{"id":724,"date":"2014-08-23T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T10:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/?p=724"},"modified":"2014-08-23T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T10:48:20","slug":"senior-lecturer-in-creative-writing-thom-conroy-will-talk-at-te-papa-in-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/2014\/08\/23\/senior-lecturer-in-creative-writing-thom-conroy-will-talk-at-te-papa-in-wellington\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Thom Conroy will talk at Te Papa in Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/08\/Dieffenbach.feature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-725\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/08\/Dieffenbach.feature-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Dieffenbach.feature\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/08\/Dieffenbach.feature-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/08\/Dieffenbach.feature-750x474.jpg 750w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/08\/Dieffenbach.feature-100x63.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/08\/Dieffenbach.feature.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSenior Lecturer in Creative Writing Thom Conroy will talk at Te Papa in Wellington on his historical novel The Naturalist, early New Zealand history and Ernst Dieffenbach.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Join Thom Conroy as he discusses his intriguing novel about a free-spirited German naturalist who came to New Zealand with a controversial 1839 expedition to buy M\u0101ori land.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of <em>The Naturalist<\/em>, Thom says, \u2018I wanted to reintroduce readers to a man whose ideas sound closer to ours than those of his own era, and I hoped to contribute to a new way of looking at the history of New Zealand and its connections to the world.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dieffenbach\u2019s strong views on colonisation cut across the thinking of the time. He engaged in heated debates with the Wakefields and Charles Heaphy (who were to become renowned colonists) during his three-month voyage aboard the <em>Tory<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On arrival in New Zealand, Dieffenbach learned M\u0101ori, investigated local flora and fauna, and ascended Mt Taranaki. He advocated equality between M\u0101ori and P\u0101keh\u0101, arguing that the \u2018savages\u2019 were of equal intellect and sensibility to \u2018civilised\u2019 members of society.<\/p>\n<p>Thom brings this fascinating man to life and offers a vivid depiction of a New Zealand on the cusp of widespread colonisation.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/owa.massey.ac.nz\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=QmITCED0pk2dAllMbYQkzgVr5HVWktEI3lMmSeWNMJHTq8eC9snXipL6HAxlvOVxLh7ntA3ysvE.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.tepapa.govt.nz%2fWhatsOn%2fallevents%2fPages%2fTheNaturalist280814.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.tepapa.govt.nz\/WhatsOn\/allevents\/Pages\/TheNaturalist280814.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Thom Conroy will talk at Te Papa in Wellington on his historical novel The Naturalist, early New Zealand history and Ernst Dieffenbach. *** &nbsp; Join Thom Conroy as he discusses his intriguing novel about a free-spirited German naturalist who came to New Zealand with a controversial 1839 expedition to buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts-subject"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}