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Semester 2 has been busy on the research front for Te Tumu staff and postgrads. <\/em><\/p>\n

Te Tumu<\/span><\/strong> is still progressing with Te K\u014dparapara<\/em>, a book on M\u0101ori culture, history and contemporary society, which is designed as a textbook for MAOR102 as well as for a general audience.\u00a0 Prof Michael Reilly is the main driver of this project, and has been ably assisted by Dr Gianna Leoni.\u00a0 This book, with an array of essays mainly written by Te Tumu staff, is under contract with Auckland University Press and should appear sometime in 2017.<\/p>\n

Faculty News<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Associate Prof Jenny Bryant-Tokalau<\/strong><\/span> has been having a busy Research and Study Leave.\u00a0 She has given two presentations in the USA in the last semester:\u00a0 \u2018Food security and other risks in a time of climate change: traditional and contemporary forms of resilience\u2019<\/em>, <\/em>to the Department of Anthropology, and \u2018Small Island Pacific States: Dealing with Climate Change\u2019<\/em> to the Department of Geology at Wheaton College in Massachusetts.\u00a0 In December she presented \u2018Working in Context: The Commercial Potential of Customary Pacific Land\u2019 <\/em>at the\u00a0 Aotearoa New Zealand International Development Studies Network Ninth Biennial Conference \u2018Pacific Currents, Global Tides\u2019 Wellington, and \u2018Dealing with disasters and social change\u2019<\/em> to the Asia Pacific Biocultural Health \u2018Big Ideas\u2019 Workshop, in Dunedin, December.<\/p>\n

Jenny has also had one chapter in an edited collection appear during this period: \u2018Community responses to floods in Fiji: lessons learned\u2019 In Calabrese, John (ed.) Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response: Rising to the Challenge<\/em>. MAP Series, Middle East Institute, Washington. August (2016) issue. Click here<\/a> to access it.\u00a0 She also has two book reviews published in New Zealand and Pacific Studies <\/em>November, 2016; and Journal of the Polynesian Society<\/em> 125 (1), 2016.<\/p>\n

Jenny is planning to return to the Solomon Islands to carry out in-depth interviews on small and medium businesses on Kastom land, as well as to finalise book edits for Palgrave MacMillan Anthropology of Disaster Series<\/a>: What the Pacific Islands can teach New Zealand about Climate Change. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Paul Tapsell, Merata Kawharu and Hirini Tane. (Click on pictures to see full size)<\/p><\/div>\n

As previous posted<\/a>, Prof Paul Tapsell<\/strong> <\/span>spoke at the Indigenous Plenary at the WAC-8 Conference in September.\u00a0\u00a0 Paul and Associate Prof Merata Kawharu<\/span><\/strong> are also part of the large three-year Mauri-Whenua-Ora<\/a> project within the National Science Challenge Land and Water: Toit\u016b te Whenua, Toiora te Wai.\u00a0 This project is<\/span> the only fully M\u0101ori-led and M\u0101ori-integrated research programmes of all NSCs nationally, and is looking at Maori land and water based innovation including: (1) micro economy development \u201cPa to Plate\u201d, (2) Shared iwi innovation for Taitokerau as a model for other iwi and (3) a regional (Te Hiku) study looking at Maori land suitable use and value chains.\u00a0 Merata also has a forthcoming publication, “Indigenous Entrepreneurship: Cultural Coding and the Transformation of Ng\u0101ti Wh\u0101tua in New Zealand” in the Journal of the Polynesian Society<\/em>, 125, 4 (2016): 385-408.<\/p>\n

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Associate Prof Lachy Paterson<\/strong><\/span> gave a presentation entitled \u2018U.S. Slave \u201cHumor\u201d in New Zealand Newspapers\u2019 at the 109th<\/sup> Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association at Waikoloa, Hawai\u2019i. He is currently writing up this paper, which looked at how imported racist discourses permeated New Zealand’s English-language newspapers.\u00a0 Lachy returned to his ongoing obsession with M\u0101ori-language newspapers, with “The New Zealand Government’s Niupepa and their Demise” published in the New Zealand Journal of History<\/em>, 50, 2 (2016): 44-67.<\/p>\n

