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23 September 2019

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UC Arts at the Arts Centre

School of Music

Last Monday night the School of Music presented ‘Modern Art Song’ as part of New Music Central. The capacity crowd were delighted with the presentation by Jennine Bailey, Zara Ballara, Naomi Ferguson and accompanying musicians Tom Rainey, Iola Shelley, Alex van den Broek, Mike Fudakowski and Mark Menzies. Upcoming concerts

• UC Arts Centre Series: Los Angeles Percussion Quartet – Monday 23 September, 7.00pm – Venue: The Great Hall, The Arts Centre of Christchurch, 3 Worcester Bld – Tickets $10/$20, available online or on the door.

Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities

It’s been a busy time at the Teece Museum with a range of activities and classes happening. Community groups continue to make the most of the Fantastic Feasts exhibition by booking one hour guided tours with a curator where we discuss the ancient diet, cooking methods and feasting rituals of the Greeks and Romans. The Canterbury Workers Educational Association and the Rangiora U3A both visited this past week. The school outreach programme runs alongside classes for UC students, and last week museum staff hosted 49 students from Year 12 Cashmere High School Classics classes. In addition to school and community classes, the Museum also played host to a particularly successful public talk by Associate Professor Patrick O’Sullivan. A full house of over 50 visitors were regaled with images and stories of the Greek symposium in the talk ‘Sappho, Satyrs, Socrates and Seduction’. Coming up in October, the Teece Museum has a series of three talks included in the BECA Christchurch Heritage Festival. Our focus for 2019 is ‘For the love of Classics’ and explores the stories of three remarkable teachers of Classics who influenced generations of students at Canterbury University. To find out more about these talks visit www.teecemuseum.nz or view the heritage festival programme online at https://www.ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/whats-on/ UC Arts and the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities bid farewell to Curatorial Assistant, Alice English. We wish her luck with her new position at Canterbury Museum. Thanks for your contribution to both the college and specifically the Teece Museum and Logie Collection.

School of Fine Arts

Student Series III 'Ilam Fables' Min-Young Her, Orissa Keane, Hannah Phillips, Alicia Skeaff ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY, BLOCK 2, SOFA, 13 SEPTEMBER - 27 SEPTEMBER 2019

Ilam Fables is a collaborative exhibition by four final year sculpture students. The show is centred around a set of

original fables, illustrated through crafted objects and the treatment of the gallery itself as a tool and a material. As

is characteristic of fables, Ilam Fables assesses the values of the actions and attitudes that surround us: from

within the art school, and local art networks. At the same time, the show celebrates the whimsical and tactile

potency of a trail of clues. These clues are offered to viewers in the form of ceramics, textiles, leadlights, sound

and spatial interventions. Throughout Ilam Fables Keane, Phillips, Her and Skeaff foreground the show with

generosity and the joy of making.

Image credit: A study toward Ilam Fables

Music

Dr. Francis Yapp gave a pre-concert talk for the recent Chamber Music New Zealand performance by the Victoria Mullova Trio. Dr. Yapp spoke about Ravel’s 1914 Piano Trio in A minor—the main work on the programme—in the context of French artistic and political culture of the time, showing connections with symbolist literature and impressionist painting of the time, and noting that the work—written in the wake of the premiere of The Rite of Spring in Paris a year earlier—also points to the arrival of musical modernism.

History

Dr Chris Jones gave a two-hour presentation, with discussion, to the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists at Parkview Community Lounge Hall, Parklands on Tuesday 12 September. His paper, “The Canterbury Roll: A Contested Past & New Discoveries”, explored the ongoing digitisation project connected with the Roll as well as discussing the most recent scientific analysis of its content.

On Friday 13 September, Chris Jones was invited, as the President of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS) to attend a one-day retreat held at The Mint in Sydney. Organised by the board of the University of Sydney’s Medieval & Early Modern Centre, the purpose of the retreat was to consider the future of the Centre, its structure, governance, financial planning, alignment with USYD strategic goals, and broad academic mission. Chris’s role was to offer an external perspective.

Global, Cultural and Language Studies

Didáctica del Vocabulario – Vocabulary Teaching Workshop On Thursday 12 September the Spanish Programme welcomed Raquel Romero Guillemas, Director of the Cervantes Institute Sydney and Clara Gómez-Jimeno, Education Adviser of the Embassy of Spain, and hosted a professional development workshop for Spanish teachers presented by Isabel Marijuán Adrián, Academic Coordinator of the Cervantes Institute. The Cervantes Institute is Spain’s official language and culture organization, and the largest global network dedicated to the promotion and teaching of Spanish and the vibrant culture it carries around the world. Thirteen high school Spanish teachers attended this interesting event on effective methodology to teach vocabulary to Spanish language learners. It was also a great opportunity for networking, strengthening ties and planting the seeds of future collaboration between UC and the Cervantes Institute.

Human Services and Social Work

Cindy Zeiher, along with her US colleague, Professor Ed Pluth (Chico University) have coauthored a book with the Palgrave Lacan Series, 'On Silence: Holding the Voice Hostage': https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030281465https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030281465 This book promotes a Lacanian approach to silence, arguing that Lacanian psychoanalysis is distinctive for putting a high value on both silence and language. Unlike other disciplines and discourses the authors do not treat silence as a mystical-impossible beyond, at the cost of demoting the value of language and thought. Rather than treating silence with awe and wonder, this book puts silence to work, and it does so in order to deal with the inevitable alienation that comes with becoming speaking-beings. This book will be of great interest to scholars of Lacan and the psychosocial, as well as more broadly to philosophers and linguists alike. 'On silence' has received praising reviews: "Pluth and Zeiher’s On Silence demonstrates that silence, not external reality, is the real object around which words circulate. The book combines the highest conceptual stringency with a clear and witty style which makes it insanely readable. If On Silence will not become an instant classic, then it is better for us, philosophers and other thinkers, to just shut up."

- Slavoj Žižek, European Graduate School, Switzerland, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, New York University, USA and Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, UK

“This compact, lively book makes an invaluable case for silence as an essential concept linking philosophy and psychoanalysis. Without sacrificing an iota of rigor, the authors write in a clear and humorous way, leading the reader on an enjoyable journey through complex arguments that will be engaging for undergraduates as well as revelatory to specialists. It is essential reading.”

- Molly Anne Rothenberg, Professor of English, Tulane University, USA “Ed Pluth and Cindy Zeiher take us on a stunning tour… tackling the essential relation between silence and language, offering us new readings of the philosophical tradition as well as of Beckett, Melville, Claudel, Cage … All this with a firm red thread in their hands, that of the psychoanalytic take on silence as the essential guideline of its theory and practice, and of Lacan’s intervention that doesn’t cease to surprise and inspire.

- Mladen Dolar, Professor at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Author of A Voice and Nothing More

Linguistics

Adjunct Associate Professor Susan Foster-Cohen is a finalist for the 2019 NEXT Magazine Woman of the Year Award. Read more at https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/lifestyle/career/next-magazine-woman-of-the-year-finalists-2019-42217

Media and Communication

Sociology and Anthropology

Mike Grimshaw (Sociology) & Cindy Zeiher (Human Services) are delighted to announce that the latest issue of their open access journal Continental Thought & Theory has been published. This issue, dedicated to Todd McGowan’s, Emancipation After Hegel is now available: http://ctt.canterbury.ac.nz/

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