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Breaking Boundaries 2019

Nov 2019
28th
04:00 PM
Whāingaroa, Raglan New Zealand

Programme

Thursday 28th November

9:00am - 3:30pm
(Sunset Motel)
SOMAA Symposium
12:00pm – 3:30pm
(Sunset Motel)
Registration
4:00pm – 6:00pm
(Kokiri Center)
Welcome
6:00pm – 8:00pm
(Harbour View Hotel)
Postgraduate Event

 

 

Friday 29th November

8:00am
(Sunset Motel) 
Registration
9:00am - 10:00am
(Sunset Motel)                                             
Keynote Address 1:
Alex Golub (University of Hawai’i)
Breaking Boundaries in the History of Anthropology: Construing New Pasts for a Decolonised Future
10:00am - 10:30am
(Sunset Motel) 
Morning Tea
10:30am – 12:00pm
(Sunset Motel)
Religious transnational communities
  • Sofya Shahab (Deakin University) The chronotopic materialities of Assyrian Heritage in Iraq and Syria
  • Amy Whitehead (Massey University) Food, feasting, and everyday religion in Auckland’s religious cultures
  • Christine Dureau (University of Auckland) Bounding the Unbounded Community: Australasia Methodist Missionaries & the Problem of Co-Humanity
  • Roberto Costa (Macquarie University) Indigenising museums: a lesson from the Asmat (West Papua, Indonesia)
  • Brodie Quinn (University of Auckland) Memory, Religion, and the Breaking of Time
10:30am – 12:00pm
(Old School Theatre)
Medical Anthropology and Environmental Crisis: Engagements from Aotearoa/New Zealand
  • Susan Wardell (Victoria University) Interrogating the five stages of (ecological) grief
  • Pauline Herbst (Victoria University) “A wee bit sensitive after the earthquakes”: Perceptions of food security, risk management and chronic metabolic conditions after natural disaster.
  • Nayantara Sheoran Appleton (Victoria University) Environmental Crisis and the Spectre of Overpopulation
  • Tehseen Noorani (Durham University) Psychedelics as Psychiatry's Boundary-crossers
  • Mythily Meher (University of Melbourne) (discussant)
10:30am – 12:00pm
(Old School Gallery) 
Shifting Sands and Fluid Boundaries
  • Sebastian Lowe (James Cook University/Aarhus University) Oh be calm, be calm, and listen to the breath: taonga pūoro, improvisation and a ‘listening in' to a local ethics of care
  • Victoria Baskin Coffey (James Cook University/Aarhus University) Concrete walls and concrete categories: making trans-images on the street
  • Ruth Gibbons (Massey University) Grains of Sand – Making and Remaking in Fluid Digital Boundaries
12:00pm – 1:00pm
(Sunset Motel)
Lunch
1:00pm – 2:30pm
(Sunset Motel)

Sam Taylor-Alexander Memorial Panel

  • Julie Park and Judith Littleton (University of Auckland) Sociality, research and a Tuvaluan theory of living well
  • Susanna Trnka (University of Auckland) Responsibility – Made, Unmade, and Re-made – in Medical Practice
  • Sharyn Davies (Auckland University of Technology) Temporal Orders and Y Chromosome Futures: Of Mice, Monkeys, and Men
  • Lloyd Johns (University of Auckland) Intellectual Hospitality in Contemporary Anthropological Teaching: Reflections on the Pedagogy of Dr. Samuel Taylor-Alexander
  • Courtney Addison (Victoria University) (discussant)
1:00pm – 2:30pm
(Old School Theatre)
Anthropology Aotearoa: Dedicated to Dr Vince Malcolm-Buchanan (1)
  • Tom Ryan (University of Waikato) Imaginaries of Nationhood: Aotearoa New Zealand as an Anthropological Formation
  • Keith Barber (University of Waikato) From Kaupapa Maori to Vision Matauranga, and the Government Appropriation of Maori Knowledge
  • Steven Webster (Independent Researcher) Commodification Efforts in Te Urewera, 1899-1926: Establishing and Shifting Social and Territorial Boundaries in Te Rohe Pōtae o Tūhoe
  • Keziah Wallis (Victoria University) The Whenua as Participant: Fieldsite as participant in anthropological research on the New Zealand Wars
  • Maria Blanca Ayala (University of Canterbury) Crosspollinating Methodological Boundaries: Provocations for an Ethnographic glance at Pūtaringamotu (Riccarton Bush)
1:00pm – 2:30pm
(Old School Gallery) 
Mahi Tahi
  • Mona-Lisa Wareka (University of Waikato) Te Mauri o Kaitiakitanga - Exploring Te Ao Māori in Environmental Relations through an Ethic of Kaitiaki
  • Natasha Heard (Victoria University) What drew me into the Maori and iwi space was love
  • Tarapuhi Vaeau and Jade Gifford (Victoria University) Exploring wānanga as a research method
  • Katie Tollan (Victoria University) Salient Relationships: Addressing Barriers to kaupapa Māori within Victoria University’s Student Magazine

