Congratulations to current Creative Writing PhD student Janet Newman who has had a short story longlisted for the 2016 Bristol Prize!
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Research Roundup – May and June
Another 2 books, a special issue of a journal, and a play
Dr Thom Conroy had his second novel published: The Salted Air published by Random House Books New Zealand. The Salted Air was ranked in the top ten (2nd, 6th, 9th then 8th) on the Nielsen Weekly Bestsellers List during the month of June peaking at number two for the week ending 4 June.
http://sites.massey.ac.nz/expressivearts/2016/05/04/the-salted-air-a-new-novel-by-thom-conroy/
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/201803396/the-salted-air
Associate Professor Angie Farrow’s full-length play The Politician’s Wife had its debut at Palmerston North’s Centrepoint Theatre mid-June and at Wellington’s BATS Theatre at the end of June. The play was shortlisted for the Adam Prize 2016, the country’s top playwriting award.
Associate Professor Lisa Emerson had a book published online: The forgotten tribe: Scientists as writers, by the WAC clearinghouse and the University Press of Colorado.
http://wac.colostate.edu/books/emerson/
Dr Kim Worthington, Dr Celina Bortolotto, Dr Allan Meek and Dr Jenny Lawn co‐edited an issue of the Australian e‐journal borderlands on the theme, ‘The Limits of Responsibility,’ and co‐wrote the introduction.
Three journal articles from English & Media Studies were included:
Lawn, J., Bortolotto, C., Worthington, K., & Meek, A. (2015). ‘The limits of responsibility’;
Meek, A. (2015). ‘Cultural trauma, biopolitics and the limits of responsibility’; and
Tutor Mr Nick Allen’s honours essay: ‘Memory Shards: A Site of Hope in post‐Apartheid South Africa’.
http://www.borderlands.net.au/issues/vol14no2.html
A number of articles and book chapters appeared by English and Media Studies Staff
Dr David Gruber had an article published: ‘Reinventing the brain, revising neurorhetorics: Phenomenological networks contesting neurobiological interpretations’, in Rhetoric Review 35(3): 239-253.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07350198.2016.1179004
Dr Ingrid Horrocks and Dr Philip Steer had a book chapters published in A History of New Zealand Literature, ed. Mark Williams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Horrocks, I. Chapter One: ‘A World of Waters: Imagining, Voyaging, Embarkation.’
Steer, P. Chapter Six: ‘Colonial ecologies: Guthrie-Smith’s Tutira and writing in the settled environment.’
Dr Ingrid Horrocks had an article and accompanying interview published: ‘Something else is going on, an interaction, an exchange: Martin Edmond’s Painted Lives,’ in Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 38.3 (Summer 2015): 491‐511.
https://uhpjournals.wordpress.com/tag/ingrid-horrocks/
More Creative Outputs and Recognitions
Associate Professor Angie Farrow’s play: ‘The Real Thing’, was performed at the Inspirato International Theatre Festival in Toronto in early June.
Associate Professor Bryan Walpert: had three poems published in the literary journal Ika 4, edited by Anne Kennedy; and gave an invited reading of his work at the Ika launch in Auckland on 14 May.
Associate Professor Bryan Walpert, School of English and Media Studies, was invited to join the Academy of New Zealand Literature.
A new short play addressing climate change by Associate Professor Elspeth Tilley, School of English and Media Studies, called ‘Waiting for Go’, was shortlisted at the Short and Sweet play festivals in both Brisbane and Canberra during June. Each festival receives several hundred entries, with only the top 10% shortlisted.
Staff gave presentations and talks both local and international
Dr Pansy Duncan presented: ‘Exploding the Frame’, at the ‘Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand’ conference, Sydney, Australia, 29 June – 1 July.
Dr David Gruber presented: ‘Suasive Speech: A Stronger Defense of Rhetoric and Futures for Cognitive Poetics’, at the ‘Cognitive Futures in the Humanities’ Conference’, Helsinki, Finland, 13-15 June.
Dr Rand Hazou presented: ‘Presenting the Theatrical Past: Interplays of Artefacts, Discourses and Practices’, at the International Federation of Theatre conference in Stockholm, Sweden, 13-17 June.
Dr Nick Holm presented: ‘Against the Assault of Laughter: Differentiating Critical and Resistant Humour,’ at the Comedy and Critical Thought Conference, 3 and 4 May, University of Kent, UK.
