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28 September 2018

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UC Arts at the Arts Centre Music

On Sunday afternoon, in the final concert of the Arts Centre collaborative series, the UC Gamelan ensemble performed alongside a number of Performance Music students. It was a fantastic afternoon, with an eclectic mix for the audience who loved it! We’ve had one of our busiest weeks of the year! On Monday night we had the pleasure of hosting a concert on ‘The Sonic Art of John Cousins’. This concert featured works composed by former School of Music lecturer, John Cousins, and was performed to a full house. On Wednesday night we had Papanui High School students performing in the final of our High School Highlights series for the year. The concert featured School of Music students as performers and MC. This marks the final concert in the series and it has been great outreach for the School of Music this year. Thursday night saw the UC Consortia Chamber choir perform an intimate concert of Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel. Directed by Sue Densem, the choir has another performance before the end of the year on October 13, 7.30pm at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral. Entry is by koha, recommended $10. Last week the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra announced its 2019 programme, which will feature a number of UC Music staff and graduates. 2019 will be a particularly significant year for the orchestra, as they finally return to the Christchurch Town Hall after many years of earthquake repairs. The CSO Lamb and Hayward Masterworks season will open with a programme featuring a new work by Adjunct Associate Professor Chris Cree Brown on 2nd March, also featuring UC SoM graduate Tony Chen Lin as one of two pianists alongside Michael Houston. On 28th and 30th May, the orchestra will perform in the Christchurch Art Gallery amongst the art works directed by UC SoM Head of Performance, Professor Mark Menzies, who will present a programme including his own arrangements of works by Strauss and Haydn, and performing as soloist in the world premiere of a new violin concerto by NZ composer Chris Gendall. On 21st September the CSO's Masterworks programme will feature guest artists the LA Percussion Quartet, of which UC SoM Senior lecturer Dr. Justin DeHart is a member, premiering a newly commissioned concerto for percussion quartet and orchestra by UC lecturer and Senior Adjunct Fellow, James Gardner.

This week UC Head of Music Assoc. Prof. Glenda Keam is heading to Vienna and Bratislava, where she will be presenting a paper at a conference organised by the Central European Music Forum, and attending meetings of the International Society for Contemporary Music of which she is Vice-President. Classics

The Classics department are pleased to present two talks by Dr. Lee Brice of the University of Western Illinois. Lee will be presenting a research seminar on Wednesday October 3 at 3pm in the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities, and a public talk on Thursday October 4 at 6pm in the Recital Room. Lee L. Brice received his PhD at UNC Chapel Hill and is now Professor of Ancient History at Western Illinois University where he has won awards for teaching and research. He specializes in military history in the ancient world and in Corinthian numismatics. Dr. Brice has published five edited volumes on ancient warfare and history including most recently Insurgency and Terrorism in the Ancient Mediterranean World for Brill, as well as numerous articles and book chapters on mutiny, pedagogy, film and history, the Athenian expedition to Sicily, and the coins of ancient Corinth. He is also senior editor of the new journal Research Perspectives in Ancient History. Research seminar: Small Denomination Coins of Corinth and a Minting Puzzle When: Wednesday October 3, 3-4pm Where: Teece Museum, UC Arts City Location Public talk: SPQR SNAFU: Mutiny and Indiscipline in the Roman Army of the Late Republic and Early Empire When: Thursday October 4, 6-7.30pm Where: Recital Room, UC Arts City Location Teece Musem

Looking for something to do these school holidays? The Teece Museum is celebrating the 125th anniversary of women's suffrage in New Zealand by letting some of our wee mates make some mischief in the museum for three weeks. Come along, pick up a free activity book, and learn about some of the women in our show 'Beyond the Grave' with the help of our wee friends. Every activity book completed will get the chance to go in the draw for a museum prize pack. See the Facebook page for details. School of Humanities and Creative Arts Rug and Lamp required for LGBTQIA+ student space A floor rug and lamp is required for the Robin Duff Room (a safe space for LGBTQIA+ students on the ground floor of Locke). If anyone has an unwanted floor rug and/or lamp that they would be willing to donate for this space, please email pieta.gray@canterbury.ac.nz

History

In Tonga to deliver the memorial Futa Helu lecture, Peter Field met with the Prime Minister, who attended the lecture.

Philosophy

Congratulations to Michael-John Turp who been nominated for College of Arts Lecturer of the Year in the UCSA Staff of the Year Awards!

On Wednesday Prof. Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm) gave a philosophy research seminar on the question “Is logic normative?”.

On Saturday 22 September, we held our annual Philosophy Postgraduate Conference. Papers were presented on eclectic, creative and fascinating topics – from Philosophy of Mathematics to Existentialism, and from Health Science to Logic.

