Category: ARTSCHOL 100 2020

What does it mean to “weep in the archives”? For me, it means connecting emotionally with the history that is – or isn’t – documented. It means expressing empathy with a community or a person separated from you by a...

Personal experiences are a vital part of history. My memory project – interviewing my Grandmother about her memories of war – raised some interesting questions for me about different perspectives and memories of events. I have...

        There’s an obvious reason why people evaded the draft in the Vietnam War- the belief that the war was pointless and thus pointless to participate in, pointless to risk one’s life in. However, this is not what I want to...

A fair number of our lectures have had strong links to the topics of racism and colonialism, something that makes a lot of sense given their place as a local conflict in Aotearoa. Admittedly, these lectures likely stand out the...