Fortnightly newsletter for University staff | Volume 38 | Issue 15 | 15 August 2008

Family maintains Key events professorial tradition Hive mind Chris Knox, well-known connoisseur of weird movies, will present a free late-night programme of apocalyptic cinema tracking the dubious legacy of Irwin Allen’s film The Swarm. This will take place at the Gus Fisher Gallery at 6pm on Saturday 16 August, the last day of an exhibition curated by Andrew Clifford, entitled “The swarm: a peek into the hive mind”. The movie, depicting a mutant strain of African bees that threaten to take over the United States, was the point of departure for the show, which explores the complexities of collective intelligence, networked manoeuvres and crowd control. Research challenges The six lectures in the Winter Lecture Series for 2008 are designed to provide thought- provoking reflections on some of the key challenges in modern research. On 19 August from 1-2pm in the Maidment Theatre, PhD students An Hertogen and Bridget Kool, in a session chaired by Professor Jenny Dixon (Planning), will discuss issues facing graduate Adrienne Stone (left) and Jonathan Stone. researchers in the current tertiary education environment. They will explore barriers and An illustrious family and academic link extending for comparativism”. It was the second in the Law enablers for completion, including funding, across three generations was celebrated recently School’s “Heritage lectures” marking 125 years of supervision, and possible future support at the Law School. law teaching at Auckland. mechanisms. The grand-daughter and son of Professor Julius Her research interests are similar to her Stone, who held a chair in Law at Auckland from grandfather’s: constitutional law and constitutional Tragedy in time 1939-41, presented a copy of his portrait while theory with a focus on freedom of expression and Was Shakespeare a lone genius or a product visiting from Australia. bills of rights. She co-edited Hate Speech and of his time? Are his tragedies timeless or Like Julius, both have attained professorial Freedom of Speech in Australia published in 2007. time-bound? Can they be interpreted in a way chairs: Adrienne Stone in Law at the University She was thrilled finally to visit the Law School that speaks to the social realities of our own of Melbourne, and Jonathan Stone in Retinal and and to speak in the Stone Lecture Theatre, named time? Such questions will be explored in the Cerebral Neurobiology at the University of Sydney. after her grandfather. Being accompanied by her Hood Fellow/Alice GriffinS hakespeare lecture After leaving Auckland, Julius Stone, a father Jonathan, who was born in Auckland, made to be delivered by Professor Jean Howard on 21 pre-eminent legal theorist specialising in human it even more special. August at 6pm in the Old Government House rights and social justice, became a professor at “I have long known of the Law School’s high Lecture Theatre. Jean Howard is the George Sydney. He held the Challis Chair in Jurisprudence academic reputation and the warm welcome it Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at and International Law from 1942-72. gives to visitors. It was nice to experience both of Columbia University, New York City. Jonathan’s brother, Michael Stone, is Professor these personally. And I enjoyed the extremely lively In this free public lecture, entitled of Armenian and Religious Studies at the Hebrew discussion that my lecture seemed to provoke.” “Shakespeare and the tragedy of his time and University of Jerusalem. The striking portrait of Julius Stone, a set of three ours” she will discuss how our modern concepts Adrienne, on her first trip to Auckland, delivered images, was painted in crayon by Naomi Berns. The of Shakespearean tragedy were formed, and a public lecture on “Interpreting rights in a original hangs at the Julius Stone Institute of why Shakespeare has continued to be so central globalised world: Some cautious words of praise Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney. to contemporary conceptions of what tragedy is.

