Category: ARTSCHOL 200 2019

In this seminar, Erin Griffey and Victoria Munn studied historical ideas of beauty, with a specific focus on the extensive beauty regiments performed by women during the European renaissance. Puzzling over categorizations and...

As a philosophy major, I was especially interested in Dr Inouye’s class on Confucius and his teachings. I already had some surface level knowledge of Confucius’s work, but by delving further into the ideas of morality,...

Upon hearing what Dr. Inouye’s session would be about, I was secretly intrigued. Although I had no prior knowledge of the subject and had not yet done the reading, even the vague promise of a guide to improvement somehow hooked...

I was bugged during Week 7’s session on The Great Learning by the translation of the Chinese character 善 used by Melissa in her presentation. Melissa translated the term to ‘goodness’, which a quick google search reveals, is...

I had lunch with a friend of mine this week, who is back from a year in the USA. In discussing our different experiences over the past year, she highlighted the ‘work hard, play hard’ culture that’s prominent...

Kasey Allely’s discussion on her personal research adventure was extremely refreshing and surprisingly one of my favourites from the semester.   Her adventure developed from a single question: Are shell mounds...

A LAPSE IN COMMUNICATION: ETHAN R. PLAUT     " With a focus on the history of communication, I found it ironic that Ethan R. Plaut’s Week 2 presentation failed to clearly communicate the purpose of such a vast...

Dr Marama Muru-Lanning’s presentation on “Vision Matauranga, Eclectic Anthropology and the Fading Empire” was particularly interesting because of its focus on unique Maori ethics. Dr Muru-Lanning discussed how, when undertaking...

One of the strengths of Professor Bulbulia’s presentation was his ability to contextualise his research and directly link it to a wider theme. Drawing on the example of ANZAC day, Bulbulia noted that his overarching interest was...

To Change or Not to Change? Heraclitus once said, “all entities move, and nothing remains still.” Interestingly, Dr. Joseph Bubulia’s seminar touched upon something that, throughout history, has remained pervasive to various...

Marama’s discussion raised a lot of interesting points about the place of Maori knowledge in New Zealand research. She mentioned the perception some still have that Maori knowledge is somehow lesser than the ‘real’ Western-style...

Vision Matauranga Maori seeks to combine knowledge passed down and presently transformed by Maori communities and their ancestors. The vision is noble and necessary, yet a fresh approach transform the current establishment of...

It’s been a while since I listened to Greg Booth’s lecture on the wedding bands of the Indian subcontinent however a number of concepts remain with me from it. The purpose of the lecture was more to teach us about...

In our lecture led by Dr Marama Muru-Lanning, she talked about her upbringing on Turangawaewae Marae in Ngaruawahia, as well as her work around multidisciplinary research and employing vision Matauranga in the scientific field....

In all honesty, Confucianism isn’t something that I’ve thought about a whole lot throughout my entire life, but that changed when Dr Melissa Inouye donned her Harvard graduation robes and came to share her knowledge...

Marama mentioned how the neoliberal Chilean government allowed corporations like Fonterra to do basically whatever they want with the land. This got me thinking about how dangerous an ideology and how highly influential...

I thought it was interesting that there was a common piece of thought which was shared between Dr. Melissa Inouye and Dr. Joseph Bulbulia’s respective lectures – that change starts at a personal level. Both lectures were...