DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY & ART HISTORY NEWSLETTER 2011

FROM THE H.O.D.

I recently attended the Historical As- The biggest break from the past our Department sociation Conference in Hamilton where it was a currently faces is the University’s decision to adopt pleasure to see so many former students. I was par- a new model honours degree which will be a fourth ticularly proud of the Otago postgraduate students year add-on rather than the three year model from who presented at the Conference, all of whom gave 2013. This will bring Otago in line with other uni- great papers. Amongst the pleasures of the academic versities throughout the country. The loss for us is and social conversations I had one moment stood that we will no longer have an honours cohort track- out. I was travelling in a shuttle with Caroline El- ing through the undergraduate degree. As a conse- kins, a Professor of History at Harvard and author of quence we have remodeled the curriculum so that Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s the former historiography and methodology papers Gulag in Kenya (2005). I mentioned that I had been restricted to honours students will now be more taught African history at Otago by John Omer-Coop- widely available but still, we hope, taken by the best er. Professor Elkins exclaimed just how path break- students. ing John’s work was in the development of African history and that it was still required reading for her From July 2012, Professor Tony Ballantyne will take students. This was a lovely moment reminding us over as Head of Department. I will be on study leave that the Department has always been distinguished for six months and then back as a regular member by the caliber of its staff. of the Department in 2013. It has been a pleasure to work with the staff in enhancing the Departmental research culture and developing a curriculum to meet the needs of today’s students. HISTORY AND ART HISTORY NEWSLETTER - 2011 New and Noteworthy in 2011 In February the Department welcomed Dr Dan Morrow who etics, Witches and Inquisitors’. We were delighted that Brian joined us as on a fixed term contract to teach Australian His- Moloughney (currently the Pro Vice Chancellor Humanities) tory. Dan completed his undergraduate degree at Auckland offered a second year paper for us entitled ‘China: From Ora- and his PhD at the University of Melbourne. Russell John- cle Bones to Revolution’. Tom Brooking developed a new son and Mark Seymour were on Research and Study Leave and highly popular paper at Third year on Victorian Britain. in the first semester. Mark’s intention of spending the bulk At fourth year Tony Ballantyne and Barbara Brookes offered of his leave in Christchurch was disrupted by the devastat- a new paper on New Zealand’s Cultural Histories while Mark ing earthquake. Both Vanessa Ward and Peter Leech, who Stocker was able to teach his 300/400 level course on Twen- took RSL in the second semester, are currently completing tieth Century British Art. research abroad, Vanessa in Japan and Peter in Mexico. Alex Trapeznik remained in Dunedin for his current semester’s In recent years the library has created specialist subject liai- RSL while Hilary Radner is currently in Paris. All staff ap- son officers to work alongside departments in assisting stu- preciate the opportunity for concentrated research and writ- dents. Staff can ask our wonderful liaison person, Charlotte ing. We look forward to hearing about the results of their en- Brown, to assist us in showing students how to, among many deavours in 2012. other things, access databases.

