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Reading the article on the Smithsonian’s Enola Gay exhibition and visiting the Auckland War Memorial Museum, there was a clear theme. Both acknowledged the tension between commemoration and scholarship in relation to conflict. This got me thinking about how we often...
Set in the four walls of the museum lies the material evidence of worlds long gone. It is a temple what history wishes it was; artefacts, evidence, objectivity, truth. That material truth, woven in shields, parchment, uniforms, and polished war planes is a comfort to...
Women in ancient Greece were purely domestic beings. Cloistered and confined to the Oikos (home), each woman was trapped in her Odyssean hellscape …
The Australian outback: unexplored, uninhabited, dangerous. You’re an explorer setting out for the first time across the new frontier.
When we walked into the World War I memorial in the museum my feeling was one of disconnect and apathy and slight irritation. While I respect the remembrance of lives lost, I can’t help but feel a little removed from and annoyed by what seems like a glorification of...
I always wondered how conflicts were shown in the media overseas. This is because I used to watch the news and think about why we only got to see a certain perspective of the conflict. It usually is seen to make your own country look really good or make them look like...
I know we began this course by saying we wouldn’t bring up war poets, and though I’d love to spare everyone the Dulce et decorum est, I feel like in order to understand the human aspect of conflict, we need to look to poetry. Poetry is a genre typically bound by...
I may be biased, but the arts faculty…
I have never read the bible. I went to Sunday school with my friend Sianne, but more for the singing and lollies than the content of the sermon. That’s why doing Theology is so interesting. I’m plunging into the Christian world completely blind. I was...
In his lecture, Jeremy Armstrong made an interesting connection between the Mediterranean sea and the internet. As someone spending a lot of time on the internet recently I thought it would be interesting to break down this comparison and ultimately see why this...
Greco-Roman history has always been remembered as a little gay – an accurate but slightly problematic fact that ignores the prevalent paedophilia rife in Ancient Greece and Rome. In the words of John Mulaney, “we don’t have time to unpack all that”. We do, however,...
And this popped up today. Critical thinking about images and to whom we give access is always interesting. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html