TOI TANGATA | ARTS UPDATE

24 August 2018

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Thesis in 3 Congratulations to our Thesis in 3 winner Natalie Looyer who claimed the first prize of $1,000 with the presentation of her Master thesis in Classics.

UC Arts at the Arts Centre Next week as part of WORD: Readers & Writers Festival two performances of FREE RADICALS are being staged – 6pm Wednesday August 29 and Thursday August 30. FREE RADICALS is a musical response to the often unsung achievements of women in science and technology and features Dr. Erin Harrington, Associate Professor Glenda Keam, and third year composition student, Rosa Elliott.

Tickets for these performances are selling fast. If you want to attend please book a ticket via the links below. Wednesday August 29, 6pm - tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/free-radicals-290818-tickets-47695961906 Thursday August 30, 6pm - tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/free-radicals-300818-tickets-47695966921 Music Our UC vocal students presented Monday night’s New Music Central, which featured a programme of ‘Songs from the Musicals’.

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN at The Piano Centre Christchurch’s newest theatre company, Blackboard Theatre Collective, is launching its first season with the Tony Award winning musical CATCH ME IF YOU CAN at The Piano on Friday August 24th-Sunday August 26th. UC Students Alena Le Ngoc and Nina Hardie feature in the orchestra for this production, alongside UC Music staff member and music director Matthew Everingham. This hit Broadway musical is based on the film of the same name starring Leonardo Di Caprio. The show is a high-flying musical comedy based on the true story of one of the world’s most charming con men. More information and tickets available here.

Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities The Teece Museum has achieved another milestone last week by welcoming over 20,000 visitors through the doors since the museum opened in May 2017. The official total number of visitors is now at 20,127.

School of Humanities and Creative Arts Art History and Theory • On Friday last week the Department of Art History and Theory ran another very successful Art History Day for

year 12 and 13 students from local high schools. This year we were delighted to host around 100 students from 7 Christchurch schools. Students were treated to mini lectures on Feminist Art Histories and Art Forgery, and attended workshops showcasing the UC Art Collection, Archives and Rare Books Collection. A tour of the School of Fine Arts and an Art History quiz completed the day. Many thanks to everyone who made this such a great event.

• Barbara Garrie delivered a pre-event talk titled ‘Spectacles of Food in Eighteenth-century Europe’ for Chamber

Music NZ’s presentation of ‘DALLA TAFELMUSIK AL DIVERTIMENTO’, which was recently performed by Ensemble Zefiro.

• Art History student Meredith Sim has curated an exhibition titled ‘Snapshots: Exploring a Turning Point in Japan’s

History‘, which is now on show on Level 2 of the Central Library Te Puna Mātauraka. The exhibition uses the photographs and archives of John Macmillan Brown – now held in the Macmillan Brown Library – to explore the customs and manners of Japan and its people during the early 1900s. A floor-talk will be given by Richard Bullen and Meredith Sim at 12pm Friday 17 August.

Cinema Studies Alan Wright recently attended Visible Evidence XXV, the main conference on documentary film in the USA, at Indiana University, Bloomington. He gave a paper called “Vertigo Sea and Found Footage Film.” He has also been invited to present a revised version of this paper at CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Symposium at AUT on September 15th. School of Fine Arts

Congrats to Graphic Design lecturer Aaron Beehre who has two publications (Ilam Press and Christchurch Art Gallery) in the NZ Best Design Awards: https://bestawards.co.nz/graphic/editorial-and-books/2018/

This week saw the opening of the annual SCUL211 exhibition ‘Serious’

And MiKyung Jang’s ‘HERE and NOW’ in The Casting Room

School of Languages, Social and Political Sciences Japanese Zea Harman (JAPA415, Advanced Japanese Language) gave a talk to 24 students of Tokorozawa Kita High School, Saitama-prefecture, Japan. As part of an interaction with JAPA326 (Advancing Japanese), she talked about the differences between universities in New Zealand and Japan based on her own experiences at UC and Waseda University in Japan. For most of the Japanese high school students, it was the first time to visit a university campus, let alone in New Zealand, so they thoroughly enjoyed their visit to our beautiful campus. Some students became inspired and motivated to learn English harder to match the UC students’ advanced Japanese language skills. Some were hoping to come back to UC to study as a student in the future.

Linguistics We would like to thank Professor Daniel Schreier (Professor of English Linguistics, University of Zurich), who has been with us for the last 6 weeks as a Visiting Erskine Fellow. Professor Schreier has taught half of LING320, given several dept/NZILBB talks, met with many graduate students to discuss their work, and advised on possible future course developments. He also led a workshop on publishing strategies, lending insights from his work as an editor of the prestigious journal English World-Wide. We are very grateful for his contributions, and to the Erskine fund for funding his trip. Jen Hay has been invited to be Plenary Speaker at the 2018 Conference of the NZ Linguistics Society, to be held at Victoria University of Wellington in November.

Research Centre News National Centre for Research on Europe EU Global Perceptions Presentations The international reputation of the NCRE’s research has again been recognised through a series of key notes and plenary contributions made by Natalia Chaban that profiled the results of several “EU Global Perceptions” research projects

On June 19, Natalia was a plenary speaker at the International Conference “Are Politics Still Possible?” marking the 20th anniversary of the Department of Politics and Government at the University of Ben Gurion of the Negev, Israel. Her contribution considered the role of images and perceptions in international relations and foreign policy. On June 26, Natalia gave a key note Perceptions of the EU’s Global Energy Governance and Energy Diplomacy at the Annual Award Ceremony at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, TU Darmstadt, Germany. The key note profiled main results of an earlier Jean Monnet Project -- Images of the EU as Normative Energy Player: BRICS vis-à-vis EU ‘Big 3’. On June 28, Natalia was a key presenter at the Roundtable “Layers of Brexit: Two Years after the Referendum” at the Institute of Political Science, University of Mainz, Germany. On July 13, Natalia presented a key note Crisis, Conflict and Critical Diplomacy: Narratives and Perceptions of the EU in Ukraine at the “Ukraine and the World: Culture, Politics, Society” at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

After the Key Note: Prof Natalia Chaban with Prof Michele Knodt (TU Darmstadt) and Prof Arne Niemann (U of Mainz) (co-directors of the Jean

Monnet Centre of Excellence) and two CEDI Award winners of the best post-graduate research 2018.

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