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07 Aug August

Irish Film Night

Wednesday, 7 August 2019 at 5:30pm - Burns 7, Arts Building at 5:30pm.

21 Aug August

Rent and refuge: Scotland's street-wise history of sanctuary and solidarity

Wednesday, 21 August 2019 at 3:30pm - Burns 5, Arts/Burns Building, Albany Street, Dunedin
Join us for the fifth lecture in the De Carle Distinguished Lectureship Series given by Professor Alison Phipps (UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts, University of Glasgow) on the topic 'Rent and Refuge: Scotland's Street-wise History of Sanctuary and Solidarity'.

 

Café Babel August!

Wednesday, 21 August 2019 at 4:00pm - Humanities Common Room, 1W9 (up the stairs), Arts Building
Speakers of Chinese, German, French, Japanese and/or Spanish - come have an informal chat!

 

The Lost Books of Jane Austen

Wednesday, 21 August 2019 at 5:30pm - Moot Court, Richardson Building (10th floor)
The Centre for the Book welcomes Professor Janine Barchas (University of Texas) for an evening of Jane Austen and book history.

24 Aug August

FFENNA 19 Dance Theatre

Saturday, 24 August 2019 at 5:00pm - Castle 1
Featuring more than 50 dancers performing every style from hip-hop to salsa, and all to a live drum backing, FFENNA 19 is community dance theatre at its best!

30 Aug August

Beyond Conflict: Evolution, Science and God

Friday, 30 August 2019 at 9:00am - Otago Business School, Ground Floor, Lecture Room G.17
This conference aims to promote constructive engagement between the disciplines of theology and science and explore some of the contentious issues in the relationship between science and religion

01 Sep September

Great Scots: Agnes Blackie

Sunday, 1 September 2019 at 2:00pm - Toitū Otago Settlers Museum 
Dr Ali Clarke on the life and career of Agnes Blackie. 

04 Sep September

Irish Film Night (3) - Sing Street

Wednesday, 4 September 2019 at 5:30pm - Burns 7
With the recession hitting people hard in Dublin during the 80s, Conor is moved from his private school to a tough inner-city alternative. As he tries to adjust to a new way of life, he decides to start his own band.

06 Sep September

Researching multilingually with displaced peoples

Friday, 6 September 2019 at 12:00pm - To be advised.
Join us for the sixth lecture in the De Carle Distinguished Lectureship Series given by Professor Alison Phipps (UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts, University of Glasgow) on the topic 'Researching Multilingually with Displaced Peoples'.

09 Sep September

KiwiBuy – the affordable home ownership initiative

Monday, 9 September 2019 at 5:15pm - Archway 2 Lecture Theatre, Dunedin Campus
The Salvation Army and the Centre for Theology and Public Issues are pleased to announce an opportunity to hear about an get on board with KiwiBuy

12 Sep September

Natural Hazards Planning in New Zealand

Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 12:00pm - Centre for Sustainability Seminar Room, 563 Castle Street, Dunedin
Dr Wendy Saunders looks at the challenges and opportunities when planning for natural hazards in New Zealand.

15 Sep September

Chinese Music Performance in colonial New Zealand

Sunday, 15 September 2019 at 2:00pm - Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin
Join us for the third talk in the 2019 Global Migrations Public Lecture Series as Professor Henry Johnson discusses Chinese musical performance in colonial New Zealand.

 

Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Chris Brickell

Monday, 16 September 2019 at 5:30pm - Archway 1 Lecture Theatre, Dunedin Campus (Union Street pedestrian area, opposite the original stone archway)
Professor Chris Brickell delivers his Inaugural Professorial Lecture titled ‘Sherlock Holmes and the History of Sexuality’.

17 Sep September

How do we articulate the value of the Humanities?

Tuesday, 17 September 2019 at 4:00pm -

Burns 1 Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Albany Street, Dunedin


How do we articulate the value of the Humanities? A presentation by Tim Cooper, Head of the School of Arts.