2:30pm – 3:00pm
(Sunset Motel) 
Afternoon Tea
3:00pm – 5:00pm
(Old School Theatre)
Anthropology Aotearoa: Dedicated to Dr Vince Malcolm-Buchanan (2)
  • Abigail Archard (Massey University) Representation in Museums: Stepping beyond the exhibition walls
  • Shannon Blanch (University of Otago) Let’s talk about death: Normalising death and dying in New Zealand
  • Dave Wilson (Victoria University) Teaching with the Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti O Waitangi: Understanding Global Jazz Histories through Kaitiakitanga and Whai Wāhi
  • Bronwyn Russell (Massey University) Customising Coffins: Practically preparing for death
  • Jane Horan (Plain Jane) Evolving legal structure to unencumber impact enterprise in New Zealand: Human Economy and the ‘lobbying across paradigms’
  • Kelly Klink (University of Waikato) Shattering the Shackles of Colonial Narratives
3:00pm – 5:00pm
(Sunset Motel)
ASAA/NZ AGM
3:00pm – 5:00pm
(Old School Gallery)
Daniel Hernandez (University of Auckland) A Kava Story, Documentary Film
5:00pm – 6:00pm
(Sunset Motel) 
Keynote Address 2:
Marama Muru-Lanning (University of Auckland)
Listening to the Voices of Our Harbours I Whakarongo ki te tangi ō ngā Whaanga
7:00pm Conference Dinner

 

Saturday 30th November

8:00am
(Sunset Motel)
Registration
9:00am – 10:00am
(Sunset Motel)                                                  
Keynote Address 3:
Toon van Meijl (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Shifting boundaries of sovereignty in the post-settlement era of Māori claims?
10:00am – 10:30am
(Sunset Motel) 
Morning Tea
10:30am – 12:15pm
(Sunset Motel) 
Breaking Gendered Boundaries
  • Cassie DeFillipo (University of Melbourne) Re-imagining gender boundaries through relationality: A case study of gender performances in Northern Thailand
  • Amie Lennox (Massey University) Reimagining the “trafficking victim”: Filipina women and their post-trafficking performances of gender, victimhood, and empowerment
  • Cameron Dickie (Massey University) Breaking Boundaries or Just Moving Them? Care, caring and masculinity in men of the Bachelor of Arts
  • Luka Amber Lim-Anapu-Bunnin (University of Auckland) Soli le vā: Samoan queer-gender communities and epistemic violence
  • Sharyn Davies (Auckland University of Technology) Ephemeral Borders: Indonesia’s policewomen and moral surveillance
  • Judith Macdonald (University of Waikato) Tikopia. The Land is Male, the Boundaries Fixed
10:30am – 12:15pm
(Old School Theatre)
Revisiting the Bounded Fieldsite
  • Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich (Victoria University) The University as Field: working the self-reflexive path of being management
  • Lorena Gibson (Victoria University) Becoming a participant-parent
  • Keziah Wallis (Victoria University) Breaking Binaries: Rethinking our relationships with the field, fieldwork, and participants
  • Dave Wilson (Victoria University) Reconsidering the bounded fieldsite through collaborative ethnography
  • Tarapuhi Vaeau (Victoria University) Unsettling bounded fieldsites with Kaupapa Māori theory and practice
10:30am – 12:15pm
(Old School Gallery)
Anthropology Outside Academia
  • Margaret Nyarango (Massey University) Trying to Have it Both Ways
  • Yasunobu Ito (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Blurring the boundaries between academic anthropology and industry: Anthropology and its methods appropriated in Japanese business contexts
  • Jane Horan (Plain Jane) Doing economic anthropology in the applied space in New Zealand
  • Penny Fitzpatrick (Massey University) Anthropology by any other name: Experiences of a private sector consultant and 'backdoor' anthropologist
  • John Hutton (Auckland Council) Put your hand up if you are a professional anthropologist
12:15pm – 1:00pm
(Sunset Motel)
Lunch
1:00pm – 3:00pm
(Sunset Motel) 
Politics and Bureaucracy
  • Karin Noemi Rühle Indart (Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e) The Boundaries Between Different Linguistic Identities in Timor-Leste
  • Mayane Pereira Dore (Macquarie University/Complutense University of Madrid) Bureaucratic boundaries in the participatory redevelopment of Waterloo
  • Gabriel Bayarri (Macquarie University/Complutense University of Madrid) The moral boundaries rhetoric in the Brazilian far-right electoral campaign
  • Greg Rawlings (University of Otago) Document Destruction: British Citizenship, Hostile Migration Environments and the Windrush Scandal
  • Graeme MacRae (Massey University) Land of Boundaries: a Postcard from Poland
1:00pm – 3:00pm
(Old School Theatre) 
Movement and Migration
  • John Campbell (University of Waikato) Borders, Boundaries and Climate Change
  • Nicola Manghi (Università di Torino/University of Waikato) Relocating Boundaries: The Case of Kioa (Fiji)
  • Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich (Victoria University) Bounded visions – Zones of movement: Career narratives and the restricted “global scholar”
  • Sharayne Bennett (University of Waikato) Beyond Lanes and Routes: An Expression of Moral Economics within Jamaican and ni-Vanuatu Public Transport Systems
  • Helen Ellis (Massey University) Being a kiwi long-haul distance grandparent: You cannot cuddle an iPad
  • Qiaoyang Peng (Hong Kong University) What made you a Zhuang? Ethnic Identity Struggling Amid Globalization and State-building
  • Paul Robertson (University of Auckland) Creating, breaking and blurring boundaries – the dynamics of immersing in India
3:00pm - 3:30pm
(Sunset Motel) 
Afternoon Tea