, and the contribution of these to New Zealand’s Marine Protected Area network. He will also discuss future directions for science as it can contribute to network design.
Tue 29 Nov 2011 1.15pm
Venue: York University
Do Marine Reserves deliver conservation benefits?
In this lecture Professor Gardner will address the rationale, purpose and establishment of Marine Reserves in New Zealand and describe the expected conservation outcomes. He will explore the processes of monitoring, including the establishment of baselines, ‘before & after’ surveys, internal and external comparisons and habitat mapping. He will ask how Marine Reserve success can best be measured and indicate ways in which reserves can be used as long term conservation tools.
Wed 7 Dec 2011 6:00 pm followed by reception
Venue: Zoological Society of London, Huxley Theatre, Regents Park, London
The future of Marine Protected Areas
This lecture will concern Professor Gardner’s own personal view of Marine Protected Areas. He will review where Marine Protected Areas have been and where they are going in terms of global changes, what Marine Protected Areas can and cannot achieve and what science is needed to support the development of a network of Marine Protected Areas. He will discuss optimum timeframes for the establishment of Marine
Protected Areas as well as for sound conservation outcomes. He will give some examples of successes and failures and the lessons to be learned from these positive and negative experiences.
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Maori art in Paris
Two exhibitions devoted to Maori art open this week in Paris:
George Nuku & Rosanna Raymond: Face to Face
17 Rue des Beaux-Arts Paris 75006
The contemporary Maori art of George Nuku & Rosanna Raymond face to face with a selection of early Maori art
Opens October 4 from 18h to 21h in the presence of the artists
(NB: exhibition closes October 26)
For more information about the artists and the work, click here.
Māori: their treasures have a soul
Musée du Quai Branly
37, quai Branly Paris 75007
The exhibition presents a great range of artwork, including sculpture, adornment, daily and sacred objects, architectural elements, photographs, audiovisual documents, and so on. It highlights the links between taonga (ancestral Māori treasures) and contemporary art, shedding light on important issues and debates for Māori today.
The exhibition presents Māori culture as seen by Māori, free from Western views and biases. The heart of the exhibition features art that addresses the political, spiritual, and aesthetic developments that have shaped Māori culture.
The exhibition includes the remarkable Michael Parekowhai works that formed the NZ Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale.
From October 4 to January 22
For more information about the exhibition, click here
George Nuku & Rosanna Raymond: Face to Face
17 Rue des Beaux-Arts Paris 75006
The contemporary Maori art of George Nuku & Rosanna Raymond face to face with a selection of early Maori art
Opens October 4 from 18h to 21h in the presence of the artists
(NB: exhibition closes October 26)
For more information about the artists and the work, click here.
Māori: their treasures have a soul
Musée du Quai Branly
37, quai Branly Paris 75007
The exhibition presents a great range of artwork, including sculpture, adornment, daily and sacred objects, architectural elements, photographs, audiovisual documents, and so on. It highlights the links between taonga (ancestral Māori treasures) and contemporary art, shedding light on important issues and debates for Māori today.
The exhibition presents Māori culture as seen by Māori, free from Western views and biases. The heart of the exhibition features art that addresses the political, spiritual, and aesthetic developments that have shaped Māori culture.
The exhibition includes the remarkable Michael Parekowhai works that formed the NZ Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale.
From October 4 to January 22
For more information about the exhibition, click here
Saturday, 23 July 2011
New Zealand, South Africa, Rugby and apartheid: 30 years since the 1981 tour
The controversial 1981 Springbok tour, which divided NZ, began 30 years today. The South African Rugby tour was the focus of intense debate and protest throughout New Zealand and sport and politics became intensely mixed. The tour also acted as a catalyst for an examination of racism within New Zealand, with indigenous Maori people highlighting the connections between apartheid in South Africa and racism in New Zealand.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library holds a selection of material relating to the anti-apartheid movement in New Zealand, including publications from the National Anti-Apartheid Committee, the Apartheid Information Centre, The Wellington Trades Council and Halt All Racist Tours (HART), as well as books looking back at that time such as Trevor Richard's Dancing on our bones : New Zealand, South Africa, rugby and racism and Malcom Templeton's Human rights and sporting contacts : New Zealand attitudes to race relations in South Africa 1921-94.
