School of Social Sciences news and events

News

Caught in the Web achieves a hat-trick of #1s
06 September 2017
Annie Goldson's Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web has rocketed up all the best documentary lists’on iTunes internationally and is featuring well in the ‘All Movie Genres’ stakes.
Development Studies graduate in Hawaii
30 August 2017
Trish Tupou is continuing her study at the University of Hawaii after receiving both a Fulbright scholarship and a fellowship at the East-West Center.
We're hosting a debate for young voters
29 August 2017
The University of Auckland is partnering with TVNZ to host a special live debate focused on the issues that matter for young voters.
University becomes part of the debate
21 August 2017
The University will be involved in two debates and the interactive engagement tool Vote Compass in the lead up to the General Election.
The dialectics of cross dressing
02 August 2017
In 2015 Colin Cremin dressed up as woman and arrived on campus ready to give a lecture to 100 students.

Events

The tourism-disaster-conflict nexus: Insights from Southeast Asia and the South Pacific (Development Studies, School of Social Sciences) Event as iCalendar
22 September 2017, 2 - 3pm
Professor Andreas Neef discusses findings from a collaborative and comparative research project that investigates the interface of tourism, disaster and conflict in Fiji, Vanuatu and Thailand.
Ethnomusicology, originality and the law: The New Zealand National Party vs Eminem 2017 (Anthropology, School of Social Sciences) Event as iCalendar
28 September 2017, 4 - 5:30pm
Dr Kirsten Zemke talks about her role as expert musicological witness in the 2017 case of Eminem vs the New Zealand National Party at the High Court in Wellington.
One love story and two epidemics: The social life of gloves (Development Studies, School of Social Sciences) Event as iCalendar
29 September 2017, 2 - 3pm
Dr Tineke Water from AUT discusses the findings of a case study using an ethnographic approach, which explored how gloves have contributed implicitly and explicitly to the construction of ‘risky bodies’ and a certain ‘politics of life’.
“But who do you say I am?”: Images of God and New Zealand-Pacific mental wellbeing (Gender Studies, School of Social Sciences) Event as iCalendar
05 October 2017, 4 - 5pm
Therese Kiely talks about the significance of Christianity for the spiritual and mental wellbeing of young, Christian, multi-ethnic Pacific women.
The remaking of Gallipoli: Neo-Ottoman memory, domestic tourism and the Islamisation of Turkish ‘national’ history (School of Social Sciences) Event as iCalendar
18 October 2017, 12pm
Associate Professor Brad West discusses the recent growth in significance of the WWI Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey, and three new commemorative rites on the battlefields that are central to such reimaginings.

Notices

PhD writing retreat
08 September 2017
Our annual four-day PhD writing retreat is happening again this November at the Waikato-Tainui College for Research and Development.

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