{"id":1018,"date":"2020-02-19T12:41:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T23:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:41:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T23:41:19","slug":"phd-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/phd-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1019\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2020\/02\/IMG_7329-e1582067992108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1019\" class=\"wp-image-1019 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2020\/02\/IMG_7329-e1582067992108-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2020\/02\/IMG_7329-e1582067992108-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2020\/02\/IMG_7329-e1582067992108-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raphael Richter-Gravier and his primary supervisor, Michael Reilly.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When possible, Te Tumu always likes to acknowledge our students&#8217; completions of their PhDs with a morning or afternoon tea. Today was our opportunity to celebrate <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Raphael Richter-Gravier<\/strong><\/span>, who graduated last December. Given that his thesis investigated <a href=\"https:\/\/ourarchive.otago.ac.nz\/handle\/10523\/9739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polynesian bird narratives<\/a>, it was fitting that Te Tumu gifted Raphael with a 2-dimensional metallic sculpture of a k\u0101rearea (NZ falcon). \u00a0His supervisor, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Professor Michael Reilly<\/strong><\/span>, spoke about what a wonderful doctoral student Raphael was, one whose writing was stimulating and thoughtful, and didn&#8217;t need too much revising. Raphael also noted that his friend, Manu Berry has created a number of woodcuts inspired by the bird narratives, which are currently on exhibition at PC Gallery in Port Chalmers. \u00a0Raphael has been with Te Tumu for a number of years, as a student and tutor in M\u0101ori Studies. \u00a0He seems to have a lot of activities on his plate at present (including teaching French), and we wish him well for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When possible, Te Tumu always likes to acknowledge our students&#8217; completions of their PhDs with a morning or afternoon tea. Today was our opportunity to celebrate Raphael Richter-Gravier, who graduated last December. Given that his thesis investigated Polynesian bird narratives, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35262,354,17855],"tags":[67419,67428,35303,67420],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific-islands-studies","category-postgraduate","category-student-success","tag-birds","tag-manu-narratives","tag-pacific-island-studies","tag-polynesia"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}