New course initiatives were directed at first and second year In January 2011, Peter Cadogan joined us as an admin assist- level in 2011. Barbara Brookes taught a new first year pa- ant replacing Kyle Matthews. Peter brought with him desk- per HIST 101 Forensic Histories: Effective Research. Bar- top publishing skills honed at a large London law firm. The bara was awarded a teaching grant to develop this course that administrative team of Sue Lang, Frances Couch and Peter aims to enhance the research skills of students. Students were ensure that the needs of students and staff are met in an ef- asked to grapple with a range of sources, including some of ficient and helpful manner. Sue Lang took well-deserved long the marvelous digital databases such as the Old Bailey Online service leave in July to take the holiday of a lifetime on safari and Ancestry.com. Today’s Facebook generation found it very in Africa. difficult to read handwriting since they have few instances in everyday life where they are required to do so. The first half of 2012 will be dominated by staff fine-tun- ing their portfolios for submission for the Performance Based At second year, John Stenhouse introduced a successful new Research Fund exercise that will determine a key slice of uni- course drawing on his particular expertise, ‘Science and So- versity funding in up-coming years. Staff research is the plat- ciety: 1789-1914’. The most popular second year paper was form that informs all our teaching activities and this PBRF Takashi Shogimen’s revised medieval offering entitled ‘Her- exercise reminds us, once again of its centrality. HAHTSA During 2011 the History and Art History and Theory Stu- dents Association held two successful events. On 6 May a meet and greet event enabled students to mix with staff and peers over wine, cheese, and other tasty delights. Then on 28 July the annual pub quiz at Starters Bar was ever popular and packed to capacity. Our quiz master this year was Dr Lachy Paterson from Te Tumu who also de- vised the quiz. We are grateful to him for all his work and enthusiasm. A range of wonderful prizes were up for grabs and Dr Mark Stocker and Dr Mark Seymour were on the teams coming first and second. Professor Brooking is still dazed that his winning streak has ended! We are grateful to all our sponsors for their wonderful prizes: Starters Bar; University Book Shop; New World; Velvet Burger; Klone Hair; Spice Traders; Liquorland; Filadelfios; McDuffs Brewery; Aargon Hobbies; World Fitness Centre; Whit- coulls; Rob Roy Dairy; Marbecks; and Albany Street pharmacy. Thanks also to the wonderful HAHTSA com- mittee: Kirsty, Joey, Sandy, Catherine and Catherine, and Rory. HAHSTA pub quiz

HISTORY AND ART HISTORY NEWSLETTER - 2011 Visual Culture The History and Art History department welcomes Hilary Information Science, Performing Arts Studies, Physical Edu- Radner and the Visual Culture programme into the depart- cation, and Psychology. ment. Visual Culture is an interdisciplinary programme at the . It seeks both to understand visual The Visual Culture major is organised around three core pa- artifacts (including, for example, documentary photographs, pers, supplemented by a range of cognate ‘approved’ papers. diagnostic imaging, fashion and cityscapes) and to analyse ‘vision’ as a social and cultural process. Profile Professor Hilary Radner Visual Culture examines the technologies by which images are produced, circulated and received, as well as the theories Professor Radner’s research of seeing that make the visual world intelligible. So, rather interests revolve around un- than concentrating primarily on images themselves as objects, derstanding the representa- it addresses the relationships between images, discourses, so- tions of of gender and iden- cieties, and persons. tity in contemporary visual culture, particularly in terms Much of the research in Visual Culture is concerned with the of how these evolve over ways in which images inform our sense of ourselves as sub- time in relation to second jects, the nature of the society we inhabit, and our imagina- wave feminism. She has tion of the world. published numerous articles and book chapters on cin- Visual Culture might be conceived of in terms of the domain ema, visual culture and gen- of the subject in the field of visual signification. As such, it der: these range from film melodrama, make-up, fashion is a form of communication which probes the act of looking, photography, and women’s magazines to, more recently, not the materiality of the “object.” The increasing spectacu- the woman’s film, New Zealand fashion, Hollywood larization of Modernity (and now pre-postmodernity) almost film genres, New Zealand cinema, World Cinema and demands that modern and disciplined cultural subjects know French cinema. Her most recent publications include: how to navigate the various signs circulating between them Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and and their environment. Consumer Culture (Routledge) as author and New Zea- land Cinema: Interpreting the Past (Intellect/U. of Chi- Visual Culture intersects productively with a range of other cago) and Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gen- subjects, including Anthropology, Art History, Design, Film der in Contemporary Cinema (Routledge) as co-editor. and Media Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, History, Theses Completed The following students have completed their post-graduate studies in 2011: • Chanelle Carrick, “Light Sensitive: Alternative Photo- • Kenton Storey, ‘In times of trouble: Considering racial graphic Technologies in Conyemporary New Zealand discourses and settler anxiety in colonial New Zealand Art,” MA and British Columbia’, PhD • Elspeth Knewstubb, “Respectability, religion and psy- • Kim Sullivan, “Scots by association : Scottish diasporic chiatry in New Zealand: a case study of Ashburn Hall, identities and ethnic associationism in the nineteenth- Dunedin, 1882-1910”, MA early twentieth centuries and the present day,” PhD Open Lectures 2011 The Department hosted three successful Open Lectures in Department of UGBY–ABRITISHGAME? History and Art History R at to the N Michael King 2011. The lectures are advertised on the University web- Tell th atives Memorial Lecture site, in the ODT, the Bulletin, and on posters distributed OPEN LECTURE 2O11 throughout Dunedin. The lectures are free and everyone is welcome to attend. Weaving Stories: reflecting on Art and Medicine Symposium Open Lecture Hosted by the Department of History and Art History

