{"id":583,"date":"2020-03-02T07:42:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/?p=583"},"modified":"2020-03-02T07:42:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T18:42:23","slug":"seminar-journey-to-new-edinburgh-the-story-of-otagos-pioneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/seminar-journey-to-new-edinburgh-the-story-of-otagos-pioneers\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar: Journey to New Edinburgh: The Story of Otago’s Pioneers"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday 11 March 2020 in Burns 5 seminar room at 3.30pm, the Centre for Global Migrations and History Programme host a joint seminar from Se\u00e1n Brosnahan (Toit\u1fe1 Otago Settlers Museum). Se\u00e1n’s abstract is as follows:<\/p>\n

Following the success of Toit\u1fe1\u2019s documentaries Journey of the Otagos<\/em> and Journey to Lan Yuan<\/em>, Toit\u016b\u2019s exhibition team is now turning its attention to the Museum\u2019s foundation story, the coming of the Scots to found New Edinburgh in 1848. Just as with our examination of Chinese migration and settlement, this documentary will present the causes and consequences of Scottish emigration to Otago, taking in both the Scottish background and the New Zealand foreground. Who came? Why did they leave Scotland? Why did they choose to come to Otago, the furthest destination from Scotland in the world? And what was distinctive about the society they developed here, the New Edinburgh in the South Seas?<\/p>\n

The film project will fuse the \u2018big picture\u2019 of Scotland\u2019s 19th-century diaspora with the \u2018micro\u2019 history of individuals and families to create an intimate picture of Otago\u2019s founding group. This journey will take us to every corner of Scotland as we trace the complex developments at home that brought so many Scots to consider emigration, from impoverished communities in the Highlands and Islands, to the burgeoning industrial cities of Scotland\u2019s Central Belt, and the textile centres of the Borders region. We will draw on subject experts here in New Zealand and in Scotland to add academic rigour to our presentation but maintain the vibrant direct-to-camera style that has enlivened our previous video projects.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday 11 March 2020 in Burns 5 seminar room at 3.30pm, the Centre for Global Migrations and History Programme host a joint seminar from Se\u00e1n Brosnahan (Toit\u1fe1 Otago Settlers Museum). Se\u00e1n’s abstract is as follows: Following the success of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}