Matariki relationships cemented with second MoU
The signing of a second Memorandum of Understanding between the seven universities in the Matariki Network of Universities, held at the University of Otago on 5 February 2016, cements a relationship begun five years ago.
Conference: Risking the Future: Vulnerability, Resistance, Hope
This conference, held in July 2016 in Durham, was the launch event for the Matariki Risk Humanities Network. The conference sought to explore the role of risk in either blocking or facilitating access to possible futures, and to challenge existing discourses by bringing differing paradigms of risk – of calculation and precarity – into conversation.
Printer in residence and exhibition: an Otago-Dartmouth partnership
On 1 August 2016, Sarah M Smith, Book Arts Printer at Dartmouth College, will arrive at the University of Otago to be the Printer in Residence for 2016. Sarah’s Otakou Press print project is to print a limited edition of poems written by local poet Rhian Gallagher.
Teach@Tübingen
The Teach@Tübingen programme enables post-docs and advanced PhD students from partner universities to expand their teaching experience and research horizons with a working stay in Germany. In the first round of applications in 2016, four awards were made to candidates from MNU member universities: Jessica van’t Westeinde, Lara Pearson and Jonathan Wilson from Durham, and Leon Escobar Diaz from Otago.