Arts Update 25 August 2017 - University of Canterbury ·...
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ARTS UPDATE
25 August 2017
News
Last week, the Vice Chancellor and HR Director presented long service certificates to a number of members of the UC Admin Plus network. The following staff from the College of Arts were recognised for their service of 10+ years: Jackie Plimmer Azeen Tashakkor Emma Parnell Scott Lloyd Anandi Eichenberger UC Arts at the Arts Centre NEW DONATION TO THE LOGIE COLLECTION The University of Canterbury Teece Museum was pleased to accept the recent donation two new artefacts for the Logie Collection. Associate Professor Anne Mackay, of Auckland University, and Jürgen Lieskounig have generously added to the Logie Collection a fragmentary red-‐figure cup, which is attributed to the Splanchnopt Painter, and dates to the mid-‐5th century BCE. The cup was accompanied by a travel diary written by Miss Marion Steven, founder of the Logie Collection, which relates the story of her travels and research overseas in 1958-‐1959. The diary was gifted to the donor by Ann Pomeroy, a niece of Marion Steven, and has come to the Logie Collection with the agreement of the Steven family. A particular strength of the Logie Collection is its representation of Greek drinking cups. The Splanchnopt Painter cup reinforces that strength, and at the same time fills a significant gap, as this is the first representation of a child in the Logie Collection. As Anne Mackay notes, the cup is also a good companion-‐piece for the skyphos by the Splanchnopt Painter that is already in the Logie collection. Despite being currently in fragments, the cup is a good candidate for 3D scanning, with the possibility of constructing a neutral support platform resembling the full cup for future display. The cup is an excellent addition to our teaching programme for schools and UC classes. While not an antiquity, the travel diary is a great pleasure to have in the Collection. The entries, written in small neat script with accompanying ephemera pasted in many pages, are an historical record of how a prominent UC Classicist
was researching, teaching, and collecting in the 1950s. The diary provides a real insight into both Miss Steven’s personality and her professional practice, and it is already the subject of an internship project by PACE495 student Roswyn Wiltshire, who is tackling the challenge of producing a transcript of the book. Associate Professor Mackay has a long-‐standing relationship with UC – she is an alumnus of Canterbury, having studied Classics under Marion Steven, and has more recently contributed to the opening of the Teece Museum as an external reviewer for the ‘We Could Be Heroes’ exhibition catalogue, published by Canterbury University Press.
ARTS CENTRE NIGHT MARKET As part of the Arts Centre’s Night Market this Friday and Saturday, the Teece Museum will be open especially Friday 25 August from 4-‐9pm. In addition, the Museum is hosting a special gallery floor talk for free at 5.30pm by Dr Gary Morrison, UC Classics Department, on ‘Roman antics after Dark’. If you ever wondered what the Romans got up to when the sun went down, this will be your chance to find out!
The School of Music are delighted to present a free concert of Mozart’s Divertimento in B-‐flat major, K.287 on the Saturday at 5.30pm in the Recital Room. Music Professor Mark Menzies was in Auckland last weekend for a performance of Upright Piano, 2013, a work by composer Samuel Holloway with the collective et al. at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. A big congratulations to UC alumni Matthew Lee on being awarded a Dame Malvina Major Foundation Award. Matthew completed his Master’s in Flute Performance this year. He will use the Cecily Maccoll High Achiever Award, funded by a legacy from the late Cecily Maccoll, towards travel costs for auditions and competitions.
For more information about upcoming Music events visit our Music events page. Global, Cultural and Language Studies Brennan Galpin has been awarded a Japanese Government (MOBUKAGAKUSHO) Scholarship and has been accepted to study at Kyoto University. He will be attending Kyoto University from October 2017 until September 2018. Brennan was also the winner of the 2015 Tertiary National Japanese Language Speech Contest by Japanese Studies Aotearoa New Zealand, so we would like to give him our congratulations on another great success.
Sociology and Anthropology The department is currently in wild celebration mode after the successful oral examination of Patricia Allan’s Anthropology PhD thesis. Her project, entitled Once and Future Cathedral, explores the controversy that has raged around the fate of the Christ Church (Anglican) Cathedral after significant earthquake damage.
Patricia Allan’s PhD examined the Christchurch Cathedral controversy. The Anglican Synod will consider options for the
earthquake-damaged building on 9 September 2017, including gifting back the ruins to the government. This week the irrepressible Raj Aich (a PhD candidate in Anthropology) appeared live on Radio NZ’s Tell Me About Your Thesis segment (24 August, 3.15pm). His intriguing title: ‘White the hyperreal shark, and encounters with caged
humans’! Anthropology PhD student Josephine Varghese has just published an essay in the Women’s Studies Journal 31 (2017) about India’s obsession for ‘fair’ skin. It is entitled ‘Fair (?) and lovely: Ideas of beauty among young migrant women in Chennai, India’ and can be accessed via the link below: http://www.wsanz.org.nz/journal/docs/WSJNZ311Varghese59-‐69.pdf
English Rebecca Nash was a headline poet at Out of the Closet, an evening of music and poetry at the Civil and Naval in Lyttelton on 20 Aug. Christina Stachurski directed a rehearsed reading of Love, Loss and What I Wore by Nora and Delia Ephron in the Recital Room at the Art Centre on 17 August. The event was a fundraiser by Zonta for the women using the City Mission. (photo attached)
Cultural Studies Erin Harrington has been contributing to The Pantograph Punch’s national coverage of the New Zealand International Film Festival, including this essay on camp and satire in the film THE LOVE WITCH the http://pantograph-‐punch.com/post/satire-‐sincerity-‐pastiche-‐review-‐of-‐the-‐love-‐witch.
Erin’s book, Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror was published last week by Routledge in their new series Film Philosophy on the Margins. This book offers an in-‐depth analysis of women in horror films through an exploration of ‘gynaehorror’: films concerned with all aspects of female reproductive horror, from reproductive and sexual organs, to virginity, pregnancy, birth, motherhood and finally to menopause. The book not only offers a feminist interrogation of gynaehorror, but also a counter-‐reading of the gynaehorrific, that both accounts for and opens up new spaces of productive, radical and subversive monstrosity within a mode of representation and expression that has often been accused of being misogynistic.
School of Fine Arts National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE)
Friday Seminar: Simon Tucker, MFAT On Friday 18th August, the NCRE hosted Simon Tucker, the Director for the Auckland Office of MFAT and a UC graduate. Simon spoke about the future EU -‐ NZ Free Trade Agreement. He also spoke about the impact of Brexit and how this has effected the EU -‐ NZ relationship. His engaging speech lead to a very interesting Q&A. New PhD Student: Xiyin Liu "Regardless who I was, where I lived and what I did for a living before, right now I would prefer to simplify the intro of my identification — an NCRE newcomer (looking forward to becoming an NCRE veteran one day). The reason I wanted to study at the NCRE stems from a feeling that the Centre can guide me through the coming journey of studying/approaching the EU from afar with its knowledgeable and resourceful supports. So far, my research topic is in the forming process, but here is a kind preview of the area where it is going to land: the crossover and the conflict between the EU Member States-‐China trade and investment relations and the EU-‐China foreign relations"
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