Category: ARTSCHOL 200 2020

Frost’s discussion of the fight for youth voting rights encapsulated many talking points about civil rights, democracy, protest and strength in diversity. What grabbed my attention the most, however, was one throw-away...

I was very intrigued by Jennifer Frost’s lecture on the history of the 26th amendment and the voting rights of young people. Historically this related heavily to comparing how men at age 18 could be drafted for war, and...

What is perhaps most striking about Dr. Winter’s paper “Redressing historic abuse in New Zealand: a comparative critique” is the way he draws together two similar worlds to show where one world falls short. Dr....

Something I appreciated immensely about Erin and Victoria’s session was their ability to give such direct advice when presenting a somewhat abstract topic. Erin holds a passion for her beauty works that has allowed her to...

Reflecting on Stephan Winter’s research readdressing historic abuse in Aotearoa, one question stood out to me, (or maybe it was the very appealing image of the biscuit on the slide) What biscuit to serve? When research is...

To achieve a long-term goal, one must have the passion and perseverance to reach it. This is the basic concept of grit and it is something that I find keeps popping up in these discussions with researchers, and here in my bubble...

Dr Patrick Thomsen’s research was my favourite out of all senior researchers. Solely because it was inspired by unexpected life experience, and it reinforces the idea that every, single, little, thing in our lives can...

Orientalism that Patrick consulted with in his research is really interesting to me. This bias toward Western knowledge in academia may often hide in plain sight. As he had noted that even his framing of the question, “Why...

Throughout the power and inequity research panel, I noticed they recommended us to grow a “thicker skin.” While this is excellent advice, I’m dissatisfied. Within earlier lectures, many guest lectures were unable to give a...

What Counts as Knowledge? Lectures in the Arts Scholars course on power and inequity in research begged the question: What counts as knowledge? In these lectures, various scholars presented their work and touched upon power and...