University news is published by Communications and Marketing, Fisher Building In this issue 18 Waterloo Quadrant, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142 email [email protected] www.auckland.ac.nz/universitynews 2 Celebrating research awards Editor Judy Wilford 4 Making a mark in Malaysia Photography Godfrey Boehnke Designer Vanda Tong 5 Arresting the Secretary of State From the Vice-Chancellor Celebrating research and

In June, the University responded to critically low levels in electricity supply lakes by researchers initiating an “energy savings drive”. The drive included an email asking all staff to assist in reducing the University’s energy consumption, a dedicated page on our staff intranet, and weekly updates sent to deans, faculty registrars and directors of large service divisions. The updates included data from our electricity monitors and provided feedback on how the University, as well as specific groups of buildings, were doing compared to the same dates in 2007. While the location and availability of monitors, differences in the timing of University breaks and public holidays, and year to year variation in the weather make interpreting such data difficult, the results suggest an overwhelmingly positive response from staff and students. Just prior to the start of the savings drive, electricity consumption was 5.1 percent higher Early Career Research Excellence Award winners. From left to right are Debbie Hay, Gavin Brown, than at the same time in 2007. After the start Elizabeth Broadbent, Maartje Abbenhuis-Ash and Siah Hwee Ang. of the drive the gap started to narrow. By the Staff packed the main lounge at Old Government Mark Bolland and Branislav Jovic were able to be end of Semester One, consumption had House on 30 July to help celebrate the present to accept their awards. The remaining dropped to only 1.8 percent higher than 2007 levels. In the first week of Semester Two, it had University’s excellent performance in research, three were all overseas. reduced by 9.2 percent compared with the and to pay tribute to some of the people who rate of consumption prior to the savings drive. have contributed to this over the last 12 months. Early Career Research Excellence This is an excellent result, particularly Though the formal presentations were to the considering that the national average reported winners of the University’s Early Career Research Award winners towards the end of July was 4.6 percent. Excellence Awards and Best Doctoral Thesis Awards, Dr Maartje Abbenhuis-Ash I congratulate staff and students whose Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart McCutcheon spoke History: Faculty of Arts contributions have ranged from switching off also of the whole year of “outstanding research For: A history of European neutrality, 1815-1945 lights and heaters to programming computers performance” – with results from the Performance to shut down after hours. Dr Siah Hwee Ang Based Research Funding showing “that of 600 If such savings were continued across Management and International Business: Faculty a whole year, our electricity use would be A-rated researchers in the entire country, fully one of Business and Economics reduced by over 5 million kWh per annum (the third are located at this University”. For: The impact of competitive intensity on alliance equivalent of about 10,000 ordinary 60W light Stuart spoke of the new Faculty Research and acquisition strategies bulbs burning continuously for a whole year). Development Funds, established during 2007 with Our carbon emissions would be reduced by a total value of $10 million to support staff in Dr Gavin Brown over 1,140 tonnes CO2 each year. In addition enhancing their research performance; the PReSS Faculty of Education to improving our environmental performance, accounts, also newly established, to provide For: Teachers’ thinking about education: Reflections this level of saving would reduce our annual funding support for PhD research; and the on OECD future schooling scenarios energy costs by over half a million dollars. programme for Major Items of Research Electricity use and carbon emissions remain Dr Elizabeth Broadbent Equipment – “aptly named ‘MIRE’”. an important part of the University’s Psychological Medicine: Faculty of Medical and environmental footprint and of our cost He summarised the University’s excellent Health Sciences structure. I therefore encourage all staff and performance in terms of contracts and research For: Increasing public acceptance of healthcare students to strive to maintain the existing level funding, and paid tribute to the many staff who robots of savings and continue to find other had received national and international awards. opportunities for reducing electricity use. For Winners of the Early Career Research Excellence Dr Debbie Hay further information and advice, please see the Awards each received a certificate and a research School of Biological Sciences: Faculty of Science energy