1888-89 Natives rugby team the writings of Elsdon Best and Asylum: Inside Tutakangahau A talk about the significance of Maori- to the development of rugby by Dr Ron Palenski the Closed World Ron is one of New Zealand’s most experienced writers, Dr Jeffrey Paparoa Holman of American State and has recently completed his PhD with the Department of History and Art History at Otago. Senior Adjunct Fellow, School of Humanities, and Monday 12 September at 5.30pm 2011 Writer-in-Residence at the Mental Hospitals Quad 2 Lecture Theatre, Geology Building (Behind the Clocktower) University of Otago, Dunedin Chris Payne Thursday 6 October New York Photographer 6.00pm Burns 2 Lecture Theatre Thursday 25 August, 2O11, 6:00 pm Burns 2 Lecture Theatre University of Otago Arts Building, Albany Street For more info contact the Department of History and Art History (03) 479 8606 All staff, students and members of the public are welcome to attend

HISTORY AND ART HISTORY NEWSLETTER - 2011 Mothers’ Darlings: Children of indigenous women and World War Two American service- men in New Zealand and South Pacific societies

The Marsden Fund takes its name from physicist Sir Ernest Marsden (1889-1970) who made a remarkable contribution to science both in New Zealand and overseas. It was established by the New Zealand government in 1994 to fund excel- lent fundamental research.

The Marsden Fund is a contestable fund administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand on behalf of the Marsden Fund Council. Marsden Fund research benefits society as a whole by contributing to the development of researchers with knowledge, skills and ideas.

The research is not subject to government’s socio-economic priorities, but is investigator initiated. The Fund supports research excellence in science, technology, engineering and maths, social sciences and the humanities. Competition for grants is intense. Marsden is regarded as the hallmark of excellence for research in New Zealand.

World War II brought 2 million American servicemen to the Pacific where they fathered thousands of children to in- digenous women. “Mothers’ Darlings”, aims to gather the histories of the children of US wartime fathers and indig- enous women. These important stories have been left out of histories of the war in the Pacific.

Professor Judy Bennett, Dr Angela Wanhalla Marsden Standard Project, 2010-2012

Like a human tsunami, World War II brought two million American servicemen to the South Pacific where they left a Professor Bennett’s research interests are in Pacific human legacy of some thousands of children, most born out History, Environmental History and Australia’s and of wedlock. Histories of these indigenous, colonized moth- New Zealand’s relations with the Pacific Islands. ers and their children are missing from standard accounts of New Zealand and other Pacific Islands. Our research project Angela specializes in the histories of cultural aims to recover this neglected human element of the massive encounter in New Zealand’s colonial past. Her demographic transformations that the war induced. It will in- research focuses on gender, race and colonialism terrogate the nature of wartime intimate encounters, colonial, in nineteenth century New Zealand, the indigenous institutional and racist barriers to stable relationships and marriage, the fate of children and grandchildren, and long history of the North American West, and the history term effects of mixed parentage. This research will deepen of intimacy, particularly interracial relationships our understanding of New Zealand society and the origins and hybridity. of postwar Pacific immigrants as well as the constraints and opportunities that a world war presented to young people interacting across cultures in the South Pa- cific. More broadly, it will also contribute to global understandings of the demographic, familial and social consequences of World War II.

