“Unsettling Peripheries,” the 2020 combined conference of the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ASAA/NZ) will be held on December 8-12 at Victoria University of Wellington’s Pipitea campus, in the heart of Wellington city, Aotearoa New Zealand.
2019 winners of the Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards
ASAA/NZ is delighted to announce the 2019 winners of the Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards: Maria Blanca Ayala (University of Canterbury); Nicola Manghi (Università di Torino/University of Waikato); Mona-Lisa Wareka (University of Waikato); and Brodie Quinn (University of Auckland). These awards recognise excellence in conference presentation skills by ASAA/NZ graduate student members.
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Michael Goldsmith awarded Honorary Life Membership of ASAA/NZ
Michael Goldsmith (Honorary Fellow of the University of Waikato, and Research Associate in Anthropology at the University of Waikato) has been awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand. We are delighted to confer this award upon him in recognition of his four decades of outstanding service to our organisation, to the success of social anthropology at the University of Waikato and throughout the country, and for his many contributions to the Pacific Islands and their peoples.
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Marsden success for ASAA/NZ members in 2019
Congratulations to our colleagues and ASAA/NZ members Dr Marama-Muru Lanning (James Henare Māori Research Centre at the University of Auckland), Associate Professor Susanna Trnka (University of Auckland), Dr Barbara Andersen (Massey University), and Dr Susan Wardell (University of Otago), who have all won prestigious Marsden Fund grants in 2019.
Graduate Stories: Ata Siulua
A Dark Perspective of Anthropology: A Response, by Professor Dame Anne Salmond
A Dark Perspective of Anthropology, by Arcia Tecun
James Cook and White Supremacy: A Comment, by Professor Dame Anne Salmond
In this guest blog post, Prof Dame Anne Salmond provides a comment on the recent article by Lorena Gibson, Catherine Trundle, and Tarapuhi Vaeau, “James Cook and White Supremacy.” Here, Dame Salmond argues for a more complex, relational understanding of past events in order to open up alternative visions of how groups might relate to one another across difference.
James Cook and White Supremacy, by Lorena Gibson, Catherine Trundle, and Tarapuhi Vaeau
In this guest blog post, Lorena Gibson, Catherine Trundle, and Tarapuhi Vaeau respond to Prof Dame Anne Salmond’s recent article, “Was James Cook a white supremacist?” In that article, Dame Salmond argues that James Cook was not a white supremacist. Here, the authors discuss why they disagree with this interpretation.
SOMAA 2019 Dialogue Presentations and Registration Information
Society of Medical Anthropology in Aotearoa (SOMAA) 2019 convenors Nayantara Sheoran Appleton, Mythily Meher, and Pauline Herbst are happy to share the dialogue presenters for this years SOMAA hui, Biomedical Dialogues: Thinking across Bodies and Borderlands. SOMAA2019 will be held on 28 November in Whāingaroa (Raglan), Waikato, New Zealand. If you would like to attend, RSVP to Pauline Herbst by 20 October 2019.
Call for Nominations: The Sam Taylor-Alexander Early Career Researcher Prize for Ethics and Engagement within Anthropology
Business or Public Good? Aotearoa’s Universities at a Crossroads, by Professor Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich
In this guest blog post, Professor Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich considers how universities in Aotearoa became positioned as economic players in the contested market of the global knowledge economy, and asks how we might reimagine our universities in ways that deepen democracy and embrace academic values.
Kākano Fund Round Two 2019 - call for applications
Graduate Stories: Mohseen Riaz Ud Dean, PhD
This instalment of our Graduate Stories features Dr Mohseen Riaz Ud Dean, who was recently awarded a doctorate in Anthropology from Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato (University of Waikato). His thesis, Smallholder Sugarcane Growers, Indigenous Technical Knowledge, and the Sugar Industry Crisis in Fiji, was supervised by Dr Keith Barber, Dr Fiona McCormack and Dr Fraser Macdonald.