Together with Associate Prof Angela Wanhalla (Dept of History and Art History), he has also sent off their manuscript “He Reo Wahine: M\u0101ori Women’s Voices from the Nineteenth Century” to Auckland University Press, and it should appear sometime in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Over summer Prof Michael Reilly<\/strong><\/span> hopes to write a paper concerning the research relationship between William Wyatt Gill of the London Missionary Society, and Mamae of Ng\u0101ti Vara, a church minister, on Mangaia during the 19th century.\u00a0 In the longer run, he wants to begin writing chapters for an introduction to M\u0101ori tribal history, drawing from the draft text used as a \u2018course reader\u2019 in MAOR 207 Ng\u0101 K\u014drero Nehe \u2013 Tribal Histories.\u00a0 Michael is passionate about this project but acknowledges that it may take several years to finish.\u00a0 He has also completed the final editorial corrections for a paper to be published this December, “Narrative Features and Cultural Motifs in a Cautionary Tradition from Mangaia (Cook Islands)”, in the Journal of the Polynesian Society<\/em> 125, 4 (2016): 357-384.<\/p>\n

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Dr Jim Williams<\/span><\/strong> has a forthcoming article in the Journal of the Polynesian Society<\/em>, entitled “Seafood Gardens”.\u00a0 Jim has a busy summer planned, fininishing off an\u00a0essay for Ethnohistory<\/em>, entitled “Layers of History” explaining how certain activities are repeated at powerful places, giving rise to notions of circularity of time, but layered, like whakapapa;\u00a0 he will also be giving a presentation in January at the American Historical Association conference in Denver.\u00a0 One of Jim’s students, Katrina Bryant, has just completed her Master of Physiotherapy.<\/p>\n

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In October newly graduated Dr Gianna Leoni<\/span><\/strong> gained a new position based in Te Tumu, that of a Ng\u0101 Pae o te M\u0101ramatanga postdoctoral fellow, with the research project \u201cTe \u014changa o te P\u012bp\u012bwharauroa \u2013 Expressing our Economic Aspirations\u201d. Click here for more details<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"otago083301\"<\/a>In June, Megan P\u014dtiki<\/span><\/strong> presented on her doctoral research on language loss at \u014ct\u0101kou, at He Rau Tumu K\u014drero IX at Te Rau Aroha Marae in Bluff.\u00a0 This event was run by Te Pouhere K\u014drero, the national M\u0101ori historians organisation.\u00a0 Megan has also published two journal articles, “The Otago Peninsula: A unique identity” <\/span>in Shima<\/em>, 10, 1 (2016): 67-84 [Potiki-Shima-v10n1-3<\/a>]; and \u2018Te Haka N\u0101 Ng\u0101 Herehere\u2019 in Te Pouhere K\u014drero 8 (2016): 6 \u201325, and is currently working on another article, “M\u0101ori song composition and reclamation of traditional tribal borders” based on a m\u014dteatea she composed for the Te Tumu Kapa Haka group.<\/p>\n

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As part of M\u0101ori language week this year Tangiwai Rewi<\/strong><\/span> was asked to give a\u00a0 Library research floor talk on Wednesday 13 July on the Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia Turangawaewae regatta, which comes out of her doctoral research and an article last year in the Journal of the Polynesian Society<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 A display themed around the article was shown in the Hocken Collections for seven weeks as part of M\u0101ori language Week.\u00a0 Click here<\/a> for more details and pictures.<\/p>\n

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Children learning about NZ moths.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tangiwai has participated in the Ahi Pepe Resource<\/a> launch 27 October and W\u0101nanga 26-28 October.\u00a0 She was a collaborator in this project which created an immersion te reo M\u0101ori Moths resource depicting the 600+ species endemic to the South Island.\u00a0\u00a0 Twelve schools were invited to the W\u0101nanga, to participate, learn how to trap, kill and present moths for identification and preservation.\u00a0 Also launched that night were\u00a0 the bilingual and total immersion resource covering the four areas of the South Island.<\/p>\n

