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19 July 2019

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NZTrio workshop Congratulations to UC music students, Robert Bryce, Thomas Bedggood and Rakuto Kurano, who have recently had their compositions selected for the NZTrio Composing Competition for a workshop! On Monday 29 July we welcome one of the country's most highly regarded chamber ensembles, the NZTrio. The Trio will perform selected works by student composers from the University of Canterbury and Otago University. UC students Robert Bryce, Thomas Bedggood, and Rakuto Kurano will all hear their works performed and receive valuable feedback. This is a fantastic achievement for our young composers and we are delighted they get the opportunity to have their works performed by the NZTrio! Christchurch Arts Festival We are pleased to share a special discount offer for our colleagues and students for the Christchurch Arts Festival, starting next Thursday 25 July. We are presenting two concerts as part of the festival:

• Monday 29 July – Satie’s Socrate, 7.30pm at the Arts Centre • Tuesday 30 July – cLoud Collective, 6.00pm at The Piano

Book a group of 6 or more and save 15%. To take up this offer, please call 379 0597 or email groups@ticketek.co.nz Upcoming concerts:

• Friday Lunchtime Concert – 19 July, 1.10pm: Solo performances with a guest – Venue: Recital Room, UC Arts City Location

• New Music Central – 22 July, 7.00pm: Speak Softly & The Response

– Venue: TSB Space, Level 1, Tūranga (Central Library)

Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities

Poetry workshop for Young Writers Aspiring young writers are invited to join poet Dr Lynley Edmeades at the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities for a two-hour poetry workshop. Poets have used paintings, photographs, and historic artefacts as inspiration for hundreds of years. In this workshop, you will look at how other poets have used objects as starting points for poems, and reflect on objects in the Teece Museum to stimulate and prompt ideas for writing your own poems. Get inspired by the workshop, and enter the Teece Museum Fantastic Feasts Poetry Competition - see our Facebook page for more details on how to enter. The poetry workshop is for students aged 11-18. Entry to this workshop will be free, but places are limited, so please register viahttps://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/poetry-workshop-for-young-writers-tickets-64929907100 When: Saturday 31 August 2019, 10am-12pm Where: Teece Museum, 3 Hereford St, CHCH Contact website: www.facebook.com/teecemuseum Classics Department

Former Classics student, Sam Wakelin, is presenting a painting exhibition on Classical influences. Join Sam for the opening, Friday 26 July at 5pm:

School of Fine Arts Student Series I ‘Why are you here today?’ opens 5pm Thursday 25 July and the exhibition runs till 9 August.

For many, physical areas of therapy can provide a safe space for one to freely express one's thoughts and at the same time, they can be clinical and alienating for people, becoming less of an open environment and one of isolation. These spaces exist as strange hubs between the personal and impersonal states, enabling visitors to leave unaffected or to pursue the option of treatment. In therapy, these discomforts become even more apparent due to factors including physical surroundings, the stranger that is your therapist, and the uncertainty of whether this stranger is someone to commit to. Once unfamiliar offices become sacred safe spaces, an environment reflective of personal progression, openness and empathy. By recording these transitional spaces, Why Are You Here Today? explores the deliberate fashioning of these spaces and records the overlooked details missed in transition.

Why Are You Here Today? looks to illuminate these private spaces and destigmatize the process of therapy through the works, providing the audience with an insight not otherwise available.

Sophie Ballantyne, Connie Dwyer and Min-Young Her are fourth year students all studying towards a Bachelor in Fine Arts. Ballantyne and Dwyer are majoring in Painting and Her in Sculpture.

Image credit: Connie Dwyer, Untitled, oil & gesso on board.

Please follow the link below to see details of Steve Carr’s Chasing the Light.

https://whitenight.com.au/melbourne/program/steve-carr-chasing-the-light/

SoFA Masters graduate Martin Sagadin’s new film ‘Spring Interlude’ features in this year’s international film festival. More info here:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/114284819/christchurch-film-spring-interlude-to-premiere-at-new-zealand-international-film-festival (image attached)

MacMillan Brown Library

UC’s Heritage collections are the latest to offer Open Access to thousands of images in its archives

UC’s Heritage Collections, housed in the Macmillan Brown Library are now offering access to over 28,000 collection images (and counting) and over 120,000 records. A wealth of images and material including art, photographs, documentary archives and architectural drawings has been made more accessible as part of a website redesign. It also features revamped navigation tools ideal for teaching and research such as:

• Capacity to share via social media and a quick permalink copy option

• Support of macrons and other special characters

• Filters by date, collection type, and to limit to digital content only

• Ability to load multiple images on to a single record

• Flexible content blocks that can change to suit teaching and collection promotion

Search, request, download and share our collections today!

Questions and feedback to Erin Kimber erin.kimber@canterbury.ac.nz

Philosophy

‘Turing’s mystery machine’, by Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot, is the Featured Article in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers (Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 1-6).

History

Dr Chris Jones has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. The Society, founded in 1707 and subsequently chartered by King George II, is the second-oldest learned society in the Commonwealth (after the Royal Society) (https://www.sal.org.uk/). By charter, it exists for “The encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries.” Fellows are appointed who are “excelling in the knowledge of the antiquities and history”. Proposals for fellowship are selective and can only be made by existing Fellows. They must be supported by at least five Fellows. Following a period of review, an election takes place amongst the existing fellows in which candidates need to achieve a ratio of two “yes” votes for every “no” vote cast in the ballot. Dr Jones achieved the required ratio on the first time his name was balloted. He was put forward by Dr Elizabeth Hallam-Smith, CB former Director of the UK National Archives and Librarian of the House of Lords. Current fellows include Sir David Attenborough, Professor Mary Beard, and New Zealanders Christopher de Hamel, Mark Stocker, and Geoffrey Irwin. Dr Jones will be inducted formally at Burlington House on his next visit to London.