A photo gallery from the 1981 tour is available from the NZ Herald website.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library holds a selection of material relating to the anti-apartheid movement in New Zealand, including publications from the National Anti-Apartheid Committee, the Apartheid Information Centre, The Wellington Trades Council and Halt All Racist Tours (HART), as well as books looking back at that time such as Trevor Richard's Dancing on our bones : New Zealand, South Africa, rugby and racism and Malcom Templeton's Human rights and sporting contacts : New Zealand attitudes to race relations in South Africa 1921-94.
A photo gallery from the 1981 tour is available from the NZ Herald website.
Thursday, 7 July 2011
New Zealand Studies at Birkbeck - an introduction and upcoming events
New Zealand studies at Birkbeck has been established with the aim of raising the profile of New Zealand in the UK.
Professor Janet Wilson is exploring research collaborations between New Zealand and UK scholars with a focus on shared areas of interest. She currently aims to introduce New Zealand topics into some of the MA teaching provision at Birkbeck (e.g. postcolonial children’s literature, the knowledge society and the cultural economy; colonial and postcolonial studies). Further integration of New Zealand topics into the undergraduate curriculum may follow.
New Zealand studies at Birkbeck is associated with the New Zealand Studies Network (UK and Ireland). See http://nzstudies.wordpress.com/. The Network draws together professional people, scholars, students and the general public who are interested in, or experts on, aspects of New Zealand life. The Network organises meetings of general public interest which are addressed by an expert: their papers may be found on the website. It also presents film screenings, poetry readings, and musical events.
More specialised conferences, seminars and colloquia are intended to be held on the humanities, fine arts, sciences, social sciences, the law, architecture, business and management studies. It may also be expected that from time to time current events in the UK may call for comment from a New Zealand perspective.
■Friday 8th July. 6.00 pm -8.30 pm - New Zealand Studies launch
Professor Andrew Sharp will discuss the reasoning behind the expansion of Maori rights to property, political power, and group expression in the last thirty years. He will reflect on what this could teach the British and Irish about the potential of a way of thinking that originated with them.
■Saturday 9th July, 9am -1pm - Readings by New Zealand writers and poets
Fleur Adcock, Briar Wood, Robert Sullivan, Kirsty Gunn, Paula Morris, Mia Farland
Professor Janet Wilson is exploring research collaborations between New Zealand and UK scholars with a focus on shared areas of interest. She currently aims to introduce New Zealand topics into some of the MA teaching provision at Birkbeck (e.g. postcolonial children’s literature, the knowledge society and the cultural economy; colonial and postcolonial studies). Further integration of New Zealand topics into the undergraduate curriculum may follow.
New Zealand studies at Birkbeck is associated with the New Zealand Studies Network (UK and Ireland). See http://nzstudies.wordpress.com/. The Network draws together professional people, scholars, students and the general public who are interested in, or experts on, aspects of New Zealand life. The Network organises meetings of general public interest which are addressed by an expert: their papers may be found on the website. It also presents film screenings, poetry readings, and musical events.
More specialised conferences, seminars and colloquia are intended to be held on the humanities, fine arts, sciences, social sciences, the law, architecture, business and management studies. It may also be expected that from time to time current events in the UK may call for comment from a New Zealand perspective.
■Friday 8th July. 6.00 pm -8.30 pm - New Zealand Studies launch
Professor Andrew Sharp will discuss the reasoning behind the expansion of Maori rights to property, political power, and group expression in the last thirty years. He will reflect on what this could teach the British and Irish about the potential of a way of thinking that originated with them.
■Saturday 9th July, 9am -1pm - Readings by New Zealand writers and poets
Fleur Adcock, Briar Wood, Robert Sullivan, Kirsty Gunn, Paula Morris, Mia Farland
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