savings section of our environmental grant of $30,000. Professor Jane Harding, Deputy For: Characterising the pharmacology of rodent web pages www.auckland.ac.nz/environment Vice-Chancellor (Research), said in presenting these amylin receptors or contact Denis Agate, our Energy Manager awards that many established and very successful on [email protected] or Lesley Stone, researchers on staff had spoken about how receipt of our Environmental Coordinator on Best Doctoral Thesis winners one of these awards had provided a critical platform [email protected] Mark Bolland to launch their independent research careers. Medicine: Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences She expressed her hope that the awards being For: Studies of the pathogenesis and treatment of presented would “help do likewise for this evening’s secondary osteoporosis winners”. Main supervisor: Associate Professor Andrew Grey; Professor Gregor Coster, Dean of Graduate Co-supervisor: Professor Ian Reid Studies, in presenting the Best Doctoral Thesis Awards and in congratulating the five winners, Tzenka Dianova gave recognition also to their supervisors, and School of Music: National Institute of Creative Arts to all those nominated. and Industries “Nomination is in itself an achievement,” For: John Cage’s prepared piano: The nuts and bolts he said. Main supervisor: Associate Professor Tamas Of the five Best Doctoral Thesis winners, only Vesmas; Co-supervisor: Professor Heath Lees 2 15 August | 2008 Retrospective 1883-2008 . . . in brief Eco-Minds opening Applications are now open for students wanting to represent New Zealand at the biennial Eco-Minds Forum 2009, to be hosted jointly by Bayer New Zealand and The University of Auckland. A major environmental youth programme run in partnership between Bayer and the United Nations Environment Programme, the forum involves students from countries throughout the Asia-Pacific. It will take place in Auckland and Rotorua from 25-30 May with a theme of “Sustainable energy systems: Challenges and opportunities”. Bayer is seeking three delegates to represent New Zealand, with all expenses to be met by Bayer. Applicants must be New Zealand citizens enrolled in a New Zealand tertiary institution, aged between 18 and 24 (on 25 May 2009) and actively involved in environmental or sustainable development activities. They are required to write an essay of approximately 1000 words on a set topic, and provide information about themselves and projects they have been involved with. Inquire to [email protected] or phone 09 441 8591. Twenty years on from Cartwright Key figures involved in the cervical cancer inquiry will speak at a one-day conference marking the twentieth anniversary of the Cartwright Report. “Twenty years after the Cartwright Report: What have we learned?” will be hosted by the Faculty of Law and held at the Hyatt Regency on 29 August. The conference will consider regulatory and legal changes arising out of recommendations in the Report, and ask whether those changes have served their intended purpose of offering greater protection to patients, and whether further changes are needed. Speakers will also examine more broadly the lessons of the “unfortunate experiment” and the Cartwright Report in an age where medical advances regularly create new ethical and legal dilemmas. Prestigious appointment for Peter Lee UniServices CEO Dr Peter Lee has been appointed to the Government’s Growth and Innovation Advisory Board. (GAIB). This is a Proposed Expenditure for 1895, Auckland University College, Council Minutes, 1894, p.196. prestigious appointment to a highly influential Government-appointed board, established in 2002 to provide the Government with high Branislav Jovic For: Diagnostic writing assessment: The level, independent advice on growth and Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty of development and validation of a rating scale innovation issues. GIAB’s secretariat, which is Engineering Main supervisor: Professor Roderick Ellis; part of the Ministry of Economic Development, For: Synchronisation techniques for single and Co-supervisor: Dr Michael Barlow explains that the “Board exists to provide high multiple-access chaotic communication systems level, independent strategic advice to the Christian Röver Main supervisor: Dr Charles Unsworth; Co- Prime Minister and senior Ministers on Statistics: Faculty of Science supervisors: Associate Professor Poul Nielsen, Dr growth and innovation issues”. It also acts For: Bayesian inference on astrophysical binary Waleed Abdulla, Dr Akshya Swain as a catalyst for effecting change, and a inspirals based on gravitational-wave mechanism for integrating perspectives and Ute Knoch measurements building consensus on growth and innovation Applied Language Studies and Linguistics: Faculty Main supervisor: Associate Professor Renate issues. of Arts Meyer; Co-supervisor: Dr Nelson Christensen

