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ARTS UPDATE 27 October 2017 News Linguistics The Linguistics department would like to thank Pacific language consultant Josephine Mill for her wonderful gift of a bag depicting traditional face painting from the Melpa area in Papua New Guinea. Josephine gifted the bag to the department to commemorate her work with the 2017 LING407 Field Methods course. While the linguistic analysis in this year's class focused on the neighbouring language Jiwaka, Josephine frequently provided comparisons with Melpa, since she is fluent in both languages. The bag is now on display in the Linguistics department, on Level 2 of the Locke Building. Wal wii, Josie! Josephine Mill is currently studying for a Masters in International Law and Politics at UC. Her language consultant work in LING407 is funded by the College of Arts Pacific Language Consultant award. MLING students Vicky

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ARTS  UPDATE

 27  October  2017  

News  

Linguistics    The  Linguistics  department  would  like  to  thank  Pacific  language  consultant  Josephine  Mill  for  her  wonderful  gift  of  a  bag  depicting  traditional  face  painting  from  the  Melpa  area  in  Papua  New  Guinea.  Josephine  gifted  the  bag  to  the  department  to  commemorate  her  work  with  the  2017  LING407  Field  Methods  course.  While  the  linguistic  analysis  in  this  year's  class  focused  on  the  neighbouring  language  Jiwaka,  Josephine  frequently  provided  comparisons  with  Melpa,  since  she  is  fluent  in  both  languages.  The  bag  is  now  on  display  in  the  Linguistics  department,  on  Level  2  of  the  Locke  Building.  Wal  wii,  Josie!    

   Josephine  Mill  is  currently  studying  for  a  Masters  in  International  Law  and  Politics  at  UC.  Her  language  consultant  work  in  LING407  is  funded  by  the  College  of  Arts  Pacific  Language  Consultant  award.  MLING  students  Vicky  

Watson  and  Nathan  Taylor  will  present  results  from  their  LING407  research  with  Josephine  at  a  community  meeting  in  December.  

     Political  Science  and  International  Relations    Assoc  Prof  Amy  Fletcher  (POLS)  gave  a  keynote  address  entitled  Life  on  Demand:  What  De-­‐Extinction  Can  Teach  Us  about  the  NZ  Biotech  Future  at  the  NZ  Bio  Conference  in  Wellington  on  13  October  2017.    Amy  Fletcher  (POLS)  was  an  invited  panellist  on  an  Artificial  Intelligence  Forum  NZ  community  panel  on  the  topic  Artificial  Intelligence:  what  should  New  Zealand  be  doing  about  it?,  on  Wednesday,  18  October  2017.  

 Amy  Fletcher  (POLS)  is  a  co-­‐researcher,  working  with  lead  researchers  Angela  Curl  and  Helen  Fitt  (GEOG),  on  the  externally  funded  National  Science  Challenge  project  Autonomous  Vehicles  and  Future  Urban  Environments:  Implications  for  Wellbeing  in  an  Aging  Society.  This  project  is  funded  through  the  NSC11  challenge  “Building  

Better  Homes,  Towns  and  Cities  -­‐  Ko  ngā  wā  kāinga  hei  whakamāhorahora”.      

National  Centre  for  Research  on  Europe    Professor  Loukas  Tsoukalis  from  Oxford  University  visited  the  NCRE  on  Friday  13th  October  to  talk  about  the  future  of  Europe.  During  his  talk,  Loukas  Tsoukalis  talked  about  the  events  that  weakened  the  EU  and  the  reforms  necessary  to  save  it.  Among  the  challenges  facing  Europe,  he  identified  the  EU’s  overstretch,  increased  inequality  and  precarity,  as  well  as  the  euro-­‐crisis  and  the  migrant  crisis.  However,  he  argued  that  the  election  of  Emmanuel  Macron  in  France  had  ushered  a  much  more  positive  outlook  for  the  EU.  Most  notably  he  argued  that  a  new  deal  between  France  and  Germany  would  be  necessary  to  take  the  EU  forward.      The  NCRE  is  pleased  to  offer  six  summer  school  courses  this  year.  Students  will  be  able  to  have  a  productive  summer  learning  about:  

