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19 October 2018

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Last weekend UC Consortia and Guests performed a WWI anniversary concert …In Tempore Belli… at St Mary’s Pro Cathedral. This was their final concert of 2018 and was a spectacular way for them to finish a very busy and successful year. On Monday we had our last New Music Central concert for 2018. This doubled as an assessment for honours student Daniel Cooper. Daniel conducted ‘A Soldier’s Tale’ by Stravinsky and the Recital Room was at full capacity for this thrilling concert. Today we have our final Lunchtime Concert of the year. It’s honouring a member of our staff who has a special birthday coming up, but it’s a surprise so you’ll have to come down to the Arts Centre today at 1.10pm or tune in next week to find out who. We have a number of students performing public recitals as part of our examination period. The recitals are around an hour in length and free to attend. Come down to the Recital Room at the Arts Centre to support our third year and honours level students:

• Tuesday October 23, 5.30pm – Nazanin Maleki Amin (Piano) performs Persian Set by Henry Cowell with ensemble

• Thursday October 25, 5.00pm – Snow Townsend, Electric Guitar • Friday October 26, 1.00pm – Zachery Nicolson, Baritone (brass) • Monday October 29, 7.00pm – Kiel McEntee, Lute • Tuesday October 30, 7.00pm – Shiloh Bromley, Contemporary Voice • Wednesday October 31, 1.00pm – Nina Hardie, Cello • Wednesday October 31, 2.00pm – Fion Law, Double Bass • Thursday November 1, 1.10pm – Kaori Omura, Classical Voice • Friday November 2, 2.00pm – Nazanin Maleki Amin, Piano • Friday November 2, 6.30pm – Alena Le-Ngoc, Flute • Sunday November 4, 2.00pm – Daniel Cooper, Organ **Please note this recital is at Knox Church**

Classics and the Teece Musem

On Monday last week we hosted a group of students as part of UC Careers. Students had a tour of the building, spent time in the Teece Museum and listened to curatorial and other UC Arts staff talk about their career paths and what they would encourage students looking for careers in Museums, Heritage, events etc. to consider. Excellent questions and discussion resulted. On Tuesday night, as part of BECA Heritage Week 2018, Dr. Gary Morrison presented a public talk entitled Homeric echoes in a WW1 Diary - How we remember. Gary applied a “Homeric Lens” to the WWI Diary of Hugh Stewart, identifying and discussing classical allussions that Stewart made while serving on the Gallipoli Peninsula and the Western Front. This talk was well attended and attendees were able to enjoy a private viewing in the Teece Museum from 5.30pm before the talk at 6pm. Tonight as part of FESTA 2018, Adjunct Associate Professor Robin Bond will explore the ancient contexts for feasting and the influence of food on the development of a society in a talk entitled Roman Dining: a Guide to Status and Mores. You are welcome to join us for this talk, which includes the opportunity to browse the Teece Museum’s newest exhibition ‘Beyond the Grave: Death in ancient times’ from 5-6pm, before heading into the Recital Room for Professor Bond’s talk from 6-7pm. School of Humanities and Creative Arts FESTA Erin Harrington & Joanna Cobley will be participating in this weekend’s upcoming FESTA, our ‘Ladies, a plate’ session is Monday 22 Oct, from 12:30-2pm at Space Academy, 371 St Asaph St, for further details go to: http://festa.org.nz/projects/ladies-a-plate-12-30-2pm-mon-22-oct/ For the full FESTA programme go to: http://festa.org.nz/ Philosophy

Our current Erskine visitor Prof. Stephen Stich (Rutgers) gave a seminar paper on Tuesday entitled “If intuitions vary across cultures, what should we conclude?’ This was the last of a 2018 seminar series that featured talks from philosophers based at UC, Waikato, Oxford, Jerusalem, Rutgers and Stockholm.

History

Janet Holm Prize honours remarkable Cantabrian The History Department is very grateful to receive a new prize in History in memory of Janet Holm, donated by her family. The prize will recognise students’ academic excellence in the study of New Zealand History at the University of Canterbury, an area of passion for Mrs Holm. Having originally studied at Canterbury in the 1940s, Janet Holm returned to the University in the 1980s to obtain an MA(Hons) in History, after decades of environmental activism, including a significant role in the Clean Air Society, which introduced the open-fire ban in Christchurch. In the 1990s and 2000s, she published three books: Nothing But Grass and Wind, a history of the Rutherford family of North Canterbury; Caught Mapping, a study of New Zealand’s early surveyors, which brought her recognition as the first female Honorary Member of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors; and On Zealand’s Hills, Where Tigers Steal Along, a look at aspects of nineteenth century New Zealand society. In 2005, she received the A.C. Rhodes Medal from the Canterbury History Foundation, which is awarded ‘to honour and recognise the work of a non-academic Canterbury historian who has significantly added to our knowledge of the past or has by various means advanced and popularised the subject of History in the wider Canterbury community.’ Mrs Holm passed away in July this year, at the age of 94 (https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/105960638/null). The Janet Holm Prize in History will be awarded for the first time to a Canterbury History student on 5 December, at the annual History Awards. Tangible Patriotism during the First World War David Monger’s article, ‘Tangible Patriotism during the First World War: Individuals and the Nation in British Propaganda’ has been published in War & Society. Exploring public propaganda campaigns aimed at civilians, calling