Public interest in the Marsden project peak- ed after TVNZ aired a segment on their Sun- day Programme (Generation GI) about one man’s search for his American family. Since September Judy and Angela have been in- undated with emails and phone calls from people seeking assistance to locate their American father. In an effort to advertise the project, and to offer advice to those tracing their families, Angela and Geoffrey Hughes (Web Office, University of Otago) created a website: www.otago.ac.nz/usfathers/.

HISTORY AND ART HISTORY NEWSLETTER - 2011 Other recent departmental Marsden Projects at a glance... Recently the department has had a remarkable track record of winning grants from the Royal Society of New Zea- land’s Marsden Fund. Over the past seven years, scholars in the department have been Principal Investigators in five large multi-year Marsden Fund projects and have also received two Marsden Fast Start grants:

• Empires of Grass: The reconstruction of the New Zealand grasslands 1850s-1950s (Professor Tom Brooking) • Scottish Migration to New Zealand to 1950, and its contributions to the development of New Zealand society (Professor Tom Brooking) • Migration, Ethnicity, and Insanity in New Zealand and Australia, 1860-1910 (Professor Angela McCarthy) • A conquest of knowledge?: knowledge and the colonisation of Murihiku (Associate Professor Tony Ballantyne) • Medicine and the Body Politic: An Approach to the Global History of Political Thought (Dr Takashi Shogimen) • The Idea of Peace in the Age of Crusades (Dr Takashi Shogimen) • Colonial Intimacies, Intimate Colonialism: Interracial Marriage in New Zealand, 1769-1969 (Dr Angela Wan- halla) • Mothers’ darlings: Children of indigenous women and World War Two American servicemen in New Zealand and South Pacific societies (Associate Professor Judy Bennett, Dr Angela Wanhalla)

The Idea of Peace in the Age of Crusades (Dr Takashi Migration, Ethnicity, and Insanity in New Zealand and Shogimen) Australia, 1860-1910 (Professor Angela McCarthy)

Dr Takashi Shogimen’s Marsden Angela McCarthy and Cathy Cole- Project, entitled ‘The Idea of Peace in borne’s (University of Waikato) the Age of Crusades’, aims to high- Marsden project on migration, eth- light the rise of a pacifist impulse nicity, and madness in New Zealand among late medieval political think- and Australia is now in its final year. ers. Both McCarthy and Coleborne are currently working on sole authored The European Middles Ages is wide- books while an edited collection, con- ly known as the age of Crusades; it taining 12 new chapters from scholars was a time of violence against Mus- in Australia, Canada, Japan, and New lims and heretics. But it was also Zealand, is in press with Routledge. the period when Christianity, which provided the holistic This publication emerged from the first of the project’s two framework for public and private life, preached peace as workshops held in April 2010 at the University of Otago. the ultimate goal of human life. No attempt has been made The second workshop was held at the University of Waika- to examine comprehensively the idea of peace in medieval to in February 2011 and contributions from that gathering political and ecclesiastical writings. Rarely have the origins will appear in a special issue of the journal Health and His- of modern pacifism and of international law been traced tory in 2012, currently being edited by Coleborne and Mc- back beyond Erasmus and Grotius respectively. This is a Carthy. significant lacuna in our understanding, since early modern ideas of war and peace and the subsequent development of The first of the project’s two postgraduate students, Elspeth international law did not emerge in a vacuum; they can be Knewstubb, successfully completed her MA (awarded A+) seen as intellectual responses to medieval scholastic tradi- on religion and psychiatry at Ashburn Hall, while Maree tions in the new era of ‘the voyages of discovery’. Dawson at Waikato is due to submit her PhD next year. The project’s research assistant, Christopher Burke, continues This study explores the interplay between the Augustinian his diligent assistance and his work has assisted with re- theology of peace and other intellectual traditions including search findings presented nationally as well as internation- Aristotelian political science, canon law and military sci- ally in Scotland, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Ger- ence, thereby offering new insight into the complexity and many, the Netherlands, the United States, and Australia. diversity of the late medieval academic quest for peace.