Dr Chris Jones has co-edited The Routledge History of Monarchy, which has been published in hardback and online. Divided into four parts, this 736-page doorstop of a project, led by Elena Woodacre (University of Winchester), has taken four years to complete. It presents a wide range of case studies relating to different aspects of monarchy throughout a variety of times and places ranging from ancient Egypt to the present day Middle East. It uses these to enhance our understanding of rulership and sovereignty in terms of both concept and practice. Dr Jones edited the section of the book dealing with “Models and Concepts of Rulership,” with a specific focus on case studies in the Islamic world and post-classical western Europe. The volume also includes an essay by recent UC graduate, Dr Derek Whaley, “From a Salic Law to the Salic Law: the creation and re-creation of the royal succession system of France”. The book features a section from the Canterbury Roll as its cover image (https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-History-of-Monarchy-1st-Edition/Woodacre-Dean-Jones-Rohr-Martin/p/book/9781138703322).

Seminar: Teaching the Crusades

When: Wednesday 24 August 13:00-14:00

Where: A5

The challenge and opportunity of teaching the medieval Crusades today is that they are used and misused often in media platforms that students encounter daily. Cultural relevance is a good thing: there is no need to argue your course matters when students come to class saying, “I read that….” or “Did you see where….?” We want our students to think historically and to understand the past on its own terms. Teaching the Crusades helps us do just that because much crusading language in political rhetoric today trades on historical myths, clichés, and partial understanding of those events. We should also teach the subject without shying away from the sometimes-unsettling issue of religion—especially the toxic combination of religion and violence. We can discuss religion without evangelizing and with minds open to the indisputable fact that, throughout history, religion and violence have often been paired.

This workshop will be led by Dr Christopher Bellitto, a medieval church historian, who has worked with international and local media for over twenty years, speaking with outlets such as National Public Radio and CNN in the US, CNN International, and many newspaper websites. He is visiting the University of Canterbury as a Fulbright Specialist.

The workshop is open to all postgraduate students or interested staff who may find themselves teaching the Crusades or a related topic.

Humanities and Creative Arts (HACA)

Building Career Foundation Skills: Publishing & Grants – A Workshop

HACA, in collaboration with Fulbright NZ and Canterbury University Press, present a professional development workshop for postgraduate students and early career scholars focused on developing two key skills essential to those interested in embarking on academic careers in an increasingly competitive job market:

1) how to publish successfully in academic journals and with leading presses

2) how to succeed in competitive major grant application

Practical presentations and collaborative workshops will consider how to maximize scholarly research, craft proposals for books and articles, revise dissertations, present ideas at conference meetings with potential editors/publishers, and negotiate reader reports and revisions. The workshop will also include discussion around the value of publishing opinion and outreach articles in the wider media.

When? Thursday 25 July 2019

Where? Okeover 101

8:45 Welcome & Introductions

9:00 Building Relationships: You & Your Publisher (Catherine Montgomery, Publisher CUP)

9:30 Publishing: Insider Advice (Christopher Bellitto, Academic Editor at Large for Paulist Press; Editor-in-Chief of the series Brill’s

Companions to the Christian Tradition; Fulbright Specialist)

10:15 Workshop: Reaching a Broad Audience: Planning blogs, outreach articles, opinion essays

11:00 Morning tea

11:20 Open Access & Predatory Publishers (Anton Angelo, UC Research Data Coordinator)

12:15 Maximizing Your Material: A Panel Discussion

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Successful Funding Applications: How to Start (Amanda McVitty, Massey University/Marsden Fast Start)

15:15 Afternoon tea

15:45 Applying for Funding: A Panel Discussion

16:30 End of Workshop

All welcome! Lunch will be provided. Feel free to drop in for individual sessions.

PLEASE REGISTER (for catering purposes): chris.jones@canterbury.ac.nz

Linguistics

On Friday 12 July 2019, Linguistics PhD student Moonsun Choi presented a conference paper about her PhD research at the International Circle of Korean Linguistics Conference (ICKL21) in Melbourne. The title of Moonsun’s well-received presentation was ‘Right Dislocation and particles in Korean dramas’. Moonsun made the most of the opportunity to discuss her research with other scholars and gained valuable feedback from experts in Korean syntax. Moonsun’s PhD thesis is supervised by Dr Heidi Quinn (Linguistics), Dr Yoonmi Oh (NZILBB & Aju University) and Prof Tae-lyong Seo (Dongguk University), and her conference travel was supported by LSAP research funding.

Sociology and Anthropology

Mike Grimshaw (Sociology) gave a paper “Arthur Prior: Calvinist?” at the Australasian Philosophical Association Conference in Wollongong. He has also just signed a book contract with Palgrave Macmillan (NY) to edit: The Problem of Trump: Theological & Philosophical approaches.

Research Centre News

National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE)

Largest NCRE Graduate Cohort – Post-Earthquake

The University of Canterbury is experiencing a resurgence in student success following the Canterbury Earthquakes and the 2019 NCRE post-graduate cohort is testimony to this, with the largest number of successful thesis completions at PhD level in the 20 years of NCRE history. In the past eight months there have been 6 successful PhD completions (with another two students awaiting their oral defence). The NCRE wish to congratulate the following students on their academic success:

• Dr Russel Taylor • Dr Katharina Stirland • Dr Thomas Gillman • Dr Pratirop Pratoomtip • Dr Gerald Ginther • Dr Iana Sabatoyvch

The success of these students is testimony to the NCRE commitment to the development of a new generation of New Zealand graduates with expertise in European issues, and we look forward to the next cohort to graduate in the latter part of 2019.

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