-­‐   the  EU’s  promotion  of  Human  rights  -­‐  Special  Topic:  Human  Rights:  Agendas,  Issues  and  the  European  Union  (Summer  -­‐  Nov  2017);    

-­‐   the  Post-­‐WWII  reconstruction  of    Europe,  the  foundation  of  the  European  Union  and  the  democratisation  processes  that  followed  the  collapse  of  the  Berlin  wall  -­‐  Democratic  and  Economic  Evolution  of  Europe  (Summer  –  Nov  2017);  

-­‐   the  contemporary  challenges  facing  the  EU  as  an  international  actor  -­‐  Special  Topic:  Contemporary  Policy  Challenges  in  the  European  Union  (Summer  –  Nov  2017);  

-­‐   the  process  of  EU  integration  and  its  internal  contradictions  -­‐  Remaking  the  New  Europe  (Summer  –  Jan  2018)  

-­‐   the  EU’s  external  role  and  its  ambition  as  a  global  power  -­‐  Special  Topic:  European  Foreign  and  Security  Policy  in  the  21st  Century  (Summer  –  Jan  2018)  

-­‐   and  The  economics  of  European  integration  (Summer  -­‐  Jan  2018).    The  NCRE  proudly  hosted  renowned  jazz  musician,  Jef  Neve  for  his  tour  ‘Spirit  of  Control’.  The  world  class  concert  took  place  at  The  Piano  on  12th  October  2017  where  Jef  Neve  magnetised  his  public  with  compositions  written  during  travels  around  the  globe.    

 Jef  Neve  playing  at  The  Piano  in  Christchurch  

 

 UC  Arts  at  the  Arts  Centre    Music    Last  week  saw  the  final  of  our  Lunchtime  Concerts  for  the  year  which  was  performed  by  post-­‐graduate  students,  Clare  Penny  and  Shayne  Harris,  from  Auckland  University  alongside  Professor  Mark  Menzies.  It  was  a  great  way  to  end  this  programme  for  the  year.    

   Professor  Justin  DeHart  presented  an  amazing  programme  last  Wednesday  night  with  the  UC  Percussion  ensemble.  The  capacity  crowd  enjoyed  their  selections  of  Steve  Reich,  Frank  Zappa,  and  John  Bergamo  performed  by  Robert  Petch,  Andrew  Spearman,  Ash  Perry  and  Justin  DeHart.  The  concert  also  featured  the  premier  of  a  work  by  UC  composition  student  Rosa  Elliot.    

 

 Teece  Museum    Our  current  exhibition  ‘We  could  be  heroes’  closes  this  Sunday.  If  you  haven’t  seen  this  exhibition,  make  sure  you  get  in  before  it  closes.  The  Museum  is  open  11-­‐3pm  until  Sunday.  The  next  exhibition  ‘Buried  Treasure’  opens  on  December  2.      History     David  Monger  has  recently  given  three  talks  in  the  UK  during  his  Visiting  Fellowship  at  the  University  of  Oxford.  On  4  October,  he  spoke  at  the  University  of  Exeter's  Penryn  Campus  Humanities  Seminar  on  the  topic  'Networking  against  Genocide  during  the  First  World  War:  Humanitarian  activism  and  the  international  network  behind  the  British  Parliamentary  Report  on  the  Armenian  Genocide'.    On  19  October,  he  delivered  a  paper  to  the  Globalising  and  Localising  the  Great  War  (GLGW)  Seminar  at  the  University  of  Oxford,  entitled  'Know  Your  Enemy:  British  Perspectives  on  German  First  World  War  Propaganda'.    On  26  October,  he  is  giving  a  second  talk  to  the  GLGW  seminar,  entitled  '"We  cannot  keep  silent":  the  international  humanitarian  network  behind  the  British  Parliamentary  Report  on  the  Armenian  Genocide'.   Art  History  and  Theory    Rosie  Ibbotson  attended  the  Universities  Art  Association  of  Canada/l’Association  d’art  des  Universités  du  Canada  2017  Conference  in  Banff,  and  presented  a  paper  titled  ‘Crafting  “nature”:  the  transnational  Arts  and  Crafts  Movement,  introduced  species,  and  ecological  violence  in  colonial  Aotearoa  New  Zealand’.      NEWS  AND  EVENTS    http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/arts-­‐‑news/  

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