Shaky Isles Theatre
2008 productions from the London based New Zealand Theatre company
http://www.shakyislestheatre.com |
Australia and New Zealand Library
and Archives Group London Workshop
Friday 9th May, 2008
Menzies Room, Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
28 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DS
Please register in advance, registration £10 (£5 students and
unwaged) payable on the day. |
Media and Girls’ Identity Work -
PhD Studentship
Application deadline: 15 May 2008
Recent qualitative research in youth and girlhood studies has begun
to examine the significant part that media play in constructions of
sexual identities. Much of the literature focuses on use of media,
but new technologies have accelerated possibilities for young people
to produce
media.
The project will investigate girls’ identity work as producers of
media (eg., online journals, blogs or videos; video diaries or
films; mobile txts). Specifically, the project aims to identify how
girls produce media and for whom; to explore the influence of
sexualised media representations in girls’ self-representations; and
to examine how girls construct embodied identities in media they
produce. To achieve these goals, the project will gather three kinds
of data: available media produced by girls, interviews with girls
aged 13-16, and media produced by girls for the project. This
innovative project will contribute substantially to emergent
interdisciplinary literatures on girls’ identities and media.
Application forms are available from
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/scholarships.
Further information is available from the contacts below.
Application contact:
Scholarships Office
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600, Wellington
New Zealand
Telephone: +64-4-463 7493
Email: philippa.hay@vuw.ac.nz
Research contact details:
Dr Sue Jackson
School of Psychology
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600, Wellington
New Zealand
Telephone: +64 04 463 5233 extn 8232
Email: sue.jackson@vuw.ac.nz
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2008 Media Studies PhD Scholarship
Application deadline: 15 May 2008
The School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria
University of Wellington invites applications from domestic and
international PhD candidates for the Vice-Chancellor¹s Strategic
Research Scholarships. The scholarship is valued at $20,000 per
annum for three years plus tuition fees. Students from New Zealand
and overseas are encouraged to apply.
In addition to the scholarship, the School of English, Film, Theatre
and Media Studies can offer the potential candidate a vibrant
research environment, mentoring and professional development as well
as research and teaching opportunities. Applicants are expected to
have the equivalent of a New Zealand first class honours degree and
skills and research experience appropriate for the topic. The due
date for applications is 15 May 2008.
Research Topic:
The Role of the Media in Contemporary Settler Nations
Postcolonial studies recognises the central role of cultural
production (literature, art, film) in negotiating and regulating the
relationship
between coloniser and colonised. Media Studies takes seriously the
productive nature of the media (television, the Internet, new media
and music, etc.) in constituting raced, ethnic and cultural
differences. Accordingly, each field has shared concerns about the
ongoing negotiation of colonial and neocolonial relationships.
Applications are invited from those interested in bringing these two
fields together to examine the role and function that the media
plays in
contemporary settler nations. This project invites research
proposals that will explore the study of race, ethnicity,
indigeneity and postcolonial screen culture from a variety of
perspectives, including historical or theoretical approaches. While
much work needs to be done within the New Zealand context, this
topic also invites comparisons between Aotearoa/New Zealand, and
other settler nations (including, but not limited to, Australia and
Canada).
Application forms are available from
www.vuw.ac.nz/scholarships. Further information is available
from the contacts below.
Research contact details:
Dr Jo Smith
School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600 Wellington
New Zealand
Telephone: +64 4 463 6801
Email: jo.smith@vuw.ac.nz
Application contact details:
Philippa Hay
Scholarships Manager
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600 Wellington
New Zealand
Telephone: +64 4 463 7493
Email: philippa.hay@vuw.ac.nz |
2009 Commonwealth Scholarship for
Study in New Zealand
Application deadline: 31 May 2008
The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
has been asked by our partner body in New Zealand to nominate
candidates from the UK to undertake postgraduate study in New
Zealand during the 2009 academic year.
