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ARTS UPDATE 25 August 2017 News Last week, the Vice Chancellor and HR Director presented long service certificates to a number of members of the UC Admin Plus network. The following staff from the College of Arts were recognised for their service of 10+ years: Jackie Plimmer Azeen Tashakkor Emma Parnell Scott Lloyd Anandi Eichenberger UC Arts at the Arts Centre NEW DONATION TO THE LOGIE COLLECTION The University of Canterbury Teece Museum was pleased to accept the recent donation two new artefacts for the Logie Collection. Associate Professor Anne Mackay, of Auckland University, and Jürgen Lieskounig have generously added to the Logie Collection a fragmentary redfigure cup, which is attributed to the Splanchnopt Painter, and dates to the mid5 th century BCE. The cup was accompanied by a travel diary written by Miss Marion Steven, founder of the Logie Collection, which relates the story of her travels and research overseas in 19581959. The diary was gifted to the donor by Ann Pomeroy, a niece of Marion Steven, and has come to the Logie Collection with the agreement of the Steven family. A particular strength of the Logie Collection is its representation of Greek drinking cups. The Splanchnopt Painter cup reinforces that strength, and at the same time fills a significant gap, as this is the first representation of a child in the Logie Collection. As Anne Mackay notes, the cup is also a good companionpiece for the skyphos by the Splanchnopt Painter that is already in the Logie collection. Despite being currently in fragments, the cup is a good candidate for 3D scanning, with the possibility of constructing a neutral support platform resembling the full cup for future display. The cup is an excellent addition to our teaching programme for schools and UC classes. While not an antiquity, the travel diary is a great pleasure to have in the Collection. The entries, written in small neat script with accompanying ephemera pasted in many pages, are an historical record of how a prominent UC Classicist

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Page 1: Arts Update 25 August 2017 - University of Canterbury · was!researching,!teaching,!and!collecting!in!the!1950s.!The!diary!provides!a!real!insight!into!both!Miss!Steven’s! personality!andher!professional!practice,!andit

 

ARTS  UPDATE

25  August  2017  

News  

Last  week,  the  Vice  Chancellor  and  HR  Director  presented  long  service  certificates  to  a  number  of  members  of  the  UC  Admin  Plus  network.      The  following  staff  from  the  College  of  Arts  were  recognised  for  their  service  of  10+  years:    Jackie  Plimmer  Azeen  Tashakkor    Emma  Parnell    Scott  Lloyd    Anandi  Eichenberger        UC  Arts  at  the  Arts  Centre    NEW  DONATION  TO  THE  LOGIE  COLLECTION      The  University  of  Canterbury  Teece  Museum  was  pleased  to  accept  the  recent  donation  two  new  artefacts  for  the  Logie  Collection.  Associate  Professor  Anne  Mackay,  of  Auckland  University,  and  Jürgen  Lieskounig  have  generously  added  to  the  Logie  Collection  a  fragmentary  red-­‐figure  cup,  which  is  attributed  to  the  Splanchnopt  Painter,  and  dates  to  the  mid-­‐5th  century  BCE.  The  cup  was  accompanied  by  a  travel  diary  written  by  Miss  Marion  Steven,  founder  of  the  Logie  Collection,  which  relates  the  story  of  her  travels  and  research  overseas  in  1958-­‐1959.  The  diary  was  gifted  to  the  donor  by  Ann  Pomeroy,  a  niece  of  Marion  Steven,  and  has  come  to  the  Logie  Collection  with  the  agreement  of  the  Steven  family.      A  particular  strength  of  the  Logie  Collection  is  its  representation  of  Greek  drinking  cups.  The  Splanchnopt  Painter  cup  reinforces  that  strength,  and  at  the  same  time  fills  a  significant  gap,  as  this  is  the  first  representation  of  a  child  in  the  Logie  Collection.  As  Anne  Mackay  notes,  the  cup  is  also  a  good  companion-­‐piece  for  the  skyphos  by  the  Splanchnopt  Painter  that  is  already  in  the  Logie  collection.    Despite  being  currently  in  fragments,  the  cup  is  a  good  candidate  for  3D  scanning,  with  the  possibility  of  constructing  a  neutral  support  platform  resembling  the  full  cup  for  future  display.  The  cup  is  an  excellent  addition  to  our  teaching  programme  for  schools  and  UC  classes.      While  not  an  antiquity,  the  travel  diary  is  a  great  pleasure  to  have  in  the  Collection.  The  entries,  written  in  small  neat  script  with  accompanying  ephemera  pasted  in  many  pages,  are  an  historical  record  of  how  a  prominent  UC  Classicist  

