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Welcome to Arts Scholars! The lyrics to this protest song have been detached from the conflict of its origin and become both meme and memory and I thought it a fitting way to begin. I am so glad to be going on this journey with you all this year, I wonder what kind of...
In-class challenge: Create an Instagram-worthy photo using the food and props provided. You can even put yourself in the picture! Submit it to this page using plenty of hashtags! Consider how you’ll organize your photo to align with your hashtags. What do these...
I was also thinking about the impact of food on memory and thought some of you might find this interesting 🙂 Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food? Atlas Obscura, April 10, 2018.
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McDonald’s opens its first outlet in New Zealand, 1976 (© McDonald’s) The golden arches appeared for the first time in New Zealand at Cobham Court, Porirua. Big Macs were priced at 75 cents (equivalent to about $6 today), cheeseburgers 40 cents and...
When I think about the possibility of doing future research, it is followed by doubt that there is anything valuable I could contribute to academia. But maybe I am subjecting myself to a version of the “Pompeii premise.” In archaeology, the “Pompeii premise”...
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, human nature, and discipline, I was able to gain...
I think this work is very relevant as in an increasing secular society we need to remember minority religions in New Zealand and people's perception of them. I think it’s contradictory how Christianity as a whole in society is highly accepted but the Islamic faith...
From left to right: Siliga Setoga’s artwork of a lolly lay with common New Zealand brands flipped to Pasifika stereotypes. An assortment of misleading food labels. A women labelled with a question mark. The only time my mum would allow scissors on the...
When presented the task of discovering our temperament for Dr Tom Bishops lecture, I was eager to find out what a quick test could tell about my personality. Alas, I was disappointed to see the results shown below; an almost completely neutral temperament, right about...
What does a healthy relationship with food look like? For me, the question of a healthy relationship with food has always been closely linked to a healthy relationship with my heritage. Siliga David Setoga showed that the correlation between labels and food runs deep...
A big part of food-critics emphasises on the dining environment and experience. For example, Simon mentioning in his review of The Groove how long it took before his jacket was taken. Those finer details of the environment, sets the tone for the food mentioned and...