Visual Studies Seminars Schedule

Welcome to our Research Seminars, Semester Two, 2025.

Below you will find a schedule of the forthcoming presentations. In a separate post you will also be able to read a short abstract for each of these presentations. We hope to see you there and then!

Ngā mihi!

SCHEDULE

Sponsored by Research Network in Cultures, Histories and Identities, a University of Otago/Dunedin School of Art Initiative

Wednesday, 13 August, 5 – 7pm, Cecilia Novero: “Kafka’s Drawings as Sites for Form and Play: A Reading Informed by Walter Benjamin,” cecilia.novero@otago.ac.nz, Boardroom, rm F209, Forth Street Building, Otago Polytechnic.

Wednesday, 3 September, 5 – 7pm, Anya Samarasinghe, “Iconographies of Civilisation and Ruins – Aotearoa New Zealand Soldiers’ Encounters with Ancient Egypt during the First World War,” anya.samarasinghe@dcc.govt.nz, Boardroom, rm F209, Forth Street Building, Otago Polytechnic.

Sunday, 21 September 2025, 3 – 5pm, Sue Ballard: “Extraction, Energy, Ecology and Landscape in Aotearoa,” Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society: William Hodges Annual Lecture 2025, sponsored by the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society, susan.ballard@vuw.ac.nz, Dunedin Public Art Gallery Auditorium.

Wednesday, 1 October 2025, 5 – 7 pm, Panel Chaired by Leoni Schmidt, with: Metiria Stanton Turei, on “Indigenous Visual Jurisprudence,” metiria.stantonturei@otago.ac.nz; & Ana Terry, “A Pictorial Turn: Visualising Education,” Ana.Terry@op.ac.nz; Boardroom, rm F209, Forth Street Building, Otago Polytechnic.

For further information, and for recording links, contact: Ed Hanfling, ed.hanfling@op.ac.nz