The University of Auckland News 3 . . . in brief Lifesaving sisters New international role for Marston Conder Professor Marston Conder (Mathematics) has been elected Vice-President (International) in the new Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Dr Di McCarthy, CEO of the Royal Society of New Zealand – previously Pro Vice-Chancellor (Equal Opportunities) and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science at The University of Auckland – says the society wishes to “raise its profile, influence and reputation internationally and to enhance its working relations with international academies, for the benefit of New Zealand science and technology. “Marston is an excellent choice for the position not only because he is a highly-regarded international mathematician but also because Julia (left) and Georgina Toomey. he has given long service to the Royal Society.” He has served on the Academy Council since Two sisters studying at The University of quite get there but we gained a lot and came 2003, for the last 18 months as president. He Auckland have returned from the Lifesaving a very close second.” has also served on the Royal Society Council World Championships in Germany with a clutch The Toomeys spent nearly three weeks away since 2004. of medals. from New Zealand and their full-time studies. “Marston will make a wonderful ambassador Julia Toomey, a Bachelor of Architectural Studies In the months leading up to the event they each for the Royal Society of New Zealand,” she says. graduate who is now taking a Postgraduate devoted around 20 hours a week to training. Diploma in Architecture, won one gold medal, four Julia organises friends “to sort out notes for me University on show silvers and two bronzes. She snatched first place in while I am away, and my lecturers have been very Courses and Careers Day, when prospective the 100-metre rescue medley by a margin of just understanding. Although I know that I will be students flock to the University in huge numbers, 0.1 second. heading back into a massive workload to try and is on Saturday 30 August (9am-3pm). Georgina, two years her junior and an LLB catch up!” The event is for secondary school pupils, mature student, gained two silvers. These were in the female The shock post-Germany was even ruder for students, anyone else interested in university study tube rescue with Julia and two others, and in the Georgina. Less than 24 hours after landing back and their families. They can check out courses and 50-metre manikin carry, where Julia was third. in Auckland she faced a one and a half hour exam the careers into which they lead. Together they helped lift the 12-strong New in equity. Jet-lag notwithstanding it “went far better Some 150 lectures will be presented along Zealand team to second place with 837 points, not than I expected”. with tours, performances and entertainment. far behind Australia on 889 and well ahead of The competing pressures of surf lifesaving and Faculties and service divisions will be based next-placed Italy on 526. Around 4000 lifesavers study are, for her, a bonus. “Being constantly busy in the Owen G. Glenn Building, the School of competed in Berlin at the pool events and in makes me much more motivated and I have to Engineering, the Kate Edger Information Warnemunde at the sea-based events. utilise my time efficiently.” Commons and the Recreation Centre with many Their father was a Commonwealth Games Julia agrees. “You have to think of it as a staff involved on the day. swimmer in 1974 and both sisters have swum for part-time job and be very, very organised.” Free buses will bring visitors from as far away New Zealand, Georgina at the 2006 Commonwealth “It is also fantastic having something outside as Whangarei and Tauranga as well as from Games in Melbourne. Not until “Rescue 2008”, as sport – a challenging but rewarding degree – to across Greater Auckland. the world champs in late July were called, had they work towards,” says Georgina. “I know that once The printed programme, which has been been in the same national side. I have finished with lifesavingI will have something widely distributed to schools, is available from “The highlight for me was being able to race for behind me. Education for me has always been of the Call Centre, 0800 61 62 63. It is also online New Zealand alongside my sister,” says Julia. “We the highest importance.” at www.coursesandcareers.auckland.ac.nz push each other to the limit and are both better for On completing her Law degree next year she The day is being coordinated by Lisa Healy in it. It is great being able to celebrate something like intends pursuing a legal career. Marketing (ext 85219, [email protected]) that with someone so close to you.” Meanwhile Julia will be working towards a Master The Kiwi team was “a very close knit bunch of of Architecture (Professional) in 2009 to qualify as Campus development friends all aiming for the same goal – to win the an architect. Her ultimate ambition is to set up her Consultation began on 28 July