Projects

A cultural and genetic study of the translocation of karaka in Aotearoa

Expertise: 
History, Science / Engineering, Traditional Knowledge
Region: 
New Zealand

This research uses new sequencing technology to develop molecular markers for use in tracing the translocation history of Corynocarpus laevigatus (karaka in Aotearoa or kōpi on Rekohu/Chatham Islands). The research also involves collecting historic information of karaka/kōpi in the form of korero (oral histories) and rongo/waiata (songs). The regional ethnobotany of the tree in Aotearoa will also be studied.

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Robin Atherton

Art Crime in Aotearoa New Zealand

Expertise: 
Creative & Performing Arts, History

This project emerged out of teaching a paper in the Art History Department in 2010 (re-run 2012) entitled Art Crime. As part of this, I began researching the field in NZ and have found very little material so far. This project aims to fill this gap.

The first part of the project is almost complete - a survey and discussion of looting in Aotearoa NZ in the 19th century. In 2010 I presented this research in Tucson (NAISA conference) and Dunedin (Art & Law Symposium). The next phase of the project begins to compile evidence of art theft since 1900.

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Ngarino Ellis

Au e ihu! Nga Morehu Taua: Those that are left must endeavour to complete the work

Expertise: 
History

This project has involved the digitisation and categorisation of a diverse range of tāonga from the 28 Māori Battalion, D Company veterans and their families, including videoed interviews, handwritten and typed letters and other documents, and photographs of people, places and personal objects. These have been assembled together in a dynamic, searchable database that can be edited, and has made the tāonga easily accessible for research and education.

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Huia Tomlins-Jahnke

Contested Boundaries: Indigenous Peoples, Tourism and Protected Areas in Canada and New Zealand.

Expertise: 
Environment, History, Policy & Planning, Social Science, Tourism & Hospitality, Traditional Knowledge

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight Development Grant (2016-2018)

Co-Investigators: Dr Courtney Mason (Thompson Rivers University), William Snow (Nakoda Consultation, Alberta) .

This international collaboration is a comparative study of how Indigenous communities in Western Canada and New Zealand are reasserting their cultural rights in the co-management and management of national parks and protected areas with a focus on issues relating to policy/planning input, consultation, representation and empowerment.

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Anna Carr (Thompson-Carr)

For the one who paints such beautiful squares: Sunday Reed and her place in the art and poetry of Sidney Nolan.

Expertise: 
Creative & Performing Arts, History

Sidney Nolan was just 21 when he met Sunday Reed the woman who would have a profound influence on his art and life long after the relationship between them irrevocably ended.

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Kelly Morey