Next Week in Focus Weekly Newsletter for University Staff | 1 June 2015
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Next Week In Focus Weekly newsletter for University staff | 1 June 2015 security, resilience and prosperity. It will set out lowest graduation rate in all of college sports Diary New Zealand’s defence policy and how policy without specific and purposeful corrective will be implemented to advance the nation’s programming. Monday 1 June national security and interests. In this regard This discussion will focus on the power of Queen’s Birthday holiday the Defence White Paper 2015 will provide the mo’olelo, its role in decolonizing spaces basis for the Defence Force’s and Ministry of in education, or in the creation of new Doug Lawrence Concert Defence’s strategy and planning from 2015 (decolonized) spaces for PIs. Public Performance with Ron Samson, Oliver onward. Keali’i is a PhD student at University of Holland and Kevin Field. 7-9pm, Studio One, The public consultation process provides New California, Los Angeles, Department of Higher Kenneth Myers Centre. Zealanders with the opportunity to give their Education and Organizational Change Keali’i Cost: $10 / $20 - prepay through Eventbrite, views on the future security challenges facing focuses on research that develops programs https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/doug-lawrence- the nation; the appropriate roles for our armed and policies in higher education that will concert-tickets-16795125673. Eftpos ONLY at forces in responding to these challenges; and create decolonized learning spaces that value venue. the capabilities that are most likely to be cultural and racial identity development and its Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, saxophonist required to fulfil these. The results of these many inter-sectionalities, critical consciousness Doug Lawrence spent over 20 years making consultations will inform the development of development, praxis development and servant a name for himself in New York City. Artists the Defence White Paper 2015. leadership. Doug has performed and recorded with include Queries to [email protected] Queries to [email protected] Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray School of Critical Studies in Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra and Wednesday 3 June Education RUPIE seminar many others. Paul Omondi talk Keali’i: Power of Mo’olelo: Pacific Islanders, Doug has performed on six continents, at Hear Paul, a former sponsor child, discuss his higher education and sport in the United virtually every major concert hall, jazz club and life. 12.30pm, Maclaurin Chapel, 18 Princes States. 6pm, J101, J block, Faculty of Education jazz festival in the world and has performed for Street, University of Auckland. Queries to and Social Work, 74 Epsom Ave, Epsom, five American presidents as well as the Queen [email protected] Auckland. of England and the Royal Families of Monaco, Free. All welcome. White men in the US have long dominated Sweden and Spain. the academic space. These elite scholars have As the featured tenor saxophone soloist with studied Pacific Island (PI) communities through the Legendary 18-time Grammy Award winning Thursday 4 June a lens of cultural supremacy to analyze and Count Basie Orchestra, Doug has toured the Anthropology seminar interpret data, their voices to create narratives world extensively. The Basie Orchestra has no Fiona McCormack, University of Waikato: about the cultural deficit in our communities, parallel in jazz. They have won more awards, Neoliberalising the environment: Fisheries and have been the sources of knowledge polls and Grammys than any other jazz big quota systems in New Zealand, Iceland and production that has justified colonization of band in history. The chair Doug fills (1st tenor) Ireland. 4-5.30pm, Anthropology Tea Room, Indigenous peoples and our lands. College has been inhabited by a virtual “who’s who” of Human Sciences Building (201-802). sports in the US has continued the process of jazz tenor saxophonists. Payment for ecosystem services, of which colonization for PI communities Doug is visiting the University with two events the quota management system (QMS) in 1. Through the recruitment of brown bodies as open to students, staff and general public. fisheries is one of the first examples, have natural resources, Queries to [email protected] been embraced as constituting a possible first 2. By exercising ownership of those products step towards coupling the wealth generating by profiting from their names and likeness in power of capitalism with sustainably managing Tuesday 2 June perpetuity, environmental resources. There are, however, Defence White Paper public 3. By discarding these products with no often inequitable social consequences that consultation responsibility to the maintenance of their accompany the implementation of market 2-3pm, Northey Lecture Theatre, School of Law injuries once they have left the university, mechanisms in environmental management. (801-204). 4. By preserving education as a mechanism of Drawing on fieldwork in New Zealand, Iceland Have your say on campus. NZ Defence assimilation, deculturalization and erasure, and Ireland, this seminar explores the role of officials will brief students and staff on the 5. Maintaining white supremacy in all privatisation and marketization in fisheries Defence White Paper 2015 process and invite academic and athletic leadership positions, in generating social change, and, uses suggestions for inclusion. and anthropological approaches to ‘nostalgia’ The Defence White Paper 2015 will focus on 6. By misrepresenting one-year scholarships to to understand local discourses and forms of the contribution of the Defence Force and PI communities as “education for play,” while dissent. On the one hand, this is a relatively Ministry of Defence towards New Zealand’s allowing this demographic to maintain the recent example of a great deal of onshore The University of Auckland | 1 industrial and manufacturing destruction in the Sunday 7 June name of economic progress. Yet, on the other, 30 Years Under the Grylls there is more at work here. Understanding 7.30-9.30pm, St Mary’s-in-Holy Trinity, Parnell, QMSs as a neoliberal ‘greening’ of capitalism, Cnr St Stephens Ave & Parnell Rd. with the potential to incorporate the functions Hosted by the School of Music. Cost: $15-$25 of nature as exchange value, points to the - prepay through Eventbrite, https://www. peculiarly modern way neoliberalisation, eventbrite.co.nz/e/30-years-under-the-grylls- environmental governance, and concert-and-celebration-tickets-16047330999. financialisation, have become entangled. Eftpos only at venue. Fiona McCormack is a senior lecturer in the Dr Karen Grylls at the School of Music Anthropology Programme at the University of celebrates 30 years with the University of Waikato. She is a graduate of the University of Auckland Chamber Choir. Works include a Auckland, Anthropology Department, and was new commission by Eve de Castro-Robinson, Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii, Leonie Holmes Through Coiled Stillness, Didn’t Hilo from 2007-2012. it rain by David Hamilton, and Douglas Mews’ Come all you tonguers, and other favourites. Friday 5 June Performers include staff, students and choir Lunchtime concert alumni. By students at the School of Music. 1-2.30pm, Queries to [email protected] Kenneth Myers Centre, Studio 1, 74 Shortland Street, Auckland Central. Free. Queries to [email protected] Saturday 6 June This Is a Black Box and You Are In It Postgraduate Dance Studies students present their new works. 6pm and 8pm, Music Studio 318:820, Kenneth Myers Centre, 74 Shortland Street. Alex Upokokeu-Henry works with a chorus of women to deconstruct conventions of Cook Island dance and femininity.Vivian Hosking- Aue explores the organic foundations of the male body in building a ‘superhuman’ from scratch. Jade Whaanga explores a sense of place in a trio informed by whakaahua and the work of Louise Potiki Bryant. Jonny Almario catalyses post-Forsythe choreographic thinking through a series of movement puzzles and morphing improvisations. Nisha Madham invites perceiving I/not-I through a slow re-enactment of a theatrical death scene. Claire Murphy presents a performative- pedagogical lesson with three teenage sisters who dance together and apart as they discover their identities. Chloe Baynes attempts to find what happens in the space between the event and sensing. Entry by donation, bookings essential. Contact [email protected] The University of Auckland | 2.