Dr Mary Paul was a panel member on: ‘The Great Kiwi Classic Face‐Off ‐ speaking for New Zealand writer Robin Hyde as the Great Kiwi Classic Author,’ at the Auckland Writers Festival, 14 May.
Dr Erin Mercer presented: ‘Haunting and Spectrality in the Work of Jack Kerouac’, at the ‘Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand’ conference, Sydney, Australia, 29 June – 1 July.
And we hosted a number of research events
Dr Philip Steer organised and hosted an exciting visit by Professor John Plotz, Brandeis University, to the Manawatu campuse. https://www.brandeis.edu/departments/english/faculty/plotz.html
Amongst other events, on Monday 30 May Professor Plotz ran a Masterclass on the topic, “The Anthropocene and Method in the Humanities”.
This was part of a cluster of events on The Anthropocene held in May and June, in collaboration with Massey’s new Political Ecology Research Centre (PERC). Dr Nick Holm and Dr Sy Taffel also gave talks on the topic of the Anthropocene as well as presenting at the College’s ‘Humanities Engagement Series’ focussing on ‘The Land: Resilience and Co-Existence’. These events were run as part of the W. H. Oliver Humanities Research Academy series over the month of June.
Humanities Research Academy: http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/centres-research/oliver-academy/oliver-academy_home.cfm
Kia Mau Hui: on June 14, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences facilitated and hosted an important international indigenous theatre hui at the Wellington campus, involved Associate Professor Elspeth Tilley. The hui aimed to enable local indigenous artists to connect with indigenous festival directors and staff from Australia and Canada and to develop future collaborations. There were 32 attendees including a number of international indigenous artists. The hui provided an important development opportunity for local theatre artists to pitch to international festival staff.
The School also hosted presentations on various campuses as part of the W.H. Oliver Research Academy Research Series:
You can see the full programme and recordings of some of the seminars here.
Hot off the Press
Congratulations, Ingrid, co-author of this new book ‘Extraordinary Anywhere’. A wonderful achievement!
National Playwriting Win for Robert Gilbert
One of our theatre graduates, Robert Gilbert, has just won the Playwrights’ Association of New Zealand Ten-Minute Playwriting Competition. His play ‘Between the Aisles’ was described by the judge as ‘original, funny and cleverly written’. Robert is not new to playwriting, having written several plays for young adults. His most recent play ‘Trans Tasmin’ dealt with issues of transgender and was developed as part of his M.A. which he completed at Massey University under the supervision of Angie Farrow. Great work, Robert!
High praise for Justus student production
Huge congratulations to the Creativity in the Community students involved in JustUs for more fantastic feedback on their play with a Radio New Zealand story today!
Youth Justice Play Sparks Debate
Youth justice has been put under the spotlight in a new stage show by a group of Massey University Creativity in the Community students at Wellington campus.
The production comes at a time when the Government is considering whether or not to raise the age of New Zealand’s Youth Court jurisdiction, and has sparked lively debate.
Samuel Williams and Hamish Boyle in JustUs
See more via this TV3 video: http://www.newshub.co.nz/entertainment/play-examines-realities-of-youth-in-adult-justice-system-2016060923#ixzz4BVE5ThG7
The play has also sparked discussion of the issues on Radio New Zealand’s The Panel.
Hear more via this podcast: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/thepanel/audio/201804313/age-of-adult-criminal-responsibility
Triple shortlisting for Massey’s artist in residence
F
or Massey University’s literary Artist-in-Residence David Hill there is always a “sense of delighted disbelief” whenever he is nominated for an award, even though it has been a pleasing recurrence for the prolific author.
The Taranaki novelist, playwright, critic and journalist best known for his abundance of award-winning children’s and young fiction books has been shortlisted listed in three categories of this year’s New Zealand Children’s Book Awards.
His novel Enemy Camp, which describes the shooting of Japanese prisoners at the Featherston POW Camp in World War II, is a finalist in the Junior Fiction Award, and in the Children’s Choice Junior Fiction. His picture book on Sir Edmund Hillary, First to the Top, illustrated by Phoebe Morris, is short-listed for the Children’s Choice Non-Fiction Award.
