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21 September 2018

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English Speakers Event Next Wednesday, 26 September the PACE Team are hosting the second of three English Speakers events. This event is in collaboration with the College of Business and Law and its purpose is a chance for students and staff, international and domestic, to get together and chat about their experiences over FREE pizza and hopefully form friendships along the way. We are hoping this will be an ongoing and dynamic programme for international students to feel more connected with the UC experience! The event is located in the UC Centre for Global Experience in the ground floor of Karl Popper 12pm – 1.30pm We would really appreciate if you could share this event throughout your courses and encourage people to come along. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday. UC Arts at the Arts Centre Music

We were delighted to be hosting Cory Hills of the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet for the past week. Cory presented a series of outreach activities in schools, ‘Percussive Storytelling’, that was received with great excitement and enthusiasm by over 200 students. This visit marks the ninth country that Cory has delivered this award-winning programme in, with Christchurch being the only city in New Zealand to experience this. He also performed a programme for our New Music Central concert on Monday night, where a number the school students came along to see him again.

On Friday evening, Prof. Mark Menzies and a number of music students are performing at an event for the Arts Centre’s ‘Rembrandt Remastered’ exhibition. ‘Rembrandt Remastered’ showcases 57 stunning life-size reproductions of Rembrandt’s paintings that have each been digitally remastered to their original condition. The exhibition is running in the Arts Centre’s Great Hall from 5 September – 3 October. Music will commence at 6.30pm with the main performance taking place under the extraordinary Nightwatch at 7pm. Entry to the exhibition is ticketed, door sales only. The last concert in our Arts Centre Winter Series is taking place this Sunday afternoon, 23 September at 2pm. The concert will feature Monteverdi’s Madrigals of Love & War, UC’s Gamelan Ensemble and John Zorn’s Cobra. A variety of musical responses to life’s big issues featuring stunning dynamics and a huge range of different instruments! This concert will be performed in The Gym at the Arts Centre of Christchurch. Please note this is a ticketed event and tickets can be purchased here, or on the door. Classics

The Classics department are pleased to present two talks by Dr. Lee Brice of the University of Western Illinois. Lee will be presenting a research seminar on Wednesday October 3 at 3pm in the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities, and a public talk on Thursday October 4 at 6pm in the Recital Room. Research seminar: Small Denomination Coins of Corinth and a Minting Puzzle When: Wednesday October 3, 3-4pm Where: Teece Museum, UC Arts City Location Public talk: SPQR SNAFU: Mutiny and Indiscipline in the Roman Army of the Late Republic and Early Empire When: Thursday October 4, 6-7.30pm Where: Recital Room, UC Arts City Location Please take a look at this access video if you have not visited our location before.

Teece Musem

This month the Teece Museum has hosted visits from Rangi Ruru College, Hagley College, Linwood College and St Anne’s Primary. It’s great to be able to welcome new schools, as well as seeing familiar classes returning. Schools are picking up on the opportunity to use the museum as an educational experience outside the classroom in conjunction with visits to other CBD providers such as the Christchurch Art Gallery, Rutherford’s Den and the Canterbury Museum – we’re in good company. October will be a busy month of public engagement activities at the Teece, including events for Heritage Week, Festa 2018, and a family fun night out for Halloween. We will also have another of our ‘world’ famous mini-figure hunts in the gallery over the school holidays – the theme these holidays is ‘Wee Women at Work’, as a celebration of 125 years of Women’s Suffrage in NZ. The prize pack includes some great books from UBS. Keep an eye on the Arts Update for more information on these events, or you can find the listings on the Museum’s Facebook page and on the UC Events calendar. School of Humanities and Creative Arts History

