In this guest post, Prof Dame Anne Salmond provides a comment on Arcia Tecun’s recent piece, '“A Dark Perspective of Anthropology,” offering another perspective on how to combat racism in Aotearoa.
Call for presentations: Mahi Tahi panel at ASAA/NZ 2019 Breaking Boundaries conference
Graduate Stories: Jacinta Forde
ASAA/NZ 2018 Conference: Improvisation as the Fundamental Phenomenon of Life
ASAA/NZ 2018 conference: An invitation for Māori and indigenous students of Anthropology
Mahi Tahi ki Pōneke invites Māori and indigenous students of Anthropology to join a collaborative installation responding to Whaea Lily George’s call to ‘stir up the silences’ (2017) surrounding Māori and Anthropology, and decolonisation. The installation, made by Māori and indigenous students of anthropology, will be showcased at the ASAA/NZ conference on 6-7 December 2018.
Stirring Up Silence: Mahi Tahi interactive presentation at ASAA/NZ 2018 Conference
Stirring Up Silence: Mahi Tahi is an interactive presentation that will be held at the ASAA/NZ Conference on 6-7 December 2018. This is open to all who wish to engage with Māori student perspectives and experiences of anthropology. It will centre Māori student voices and hopes to generate a broad conversation within anthropology in Aotearoa.
Anthropology seminar in Wellington on 8 November 2018
Come and hear graduate researchers from Victoria University of Wellington’s Cultural Anthropology Programme Jade Gifford (Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa and Ngāi Tuhoe) and Josh Connolly speak about their research. Jade will talk about the history of Māori and Anthropology in Aotearoa, while Josh will discuss findings from his research into sport, identity, and culture in the lives of Samoan-New Zealanders.
10 questions with ... Lyn Carter
10 questions with ... Fiona McCormack
Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku named Emeritus Professor by the University of Waikato
New series Artefact, hosted by Dame Anne Salmond, premieres Monday 7 May on Māori TV
Artefact is a new, 6-part television series hosted by Dame Professor Anne Salmond that tells stories about Aotearoa's past through artefacts and taonga. The series, funded by NZ on Air, will screen on Māori Television at 8.30pm from Monday 7 May to Monday 11 June. Episodes will also be available on demand on Māori Television.
Graduate Stories: Jade Gifford
This instalment of our new series, Graduate Stories, features Honours student Jade Gifford, whose work provided the foundation for Mahi Tahi. In this series we showcase some of the outstanding graduate researchers working in various anthropology departments, or on anthropological topics, around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Celebrating anthropological research in New Zealand: Lorena Gibson
Dr Lorena Gibson is one of the 2016 recipients of a prestigious Marsden Fast-Start Award. Her project, East Side Orchestras: Music, Poverty, and Social Change, explores the social impacts of three charitable organisations that provide free music education programmes inspired by El Sistema, one of the world’s most successful movements for musical and social development, in low decile schools in urban Wellington.
