Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation
http://hdl.handle.net/10523/672
2024-02-26T21:46:51ZQuantifying the impact of health and education based supports for Autistic children and their whānau
http://hdl.handle.net/10523/16478
Quantifying the impact of health and education based supports for Autistic children and their whānau
2023-11-02
Bowden, Nicholas; Anns, Francesca; Vu, Hien; Dacombe, Joanne; Williams, John; Ruhe, Troy; Kokaua, Jesse; Tupou, Jessica; Theodore, Reremoana; Sporle, Andrew; Diamond, Tori; Gibb, Sheree
Dr Nick Bowden will be speaking about his research on the impact of health and education-based supports for autistic young people. He will present the findings of a study showing that while Autistic students are suspended and stood down at higher rates than non-autistic students, those with high need education-based funding support (ORS), have substantially lower rates of suspensions. His talk will also highlight the potential for future research into this area to better support the Autistic and autism communities.
2023-12-18T19:51:48ZInaugural lecture delivered in the University Library, May 1st, 1882
http://hdl.handle.net/10523/15104
Inaugural lecture delivered in the University Library, May 1st, 1882
1882
Brown, Mainwaring
2023-03-16T00:06:08ZBook Launch Speech: Ngā Mōteatea: He Kupu Arataki: An Introduction, by Jane McRae
http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5201
Book Launch Speech: Ngā Mōteatea: He Kupu Arataki: An Introduction, by Jane McRae
2011
Reilly, Michael
Tonight we are gathered here to celebrate the launching of the last instalment in a remarkable venture of New Zealand scholarship and publishing: the Introduction to the four volume series, Ngā Mōteatea. This Introduction fulfills the intentions of Apirana Ngata who wanted to provide readers with a “pocket edition” (p. 9) containing a song selection that might entice them on to sample more fully the diverse range of songs contained within the other volumes. That ambition, first announced in 1933, has been amply achieved in this bi-lingual work by Jane McRae and Hēni Jacob.
2014-11-10T20:17:16ZOf the people, for the people, by the people: He tangata, He tangata, He tangata - The value of autobiography in academia: Maori women and Post World War Two American Presidents
http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5200
Of the people, for the people, by the people: He tangata, He tangata, He tangata - The value of autobiography in academia: Maori women and Post World War Two American Presidents
2007-12-10
Warbrick, Paerau
The catch phrase title of this presentation Of the people, for the people, by the people: He tangata, He tangata, He tangata will be immediately recognised by scholars of American history and Maori studies.
The expression Of the people, for the people, by the people is taken from US President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysberg address at the height of the American Civil War in 1863. Although it is in reference to democracy in the American republic, its literal form in my opinion alludes to the very essence of autobiographies.
They are written by people about themselves and they are given to wider audience. And so there is a democratic essence about autobiographies.
Any fool, dimwit or halfwit can create an autobiography. And you know what, that is the beautiful nature of them. They can be as formalistic or artistic as the author wants it to be.
I now turn to the Maori expression in the catch phrase title. This is an expression taken from a Maori proverb that ponders
He aha te mea nui o te ao, he tangata he tangata he tangata
The meaning roughly translates as What is the most important thing in the world, it is the people, the people, the people.
And again, this expression’s significance is that autobiographies are a product of people. People and indeed the person is clearly at the centre of the narrative or to use a Maori term, the centre of the korero.
In this presentation I explore the value of autobiographies in academia.
2014-11-10T20:17:16ZStranger to the Islands: voice, place and the self in Indigenous Studies
http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5183
Stranger to the Islands: voice, place and the self in Indigenous Studies
2009
Reilly, Michael P J
This lecture presents the views of someone anthropologists call a participant-observer, and Māori characterise as a Pākehā, a manuhiri (guest, visitor), or a tangata kē (stranger); the latter two terms contrast with the permanence of the indigenous people, the tangata whenua (people of the land). All of us in this auditorium affiliate to one of these two categories, tangata kē and tangata whenua; sometimes to both. We are all inheritors of a particular history of British colonisation that unfolded within these lands from the 1800s (a legacy that Hone Tuwhare describes as ‘Victoriana-Missionary fog hiding legalized land-rape / and gentlemen thugs’). This legalized violation undermined the hospitality and respect assumed between tangata whenua and tangata kē. Thanks to the Pākehā New Zealand passion for empire this colonial history extended to neighbouring islands, including the Cook Islands, Sāmoa, Niue and the Tokelau Islands. I hope what I will say supports a scholarship which is the work of both strangers and the people of this land; one (to adapt Anne Salmond’s vision) ‘that celebrates both our common humanity and our cultural differences, drawing strength from one without detracting from the other.’
2014-11-10T20:16:53ZWhat is Māori Studies?
http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5159
What is Māori Studies?
2008
Reilly, Michael PJ
Sid Mead once described Māori Studies as ‘the uncomfortable science’. Uncomfortable because its place within the university was often questioned by Pākehā scholars, while those who worked within the subject remained uneasy about their own position within the western university system (Mead 1997:32). This uncomfortable tone has not yet disappeared. For example, at the Māori Studies Subject Conference held at Waikato University in 2007 some participants openly questioned whether the subject had any future. Such existential anxiety indicates to me that asking the question, What is Māori Studies?, in 2008 is still a useful exercise, especially for those of us working here at the University of Otago.
In the following lecture I will highlight important themes and events found in the history of our subject within New Zealand’s universities, including the University of Otago. I will conclude with some observations about what Māori Studies might stand for now and in the future, especially at this institution.
This lecture was presented on 17 March 2008 by Professor Michael Reilly as part of the Humanities Open Lecture for candidates applying for the Chair position in Māori Studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2014-11-10T20:16:39Z