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Tangiwai Rewi (R, standing)<\/p><\/div>\n

Tangiwai\u00a0 also attended the SCANZ (Science Communicators Association NZ) conference on 14 November as part of the panel who discussed the resource and preservation of moths.<\/p>\n

Tangiwai went north to attend the Te Awam\u0101rahi poukai on 24 November.\u00a0 (Poukai<\/a> are ceremonial gatherings held on K\u012bngitanga marae.)\u00a0 This was an opportunity to take the photo display back to her marae especially as some of people featured in the photos\u00a0 come from that marae.\u00a0 The photo boards were put on display along with other harakeke resources found along the riverbanks. Needless to say, Tangiwai also vigorously promoted Te Tumu and the University of Otago to all the people who came to view the display.<\/p>\n

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Display on Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia Regatta at Te Awam\u0101rahi Marae, Waikato<\/p><\/div>\n

Postgraduate News<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

Congratulations to Matangi Schaaf<\/strong><\/span> who graduates in December with a PhD; and also to Nikki Walden<\/strong><\/span> (Taranaki, Te \u0100ti Awa) and Nurul Sultan<\/strong><\/span> with Master of Indigenous Studies degrees.\u00a0 Click here for more details.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Two of our PhD students are submitting in December: John Birnie<\/strong><\/span> and Taomi Qiliho-Tapu<\/span><\/strong>, and T\u0101wini White<\/strong><\/span> (Ng\u0101i Tahu, Te Rarawa) is making the final amendments to her MA thesis.\u00a0 Rieko Hayakawa<\/strong><\/span>‘s PhD thesis \u2018Possibility of Telecommunication Universal Service in the Pacific Islands; Case studies of Vanuatu, PEACESAT and USPNet\u2019 has just passed examination.\u00a0 We look forward to these students graduating in the near future.<\/p>\n

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We have a new PhD student who has just started, Raaniera Te Whata<\/strong><\/span> (Ng\u0101puhi, Ng\u0101ti Porou, te Wh\u0101nau a Apanui), researching communities-based M\u0101ori land development in the Bay of Islands.\u00a0 Raaniera comes into doctoral studies after completing an LLB in Auckland and a Master of Indigenous Studies in Te Tumu.<\/p>\n

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In August Erica Newman<\/strong><\/span> who is undertaking PhD research on Fijian Orphanages (1874-1970) presented at the Anthropology and Archaeology Postgraduate Symposium held here in Dunedin.<\/p>\n

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Matiu Payne <\/strong><\/span>(Ng\u0101i Tahu, Ng\u0101ti Mutunga), who is researching the impact of government agencies on tikanga wh\u0101ngai for his doctoral studies, has just been to the Australia New Zealand Law and History Society conference at Curtin University in Perth presenting on his PhD research.<\/p>\n

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Kelli Te Maih\u0101roa<\/strong><\/span> (Waitaha) who is researching M\u0101ori peace traditions and their relevance to wh\u0101nau today, has co-edited an edited collection: H. Devere, K. Te Maih\u0101roa, & J.P. Synott (eds.) Peacebuilding and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Experiences and Strategies for the 21st Century, <\/em>(Springer: Cham, Switzerland, 2016), which includes two co-written and one sole-authored articles by Kelli.\u00a0 She also has an article forthcoming, “Whanaungatanga: Relationships in a One Day Te Reo M\u0101ori School of Excellence” in\u00a0 Theobald, M. (Ed.)\u00a0 Friendships in Multilingual Settings<\/em> (Sociological Studies of Children and You<\/em>th, <\/span>Vol 21 (2016)).\u00a0 Emerald.\u00a0 Kelli, who is a lecturer in the College of Education, also presented at the Teacher Education Forum of Aotearoa New Zealand, in June\/July in Dunedin, and at International Indigenous Research Conference in November in Auckland.<\/p>\n

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