The awards are fully funded by the New Zealand University accepting
the student and further information regarding the value and
eligibility requirements can be found on our website:
http://www.cscuk.org.uk/apply/outward_awards.asp. The
application form and guidance notes are also available online.
The deadline has recently been EXTENDED to 31 May, 2008.
Contact:
Selina Hannaford
Commonwealth Awards Administrator
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
c/o The Association of Commonwealth Universities
Woburn House
20-24 Tavistock Square
London, WC1H 9HF
United Kingdom
selina.hannaford@cscuk.org.uk
http://www.cscuk.org.uk |
New Worlds, New Sovereignties
6-9 June, 2008A
cross-community interdisciplinary international conference in
Melbourne, Australia CALL
FOR PAPERS
Which human groups have possessed sovereignty and who has been
excluded? Can different sovereignties overlap and coexist? Is
sovereignty's ultimate sanction violence? Should nation-states
refuse to interfere in each other's affairs regardless of the
treatment of minorities? In what ways are sovereignties gendered?
Are settler democracy and Native sovereignty compatible?
Our conference will address questions such as these with a view to
bringing history to bear on the problems of the present. The
conference's standpoint is from below. We will be focusing on
sovereignty's consequences for those whom the prevailing order
excludes or diminishes. We will be exploring the possibilities for
change and redress.
Abstracts, in English, should be submitted by APRIL 4th 2008 or
earlier. Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be made within
one week of submission. The Early Bird deadline for conference
registration is April 11th 2008. To submit, please go to the
Abstract section of the conference website at
www.newsovereignties.org
An edited collection of papers from the conference will be published
by a major international publisher.
The New Worlds, New
Sovereignties conference is taking place on Wurundjeri land. We pay
our respects to Wurundjeri elders past and present. |
France and New
Zealand during the Great War / La France et la Nouvelle-Zélande
pendant la grande guerre
3-5 November
2008
A conference organised by the
University of Waikato and the town of Le Quesnoy.
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
On 4 November
1918, New Zealand troops stormed the fortified town of Le Quesnoy,
in a successful battle that was their last of the Great War.
Subsequent links were formed between soldiers and liberated
civilians and to this day many Kiwis visit Le Quesnoy which is the
only French town to have a sister city in New Zealand, Cambridge in
the Waipa district.
This conference will be held at the Le Quesnoy theatre (Théâtre des
Trois Chênes) and will bring scholars together to share their
research related to New Zealanders on the Western front. There will
be only one session which will be open to the local community as
well as visiting academics. The following themes will be addressed:
-Life in occupied France
-Life in the trenches for the “Diggers”
-Leaving New Zealand for the Western front
-The Māori involvement in the conflict
-Encounters between New Zealand troops and French soldiers/civilians
-First impressions of France/ romanticized image of France
-Invasion and liberation
-Commemoration and memorials
-Myths and realities of war
-Personal narratives
Abstract submissions:
Please e-mail an abstract (French or English) of about 200 words and
a short biography (50 words) and your contact details to: Nathalie
Philippe.
Due date for abstracts: 1 April 2008.
This early deadline is needed for New Zealand and Australian
participants to book travel to France.
The organizers feel that this conference should be accessible to the
local and overseas public, and as a result the audience should be a
mix of academics as well as descendants of veterans, local
inhabitants, and New Zealand and Australian visitors.
IMPORTANT
Please note that the conference will be translated. In order to
reduce the costs of interpreting services, there will be only one
session.
Interpreters need to have a copy of your full paper- text only- by
1st October 2008. Papers can be presented in either French or
English.
Please send your full paper – text only, no power-point
presentations- to Dr Nathalie Philippe philippe@waikato.ac.nz by 1st
October 2008.
It is expected that a selection of papers will be published from the
conference in 2009. More information to be advised later.
