I have sad news to share of the passing of Thérèse Angelo, Director of the Air Force Museum, on Sunday. Thérèse made a huge contribution to the heritage community in Canterbury, especially after the earthquakes when she established the Cultural Collections Recovery Centre, and backed her team to help rescue a  number of collections across Canterbury immediately following the quakes. She was a true leader and will be sadly missed.

From one of our regulars at MB…

From our colleagues in Aotahi…

The poetics of Māori presence, 1872-2018: Domett, Best, Hulme and Tibble.

Wednesday 26 September
Aotahi School of Māori and Indigenous Studies Foyer  1-2pm 

Tēnā koutou katoa. Mihi mai, mihi mai.

This seminar will address the presence of poetry about Māori, in English, by two Pākehā writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Alfred Domett, 1811-1887; Elsdon Best, 1856-1931); and poetry written by two Māori women of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries (Keri Hulme, 1947-; Tayi Tibble, 1995 -).

The writers under discussion make up four distinct groupings: English born settlers, mid-colonial period, male (Domett); New Zealand born Pākehā, late colonial period, male (Best); Māori baby boomer post-WW2, female (Hulme); and  Māori, late Millennial, female (Tibble).

The aim of such a wide span of time is to present a series of historical snapshots over 150 years that might show us how far we have come, how long it has taken, and what the future might promise in the post-Treaty settlement era for our poetry in general, and poetry by Māori, in particular.

Nā reira, nau mai, haere mai, tēnei te mihi atu nei.

Nāku noa nei
Nā
Dr Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
Senior Adjunct Fellow
Humanities and Creative Arts

Mōrena, we’re just having a bit of trouble with the phones at MB this morning. If you need to get hold of us try calling the person’s direct dial. Thanks.

Ka haere tātou ki Cafe Reo i te ahiahi nei. Ka haere tatou ā rua karaka i te ahiahi ki te Ao Mārama tomokanga.

Patua te whakamā!

Have you ever thought about attending Cafe Reo but feel a bit whakamā (shy/embarrassed)? Now is your chance to feel more confident by attending with a group of library colleagues.

This event will run as part of the library’s commitment to Te Wiki o te reo Māori, but it is hoped that it will give us the confidence to attend cafe reo in future.

What? Cafe Reo is a weekly event run by Aotahi for UC staff to come together and speak te reo.
When? Tuesday 11 September 2.00pm
Where? Aotahi foyer, Te Ao Mārama
Who? You! If you are prepared to give speaking te reo a go.

If you don’t know much te reo and want to practice in advance, you could think about practicing introducing yourself in te reo using your Māori job title, go over some basic greetings etc.

More info about Library Te wiki events is here: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.nz/counterculture/2018/06/19/call-for-volunteers-te-wiki-o-te-reo-maori-maori-language-week-campaign-2018/

Cafe Reo has it’s own facebook page too (sorry I couldn’t paste the link properly!

Please contact me if you would like to attend – comment here or email me.

Kia kaha te reo Māori!

A MBC event that you may be interest in….

Many small island states in the Pacific are faced with the frightening prospect of being inundated. Where will they go? What can neighbours like New Zealand do? What are the long term solutions? These are critical political and humanitarian questions of our time in our part of the world.

 Distinguished panellists

Dr Megan Woods (New Zealand government minister)

Mr Lopeti Senituli (Tongan government representative)

Dr Iati Iati (Political scientist, University of Otago)Darren Brunk (Humanitarian specialist, Oxfam)

Facilitator: Prof Steven Ratuva (University of Canterbury)

The distinguished panel is part of the Macmillan Brown lecture series. Organized by the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies,  University of Canterbury

The discussions will revolve around the Pacific’s and New Zealand’s role in addressing the issue of “climate change migrants,” those who, in the future, might be forced to leave their island homes as a result of climate change. Should countries in the Pacific, including New Zealand change their immigration policies to facilitate climate change migrants? What would/should happen to the “abandoned” “sinking states”?  What are the humanitarian and human security implications of climate change migration? These are just some of the questions to be explored by the distinguished panel.

Time: 6pm October 18

Venue: Arts Lecturer theatre 3 (A3), University of Canterbury

Refreshments will be served afterwards

ALL WELCOME

The MB team welcomed two temporary team members last week.  Nanette Ainge (left) and Kate Manning will be with us until the end of October, moving architectural drawings into their brand new cabinets and updating locations. And if you don’t recognise the location of this photo, it’s the library warehouse…believe it or not!

We will ask them to tell you a bit more about themselves in the next Kaweroko.

Professor George Noblit, STED Visitor and UC Canterbury Fellow
Inverting Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Lessons about Power, Dominance and Culture

 Date: Thursday 16 August, Wheki 451
Time: 4-6pm. Refreshments available from 3.30pm

Pedagogies that have been proposed for those who are racial and ethnic minorities share a common thrust. They are all proposals for dominant group member teachers—that is, white people in the US and in New Zealand. This means that they are imbued with ideas about the nature of power and domination and with how culture is to be defined.  They can be seen as compromised messages to the more powerful.

In this seminar, I will invert ideas about culturally sustaining pedagogy to see what they say about, and to, dominant, white groups. In particular, I will discuss issues of power that this raises. Power also affects how culture itself is constructed in culturally sustaining pedagogies—transmuting it from taken for granted (and hard to recognize and articulate) beliefs, oppositions, and practices into more explicit and recognizable tropes –culture for the non-native, settler colonist. For me, this, in turn, implies that culturally sustaining pedagogies entail trade-offs that may be as oppressive as they are liberatory. Shifting towards the latter requires the dominant group see deficits as our own and take responsibility for our power and its effects.

There is no cost to attend.

All welcome!

This seminar is sponsored by the Teacher Learning and Innovations Research Hub and the School of Teacher Education, University of Canterbury.

Inquiries: Dr Jane Abbiss jane.abbiss@canterbury.ac.nz.

Kia ora library colleagues

We just wanted to let you know that a full time Macmillan Brown library assistant role is now advertised on the UC vacancies website. This is to replace Rebecca Taekema. It closes 14 August.

Jo and Caroline