The University of Canterbury and Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington are currently advertising permanent full-time Lectureship positions that are likely to be of interest to ASAA/NZ members.
Position available: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor in Anthropology (Pacific Region)
The School of Language, Social and Political Sciences | Te Kura Mātāpuna Tangata at the University of Canterbury invites applications for a full time (37.5 hours per week) permanent Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor in anthropology. Applicants must have a PhD degree and a record of published research. Preference will be given to Māori/Pacific scholars with an understanding of Indigenous knowledge in Pacific contexts. Applications close on Sunday 12 June 2022 (midnight NZ time).
ASAA/NZ Declares Climate Emergency
'Just let me be DysleXic' - an exhibition based on research by Dr Ruth Gibbons
Lessons from Lockdown: On the Importance of Movement
AAS+ASAANZ 2020 conference ‘Unsettling Peripheries’ postponed
It is with great regret that we inform you of the postponement of the 2020 joint conference of the Australian Anthropological Society and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand. Our conference was to be held in December of 2020, but we have made the difficult decision to postpone the event to the end of 2021.
Why questions of inequality need to be at the forefront of conversations about Coronavirus
India 2020: Statement of Solidarity and Concern From Scholars in/of/from Aotearoa New Zealand
We, the undersigned scholars based in Aotearoa New Zealand universities, express our deep concern at the ongoing police violence and brutality being deployed across India in response to protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 which the United Nations Human Rights Office has called ‘fundamentally discriminatory in nature’. This statement demonstrates solidarity with the protesters, some of whom are students and academic staff of universities in India.
10 questions with ... Jacqueline Leckie
Michael Goldsmith awarded Honorary Life Membership of ASAA/NZ
Michael Goldsmith (Honorary Fellow of the University of Waikato, and Research Associate in Anthropology at the University of Waikato) has been awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand. We are delighted to confer this award upon him in recognition of his four decades of outstanding service to our organisation, to the success of social anthropology at the University of Waikato and throughout the country, and for his many contributions to the Pacific Islands and their peoples.
Position available: Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Waikato
Marsden success for ASAA/NZ members in 2019
Congratulations to our colleagues and ASAA/NZ members Dr Marama-Muru Lanning (James Henare Māori Research Centre at the University of Auckland), Associate Professor Susanna Trnka (University of Auckland), Dr Barbara Andersen (Massey University), and Dr Susan Wardell (University of Otago), who have all won prestigious Marsden Fund grants in 2019.
A Dark Perspective of Anthropology: A Response, by Professor Dame Anne Salmond
A Dark Perspective of Anthropology, by Arcia Tecun
James Cook and White Supremacy: A Comment, by Professor Dame Anne Salmond
In this guest blog post, Prof Dame Anne Salmond provides a comment on the recent article by Lorena Gibson, Catherine Trundle, and Tarapuhi Vaeau, “James Cook and White Supremacy.” Here, Dame Salmond argues for a more complex, relational understanding of past events in order to open up alternative visions of how groups might relate to one another across difference.
Call for Nominations: The Sam Taylor-Alexander Early Career Researcher Prize for Ethics and Engagement within Anthropology
Business or Public Good? Aotearoa’s Universities at a Crossroads, by Professor Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich
In this guest blog post, Professor Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich considers how universities in Aotearoa became positioned as economic players in the contested market of the global knowledge economy, and asks how we might reimagine our universities in ways that deepen democracy and embrace academic values.
Special Issue of SITES 16(1), Christianity and Development in the Pacific
Position available: 3-year, full-time lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Otago
Applications are invited for a 3 year, full-time Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Otago, available from 1 February 2020. We are especially interested in hearing from applicants who specialise in environmental anthropology, sounded or visual anthropology or Indigenous anthropology. Applications close on Sunday 14 July 2019 (NZ time).