 

Café Babel: September

Wednesday, 18 September 2019 at 4:00pm - Humanities Common Room
It's the penultimate Café Babel!  Do come along for an informal chat.

 

Irish Film Night (4) – Breakfast on Pluto

Wednesday, 18 September 2019 at 5:30pm - Burns 7
As a baby, Patrick (Cillian Murphy) is left by his mother on the steps of the rectory in their small Irish town. He's discovered by Father Liam (Liam Neeson), coincidentally his real father, and placed in an abusive foster home. By the time he's a teen, Patrick identifies himself as transgendered, renames himself Kitten and sets out for London with a rock group in hopes of finding his mother. Along the way he works variously as a magician's assistant, a prostitute and a dancer.

 

The Archibald Baxter Memorial Trust Annual Peace Lecture 2019

Thursday, 19 September 2019 at 5:30pm - Dunedin
Mark Briggs: Absolutism and the Price of Dissent
David Grant
Thursday 19th September at 5.30pm
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre

On the morning of 14 July 1917, guards ordered conscientious objector Mark Briggs out of his bed in Wellington’s Mt Cook Jail, from where he was frogmarched to the wharf to be sent on board the troopship Waitemata, bound for England the following day. Despite repeated calls for him to fight for the Crown, Briggs refused. This lecture covers Mark Briggs’ experiences of resistance, as he held true to his beliefs. It will also discuss Briggs’ post-war work and politics, and attempts to assess his life in the wider cause of conscientious objection in New Zealand in both world wars.

20 Sep September

Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse

Friday, 20 September 2019 at 3:00pm - RMOOT - Moot Court, 10th floor, Richardson Building.
This two-hour continuing professional development seminar will explore the impacts on family members and the strategies that might be effective in managing distress.

25 Sep September

1869 Conference and Heritage Festival

Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 5:00pm - 25 September - University of Otago
26 & 27 September - Otago Museum
28 September - University of Otago
Join us in Dunedin, New Zealand for conversations on topics of wide scholarly and public interest. What happened in 1869 in your field of research or scholarly interest?

26 Sep September

Teaching what you never learnt: Coding and Codable Toys

Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 12:00pm - ERG04 – Education Centre, Union Street East, University of Otago College of Education
Dr Steven S. Sexton's study seeks to address the research question, ‘How effective for teachers is a series of scaffolded professional development and classroom lessons (on coding with codable toys) in addressing the requirement to implement a new subject area that has not been a part of their teaching and learning programme?’

 

The “Pink Vote” in Aotearoa

Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 4:00pm - Richardson 6.N4
Some queer communities in Europe and the United States are supporting right, and far-right, political parties. Can we see the same trends in Aotearoa?

27 Sep September

Noticing Peter Olds: A symposium on the Dunedin poet

Friday, 27 September 2019 at 2:00pm - OBS119 – Otago Business School Lecture Room 1.19
A symposium on Dunedin writer and former Burns Fellow Peter Olds, whose work has been important to poets and other readers of New Zealand poetry since the 1970s.

30 Sep September

Diasporas, (trans)nationalism and identities

Monday, 30 September 2019 at 5:30pm - Burns 1 Lecture Theatre
Third panel in the Politics Spring Lecture Series, hosted by Associate Professor James Headley.

 

Café Babel: The last for 2019

Wednesday, 9 October 2019 at 5:00pm - Humanities Common Room (top of the western stairs in the Arts/Burns building)
1W9 – first floor, west wing, room 9, Arts Building, 95 Albany Street
It's the last Café Babel! Do come along for an informal chat.  Adjusted start time of 5pm.

 

Irish Film Night (5) - Brooklyn

Wednesday, 9 October 2019 at 5:30pm - Burns 7
Young Irish immigrant Eilis Lace (Saoirse Ronan) navigates her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother's home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. But soon, her past disrupts her new vivacity, and Eilis must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

10 Oct October

What is Celtic Noir?

Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 5:00pm - Burns 7 Lecture Theatre, Arts Building 
Professor Liam McIlvanney explores the long and intertwined history of crime writing in Scotland and Ireland. 