HISTORY AND ART HISTORY NEWSLETTER - 2011 Staff News Barbara Brookes gave a paper at the the history of emotions, to be published tute for Historical Interpretation at the American Association for the History of in Italian next year. University of Michigan, taught a post- Medicine’s annual meeting in Philadel- graduate masterclass on the ‘new impe- phia in late April early May. Her paper Dan Morrow’s article ‘Ardeer: A Post- rial history’ for the World University was on Anna Longshore Potts, a woman war Ukrainian Suburb’ was published in Network at the University of Sydney, and who travelled the world giving lecture the September 2011 edition of Australian delivered the Sinclair Memorial lecture on health, including visiting New Zea- Historical Studies. Another research es- at the . He has land twice. Barbara was able to combine say, ‘Forging Ahead: Industry and Envi- published several articles and chapters research with the conference as Anna ronmental Transformation in a Melbourne on both the history of British empire and Longshore grew up in the Quaker com- Suburb’ is forthcoming in the Australian nineteenth century New Zealand. munity outside Philadelphia and trained Economic History Review (2012). He in that city. Barbara was also able to re- is currently working on an article about Tom Brooking gave papers at the Rural visit Bryn Mawr College and the Univer- housing policy and local cultures in post- History Conference at the University of sity of Pennsylvania where she competed Second World War Victoria and is com- Sussex in September 2010, the Agricul- her postgraduate studies. This year saw mencing a book project based on his 2010 tural History Conference in June this year the publication of Rethinking the Racial doctoral study of Western Melbourne. In at Springfield, Illinois (Abraham Lin- Moment: Essays on the Colonial Encoun- 2011, he has also reviewed urban history coln’s old town rather than Bart Simp- ter (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011) titles for Australian Historical Studies. son’s!) and at the New Zealand Genea- which Barbara co-edited with Alison logical Annual Conference in Dunedin on Holland and which resulted from a joint Angela McCarthy’s book Scottishness rethinking the Otago Goldrushes. Tom is Otago/Macquarie University symposium, and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840 also giving two papers at the NZHA con- held in 2007. The volume includes essays was published by Manchester University ference in Hamilton on Seddon’s reading by the editors and by Tony Ballantyne Press and her edited book (with Catharine and the ways in which the Christchurch and Rani Kerin. Barbara’s other publica- Coleborne) from Angela’s 2010 symposi- earthquakes have challenged environ- tions range across the motion of shame um on ‘Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental mental historians to rethink our environ- in twentieth century New Zealand, a Ca- Health’ is now in press with Routledge. mental history. Some 13 of 14 chapters nadian woman doctor and sister’s break- Angela’s edited collection, A Global of the Seddon biography have now been down, New Zealand cinema in the 1950s, Clan: Scottish Migrant Networks and drafted with the aim of having the biog- and asylum photography. The latter inter- Identities since the Eighteenth Century raphy out from Penguin by Christmas est led to an invitation to New York pho- was published in paperback