Mr Hill’s novels for teenagers and children have been published in over a dozen countries. He is a past winner of the Esther Glen Medal and the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards. In 2010, he was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Iowa in the United States. In 2005 he was the 15th recipient of the Margaret Mahy Award.
Even with his legacy of awards, “having a bit of success makes you work better”, he says from his office in the recently refurbished and gracious Sir Geoffrey Peren Building on the Manawatū campus.
During his three-month residency, he has been working on his latest novel for teen readers. It follows five generations of one family and is roughly based in the area of Hawke’s Bay where his mother is from. The former school teacher likes to focus on historical topics in his children’s books these days, saying he has realised he can no longer write convincing contemporary fiction for young people. “I’m not a technophile and kids’ lives today are thoroughly imbued with technology.”
He’s also been reading and critiquing fiction by creative writing undergraduate students, and the results have impressed him. “They are finding their own voices, and the diversity of voices is fascinating.”
He’s found the University’s creative writing community “very energetic and very supportive too. I think its great to have a department in which so many of the teachers [lecturers] are also practising writers.”
Being able to spend three months “in the company of people where you don’t have to explain or justify what you are doing” is especially rewarding, says the author whose favourite writers are New Zealand’s Maurice Gee – “a brilliant storyteller and stylist” – and American novelist Cormac McCarthy, “who couldn’t be more different to me as a writer”.
As well as doing high school visits and raising awareness of Massey’s creative writing programme, he has been marvelling at the diversity of study programmes offered at Massey – from philosophy and Asian languages to vet science and engineering. He’s also been relishing the natural and architectural beauty of the campus and its distinctive character, captured in his observation that; “Massey is surely the only university in the Southern Hemisphere on whose map is a little square labelled ‘equine treadmill’.”
As the current Artist-in-Residence, he is living in a self-contained flat at the Square Edge Community Arts Centre on the Square until mid-July. Co-sponsored by Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council, the visiting artist programme is a unique opportunity to support community engagement between artists in creative writing, theatre and the media arts, which includes filmmaking.
Winners of the New Zealand Children’s Book Awards will be announced on August 8 at Circa Theatre in Wellington.
Migrant voices in creative writing surge at Massey
International writers who now call the Manawatū home are adding a distinctive vibe to Massey University’s burgeoning creative writing scene.
A surge in activity and success among Massey University staff and student creative writers – from New Zealand, as well as the United States, Britain, Latin America and Australia – reflects the growing strength and profile of its undergraduate and postgraduate creative writing programmes, says Palmerston North-based author and creative writing senior lecturer Dr Thom Conroy.
Ex-pat writers offer a fresh take on New Zealand identity from the migrant’s experience, says Dr Conroy, a dual American-New Zealand citizen who moved here from Ohio 11 years ago.
A case in point, Dr Conroy is about to launch his second novel, titled The Salted Air, two years after the success of his debut novel The Naturalist – set mainly in New Zealand and based on the true story of 19th century German naturalist, botanist and explorer Dr Ernst Dieffenbach. It topped the Neilsen Weekly Bestseller list in New Zealand after its release in 2014 and was at one point selling ahead of Man Booker winner, Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries. His next novel has a contemporary New Zealand setting, and will be launched in Palmerston North on June 3.
Colleagues, as well as current and former students from the School of English and Media Studies, have been gaining a profile in both publishing and arts performance across genres in fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and theatre and film writing.
Associate Professor Bryan Walpert has earned accolades for his poetry, both in New Zealand and overseas. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland and now a dual citizen, he came to the Manawatū 12 years ago as the first dedicated creative writing lecturer at Massey. He’s published two poetry collections and short story collection in the US. His first poetry volume to be published in New Zealand, titled Native Bird, explores deeper nuances of adaption, with observations and feelings about his children growing up in a different place to that of his own childhood. His poem, Aubade, featuring the Manawatū’s iconic wind turbines, was shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize in 2013.
“One of the great strengths of Massey’s creative writing programme,” says Dr Walpert, “is its combination of a New Zealand foundation and an international outlook, with staff who publish in multiple countries and bring to our teaching an experience and engagement with contemporary writing and aesthetics from both New Zealand and the global community of literary scholars and writers.”
