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Transformations Congress (August 27-28 2007) Draft Programme
23 June 2007
| Byline: | Dr Anne Opie (Conference Organiser) |
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| Source: | Humanities Research Network |
A draft programme for the Council for the Humanities Congress 2007
Venue: Rutherford House (opposite Old Parliament House) Victoria University of Wellington
Overview of Programme:
Monday 27th August
9.00-10.15 Opening ceremonies and speakers
Papers
10.45-5.30 Locating National Identity
10.45-5.30 Framing National Identity
10.45-3.00 Looking Beyond Ourselves in Conceptualising National Identity
5.30-6.00 Refreshments
6.00-7.00 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Julie Ellison Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan and Director, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. "Between Hope and Critique: The Public Imagination and the Cultural Disciplines"
Tuesday 28th
9.00-10.15 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Alan Liu, University of Santa Barbara, Calif.
"'Good Enough' Knowledge: The Humanities and Public Knowledge in the Age of Web 2.0".
Papers
10.45-12.15 Digital Humanities
10.45-5.15 Policy and Law and the Construction of National Identity
1.15-5.15 National Identity in Practice
5.15 Closing Remarks
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PROGRAMME DETAILS FOR MONDAY 27 AUGUST
9.00-10.15 Opening speeches
10.15-10.45 COFFEE / TEA
Papers: Locating National Identity
10.45-11.15 Dr Derek Wallace, VUW "Unity and/or Identity"
11.15-11.45 Charlotte Steel, Canterbury "The Problem of Landscape"
11.45-12.15 Professor Eveline Duerr, AUT, "Representing Purity: national branding and identity in New Zealand"
12.15-1.00 LUNCH
1.00-1.30 Dr John Macalister, VUW, "That Place Would be Better Named 'Glover' contesting identity through the naming of places"
1.30-2.00 Sandra Gorter, Writer, "Our Own Stories: the building blocks of a New Zealand national identity"
2.00-2.30 Dr Malcom McKinnon, VUW, "Fifty Years On: national character and identity then - and now"
2.30-3.00 Professor Patrick McAllister, Canterbury, "Waitangi Day: reflections on national identity and national days"
3.00-3.30 COFFEE/ TEA
3.30-4.00 Dr Luke Strongman, Open Polytechnic, "The Best of Men Declines: post-nationalism in the poetry of Vincent O'Sullivan"
4.00-4.30 Dr Michael Grimshaw, Canterbury, "I to the hills will lift up my eyes, from whence come my aid!", or Pakeha and the condition of modernity'
4.30-5.00 Dr Heidi Quinn, Canterbury,"ONZEminer - a digital tool for tracing the origins and development of New Zealand English"
5.00-5.30 Alison Rutherford, Canterbury, "Look, Janet, look: "the development of a distinctive national visual identity through the illustrations of the New Zealand School Journal 1940-60"
Papers: Framing National Identity
10.45-11.15 Assoc. Prof. Ian Lochhead, Canterbury, "Architecture, Myth and Memory in Twentieth -Century New Zealand"
11.15-11.45 Professor Barry King, AUT, "Lord of the Rings and the Re-negotiation of a Kiwi National Identity"
11.45-12.15 Professor Donald Maurice, VUW & Massey "Alfred Hill - the New Zealand Dvorak?"
12.15-1.00 LUNCH
1.00-1.30 Professor Mark Williams, Canterbury, "The Other From Elsewhere: arrested encounters in bicultural New Zealand"
1.30-2.00 Dr James Meffan, VUW, "Culturalism Gone Mad": the play of cultural rhetoric in the invention of New Zealand national identity"
2.00-2.30 Dr Keith Ovendon, Chair, National Portrait Gallery - title to come
2.30-3.00 Assoc. Professor Pamela Gerrish Nunn, Canaterbury, "As A Woman I Have No Country"
3.00-3.30 COFFEE /TEA
3.30-4.00 Judith Bernanke, Massey, "Shaping Opinions and Policies: New Zealand's media coverage of the 2005 Venice Biennale"
4.00-4.30 Dr John Downie, VUW, "What is a (National) Theatre?"
4.30-5.00 Philippa Smith, AUT, '"From Heartland to Here to Stay' the role of charismatic documentary presenters in national identity construction"
5.00-5.30 Dr David O'Donnell, VUW, "Re-imagining Bi-culturalism: new Maori drama"
Papers: Looking Beyond Ourselves in Conceptualising National Identity
10.45-11.15 Assoc. Professor Philippa Mein-Smith, Canterbury, "Towards a New Intellectual Orientation: antipodean perspectives in the humanities"
11.15-11.45 Dr Peter Field, Canterbury "Speaking to Democracy: Intellectuals and Public Power"
11.45-12.15 Dr Philip Armstrong, Dr Annie Potts (Cant) & Dr Deidre Brown, (Akld).