in Novem- next year-2012. The Mardsen funded tographer Chris Payne, author of Asylum: ber. Two commissioned chapters have team project on Scottish migration is also Inside the Closed World of State Mental been submitted to Oxford University nearing completion and the final manu- Hospitals, (MIT Press 2009) to come and Press for Scotland and the British Empire script tentatively titled ‘Unpacking the give a well-attended and riveting public (published) and The Oxford Handbook of Kist’ will be sent off to McGill-Queens lecture. Modern Scottish History, 1500 to 2010 University Press in December. Two es- (in press). Angela liaised with several says in collections on land disputes and Mark Seymour was on research leave Scottish societies in Dunedin to bring wilderness in New Zealand have also ap- for the first half of 2011. His leave began Scotland’s leading historian, Professor peared recently from Otago University with a visit to Scotland to participate in a T. M. Devine, to the city for its Scottish Press, edited by Jacinta Ruru, Mick Ab- roundtable discussion marking the 150th Festival in November. Three public talks, bot and Janet Stephenson (Making Our anniversary of the unification of Italy, and two unveilings, a book signing session, Place: Exploring Land Use Tensions in he also gave a paper in the University of and a civic reception took place. Earlier Aotearoa New Zealand) and Mick Ab- Glasgow’s Gender and History seminar in the year Angela organised, with Liam bot and Richard Reeve (Wild Heart: The series. The middle part of the leave was McIlvanney, a successful symposium on Possibility of Wilderness in Aotearoa disrupted by the February 22 earthquake the Global Scots featuring presentations New Zealand) respectively. in Christchurch, where he had settled for from visiting University of Glasgow aca- what was intended to be an uninterrupted demics, and associates of Scottish Stud- Mark Stocker continues as Programme period of writing. The quake destroyed his ies at the University of Otago. Through Co-ordinator of Art History & Theory. heritage-listed 1892 terrace house, and the year, Angela also presented papers In 2011, besides plenty of teaching in- very badly damaged his partner’s 1907 at the Health and Place symposium at cluding the supervision of four honours villa. Recovery came in the form of a trip Waikato and the Otago Colonial Culture dissertations, he gave a public lecture to Europe in May and June, to take up a symposium. Postgraduate student El- at the Royal Academy, London, to ac- visiting fellowship at the Max Planck In- speth Knewstubb, attached to Angela’s company the exhibition ‘Modern Brit- stitute for Human Development’s Center Marsden grant, successfully completed ish Sculpture’, and on the same visit he for the History of the Emotions in Berlin. her thesis (co-supervised by Mark Sey- blew the whistle on the suspicious deac- There he presented a talk in the Center’s mour) on respectability, religion, and cessions of the British Empire and Com- research colloquium, revised an article psychiatry at Ashburn Hall. monwealth Museum (including priceless that began life at a workshop held by the Maori Taonga) to staff and students of the institute in 2010, and wrote the introduc- During the last year, Tony Ballantyne University of Leicester School of Muse- tion to a collection he has co-edited on has been a visitor at the Eisenberg Insti- um Studies. They were duly aghast. He