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was  researching,  teaching,  and  collecting  in  the  1950s.  The  diary  provides  a  real  insight  into  both  Miss  Steven’s  personality  and  her  professional  practice,  and  it  is  already  the  subject  of  an  internship  project  by  PACE495  student  Roswyn  Wiltshire,  who  is  tackling  the  challenge  of  producing  a  transcript  of  the  book.      Associate  Professor  Mackay  has  a  long-­‐standing  relationship  with  UC  –  she  is  an  alumnus  of  Canterbury,  having  studied  Classics  under  Marion  Steven,  and  has  more  recently  contributed  to  the  opening  of  the  Teece  Museum  as  an  external  reviewer  for  the  ‘We  Could  Be  Heroes’  exhibition  catalogue,  published  by  Canterbury  University  Press.      

   

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 ARTS  CENTRE  NIGHT  MARKET      As  part  of  the  Arts  Centre’s  Night  Market  this  Friday  and  Saturday,  the  Teece  Museum  will  be  open  especially  Friday  25  August  from  4-­‐9pm.  In  addition,  the  Museum  is  hosting  a  special  gallery  floor  talk  for  free  at  5.30pm  by  Dr  Gary  Morrison,  UC  Classics  Department,  on  ‘Roman  antics  after  Dark’.  If  you  ever  wondered  what  the  Romans  got  up  to  when  the  sun  went  down,  this  will  be  your  chance  to  find  out!  

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 The  School  of  Music  are  delighted  to  present  a  free  concert  of  Mozart’s  Divertimento  in  B-­‐flat  major,  K.287  on  the  Saturday  at  5.30pm  in  the  Recital  Room.    Music    Professor  Mark  Menzies  was  in  Auckland  last  weekend  for  a  performance  of  Upright  Piano,  2013,  a  work  by  composer  Samuel  Holloway  with  the  collective  et  al.  at  the  Auckland  Art  Gallery  Toi  o  Tāmaki.    A  big  congratulations  to  UC  alumni  Matthew  Lee  on  being  awarded  a  Dame  Malvina  Major  Foundation  Award.  Matthew  completed  his  Master’s  in  Flute  Performance  this  year.  He  will  use  the  Cecily  Maccoll  High  Achiever  Award,  funded  by  a  legacy  from  the  late  Cecily  Maccoll,  towards  travel  costs  for  auditions  and  competitions.    

 

   

 For  more  information  about  upcoming  Music  events  visit  our  Music  events  page.    Global,  Cultural  and  Language  Studies    Brennan  Galpin  has  been  awarded  a  Japanese  Government  (MOBUKAGAKUSHO)  Scholarship  and  has  been  accepted  to  study  at  Kyoto  University.  He  will  be  attending  Kyoto  University  from  October  2017  until  September  2018.  Brennan  was  also  the  winner  of  the  2015  Tertiary  National  Japanese  Language  Speech  Contest  by  Japanese  Studies  Aotearoa  New  Zealand,  so  we  would  like  to  give  him  our  congratulations  on  another  great  success.    

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 Sociology  and  Anthropology    The  department  is  currently  in  wild  celebration  mode  after  the  successful  oral  examination  of  Patricia  Allan’s  Anthropology  PhD  thesis.  Her  project,  entitled  Once  and  Future  Cathedral,  explores  the  controversy  that  has  raged  around  the  fate  of  the  Christ  Church  (Anglican)  Cathedral  after  significant  earthquake  damage.  

