Toitū te Ao—Sustainability Week and FHSS
Check out Toitū te Ao—Sustainability Week events involving Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences staff.
Spokes and the spoken word
When: 10 September, 6–7.30 pm
Where: Bicycle Junction, 1 Marion Street
This Tuesday 10 September, come along to an evening of poetry, memoir, botanical mythology, and explore how literature can help us understand the origins and consequences of climate change.
Join Dr Adam Grener (School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies), Associate Professor Rebecca Priestley (Faculty of Science), and Associate Director of Research Services Dr Matthew Hall, and alumnae Dr Helen Heath, Maraea Rakuraku (Tūhoe and Ngāti Kahungunu), and Anahera Gildea (Ngāti Tukorehe).
Mātauranga Māori and sustainability
When: 11 September, 6–7.30 pm
Where: Te Herenga Waka marae, Kelburn campus
Explore the guidance of maramataka (the Māori lunar calendar), the thinking behind the University’s Living Pā, and Māori te taiao (environmental) initiatives with Dr Ocean Mercier Van Berkel (Ngāti Porou) (Te Kawa a Māui), Dr Pauline Harris (Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaka and Ngāti Kahungunu) (Faculty of Science), and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Māori)) Professor Rawinia Higgins (Tūhoe).
Te reo for sustainable action
When: 12 September, 3–4 pm
Where: Hugh Mackenzie Lecture Theatre 103, HMLT3, Kelburn campus
Dr Vini Olsen-Reeder (Te Kawa a Māui) presents a primer to boost your ability and confidence in using te reo Māori around sustainability themes.
Staff and students only.
A climate of social action
When: 12 September, 6–7.30 pm
Where: Rutherford House Lecture Theatre 2, RHLT2, Pipitea campus
Vice-Provost (Academic) Professor Stuart Brock hosts a panel looking at how we can shift the status quo.
The panel consists of School Strike 4 Climate national co-ordinator Sophie Handford, RNZ National Mediawatch presenter Colin Peacock and Professor Simon Keller (School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations), Jonathan Oosterman (School of Social and Cultural Studies) and Dr Wokje Abrahamse (School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences).
Speed-dating the future
When: 13 September, 2.30–1.30 pm
Where: Government Buildings, Lecture Theatre 1, GBLT1, Pipitea campus
Ten researchers from across the University have three minutes each to tell you about their innovations for a more sustainable world. Featuring our own green criminologist, Dr Sarah Monod de Froideville (School of Social and Cultural Studies).