with staff, world championships. Unfortunately we did not own firm specialising in sustainable design. student representatives and other stakeholders on some possible proposals for future campus development. Staff are reminded that the Making a mark in Malaysia deadline for comment is 1 September. The proposals are outlined at www.auckland.ac.nz/ The first cohort from The University’s initial a completions ceremony in Kuala Lumpur. campus-development-proposals. Comments venture into an offshore twinning programme The BEd (TESOL) programme was initiated by are to be emailed to campusconsultation@ recently received special recognition at a Professor Rod Ellis (Applied Language Studies and auckland.ac.nz. ceremony in Malaysia. Linguistics) and is a joint venture between the The 24 students who graduated with a Bachelor Faculties of Education and Arts. Students study half of Education TESOL in the May graduation their courses in Education and the rest in Arts, ceremonies were among those further honoured by including papers in linguistics and language the Malaysian Secretary General for Education at teaching. The entire programme is supervised and 4 15 August | 2008 Viewpoint moderated by The University of Auckland, which oversees the teaching in Malaysia at the Arresting the Secretary of State International Languages Teacher Training Institute (IPBA). The recent visit to New Zealand by the US are important differences between what police The programme is also a wider partnership Secretary of State led to calls for her arrest for officers can do and what those who are not between The University of Auckland, Victoria war crimes, with the suggestion that a citizen’s police officers can do under what is commonly University of Wellington, Queensland University of arrest be made, and a practical response from called a “citizen’s arrest”. Technology, Macquarie University, and University police that anyone who sought to get through In short, the police can arrest anyone they College, Plymouth, England. Each student received a the security screen to arrest Ms Rice was likely have good cause to suspect has committed an full scholarship from the Malaysian government for to find substantial obstacles in their way. “offence” punishable by imprisonment. An the four-year degree programme, and was among The underlying question is what can be done offence is anything punishable under the Crimes 124 graduates who had the opportunity to study in New Zealand if a war criminal happens to Act or any other statute, and so includes at one of the five international partner universities. land here. transgressions of the statutes creating extra- International scholarships are highly sought The starting point is the concept of national territorial offences: the key phrase becomes after in Malaysia, with more than 100,000 sovereignty: basically, the nation where a crime “good cause to suspect”. applicants this year for just 5,000 places. There is committed has the authority to deal with it, and The arrest power of the “citizen” (which covers are five cohorts in the University’s contract, with other nations have no responsibility to try crimes anyone in the country, not just citizens) is much the final cohort beginning this year. that occur outside their territory. There may be more limited, and somewhat lacking in clarity. The University of Auckland programme is extradition provisions allowing the arrest and Anyone may arrest a person in the process of taught in Malaysia for the first and final years of return of suspected criminals to the jurisdiction committing any offence against the Crimes Act the course and students come to Auckland for the where their offence allegedly occurred, but that is carrying three years’ imprisonment or any second and third years. Dr John Hope, education where the trial should take place. sentence if they are committing it at night. director for the programme, says this provides an However, there are several exceptions to Although “offence” is defined as being one invaluable opportunity for total immersion not this principle of territoriality. So, for example, contrary to the Crimes Act or any other statute, only in the English language but also another engagement in the slave trade outside New the citizen’s arrest power is limited to offences education system. Zealand has for long been an offence in against the Crimes Act, leaving unclear whether University of Auckland graduate Cheryl Ng New Zealand, and the Crimes Amendment Act this covers offences under other statutes or not. received one of five Excellent Student Awards for 1995 introduced provisions making serious sexual More importantly, protection is only afforded to her academic and teaching achievements during offences committed against children outside New those who carry out a citizen’s arrest when the the programme, and was also selected to present Zealand punishable in New Zealand. offence is being committed. I won’t even the valedictory address on behalf