Global voices and local issues
Multi international award-winning playwright Associate Professor Angie Farrow, who came to Palmerston North from England 20 years’ ago, has been inspired to write about the local environs, as well as global topics. In her 2011 play, The River, she confronted issues of sustainability and spirituality in relation to the highly polluted Manawatū River. Meanwhile, Australian-born theatre lecturer Associate Professor Elspeth Tilley’s short play, Flotsam, was performed at 10 university theatres in the US last year as part of a global theatre movement in the lead up to the Paris conference on climate change.
Poet Dr Leonel Alvarado, originally from Honduras and now head of Massey’s Spanish Language programme, is well known on the Manawatū arts set for his evocative poetry about the Manawatū river and Māori mythology. His poem, What Stones Know, is etched into a wall of the Palmerston North City Library.
As well as winning Latin American awards for his Spanish language collections, he has expressed what his new home means through poetry with the release of his first English language collection, Driving with Neruda to the Fish ‘n’ Chips, part of the Kete Series published in 2014 by HauNui Press.
Wellington press snaps up Massey poets
New Zealand publisher Mary McCallum, who heads Wellington-based Mākaro Press, recently issued a press release in praise of Massey’s poets. “Massey University creative writers are…making books that are creating ripples in the New Zealand publishing scene,” she says.
An author herself, Ms McCallum has drawn on a range of writers in commissioning work for the press, including some she worked with over the five years she tutored creative writing students at Massey’s Wellington campus and as a distance tutor.
Dr Walpert’s Native Bird was chosen for the Mākaro Press Hoopla series in 2015 along with collections by Jennifer Compton – a former Massey writer-in-residence in Palmerston North – and by Dunedin writer Carolyn McCurdie.
She has also signed contracts with more recent Massey graduates, with Ish Doney to be published this year, as well as graduates of the Masters of Creative Writing; Sue Wootton’s first novel Strip and poet Bridget Auchmuty’s first poetry collection.
New BA creative writing major launched
A milestone this year was the introduction of a new Bachelor of Arts major in Creative Writing with undergraduate offerings, including poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, life writing, travel writing, script writing well as other creative options under the Expressive Arts pathway in theatre and film. Meanwhile, the distance Masters of Creative Writing programme, launched in 2010, is attracting more candidates each year, says Dr Conroy, who has supervised a number of writers who have gone on to win literary awards.
The number of doctoral degrees in creative writing is also on the rise, with stunning examples such as award-winning Auckland poet Dr Jo Emeney, who explored the emerging field of medical humanities and wrote a new collection of poems on her mother’s cancer diagnosis and treatment as part of her thesis. Poetry PhD candidates Sarah Jane Barnett and Tim Upperton have both been nominated for major poetry prizes.
Critical mass for creative writing
In 2016, Massey will also co-organise the second conference of the Aotearoa Creative Writing Research Network (ACWRN) with Auckland University of Technology. The first ACWRN conference, hosted by Massey at the Wellington campus in 2014, saw creative writers from across New Zealand meeting for the first time to discuss the future of the still-emerging discipline in New Zealand.
As numerous public literary events testify – from workshops, book launches, panel discussions, readings and campus arts performances to Off the Page events through to September, the Writers Read series – creative writing is flourishing across all three campuses.
The new Massey University Press, led by respected publisher Nicola Legat, will have creative writing on its upcoming list, including the next edition of Poetry New Zealand, edited by poet and senior lecturer Dr Jack Ross for the past three years. He, too, has included diverse migrant voices in the annual journal. He recognises New Zealand “poetries” as a “rich gamut of cultures and language which now exist in our islands expressing themselves in many languages and forms”, and is keen to publish more Māori poetry, in Te Reo Māori and English.
Massey may be best known for its teaching and research in sciences, social work and education, says Dr Conroy, but it also has strong – though less visible – tradition of excellence in creative writing and the humanities. “With the constant flow of student and staff successes these past few years, Massey’s creative writing programme is finally reaching critical mass,” he says. “We hope this will broaden the field of writing and expand the range of voices contributing to the literary arts in Aotearoa.”
Recent successes and upcoming events:
- Australian-born writer Sacha Jones, a creative writing student, had her memoir of growing up in Sydney, The Grass Was Always Browner, published here and in Australia in May, by Finch Publishing, Sydney.
- Poet and PhD candidate Tim Upperton was shortlisted for the 2016 Ockham Book Awards
- Recent Master of Creative Writing graduate Bonnie Etherington has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story, along with Dr Tina Makareti, former creative writing lecturer and student – the only two of 26 on the shortlist from New Zealand.