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Le 4 novembre 1918, les troupes néo-zélandaises libérèrent la ville
fortifiée du Quesnoy après une bataille décisive qui fut leur
dernière offensive de la Grande guerre. Des liens d’amitié se
formèrent par la suite entre les soldats et les civils libérés et,
jusqu’à ce jour, de nombreux Néo-Zélandais visitent le Quesnoy, la
seule ville française à être jumelée avec une ville en Nouvelle-Zélande,
la ville de Cambridge dans la région du Waipa.
Cette conférence se tiendra au théâtre des Trois Chênes au Quesnoy
et réunira des chercheurs qui parleront de leurs travaux sur la
Grande guerre. On y discutera des thèmes suivants :
- vie en France occupée
- vie dans les tranchées
- quitter la Nouvelle-Zélande pour le front occidental
- les Māori durant le conflit
- rencontres entre les troupes néo-zélandaises et les soldats/civil
français
- premières impressions de la France/image romancée de la France
- commémorations et monuments aux morts
- mythes et réalités de la guerre
- narration et narratives personnelles
Résumés:
Envoyez un e-mail (en français ou en anglais) d’environ 200 mots
ainsi qu’une biographie (50 mots) et vos coordonnées à Mme Nathalie
Philippe:philippe@waikato.ac.nz
Date limite : 1er avril 2008. Cette date limite permettra aux
Australiens et aux Néo-Zélandais de réserver leurs billets d’avion à
l’avance.
Les organisatrices considèrent que cette conférence devrait être
accessible au public aussi bien étranger que local si bien que
l’audience devrait représenter un mélange de chercheurs et de grand
public : des descendants d’anciens combattants, des Quercitains et
des touristes australiens et/ou néo-zélandais.
IMPORTANT
Une équipe d’interprètes sera présente lors de la conférence. Vous
pouvez présenter votre exposé en français ou en anglais. Il n’y aura
qu’une seule session afin de réduire les frais d’interprétariat.
Le service d’interprétariat doit recevoir le texte de votre exposé
en entier (date limite 1er octobre 2008). N’envoyez pas de
présentation power-point.
Envoyez le texte à Mme Nathalie Philippe philippe@waikato.ac.nz
avant le 1er octobre 2008.
Certains exposés seront sélectionnés pour une publication ultérieure
en 2009.
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Flogging a Dead Horse: Are
National Literatures Finished?
11
and 12 December, 2008
The Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies and SEFTMS are
organising a conference to be held at Victoria University
of Wellington.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Cultural nationalism has been at the centre of literary history in
New Zealand, as in other literatures. In New Zealand the intense period
of
literary activity of the 1930s and 40s produced a body of work that
sharply influenced thinking about national identity. The 1890s shaped
thinking about
the defining characteristics of an assertively nationalistic
Australian
literature, while Canada after World War II sought a cultural
identity
separate from the overpowering proximity of US nationalism. These
nationalist moments still influence critical discussion and cultural
formations but are now being challenged by alternative nationalisms,
the
outward gaze of contemporary writers, the growth of fantasy and
other
genres, and, above all, globalism. Questions about the relevance of
nationalism in literature are relevant everywhere.
The keynote speaker will be Professor Leela Gandhi, Department of
English,
University of Chicago, who will address the conference title.
Professor
Gandhi is the author of Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought,
Fin de
Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship (Duke University
Press,
2006) and Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (Columbia
University
Press, 1998). Other speakers will be announced.
Papers are invited a range of topics, including:
* The nation in literature
* The Œcanon¹
* Globalism and literature
* Book markets and readerships
* Alternative literary nationalisms
* Contemporary postcolonial and critical theory on the nation
* Culture and literature
* Dispossessed nationalisms
* Fantasy and the nation
* Minority literatures
* Diasporic literatures and nations
Speakers are not restricted to New Zealand topics. Comparative
papers are
welcome.
Organisers: Lydia Wevers and Mark Williams
250 word abstracts should be submitted to Lydia.Wevers@vuw.ac.nz by
1
August, 2008. |
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