of the 125- In the context of war crimes, there are various mention the problems that arise because of student group. Now teaching English in an upper other instances of extra-territorial jurisdiction. diplomatic immunity. secondary school in Malaysia, she says her time The Geneva Conventions Act 1958 makes it an The net effect of all this is that police advice here was an invaluable chance to see the best offence punishable in New Zealand to commit not to try a citizen’s arrest for war crimes is aspects of two education systems. a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions sound: the proper course would be to try to “Our lecturers always told us to observe how governing conduct during war. Those involved persuade a judge to issue an arrest warrant. things are done in New Zealand,” she remarked, in torture outside New Zealand (including This did happen in the context of an Israeli “and then see what is best for our country. They inciting torture by others, which might apply general alleged to have taken part in conduct reminded us to adapt the methods we’ve learnt to government officials who make it policy to that breached the Geneva Conventions Act, to suit our local classes.” torture) commit an offence against the Crimes of though the warrant was never enforced because Examples of innovative teaching adaptations Torture Act 1989, which was enacted in order to the Attorney-General refused to consent to the generated in their first six months of teaching were comply with the UN Convention Against Torture. prosecution: see Wakim v Ya’alon, NZ Herald, presented by two Auckland graduates at a recent And the International Crimes and International 1 Dec 2006. international conference. Teaching English to Criminal Court Act 2000 allows New Zealand to Kris Gledhill (Law) reluctant urban teenager students, one Auckland cooperate with the International Criminal Court graduate utilised construction of Facebook pages and also makes provisions relating to the trial to motivate students to write in English. and punishment in New Zealand of genocide, High honour Another graduate described teaching the crimes against humanity and war crimes The last issue of University News reported indigenous Orang Asli people in an isolated jungle committed outside New Zealand. Common to that Distinguished Professor Dame Anne environment where the students did not want these provisions, however, is that the Attorney- Salmond had been elected a Corresponding to attend school to learn the official Malaysian General must agree to prosecutions going ahead. Fellow of the British Academy. language Bahasa, let alone English. He found he Arresting someone suspected of these crimes At the time University News had not could initiate learning by joining the students at the over which New Zealand has extra-territorial yet learned that Professor Peter Phillips local fishing hole after school and introducing Bahasa jurisdiction is a separate matter. The 2000 Act (Economics) has also been elected and English terminology to the fishing context. allows the arrest of suspects being sought by a Corresponding Fellow. the International Criminal Court, the mechanism For scholars in the humanities and social being an arrest warrant issued by the District sciences this is a similar distinction to that Court, following which there is a process to of their peers in scientific disciplines who are determine whether the person should be elected to the Royal Society of London. surrendered to the ICC. But what if the offence Peter is currently Sterling Professor of is to be tried in the courts in New Zealand, Economics and Professor of Statistics at Yale as is possible under the 2000 Act or under the University, where he has been from 1979. Geneva Conventions Act or the Crimes of Since 1992, he has held a part-time position in Torture Act? Judges have powers to issue the Department of Economics at The University warrants of arrest (authorising a police officer of Auckland, and visits the department two or From left are Professor Raewyn Dalziel, Deputy Vice- to carry out the arrest). Arrest without warrant three times a year. Chancellor (Academic), Cheryl Ng and Dr John Hope. is possible under the Crimes Act 1961, but there The University of Auckland News 5 Books