"Introducing 'Human-Animal Studies': new interdisciplinary scholarship in Aotearoa New Zealand"
12.15-1.00 LUNCH
1.00-1.30 Dr Jean Anderson, VUW, "Disturbing the Surface, Bending the Language: composing indigenous identities in the work of Chantal Spitz and Patricia Grace"
1.30-2.00 Dr Richard Bullen, Canterbury, "New Zealand's Japan"
2.00-2.30 Dr William Jennings, Waikato, "Amélie Nothomb and the Construction of Identity"
2.30-3.00 Professor Karen Nero, Canterbury, "Early Carolinean and Marshallese Textiles in Aotearoa Museums: toward visual repatriation"
5.30-6.00 REFRESHMENTS
6.00-7.00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Professor Julie Ellison, Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan and Director, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life.
"Between Hope and Critique: The Public Imagination and the Cultural Disciplines"
PROGRAMME DETAILS FOR TUESDAY 28TH AUGUST
9.00-10.15 KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Professor Alan Liu, Professor of English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara
"'Good Enough' Knowledge: The Humanities and Public Knowledge in the Age of Web 2.0"
10.15-10.45 COFFEE/ TEA
Papers. Digital Humanities
10.45-12.15 Alison Stevenson, Electronic Text Centre, VUW
Sam Searle, E-Research Development Coordinator, VUW
Ingrid Mason, Digital Research Repository Coordinator VUW
'Digital Humanities: positioning New Zealand research within global networks'
12.15-1.15 LUNCH
Papers: National Identity in Practice
1.15-1.45 Professor Charles Crothers, AUT, "New Zealand's National Identity: the survey evidence"
1.45-2.15 Dr Pat Strauss, Kevin Roach Annelies Roskvist, Frank Smedley and Victoria Yee, AUT, "'Because I want to live in New Zealand long time.' The challenges facing migrant and refugee students in New Zealand: the perceptions of one education provider"
2.15-2.45 Dr Avril Bell, Massey, "Whaddarya? Young Pakeha Talk Cultural Identity"
2.45-3.15 COFFEE/ TEA
3.15-3.45 Dr Bronwyn Hayward, Jessica Buck, Wakaiti Dalton, Nick Kirk Aramiro Tai-Rakena, Celia Sheerin, and Holly Donald, Canterbury, "Facing the Past, Listening to Our Future: how children talk about politics, identity and environment in New Zealand"
3.45-4.15 Professor Paul Morris, VUW, "Is This a Christian Country? New Zealand, identity and religious diversity"
4.15-4.45 Dr Patricia Wallace, Canterbury, "Exploring the Interface of Science and Matauranga Maori"
4.45-5.15 Dr John Newton, Canterbury, "Becoming Pakeha"
Papers: Policy and Law and the Construction of National Identity
10.45-11.15 Janis Freegard, Archives New Zealand, "Archives New Zealand's Contribution to National Identity"
11.15-11.45 Associate Professor Susy Frankel, VUW, "Intellectual Property Law and Cultural Identity"
11.45-12.15 Dr Richard Dawson, Canterbury, "Waitangi Sovereignty Talk against Humanistic Immortality Talk: Nopera Panakareao and Emily Dickinson"
12.15-1.15 LUNCH
1.15-1.45 Ian Goodwin, Massey, "New Zealand's Digital Future: a culturally diverse, socially inclusive, economically vibrant nation?"
1.45-2.15 Sue Abel and Jo Smith, VUW, "Maori TV and Benevolent Biculturalism"
2.15-3.45 Dr Karen Baehler, VUW, "A Family of Diplomats: How public policy expresses and composes national identity"
2.45-3.15 COFFEE/ TEA
3.15-3.45 Te Aroha Hohaia, VUW, "National Identity as a Government Priority?"
3.45-4.15 Dr Camille Nakhid, AUT, "The 2006 Review of New Zealand's Immigration Act 1987: shaping Aotearoa/ New Zealand's national identity"
4.15-4.45 Sally Blundell, Canterbury, "With Nothing to Say: the unspeakability of social violence"
4.45-5.15 Professor Robin Peace, Massey, "Transgressing Sacred Fires: silence, religion and homosexuality in the project of nationalism"
5.15 CLOSING REMARK