 

The post-Cold War international order

Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 5:30pm - Burns 1 Lecture Theatre
The Post-Cold War international order: Problems, challenges and solutions for a sustainable future

11 Oct October

Workshop: The Body Politic Metaphor in Discourse, Past and Present

Friday, 11 October 2019 at 9:00am - Hocken Library Seminar Room
The Body Politic Metaphor in Discourse, Past and Present workshop will examine various aspects of the metaphorical discourse on the body politic from multi-disciplinary perspectives.

 

Global Studies student projects fair

Friday, 11 October 2019 at 11:00am - Arts Building, 1W9: Humanities Common Room
Global Studies students present their projects, engaged in discussions about the term "environment".

 

Digital Humanities Expo 2019

Monday, 14 October 2019 at 1:00pm - BURNS2 Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Dunedin campus
Join us for this year's Digital Humanities Expo, where we mix in critique and current events in heavy measure as we think about DH practice in our curiously polarising contemporary moment... 

15 Oct October

Humanities Teaching and Learning Symposium

Tuesday, 15 October 2019 at 9:00am - Moot Court and Seminar Room 5, Faculty of Law, Richardson Building

Celebrate teaching in the Humanities! Join our workshops and discussions for Humanities staff about the practice of teaching, share your knowledge, and learn from others.

This is a fantastic opportunity to hear from colleagues about a range of different teaching methods and styles.

20 Oct October

A Fair Go? Educational outcomes of former refugees in New Zealand

Sunday, 20 October 2019 at 2:00pm - Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin
Join us for the fourth talk in the 2019 Global Migrations Public Lecture Series as Dr Rachel Rafferty discusses educational outcomes of former refugees in New Zealand.

 

To Not Die of History – A Lecture with Cherry Smyth

Tuesday, 29 October 2019 at 5:30pm - Moot Court Lecture Theatre (10th floor Richardson Building, Dunedin campus)
'To Not Die of History' will draw on "Famished" (Pindrop Press, 2019) Cherry Smyth’s book-length poem that explores the Irish Famine (1845-52) and how British imperialism helped cause mass starvation and the largest refugee crisis of the 19th century.

31 Oct October

The New Farmers Project

Thursday, 31 October 2019 at 4:00pm - Centre for Sustainability Seminar Room, 563 Castle Street, Dunedin
Rural sociologist, Associate Professor Paul Stock, presents The New Farmers Project: Collaborative Creative Scholarship and Utopian Futures of Food -  an interdisciplinary art and research ethnography of new and emerging farmers in the U.S. Midwest.

03 Nov November

Great Scots: Isabel Fraser – Lady Principal

Sunday, 3 November 2019 at 2:00pm - Toitū Otago Settlers Museum
Professor Barbara Brookes examines the life and legacy of Isabel Fraser (1863-1942). Like many early women graduates of the University of Otago, Isabel Fraser became a teacher, one of a cohort who helped raise the standard of girls' education in New Zealand. From 1894 she served as Principal of Wanganui Girls' College, the largest girls' boarding school in New Zealand, before becoming the founding Principal of the first Presbyterian boarding school for girls, Iona College. 

14 Nov November

NZ Hispanic Studies Seminar NHUSS 2019

Thursday, 14 November 2019 at 9:00am - Castle D, with social breakout sessions on campus.
A variety of researchers in Hispanic studies, from around New Zealand, present across four sessions throughout two days.

15 Nov November

150th Anniversary Celebrations - Leap Dance symposium

Friday, 15 November 2019 at 8:30am - Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, Dunedin
The Leap Dance symposium invites dance scholars, pedagogues, curators, choreographers and practitioners to celebrate iconic choreographers and dance educators in New Zealand.

17 Nov November

The Scottish role in developing the Ceylon tea enterprise

Sunday, 17 November 2019 at 2:00pm - Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin
Join us for the final talk in the 2019 Global Migrations Public Lecture Series as Professor Angela McCarthy explores the Scottish role in developing the Ceylon tea enterprise.