School of Fine Arts

Congrats to Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design Aaron Beehre who last weekend won best design in the Editorial and Book section at the NZ Best Design Awards for his publication ‘Jon Campbell: It’s a World Full of Cover Versions’. More info here: https://bestawards.co.nz/graphic/editorial-and-books/ilam-press/its-a-world-full-of-cover-versions/ English

Celebrating Fresh Thinking: Professorial Lecture Series Date: Thursday 4 October 2018 from 4:30 – 6:00 pm Location: F3 Forestry Presentation details: ‘Shakespeare’s Animal Parts’ Presented by Professor Philip Armstrong, School of Humanities & Creative Arts There are lots of animals in Shakespeare: over 4,000 references to animals are scattered through the plays and poems, representing hundreds of different species. Yet scholars are uncertain about whether any actual animals ever appeared on Shakespeare’s stage in the Globe theatre. My talk will address both of these issues. I’ll survey some of the surprising things that Shakespeare’s animals tell us about his art and the world in which he lived, and I’ll also speculate on what kinds of animals might actually have appeared as ‘actors’ in the play’s original performances. My aim is to show that by paying attention to animals, we gain an extra appreciation of the richness and diversity both of Shakespeare’s world and of our own. School of Languages, Social and Political Sciences Global, Cultural and Language Studies

Japanese essay by a student published A short essay in Japanese by Lulu Sherriff-Babot (JAPA 326 Advancing Japanese) has been published in the Kiwi Time Magazine. This is a fantastic piece of work that talks about her encounter with Japan and Japanese culture, and what motivates her to continue to learn Japanese. https://www.kiwitime.org/kiwitime/5815/2018/09/ Human Services and Social Work

Cindy Zeiher recently presented at the Lacan Écrits Conference in Ghent. She was part of a panel, 'Science and Truth' with Samo Tomšič (Humboldt University, Berlin) and Gabriel Tupinambá (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro). The panel focused on close readings of and responses to Jacque Lacan's writings on science and psychoanalysis. The panel was both well received and attended, generating discussion of Lacan's changing positions on science and its relation to psychoanalysis. An extended version of Cindy Zeiher's paper will appear in an upcoming issue of Psychoanalytische Perspectieven, a journal from the University of Ghent dedicated to providing an intellectual platform for scholars to promote original contributions to the theory, practice and application of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Media and Communication

COMS & UC Arts Digital Lab

Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series #7

Presents

Geospatial Corpora

WEDNESDAY, 3 OCTOBER, 1PM LOCKE 611A Dr. Ben Adams(Geography)andDr Jonathan Dunn (Linguistics)

Previous sessions in the "Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series" have talked about collecting textual data from the web, analysing texts using corpus methods and visualising data. In this session Ben and Jonathan expand these themes across space, discussing their work on collecting and using geospatial corpora. Ben will present his project Frankenplace (www.frankenplace.com), an interactive thematic map search engine that uses geographic context as a means to discover, organize, and interactively visualize the documents related to a search query. Jonathan will present the Common Crawl Global Dialect Corpus, a new dataset for understanding regional patterns in language use that is drawn from ~80 billion web sites and contains examples of hundreds of languages across every country in the world. Ben is a Senior Lecturer in Geography and Jonathan is a Lecturer in Linguistics.

Upcoming seminars 10 October Jakob Kristensen (COMS), Network Analysis 2.0

Attendees should bring their laptops to all sessions Digital Methods and Tools Series Seminars are always open

to absolutely everyone. Nau mai, haere mai!

Sociology and Anthropology

New edition of Exploring Society: Sociology for New Zealand Students

Launch of Death and Dying in New Zealand Associate Professor Ruth McManus has a book chapter published in Free Press’s new series Radical Futures.

The book is being launched as part of FESTA’s 2018 programme.

Uni-Voice

Context This is a time of change and opportunity. The University of Canterbury is transitioning from the sustained emergency of the earthquakes that devastated Christchurch. Now though, students are returning, new buildings are coming on-line, and a renewed sense of confidence and purpose seems ready to emerge. This is the ideal moment to reaffirm community, to re-engage staff and students, and to foster productive discussion. Uni-Voice is a space for this, for us to share our views and experiences, and for us to consider how best to realize the university’s goals of excellence in teaching and research, and its function as critic and conscience of society.

What is Uni-Voice? Inspired by the idea of open discussion about the university, its challenges, and future possibilities, a group of academics from across the university came together to kick-start a community conversation. Uni-Voice is an ongoing forum for people prepared to make a difference; for the university, and for other people. Uni-Voice is a portal and repository for online discussion and presentations which we hope will spill-out into the cafes, corridors, and offices of our campus. Uni-Voice is asking members of the university community to write blogs and record vlogs. Uni-Voice has designed a short, qualitative survey to solicit views on what people like, don’t like, and hope for in their institution. Uni-Voice will also be running discussion events in association with the UC Salon series. Uni-Voice recognizes untapped insight and expertise among the university community that can help us reinvigorate our working culture, solve our institutional problems, and imagine future pathways. Uni-Voice is for all staff, students, and alumni. Uni-Voice is the space for you to have your say. Visit the Uni-Voice website https://blogs.canterbury.ac.nz/univoice/ Make a submission to Uni-Voice univoice@canterbury.ac.nz

Research Centre News National Centre for Research on Europe

The NCRE’s Research Expertise Profiled at Leading International Conferences In August-September 2018, a number of papers profiling the NCRE’s research were presented at international conferences in the field of EU studies, political science and international relations research. Natalia Chaban presented her papers at the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Annual Conference (University of Bath), at the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) General Conference (Universität Hamburg) and at the European International Studies Association (EISA) Pan-European Conference on International Relations (Prague). Natalia’s papers were co-authored with Prof Michele Knodt (of TU Darmstadt, Germany) and Prof Helene Sjursen (of University of Oslo, Norway). Natalia’s conference presentations were made possible due the generous support provided by the LSAP Research Conference Funding scheme. NEWS AND EVENTS http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/arts-news/

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