- Poet and senior Associate Professor Dr Bryan Walpert has been selected for the 2015 Best New Zealand Poems anthology, published by the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University
- Dr Matthew Harris, tutor in the School of English and Media Studies, won the audience award in France’s Clermont-Ferrand International competition for his script for the short film, Madam Black. The film has won several international awards.
- Playwright Associate Professor Angie Farrow’s latest work, The Politician’s Wife, will debut at Centrepoint Theatre and Wellington’s BATS theatre in June.
- Dr Ingrid Horrocks, senior lecture in creative writing at the Wellington campus, is this year launching a collection of essays with Victoria University Press (VUP), titled Extraordinary Anywhere.
Details here for the launch of Thom Conroy’s novel The Salted Air.
JustUs takes justice to the stage
Andrew Broadley as Michael, in JustUs. Photo: Meredith Johnson
Audience members have described the premiere of JustUs, a new verbatim theatre work created by Massey University Creativity in the Community students as “powerful” and “fantastic”.
The original work, which was developed in collaboration with JustSpeak, a youth-led justice advocacy charity, was staged for the first time in Wellington today (June 1), and will return for two more performances, on June 3 and June 9.
The 40 minute one-act production combines film and live theatre to trace the journeys of two brothers through the NZ criminal justice system. It resulted from the Massey expressive arts students’ work with JustSpeak to understand the differences in life outcome for 16-year-olds, who can access Youth Court processes, and 17-year-olds, who are tried in the adult court system. From a series of guest lectures, the students workshopped creative concepts then developed an original script.
The staging of the work is timely, with the government currently considering whether to raise the youth court age. Principal Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft has recently described New Zealand’s youth justice age of 17 as “an enduring stain on New Zealand’s otherwise
Fusi Mesui and Hamish Boyle in JustUs. Photo: Meredith Johnson
good youth justice record.”
While New Zealand’s youth justice system was considered internationally to be “pioneering in its approach”, it had a long way to go, Judge Becroft said.
JustUs aimed to present that ‘long way to go’ concept through theatre, to reach out to an audience beyond those directly connected with the justice system and, through creativity, engage more people in considering the impact on broader society of our justice approach to youth offending.
The dialogue in the piece is predominately taken from direct interviews the class were able to have, through working via JustSpeak, with youth offenders and the community workers who support them. While the speech and context are real, the students then created a fictional dramatic structure around that dialogue featuring two brothers whose only difference is age, with their upbringing, culture and crime identical.
Course coordinator, Associate Professor Elspeth Tilley, also invited established creative artists who have worked in prisons and on justice issues to talk to the class about how to apply creativity to challenging and sensitive topics. Playwrights William Brandt and Jo Randerson, and author Pip Adam, all of whom have extensive experience teaching creative writing in prisons, were among those who helped the students by providing specialist creative guidance.
JustUs poster – design by Fusi Mesui.
Audience members’ written feedback after the first performance included “Fantastic performance, really powerful and wonderfully performed. Thank you so much, and well done to all the cast and crew,” and “That was truly awesome – had tears in my eyes.” Another said “What a great performance. I was so impressed. It was fantastic.”
JustUs returns to the stage on June 3, 2016 at 7pm as part of the Wellington Expressive Arts Students’ End of Semester Showcase and on June 9, when it will begin at 6.30pm, be held at a larger venue in downtown Wellington and followed by a speaker panel and community forum. All welcome. Entry at the final performance will be by koha to support the advocacy work of JustSpeak.
To receive updates join the Facebook event for the June 9 event at https://www.facebook.com/events/604959266344766/
Politics of lawn-mowing in the age of climate change – Massey University
Politics of lawn-mowing in the age of climate change Could the ubiquitous act of mowing the lawn be a symbol of our dysfunctional relationship with nature?
Source: Politics of lawn-mowing in the age of climate change – Massey University
Could the ubiquitous act of mowing the lawn be a symbol of our dysfunctional relationship with nature?
It’s at least a starting point for deeper reflection on the state of the planet, and just one of a range of provocative ideas to be aired by Massey University humanities scholars in a new public series at Takapuna Library, starting tonight.
