Category: ARTSCHOL 200 2020

Jennifer Frost is a researcher who is currently writing a book about the 26th amendment which allowed voting at age 18 in the United States. The inspiration behind Frost’s work was to correct the  mis-interpretation of youth...

“[It] is not that 18-year olds are old enough to fight – it is because they are smart enough to vote.” In Frost’s lecture on the Youth Voting Rights Movement in America, this quote summarises...

The post-colonial perspective of Dr Patrick Thomsen, despite his position as a queer Pasifika man, reflects the importance of the researcher’s consideration of knowledge genealogy. Thomsen’s research seminar is a reminder of the...

Victoria Munn and Erin Griffey spoke to us about beauty culture, representation and systems of knowledge. While the stories they told about culture were important, I was fascinated by how they were empowered in their research...

Erin Griffy and Victoria Munn: People wanting to be hot is the one constant across history. The end.   But actually though, everyone is ugly, even though we’re not, we still think we are from time to time. It’s some...

Patrick Thomsen’s told a story about the importance of incorporating non-western knowledge and methodologies in research. By recognising the Western influence on his view of sexuality, Thomsen broadened his perspective,...

Ok, so I’m about to summarise some truth handed down from Patrick Thomsen. So this man rocks up onto the stage and immediately I’m enthralled. Was he talking about a data set vaguer than UoA’s marking schemes? No. He came onto...

Dr Thomsen’s personal story is related to, but, uniquely different from those revealed in his research. I think this is both empowering and potentially hazardous. There are of course benefits to working in a familiar space;...

Jenifer Frost discussed how youth activism to lower the voting age emphasised education and maturity as well as disparities in their responsibilities, hence the phrase “Old enough to fight old enough to vote”. This...

My 15-year-old cousin recently told me I’m such a ‘westernised Indian’ in such a flippant manner and I asked myself what is she trying to insinuate? I decided, for the most part, to really understand what ‘east defined by west’...