{"id":373,"date":"2015-07-21T14:08:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T02:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=373"},"modified":"2015-07-21T14:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T02:14:03","slug":"te-tumu-research-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/te-tumu-research-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Tumu Research Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Te Tumu staff have been active with research in the first half of the year.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 The highlights (listed below) show the depth and diversity of the research undertaken at the School.<\/p>\n

In April Te Tumu hosted a three-day conference, Te Kura Roa: Minority Language & Dialect Conference<\/span>, that attracted a number of speakers, from within New Zealand, as well as from USA, Tahiti, Australia, Scotland and Israel.\u00a0 Poia Rewi<\/span> was the driving force behind this conference<\/a>, a collaboration between the University of Otago, Victoria University and Ng\u0101 Pae o te M\u0101ramatanga.\u00a0 Suzanne Duncan was the key organiser, ably assisted by a number of students.<\/span><\/p>\n

In May Te Tumu celebrated its 25th Anniversary<\/span>, in conjunction with the M\u0101ori Centre’s anniversary.\u00a0 Events were organised by a committee headed by Karyn Paringatai and<\/span> Suzanne Duncan<\/span>.\u00a0 Of particular note was a one-day symposium at which a number of Te Tumu alumni presented on where their university educations had taken them.<\/p>\n

In July, the book “The Lives of Colonial Objects<\/a>” was published by Otago University Press, comprising a number of short essays on particular objects.\u00a0 Four Te Tumu staff contributed chapters: Megan P\u014dtiki<\/span> on a tokotoko held by her wh\u0101nau; Paerau Warbrick<\/span> on a M\u0101ori Land Court Minute Book; P\u0101ora Tapsell<\/span> on the Te Haupapa cannon at Maket\u016b; and Lachy Paterson<\/span> on a press used to print a M\u0101ori-language newspaper in the 1860s.\u00a0 Also in this volume is a chapter by Michael Stevens<\/span>, a former Te Tumu post-doc, on his wh\u0101nau’s kahukiwi.<\/p>\n

P\u0101ora Tapsell<\/span>, Poia Rewi<\/span> and Tangiwai Rewi<\/span> were on Research and Study Leave in Semester 1, with Matiu Ratima<\/span>, Jim Williams<\/span> and Michael Reilly<\/span> away for Semester 2.\u00a0 P\u0101ora Tapsell<\/span> has recently returned from Vienna, having given a keynote address “Waka Wairua: Imagining an Other way of knowing our Pacific” at the New Zealand Studies Association conference.\u00a0 Matiu R\u0101tima<\/span> was awarded the Fulbright-Nga Pae O Te Maramatanga Scholar Award<\/a>; this allows him to spend time at the University of Hawai’i to observe the teaching of Hawaiian languages.<\/p>\n

In May, Megan P\u014dtiki<\/span> published an article in the New Zealand Journal of History,\u00a0<\/em>49, 1 (2015) on the M\u0101ori-language writings of H.K. Taiaroa and Tame Parata, and in June presented at a paper at the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics in Singapore on the use of old manuscripts as a means of revitalizing K\u0101i Tahu reo.\u00a0 Megan is writing this up for publication at present.<\/p>\n

In February, Lachy Paterson<\/span> gave a Waitangi Day at the Dunedin Art Gallery on past, present and future perceptions of the Treaty of Waitangi.\u00a0 As he didn’t have any teaching duties in Semester 1 he was able to travel to Canada in February\/March where he gave a number of talks at the University of Alberta and University of Manitoba on \u2018Indigenous Literacy and Literacy Practices: M\u0101ori in the 19th<\/sup> Century\u2019 and (with Angela Wanhalla) \u2018Indigenous Women, Writing and Colonialism\u2019.\u00a0 In April he presented at a conference on colonial print media at the University of Cambridge, UK.<\/p>\n

In June Jenny Bryant-Tokalau<\/span> presented a paper entitled ‘New Communities and the State in Suva, Fiji\u2019 to the Urban Melanesia theme at the European Society for Oceanistes Conference (ESFO), in Brussels. The paper will be published in a special edition of the\u00a0Journal de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Oc\u00e9anistes <\/em>in 2016.<\/p>\n

Tangiwai Rewi<\/span> has recently published an article in the Journal of the Polynesian Society<\/em>, 124, 1 (2015) on ‘The Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia T\u016brangawaewae Regatta: Today’s Reflections on the Past’.\u00a0 Click here to access<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In February, Michelle Schaaf<\/span> presented on ‘The role of family in Pacific migrant participation in physical activity and sport’ at the Inaugural International Conference on Migration Social Disadvantage and Health, in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Merata Kawharu<\/span> and Karyn Paringatai<\/span> both spoke at at Hui Poutama 2015: M\u0101ori Research Sympoisum in May.\u00a0 Hui Poutama is the University of \u014ct\u0101go’s biennial symposium of M\u0101ori research.\u00a0 Karyn’s talk was on ‘The value of the dark: The students\u2019 perspective’, and\u00a0 Merata Kawharu’s on ‘Entrepreneurship: the relevance of a customary context. A Nga\u0304ti Wha\u0304tua narrative’.<\/p>\n

Karyn Paringatai<\/span>‘s research on teaching in the dark is in demand.\u00a0 She presented at a recent Pecha Kucha event at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and in July gave a keynote presentation at the Tuia Te Ako hui at Lincoln University.<\/p>\n

Lyn Carter<\/span> has two works in press: ‘Climate Change and Aotearoa New Zealand: A review’, a journal article with Wiley Interdisciplinary Review<\/em> (LSE); and ‘Iwi are where the People are: Rethinking Ahi K\u0101 and Ahi Matao in Contemporary M\u0101ori Society’ in the forthcoming Huia Publishers book, Home. Here to Stay!<\/em><\/p>\n

Finally, Te Tumu is revamping its MAOR 102 textbook<\/span>.\u00a0 The old book, Ki te Whaiao: An Introduction to M\u0101ori Culture and Society<\/em> was published in 2004, and while it had served its purpose well, staff felt that a new volume was necessary.\u00a0 As with Ki te Whaiao<\/em>, Te Tumu staff are doing most of the writing for this new book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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