ARTS UPDATE

13 July 2018

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UC Arts at the Arts Centre The Old Chemistry Building Restoration for UC, undertaken by Simon Construction, has won a Gold Award in the Heritage Restoration category of the New Zealand Commercial Projects Awards. Read more about the awards here.

Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities On Monday and Tuesday this week, the Teece Museum hosted a KidsFest event as a part of the UC Foundation education outreach programme. The event began with an exploration of artefacts owned and used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans, hosted by the Curators of the Museum. Children then had the opportunity to paint their own masterpiece on a pot to take home. It was fun and creative for all involved!

Representations of Herakles in the Logie Collection – Emily Rosevear Emily Rosevear is a History Honours student. She completed her undergraduate studies with majors in both Classics and History. As part of her studies, Emily has completed an internship with the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities / Logie Collection. Her internship involved cataloguing and improving the storage conditions of the Lantern Slide collection. Emily’s academic research for the internship investigated images of Herakles in the lantern slide collection. The Department of Classics glass-plate lantern slides: origins and issues – Sharin Manson Sharin Manson is a Classics honours student, with an interest in museums and collection management. Her internship for the Logie Collection / Teece Museum involved researching and cataloguing the glass plate lantern slide collection. Where possible, this project included trying to establish whether the lantern slide images were original or copied from publications, as this is a useful indication of whether the images are still in copyright. WHEN: Wednesday 25 July 2pm – 2.45pm WHERE: Camerata Room, UC Arts city location, 3 Hereford St, Christchurch

School of Humanities and Creative Arts History The Department of History hosted an afternoon on “Myth and History” for the Secondary School History Teachers Association on 5 July. A hundred or more students and their social studies teachers from school districts in Canterbury from Rangiora to Timaru came to the University to explore problems in historical knowledge. Sessions by David Monger, Evgeny Pavlov and Peter Field included: “History, Myth and Meaning.” “Myths of Futility: British Popular Memory of the First World War.” “Second World War Mythology in Putin’s Russia Today.” “C’mon! America, the Land of the Free?” Strategy and Objectives included: What is a myths and what is history? How do we find meaning and method in history? Is there Bad history and how would you know? Is propaganda just bad history? How do myths linger? History student Thandiwe Parker has been awarded her MA for the thesis ‘A Mirror for Princesses: The Portrayal of Queenship In Three French Vernacular Chronicles, c. 1260 - c. 1310’. The thesis examines three French chronicles in order to deepen our understanding of attitudes towards Capetian queens and queenship during a key period of change. It explores the presentation of queenship in these texts via four areas: familial relations, piety, sexual agency, and government and influence. The thesis establishes that these chroniclers showed that a queen, following the expectations of her position, would help ensure the peace and stability of the kingdom. This, in turn, ensured the strength and legitimacy of Capetian rule by establishing and solidifying contemporary expectations of queenship for an aristocratic and royal audience. Thandi, who co-curated the 2015 exhibition “The Mana of the Magna Carta”, has now obtained a post in the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet. Cultural Studies Erin Harrington wrote a piece for The Pantograph Punch (http://pantograph-punch.com/post/back-to-the-future) about the Christchurch City Council's recent decision to move ahead with The Court Theatre's proposed new site in the performing arts precinct and discard the alternative proposal offered by the Andromeda arts and entertainment complex. She also appeared on RNZ National's Standing Room Only to discuss the decision, and its ramifications for Christchurch's already struggling arts ecology, with host Lynn Freeman (https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018652695/good-news-and-bad-for-christchurch-theatres). Philosophy Diane Proudfoot has published an article, ‘Sylvan’s Bottle and Other Problems’, in the Australasian Journal of Logic (in a Special Issue on the work of the philosopher and logician Richard Sylvan). https://doi.org/10.26686/ajl.v15i2.4858 Zhao Fan – a PhD student (supervised by Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot) -- has had his paper accepted for the prestigious international Wittgenstein Symposium in Austria in August. Anna Watson, the daughter of Philosophy major Deborah Watson, is exhibiting her Printmaking Panel -- with Alan Turing as the subject! -- in the NCEA exhibition in the Fine Arts gallery from Tuesday.

School of Fine Arts Opening night for NCEA Top Art exhibition in the Ilam Campus Gallery. The exhibition is open till 19 July, everyone welcome.

School of Languages, Social and Political Sciences Sociology and Anthropology Alison Loveridge attended a celebration of Puaka and Matariki hosted by the Ngāi Tahu Tourism in Takapō for UC staff involved in the Mt John Observatory/ Ōtehīwai Takapō and other strategic partners. Professor Rangi Mātāmua who is supporting content development for the new Earth & Sky visitor centre, talked on Māori astronomy and star lore. Although snow meant the event was not held on Mt John itself, a visit to Mt John and Takapō village earlier in the day confirmed the potential for improving educational outreach in this special environment.

Research Centre News New Zealand South Asia Centre Jane Buckingham, Director of New Zealand South Asia Centre and Associate Professor of history at UC is co-editor with Professor Sekhar Bandhyopadhyay, Victoria, University of Wellington and Director of New Zealand India Research Institute of Indians and the Antipodes: Networks, Boundaries, and Circulation (Oxford University Press 2018), a ground breaking exploration of the 250-year history of the Indian diaspora to Australia and New Zealand. This is the third edited collection supported by New Zealand South Asia Centre has been launched in Delhi and New Zealand at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, the National Library in Wellington The book launch was reported on RadioNZ and followed up with an excellent set of interviews. http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/voices/audio/2018650477/voices-indians-in-new-zealand-since-1769 National Centre for Research on Europe Taiwan Conference: The Future of the EU and European Integration in the Aftermath of the Crisis On 28+29 June 2018 the annual European Union Studies Association Asia Pacific (EUSAAP) conference and postgraduate workshop was held in Taipei, Taiwan. EUSAAP is an academic association in the Asia Pacific region devoted to the studies of EU and European Integration and brings ten national European Studies Associations together. The association is administrated by the NCRE. This year four UC staff and ten Postgraduate Students travelled to Taipei to participate in the international, multi-disciplinary conference entitled The Future of the EU and European Integration in the Aftermath of the Crisis. NCRE staff, Dr Milenko Petrovic and Dr Serena Kelly presented their current research at the conference, which had participants from 23 countries. The NCRE congratulates two of our postgraduate students in particular, who were awarded “Best Paper Presentation”. Xiwen Wang is a first-year Ph.D. student at the NCRE. Her current research interests are the EU-China relations. Xiwen presented her research outline and initial findings on the relations between China and the V4 countries in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative. It was Xiwen’s first experience attending a conference regarding the study of the EU and she received much insightful feedback on the research methodology. Rhiannon Evans is studying towards a Master of European Union Studies (MEURO). The current area of her research is focused around Southern and Eastern Member States’ response to the Migrant Crisis in relation to national security.

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