HISTORY AND ART HISTORY NEWSLETTER - 2011 Staff News is delivering papers at the Numismatic Pacific Research Cluster, ‘Militarisation Association of Australia conference at During War and Peace in Oceania’, pre- Macquarie and the Art Association of senting a talk on Kiribati and the United Australia and New Zealand at Victoria States military: Lasting Legacies. University of Wellington at the end of the year. This summer, he is writing (short) Hilary Radner has edited, written and articles and reviews for Country Life, the presented a number of works throughout Burlington Magazine, Apollo and Land- the year including the monograph Neo- fall. In July 2012 he will commence one Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick year of research and study leave, which is Flicks, and Consumer Culture; co-edit- likely to take him for some of the period ing Creative Imitations and Appropria- to Britain, where he plans to attend the tions: From Cinematic Adaptations to Attingham Summer School, a course for Re-makes; Nom*d: The Art of Fashion; arts professionals which focusses on the Feminism at the Movies: Understanding country house. Gender in Contemporary Popular Cin- ema and New Zealand Cinema: Inter- Angela Wanhalla presented her research preting the Past. In addition Hilary has on Pacific Island and Maori war brides contributed a number of chapters and par- of American servicemen at a symposium ticipated in a number of conferences both co-organised by Judy Bennett and Jacqui in New Zealand and overseas. Leckie (Anthropology) on Militarisa- tion in the Pacific (3-4 November). This Erika Wolf has authored the book Kore- research is supported by the Mothers’ tsky: The Soviet Photo Poster, 1930-1984 Darlings Marsden project led by Judy (New York: The New Press, due out in Bennett. Her co-edited book, with Erika December). She has also co-edited two Wolf, Early New Zealand Photography: books: Aleksandr Deineka (1899-1969): Images and Essays (Otago University Avant-Garde for the Proletariat (Ma- Press) was published in December. She drid: Fundacion Juan March, 2011) - an also published an article on the cultural English version of the catalogue for ex- history of talk in a special issue of the hibition at the Fundacion Juan March in Journal of New Zealand Studies, and an Madrid. This is the first comprehensive article on sexual violence in 1860s New publication on this major Soviet modern- Zealand in the New Zealand Journal of ist painter. Her contribution to volume in- History. Angela is also in the middle of cluded translations of 38 primary source a new project, with Dr. Lachy Paterson texts from Russian to English. And Erika (Te Tumu), concerned with the history and Angela Wanhalla, eds. Early New of Maori women’s writing in the nine- Zealand Photography: Images and Es- teenth-century. says, 1839-1918 - a collection of essays on early New Zealand photographs by Judy Bennett was heavily involved in a scholars from diverse disciplines in- piece for the “Sunday” programme, tel- tended to facilitate research and interdis- evised on 28 August 2011, TV One. It ciplinary undergraduate teaching on the was through the research of the Mothers’ history of photography. (Dunedin: Otago Darlings project (funded by Marsden) University Press, due out in December). that this film was made. Marsa Dodson This includes essays by Angela and my- originally interviewed a Cook Island self, as well as the following individuals man, Arthur Beren as part of her research associated with the department: Barbara for her Ph D and research for the Project. Brookes, Brian Moloughney, Christine Judy Bennett gave details of Arthur’s Whybrew (recent PhD), Ruth Harvey planned reunion with his half siblings in (MA and Hons from our Department), the US to the American producers (Peg- Antje Lubcke (MA and other degrees gy Holter and Steve Talley) and got his from Dept). She has also made extensive agreement to film. As chief investigator, contributions (two essays plus transla- Judy Bennett gave the background visual tions of numerous primary source docu- material and commentated on the overall ments from Russian and German) to the project and research outcomes. This “love volume The Worker Photography Move- story” brings to the New Zealand public ment [1926-1939]: Essays and docu- the fruit of University historical research ments, edited by Jorge Ribalta. Madrid: in an assessable medium. Judy was also Museo Nacional Centro de Arta Reina co-convener of a symposium of the Otago Sofia, 2011, which was published in con-