Patricia Allan’s PhD examined the Christchurch Cathedral controversy. The Anglican Synod will consider options for the

earthquake-damaged building on 9 September 2017, including gifting back the ruins to the government. This  week  the  irrepressible  Raj  Aich  (a  PhD  candidate  in  Anthropology)  appeared  live  on  Radio  NZ’s  Tell  Me  About  Your  Thesis  segment  (24  August,  3.15pm).  His  intriguing  title:  ‘White  the  hyperreal  shark,  and  encounters  with  caged  

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humans’!    Anthropology  PhD  student  Josephine  Varghese  has  just  published  an  essay  in  the  Women’s  Studies  Journal  31  (2017)  about  India’s  obsession  for  ‘fair’  skin.  It  is  entitled  ‘Fair  (?)  and  lovely:  Ideas  of  beauty  among  young  migrant  women  in  Chennai,  India’  and  can  be  accessed  via  the  link  below:  http://www.wsanz.org.nz/journal/docs/WSJNZ311Varghese59-­‐69.pdf  

 

English   Rebecca  Nash  was  a  headline  poet  at  Out  of  the  Closet,  an  evening  of  music  and  poetry  at  the  Civil  and  Naval  in  Lyttelton  on  20  Aug.    Christina  Stachurski  directed  a  rehearsed  reading  of  Love,  Loss  and  What  I  Wore  by  Nora  and  Delia  Ephron  in  the  Recital  Room  at  the  Art  Centre  on  17  August.  The  event  was  a  fundraiser  by  Zonta  for  the  women  using  the  City  Mission.    (photo  attached)    

Cultural  Studies   Erin  Harrington  has  been  contributing  to  The  Pantograph  Punch’s  national  coverage  of  the  New  Zealand  International  Film  Festival,  including  this  essay  on  camp  and  satire  in  the  film  THE  LOVE  WITCH  the  http://pantograph-­‐punch.com/post/satire-­‐sincerity-­‐pastiche-­‐review-­‐of-­‐the-­‐love-­‐witch.    

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   Erin’s  book,  Women,  Monstrosity  and  Horror  Film:  Gynaehorror  was  published  last  week  by  Routledge  in  their  new  series  Film  Philosophy  on  the  Margins.  This  book  offers  an  in-­‐depth  analysis  of  women  in  horror  films  through  an  exploration  of  ‘gynaehorror’:  films  concerned  with  all  aspects  of  female  reproductive  horror,  from  reproductive  and  sexual  organs,  to  virginity,  pregnancy,  birth,  motherhood  and  finally  to  menopause.  The  book  not  only  offers  a  feminist  interrogation  of  gynaehorror,  but  also  a  counter-­‐reading  of  the  gynaehorrific,  that  both  accounts  for  and  opens  up  new  spaces  of  productive,  radical  and  subversive  monstrosity  within  a  mode  of  representation  and  expression  that  has  often  been  accused  of  being  misogynistic.  

    School  of  Fine  Arts      National  Centre  for  Research  on  Europe  (NCRE)    

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Friday  Seminar:  Simon  Tucker,  MFAT  On  Friday  18th  August,  the  NCRE  hosted  Simon  Tucker,  the  Director  for  the  Auckland  Office  of  MFAT  and  a  UC  graduate.  Simon  spoke  about  the  future  EU  -­‐  NZ  Free  Trade  Agreement.  He  also  spoke  about  the  impact  of  Brexit  and  how  this  has  effected  the  EU  -­‐  NZ  relationship.  His  engaging  speech  lead  to  a  very  interesting  Q&A.      New  PhD  Student:  Xiyin  Liu  "Regardless  who  I  was,  where  I  lived  and  what  I  did  for  a  living  before,  right  now  I  would  prefer  to  simplify  the  intro  of  my  identification  —  an  NCRE  newcomer  (looking  forward  to  becoming  an  NCRE  veteran  one  day).  The  reason  I  wanted  to  study  at  the  NCRE  stems  from  a  feeling  that  the  Centre  can  guide  me  through  the  coming  journey  of  studying/approaching  the  EU  from  afar  with  its  knowledgeable  and  resourceful  supports.  So  far,  my  research  topic  is  in  the  forming  process,  but  here  is  a  kind  preview  of  the  area  where  it  is  going  to  land:  the  crossover  and  the  conflict  between  the  EU  Member  States-­‐China  trade  and  investment  relations  and  the  EU-­‐China  foreign  relations"    

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