Seminar on Fijian Politics
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Dr Alumita Durutalo’s seminar on “The Politics of Security and Insecurity in Fiji” has been rescheduled. This will now be held 2.30pm, 28 October, in CEN3, in the Central Library.
Dr Lyn Carter – Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
Ko Te Wiki o te Reo Māori tēnei wiki.
Hei hāpai i te kaupapa, kei te Whare Pukapuka Pokapū he whakaaturanga nō ngā mahi rangahau a Tākuta Lyn Carter: he whakaaturanga ā-tuhi, he whakaaturanga kōataata hoki. Ko ‘Whakapapa: hei herenga tangata ki te whenua’ te ingoa.
Kei te Uare Hākena he whakaaturanga e pā ana ki ngā take hauora Māori mai i te tekautau 1950 tae atu ki nāianei.
Hei te te wā ō o te Rāmere (te 31 o Hōngongoi) ka tū hoki a Dr Lyn Carter rātou ko Ahorangi Tuarua Jacinta Ruru ko Dr Lisa Te Morenga ki Te Aka (i te papa-ki-raro o te Whare Pukapuka) kōrero ai mō ā rātou rangahau. He āhua poto ngā kauhau, 10-15 meneti mō tēnā, mō tēnā.
Dr Lyn Carter‘s research is currently being featured at the university’s Central Library as part of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. This will be in the form of both a static display as well as a slide show presentation. This is entitled ‘Whakapapa: hei herenga tangata ki te whenua: Whakapapa: connecting people to the land’
There is also a display relating to Māori health issues from the 1850s to the present day.
On Friday 31 July Dr Lyn Carter, Associate Professor Jacinta Ruru and Dr Lisa Te Morenga will be giving lunchtime floor-talks at Te Aka, on the ground floor of the Central Library. Each presentation will be 10-15 minutes in length.
New PhD Scholarship opportunity
PhD Scholarship on Peace Traditions in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Applications are now being sought for a one-off 3-year PhD scholarship to investigate Indigenous peace traditions in early New Zealand. The scholarship, funded under the Marsden Research Project, “A New Politics of Peace? Investigations in Contemporary Pacifism and Non-violence”, provides a NZD$25,000 annual stipend and covers tuition fees for a period of three years. The successful applicant will be based within the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS), University of Otago, New Zealand, and supervised by Professor Richard Jackson (NCPACS), Professor Murray Rae (Theology) and Dr Michael Stevens (History).
Research Proposals which explore the following topics are particularly welcome:
- The influence of Christianity in the emergence of Māori nonviolent resistance traditions;
- The subjugation of Māori peace traditions by settler society in nineteenth-century New Zealand;
- The instances and causes of Māori groups avoiding conflict during the New Zealand Wars;
- Māori resistance to conscription during World War One.
If you are interested, contact Professor Richard Jackson of NCPACS for details. Application deadline: Friday 3 July, 2015.
Research Success for Te Tumu Staff
The New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence, Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga, has been refunded for 2016-2020 . Although Ngā Pae is hosted through University of Auckland, it has now been organised in conjunction with other institutions. One of the new co-directors is Associate Professor Jacinta Ruru from Law Faculty at the University of Otago. At Te Tumu: School of Māori, Pacific and Indigneous Studies we are proud that four of our staff members are among the confirmed Principle Investigators, Research: Professor Paul Tapsell, Associate Professor Poia Rewi, Associate Professor Merata Kawharu, and Dr Lyn Carter.
Upcoming Te Tumu seminar
Professor Patricia O’Brien, an ARC Future Fellow based at the Australian National University is currently visiting Otago, and will be giving a seminar to Te Tumu.
In 2012 Professor O’Brien was the JD Stout Fellow in New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, and in 2011 she was the Jay I. Kislak Fellow in American Studies at the John W. Kluge Centre at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. From 2001-2013 she was visiting Associate Professor in the Centre for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. She is the author of The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific (Seattle, 2006).
Professor O’Brien will be presenting on material from a current research project, a biography on the Samoan nationalist leader Ta’isi O.F. Nelson.
Her seminar ‘The Trials of Mr Nelson: Ta’isi O. F. Nelson and Indigenous Resistance in Interwar Samoa’ will be held in Cen3 (Central Library) at 2.30pm, March 23rd. This will be followed by tea, coffee and biscuits in the Te Tumu dining room.
We hope to see you there.
“Layers of History” video online
“Layers of History“, a Te Tumu seminar given by Jim Williams on 8 October is now available below.
Apologies for the delay.
Kelli Te Maiharoa featured on Otago Bulletin Board.
Te Tumu PhD student, Kelli Te Maiharoa, and her research on Māori peace legacies have just been featured on the latest Otago Bulletin. Click here to see more.