History MA student Elisabeth Rolston successfully completed her MA “Martin of Opava and the Treatment of Imperial History in Dominican Works of Compilation, c. 1250-1330”, which was awarded with distinction. The late-thirteenth century Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum of the Dominican friar Martin of Opava was one of the most popular and influential universal chronicles of the later Middle Ages. Despite its medieval popularity, the Chronicon’s concept of empire has received at best only cursory attention from scholars. It has a reputation for being derivative, unoriginal, and poorly written. This thesis examines Martin’s treatment of the character and conduct of Christian emperors and his interpretation of the empire’s role. It reveals that Martin’s Chronicon presents a carefully constructed vision of empire that was distinct from those of his Dominican brethren, and reflected a complex and developed understanding of the role of the emperor in Christendom. Furthermore, it sheds light on the transmission of political ideas within the Dominican Order’s encyclopaedic projects. It reveals the extent to which each friar's particular context influenced his vision of empire, demonstrating, in particular, that Martin’s Chronicon represents a valuable perspective within the Dominican historiographical tradition, one that reflects his unique background as a papal chaplain and penitentiary. Philosophy

On Tuesday, 18 September, Stephen Stich gave a philosophy research seminar on ‘Moral Sentimentalism and the Boundaries of Morality’. Prof. Stich is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, and currently an Erskine Fellow in the Department of Philosophy.

School of Fine Arts

Congratulations to Sarah Brown who has been nominated as Administrator of the Year in the UCSA Staff of the Year Awards.

Julia Holderness’s exhibition ‘Florence & Florence: other textile histories’ continues in the Ilam Campus Gallery, Block 2, Fine Arts, come and have a look!

School of Languages, Social and Political Sciences Global, Cultural and Language Studies

JAPA students win a fully-funded study tours to Japan Five students in the Elementary Japanese Course has been selected to participate in a fully-funded two-week study programme in Japan by the North Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Experience (CAPE). It was open to New Zealand students by competitive application, and five of the 15 students that were selected were UC JAPA first year students. They will have the opportunity to travel to the Ishikawa Prefecture to study the Japanese language and culture between November and October. Congratulations to Chris Langridge, Daniel Price, Andy Simmonds, Rosara Harris and Timothy Sullivan. We would like to wish them all the best for their stay in Japan.

Special talk by a UC graduate working in Japan JAPA326 (Advancing Japanese) had a UC graduate, Jonathan Glassey, as a guest speaker. Graduating from UC in 2015 with a double major in Japanese and computer science, Jonathan is currently working at Shuttlerock in Tokyo, a company that was founded by Jonny Hendriksen (the 2014 Keynote Speaker for the NCEA Japanese workshop at UC). In Japanese, he talked about his encounters with Japanese, his learning experience at UC and how he got his current job in Japan. Jonathan went on an exchange to Bukyo University and participated in the Kyushu Japan Railway Internship program during his time at UC, and has obtained a N1 grade (the highest grade) in the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. He is a wonderful role model, using his Japanese language skills and computer programming skills to develop his career.

Sociology and Anthropology

Jarrod Gilbert and Greg Newbold’s edited book Criminal Justice: A New Zealand Introduction, (Auckland University Press, 2017), has been nominated as a finalist in the Copyright Licensing NZ Education awards. Political Science and International Relations

The third year Environmental politics and planning class had a fantastic fieldtrip learning about water with Ōnuku Marae on Saturday 15th, taken by Bronwyn Hayward and Pascale Hatcher. Thanks so much to Debbie Tikao of Ōnuku and Matapopore landscaping and Jeanine Tamati Elliffe Kaiārahi Maori – College of Arts, for the advice and help setting up the event.

Research Centre News National Centre for Research on Europe

Funding Opportunities On Friday 21st September applications will open for the EUCN Scholarships and Research Awards, as well as the special opportunity of a two year PhD Fellowship. These opportunities are available to students at New Zealand Universities studying Europe and provide funding to support them in various aspects of their study, from covering

tuition fees to funding field work. The Deadline for applications is October 31st. For more details and information on how to apply visit: www.jeanmonet.nz/scholarships

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