HISTORY AND ART HISTORY NEWSLETTER - 2011 junction with the an exhibition at Spain’s outstanding museum different aspects of disability in the 1920s: “Normalcy in Jazz- of modern art, the Reina Sofia. In addition Erika has presented Mad America: Clara Bow in My Lady of Whims (1926)” in the at two conferences, The Art Association of Australia and New on-line journal Screening the Past; and “‘Disease Is Unrhythmi- Zealand, and the Australia New Zealand Slavic Association. cal’: Jazz, Health, and Disability in 1920s America” in Health and History. He also revived his Vietnam War paper as a 200- Takashi Shogimen’s paperback edition of his Ockham and Po- level offering in the department after a three-year hiatus. litical Discourse in the Late Middle Ages (Cambridge Univer- sity Press) appeared in 2010. Other publications include ‘The Peter Leech is currently on research leave in Mexico. Follow- Best Medicine? Medical Education, Practice and Metaphor in ing the International Conference on Art Theory and Aesthetics John of Salisbury’s Policraticus and Metalogicon’, Viator 42 in Antalya, Turkey (accompanied by a terrorist bombing and (2011), ‘European Ideas of Peace in the Late Thirteenth and the Turkish earthquake), he took up appointment as Professor Early Fourteenth Centuries’, in The European Legacy: To- Invitado at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, with ward New Paradigms 7 (2010), and ‘“Another” Patriotism in visiting attachments to the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéti- Early Shōwa Japan (1930-1945)’, in the Journal of the History cas, and the Universidad de Morelia in Michoacán. Peter returns of Ideas 71 (2010). In April 2011 Takashi was invited to the to New Zealand in January following participation in a special Fifth Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition, at the panel on Japanese Aesthetics at the American Philosophical As- National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, to speak on ‘The sociation annual conference in Washington DC, USA, in late Diachronic Variation of the Metaphor of the Body Politic in the December. Medieval Literary Tradition’. In Feb 2011 he organised the ses- sion ‘Papal Infallibility and Subjective Rights: Revisiting Brian Vanessa Ward was awarded a Japan Foundation Short-Term Tierney’s Scholarship’, and chaired the session ‘Paris and Me- Fellowship and is currently in Japan on Research and Study dieval Political Thought’, at the ANZAMEMS conference, Uni- Leave. versity of Otago, Dunedin. Takashi also taught a new course, HIST215 ‘Heretics, Witches and Inquisitors’ in Semester Two, John Stenhouse has been working on his book on missionary 2011. science and, with Ali Clarke and Peter Lineham, on an histori- cal geography of New Zealand religion. He recently contributed Alex Trapeznik is on Research and Study Leave until 31 Janu- an overview article on ‘Religion and Society’ to Te Ara and a ary 2012. During this time he will be pursuing his continuing chapter titled ‘Selwyn through settler eyes’ is about to appear research interests in Public History and Russian History. in a volume on Bishop G.A. Selwyn published by Bridget Wil- liams Books. The year 2011 saw Russell Johnson publish three articles across the range of his research interests. The American Civil War Judith Collard attended the Australian and New Zealand As- featured in “‘Great Injustice’: Social Status and the Distribution sociation for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAM- of Pensions after the Civil War” published in the Journal of the EMS) 8th Biennial International Conference and continued her Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Two other articles looked at departmental teaching and research interests. Alumni News Conrad Schumacher (BA Hons 1998) recently sent greet- halla and Erika Wolf. Keith Scott (BA Hons 1979) recently ings from Hawkes Bay where he teaches Business Law at the launched his book Dear Dot: I must Tell You people the story Eastern Institute of Technology. Conrad, who did his 490 on of the children’s correspondence column in the Otago Wit- Infant Mortality in Dunedin, 1900-1920, is now a father him- ness told through the letters to “Dot” from Otago children self of infant Brooke was delighted to report that she has not and teenagers. Robert Sarkies (BA 1989) has been filming suffered from ‘failure to thrive’. Rachel Groves (BA Hons in the Catlins directing a new film Two Little Boys to be 1995) was in Dunedin recently. she is now a Senior Policy released in early 2012. Robert Peden (PhD 2007) has pro- Advisor in the Public Law Group at the MInistry of Justice. duced a book from his thesis entitled Making Sheep Country: Kirsten Price (BA Hons 2003) is a Senior Solicitor in the Mt Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands Wellington Office of Buddle Findlay where she specialises (Auckland University Press, 2011). Shonagh Kenderdine in environmental and resource management law. Jane Ad- (BA 1958; MA 1959) is Chair of the New Zealand HIstoric ams (BA Hons 2000) returned to the Department this year to Places Trust Board. Denis Slowley (BA 1968) has recently undertake a PhD on the history of Infertility in New Zealand. resigned from the Headship of Bayfield HIgh School to dedi- Angela Findlay (BA Hons 2000) is also undertaking a PhD cate more time to other interests and to his family. Aaron on the history of vocational guidance in New Zealand. Sam Kreisler (BA 1993) is the curator of the Dunedin Public Elworthy (BA Hons 1988) saw many of the current Depart- Art Gallery. Claudia Geiringer (BA hons 1989) is a Senior mental members at the recent New Zealand Historical As- Lecturer in Law at Victoria UNiversity of Wellington. Bryan sociation conference at Waikato where he was discussing the Dunne (BA Hons 1993; MA 1997) has been at the centre of world of publishing in his role as Director of Auckland Uni- the nation’s 2011 catastrophe as Acting Chief Executive of versity Press. Patricia Rylance (BA Hons 1972; PhD 2001) the Earthquake Commission. now Sargison, who works for Christchurch City Libraries, recently used her superb indexing skills to index the volume Please write in and send us your news - we love to hear on Early New Zealand Photography edited by Angela Wan- from former students.

HISTORY AND ART HISTORY NEWSLETTER - 2011