Remote sensing image Children to the Insomnia analysis forefront America’s National Sleep Foundation claims that problems as various as anger, stress and obesity Published by McGraw-Hill Professional, Digital Since before the Enlightenment, people have may be caused by lack of sleep. Analysis of Remotely Sensed Imagery by Dr Jay been philosophising about how best to educate Attempting to put such claims in historical Gao (School of Geography, Geology and children. perspective, Insomnia: A Cultural History by Dr Environmental Science) is a milestone in Now a new book co-edited by Sandy Farquhar Eluned Summers-Bremner (English), considers how advancing the knowledge of remote sensing (Education) – with independent researcher Peter sleeplessness appears in the art, literature and image analysis. Fitzsimons, a PhD graduate from the University – social arrangements of earlier cultures. When Jay took up the position of lecturer in this offers critical insight into current issues affecting Beginning with insomniacs appearing in Homer’s area, he faced the difficulty of finding a suitable early childhood education. Iliad and Odyssey and the Mesopotamian epic textbook for his teaching. This forced him to start In developed countries around the world, Gilgamesh, the study goes on to consider how the his curriculum development from scratch. Nearly governments are encouraging women to return literatures and art of China, India, Japan and Europe two decades of ceaseless efforts, in conjunction to work, creating an increased demand for quality up until today have portrayed the sleepless state. with findings of his own research project, have early childhood services. But what is best for Insomnia can be difficult to understand because culminated in the publication of this 736-page women, children and families? it is the absence of oblivion, in which one state that book that provides comprehensive and Philosophy of Early Childhood Education – is dark to us, not knowing why we cannot sleep, authoritative coverage of the various topics in Transforming Narratives, published by Blackwell forbids us access to another: unconsciousness. image analysis. Publishing, offers an original analysis of some Insomnia traces a decline in the western world’s It fundamentally overcomes the defects of competing and conflicting theories of early ability to understand and express the activity of dark the few existing books in this area. childhood education. This is important in a society and unconscious states to the eighteenth century. This milestone publication has dramatically where intensive government involvement suggests Sermons aligning sleep with slothfulness, widespread expanded our knowledge of how to extract that early childhood education has taken on a consumption of coffee and sugar, the fostering of information from satellite imagery accurately in greater social, political, and economic importance. gossip, political debate and newspaper reading in the digital environment, in the light of emerging This international publication contains London’s coffee houses late at night, all helped satellite imagery, better computer algorithms, peer-reviewed articles from a diverse range of create an environment unfavourable to sleep. and powerful software packages. leading educators in New Zealand, Australia, the But insomnia was also exacerbated by new and It also incorporates the most recent advances USA, Britain, Finland, Sweden and France. What complex meanings associated with darkness in the in sensing technology and innovative analytical they have in common is the desire to question period. The first venture capitalists, obsessed with methods. More importantly, it identifies the most what counts as received wisdom in childhood the future value of their investments, did their recent trends in image analysis, and points out the education theory and practice, and a preference dealing in the coffee houses while their trade was direction of future development in this constantly to acknowledge the complex and unique creations underwritten by the dark barbaric practice of evolving field, given the emergence of non-imaging that are our children. profiting from the labour of unseen African and LiDAR data, global positioning systems, and the As of 2012 all early childhood educators in Caribbean slaves. ever increasing applications of geographic New Zealand will need to hold a formal As the west became less literate in the active, information systems. qualification and be registered. Sandy agrees that material processes occurring within or by means of Marketed internationally, this book will be while this is an important benchmark to reach, we darkness, its ability to understand sleep’s absence suitable as a textbook for upper level need to think about the best way to structure early was passed to medicine. Yet the medical profession’s undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well childhood policy and funding to provide the best endorsement of the products of pharmaceutical as a useful reference for geoinformatic scientists possible early childhood experience. companies may divert attention from the ways our and practitioners alike. “We have brought together some deep thinking culture itself generates the conditions for insomnia. at a philosophical and policy level about what Contrary to many of the quick solutions of our children and families need,” says Sandy, “because world, managing insomnia requires us not only presently the real push is coming from market- to learn about the body’s complex placement in driven forces instead of what is best for the people time – biochemical and social – but also to learn concerned.” how to yield to it.