for investment in War Savings, voluntary economising of food and national service work, it argues that in a year of crises, propagandists sought to engage ordinary people by offering them small, tangible, ways to participate in the war effort. It includes some discussion of the remarkable New Zealander and Canterbury College student, Maud Pember Reeves, a social reformer who had investigated poverty in London shortly before the war. In 1917, she was an important voice in the Ministry of Food’s Food Economy campaigns, pressing colleagues to acknowledge that economies ought to be sort from the well-off rather than the poor, and promoting food economy to schoolchildren on the assumption that what was learnt at school would be transmitted to children’s wider families. The article can be accessed via the University’s subscription to the journal here: https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.canterbury.ac.nz/doi/full/10.1080/07292473.2018.1496786 School of Fine Arts

School of Languages, Social and Political Sciences Global, Cultural and Language Studies

Six students in the Japanese programme have been selected to go to Japan for 10 days in late November under the Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths Programme. Huge congratulations to Andre Moneda, Jordan Smith, Matthew Croft, Gabrielle Gibb-Faumuina, Ryan Pearson, and Ella Sullivan.

The objectives of JENESYS 2018 are (1) to promote mutual trust and understanding among the peoples of Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, and to build a basis for future friendship and cooperation and (2) to encourage an understanding of Japan’s economics, society, history, diverse culture, politics and diplomatic relations. Andre, Jordan and Matthew will be taking part in the course which focuses on introducing building peaceful societies, Japanese culture and history by visiting historical and peace memorial sites in Tokyo and Nagasaki. Gabrielle, Ryan and Ella will be participating in the other course, which focuses on introducing sports, by visiting typical sites in Tokyo and Oita.

We would like to wish them all the best for their stay in Japan.

Susan Bouterey’s book “Crisis and Disaster in Japan and New Zealand: Actors, Victims and Ramifications” that she co-edited with Lawrence Marceau at Auckland University (Japanese Studies) has recently been published by Palgrave-MacMillan in hard copy as well as e-edition. The book grew out of three international workshops held following the 2010 and 2011 disasters in New Zealand and Japan and features disaster research spanning a wide range of areas within Social Sciences, Humanities, and Creative & Performing arts. It includes studies by UC academics and researchers – as well as their colleagues from outside of UC – including Rosemary Du Plessis and co-researchers Judith Sutherland, Liz Gordon and Helen Gibson on the research committee for the Women’s Voices/ Ngā Reo O Ngā

Wāhine Project (National Council of Women of New Zealand) , Paul Millar and co-researchers Christopher Thomson, James Smithies (Director of King’s Digital Lab at King’s College London), and Jennifer Middendorf, and sole-authored as well as jointly authored (with co-editor Lawrence Marceau) chapters by Susan Bouterey. The workshops which led to the book were a UC workshop titled "Tohoku/Christchurch: Reflections on the Socio-cultural Impacts of the Quakes" and hosted by the Japanese Programme in conjunction the Centre for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, Japan (sponsored by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and the Handa Fellowship for International Studies); an AU workshop titled “Sainan: Discourses of Disasters in Japanese Media over Time ”(sponsored by the AU Faculty of Arts and supported by the NZ Asia Centre) and a Tohoku University workshop titled “Reviewing Humanities and Social Sciences Projects after Natural Disasters and Exploring the Role of Researchers” (hosted by the Centre for Northeast Asian Studies).

Research Centre News New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies (NZCHAS)

You are invited to a seminar hosted by the NZ Centre for Human-Animal Studies: Is there a turtle in this text? Thinking through Nonhuman Animals in the Internet of Robots and Things This paper looks at the paradigm shift underway in human relations with artifacts from an animal studies perspective. As the Internet of Things produces objects that are smart, sensate and agentive, how does this impact the struggle for recognition of these same qualities in nonhuman animals? As humans acquire new digital companions in the form of therapeutic robots, what happens to perceptions of other ‘companion species’? Animals are good to think with as scholars elaborate on the new and brilliantly exciting Internet of Robots and Things. But what assumptions are being made or fortified about nonhuman animals in this discourse? My title pays homage to an essay in literary feminism by Mary Jacobus entitled ‘Is there a woman in this text?’ that famously drew attention to the way women are sacrificed in philosophical exchanges between men. This paper seeks to do something similar for nonhuman animals in highlighting the ways they risk becoming an unrecognized casualty of discourse surrounding the smart object and the digital companion. For reasons I will (hopefully) explain, the paper will include some discussion of turtles, pigeons, Blade Runner and love. Dr Nicola Evans is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She received her degrees from Oxford University (English Literature, First Class) and The Annenberg School for Communications in California (Ph.D. Communications Research) and has published widely on film and literature for journals such as Screen, Textual Practice, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Culture Theory and Critique, Discourse, and Continuum. This research represents part of a new project looking at ideas about human-animal love and discourses of animality deployed around emerging technologies. When Thursday 25th October, 2-3pm Where Karl Popper 612 More information philip.armstrong@canterbury.ac.nz All welcome! NEWS AND EVENTS

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