The series explores an underlying question: do the ways people relate to the natural world in their everyday lives determine how the big challenges of the 21st century will be resolved more than high-level economic and political strategies? It will also run in Palmerston North.
“Humanities scholars have a lot to add to the conversations about the big social issues of today,” says historian and Associate Professor Kerry Taylor, head of the School of Humanities. “Their understandings and views tend to get overlooked in favour of science and economics.”
In this vein, his colleagues want to demonstrate how their disciplines can shed light on understanding what shapes people’s ideas and influences their behaviour in the context of threats to the environment.
The three-part series, titled The Land: Resilience and Co-existence, includes talks by a Spanish linguist, philosophers, and cultural and media studies scholars from Massey’s Auckland and Manawatū campuses. The talks are on May 19 and 26, and June 2, from 6pm to 7.30pm, and June 9, 16 and 23 in Palmerston North, at the same time.
Humanities perspectives on big issues of 21st century
“Our humanities scholars feel a sense of urgency in wanting to highlight how the humanities disciplines can provide critical, ethical thinking and innovative perspectives on causes and solutions to major problems of this epoch – from climate change to the impact of consumerism, dwindling natural resources, population escalation and growing inequality,” Dr Taylor says.
Media studies lecturer Dr Nick Holm, who is co-presenting the second talk, says humanities research is increasingly focused on responding to a changing world. “On a planet where both carbon dioxide levels and extinction rates are soaring, the boundaries between nature and culture no longer seem as clear as they once appeared,” he says.
His focus is the more mundane backyard settings where most people encounter the natural world.
“Lawn-mowing can provide us with a useful model for appreciating the crucial ethical, aesthetic and political stakes of what’s known as the Anthropocene [the geological period in which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment],” he says.
“Approaching lawn-mowing as a political act – one by which many of us make and remake our most immediate ‘natural’ environment – we can not only make a clear distinction between our idealistic visions and lived material practices, but also envision how we might begin to take responsibility for the possibilities of human agency in the 21st century.”
Media studies lecturer Dr Sy Taffel will discuss, in the same session, whether the term ‘the Anthropocene’ describes only destructive human impacts on nature, or if it could also “foster sustainable, ecologically resilient communities that escape the pursuit of infinite economic growth on a finite planet.”
Lessons on relation with land from Latin America
Dr Leonel Alvarado, senior lecturer at Massey’s Spanish language programme and an award-winning poet, will open the series with a discussion of how different cultures in Latin America have learned to live with the land, and how the arrival of the Spanish – and, later on, of big transnational corporations – brought about issues of land ownership and exploitation.
Food and identity, spirituality and a capitalist perception of the land, indigenous concepts of sustainability and caring for the land will be part of the discussion. He will also join the dots between New Zealand cuisine and a few key Latin American ingredients.
In the final talk, philosophers Dr John Matthewson, Dr Krushil Watene and Dr Vanessa Schouten, all from the Auckland campus at Albany, will explore dilemmas and decisions in the age of climate change.
“It’s clear that we need to act on current and future challenges to the environment,” says Dr Matthewson. “So why does it seem so difficult to do the right thing? For instance, why do nations sign up to climate treaties but keep polluting? How do we balance our obligations to people in the future and those in need right now? What difference can one person possibly make? We will run an interactive discussion exploring these three issues.”
The series is sponsored by Massey’s W H Oliver Humanities Research Academy, and supported by Auckland Council.
EVENT: The Land: Resilience and Co-existence – a three-part humanities series on the relationship between people and the planet exploring how civilisations across and time and geographic location interact with the natural world.
Takapuna Library, 9 The Strand, Takapuna
Time: 6pm – 7.30pm
May 19: From a Spanish perspective (Dr Leonel Alvarado)
May 26: From a cultural studies perspective (Dr Nick Holm and Dr Sy Taffel)
June 2: From a philosophical perspective (Dr John Matthewson, Dr Krushil Watene and Dr Vanessa Schouten
Palmerston North City Library
Time: 6pm – 7.30pm
June 9: From a cultural studies perspective (Dr Nick Holm and Dr Sy Taffel)
June 16: From a Spanish perspective (Dr Celina Bortolotto)
June 23: From a philosophical perspective (Dr Vanessa Schouten)
Free entry. To attend or to receive more information email Nicole Canning on N.L.Canning@massey.ac.nz