"Symbolising New Zealand"

Conference Programme:

Session

Presenters

Respondents

 

9.30-11.00

 

  • Mark Stocker. “Devaluing the Pound? A consideration of The Invention of New Zealand:
  • Lynne Briggs. “Changing countries – changing cultures: can individuals who have developed in one cultural environment learn to live in another?”

 

 

Dr Ed Hanfling, Media Arts, Waikato Institute of Technology

 

Professor Grant Gillett

11.00-11.15
Morning Tea

 

 

 

11.15-12.45

 

  • Mick Abbott, Jacinta Ruru, Janet Stephenson. “100% Landscape”
  • Alex Wearing. “Waterfalls as New Zealand symbols”

 

Associate Professor Murray Rae

12.45-1.45
Lunch

 

 

 

1.45-3.15

 

  • Alistair Fox. “Symbolising the shadow-side of New Zealand experience in contemporary literature and film”
  • Steven Gardiner. “Tussock Land (1904): nation, race and modernity in a New Zealand ‘Maoriland’ novel”

 

Associate Professor Tony Ballantyne

 

3.15-3.30
Afternoon Tea

 

 

 

3.30-4.30

 

  • Roundtable with Malcolm Mulholland, Massey University, editor of Weeping Waters: The Treaty of Waitangi and Constitutional Change (Huia, 2010): “How appropriately is New Zealand symbolised in the current flag, name of the country, and national anthem, and should they be changed?

 

 

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