6 15 August | 2008 From the collection Art Often mistaken for part of the architecture, always wanted to be a magician – “the inexplicable Don Driver’s Untitled Construction (1982) is both and magical have always appealed to me”, he simple and spectacular. explains – and his works often use unexpected It is one of seven art works by different juxtapositions. As the manager of a fertiliser works contemporary artists commissioned by Pat Hanly who provided materials to Driver remarked: “It is in 1982 to complement the design of the new a great achievement for a fertiliser bag to become School of Architecture building. a work of art – and a surprising one.” Known for his ability to exploit the suggestive One of the lessons that Driver learned through his power of combinations of ordinary things, Driver close observation of American expressionism was was given a dark corner of the foyer to animate. that colour need not be placed in the service of form Fixed to the wall at the top by a system of five but could assert its own identity. In this work, the towel rails, vinyl sheets in the three primary proximity of the complementary colours orange and colours of red, yellow and blue and the secondary blue helps them enhance each other’s strength. colour of orange, create a bright four-metre fall Recycling discarded tarpaulin material (“Used is of colour down the wall. Floating freely in front like a criteria” as Elizabeth Smither notes in her poem, a set of mirrors for a caged bird are three Pouch for Don) Driver finds his colour ready-made. suspended steel panels which turn slowly in space He affects an informality which seems casual, but with wind currents, reflecting alternately the work the bands of colour are carefully measured out and its surrounds. against each other, their distance from the wall and Taranaki-based Driver trained as a dental each other balanced to create shadows and depth. technician and then worked for a paint and By hanging shiny panels in front of the colour, Driver wallpaper merchant in New Plymouth, and is invites a reflective response. self-taught as an artist. His six-month bus trip Driver instructs people to stop looking for Don Driver (born 1930) Untitled Construction, 1982, mixed media, across the United States provided first-hand meanings in his work, saying “I am simply five vinyl sheets and three suspended steel panels, experience of the colour field paintings of exploiting colour and form in relationship one to 3087 x 2090 x 640mm American abstraction, and the assemblages the other. What you see is what the painting really of Pop artists which motivated him to “not is. There is no story behind it. No inner to copy, but to make an equivalent from significance.” This work keeps the play between materials around me”. warm and cool colours constant but its free- Often described as a regional artist, Driver floating steel parts offer change, and a different transforms everyday materials to leap beyond their effect to every viewer. mundane origins into the realm of art. As a child he Lynda Tyler Conference showcases the University extend their understanding of their own and related disciplines, but also on the comfort and convenience of the venue, which facilitated interaction, both formal and informal – and on the technology in the lecture theatres which allowed for effective delivery of information. “It was very well-organised – and what facilities!” wrote Monica Melanchthon from India, who leads the newly-created Society of Asian Biblical Scholars, which held its first meeting at the congress. For University of Auckland PhD student in Theology, Anthony Rimell, the proximity of the lecture theatres to each other was a bonus. “There have been enjoyably serendipitous sessions that I have popped into and found something unexpected. I picked a couple of sessions just by choosing a door and going in. That was a way of seeing things I might otherwise not have seen.” The report now published on the SBL website makes special mention of the “great ceremony” of the powhiri at Waipapa Marae, “the cross- Left to right are three of the people who had most to do with the success of the conference: Professor Elaine disciplinary dialogue and interaction between Wainwright (Theology), Pervin Medhora (Theology Registrar) and Trista Krock from SBL in the US. scholars from different organisations”, and the “legendary” Kiwi hospitality, with thanks from SBL Enthusiastic feedback has confirmed that and held in the Atrium and lecture theatres of to “the School of Theology and The University of overseas visitors here for the International the Faculty of Engineering, brought together more Auckland for all of their efforts and support in Congress of the Society of Biblical Literature than 475 participants from New Zealand, helping create one of our most successful meetings”. (SBL) returned to their home countries with Australia, Oceania, Iceland, Hong Kong, the SBL is the world’s largest international scholarly strongly favourable impressions both of the United States, Britain and elsewhere. organisation in Biblical studies. Auckland is only conference and of the University. When asked about its highlights, most the second Australasian venue chosen for its The Congress, hosted by the School of Theology participants focused not only on the chances to international congress in more than ten years.

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