Ngāi Tahu Settlement and Rangitiratanga - presented by Dr Martin Fisher
While the pursuit of tino rangatiratanga is often the focus of claimants in Treaty settlement negotiations, the reality in the actual final settlement is often limited as much as possible by the Crown. During the Ngāi Tahu settlement negotiations, tino rangatiratanga permeated all of Ngai Tahu’s tactics and positions. This lecture will explore the place of tino rangatiratanga in the Ngāi Tahu negotiations with a particular focus on the establishment of Te Runanga o Ngāi Tahu and the final Deed of Settlement.
This presentation is part of the Kā Waimaero | Ngāi Tahu Centre and Kaupeka Ture | Faculty of Law, Treaty Partnership Speaker Series.
Morning tea will be served after the seminar.
Please email lawspeakers@canterbury.ac.nz to reserve your limited seat, or request an invitation to the online link.
SBS Seminar - Dr Mark Denny - Visiting Erskine Fellow
John B. and Jean De Nault Professor of Marine Science at the Hopkins Marine Station, Emeritus - Department: Biology
From triple-A blockbusters like Assassin’s Creed and God of War to indie darlings like Hades and The Forgotten City, video games are an important medium through which contemporary creators represent and reimagine the Greek and Roman worlds. This talk will examine several case studies from recent games and discuss questions important to historical games scholars: What makes the classical past a valuable source of material for game developers? How do games make use ancient material to discuss modern themes? What claims about history and culture do these games make?
Hamish Cameron is a Lecturer in Classics at Victoria University of Wellington where he works on the history and geography of the Roman Near East, representations of imperialism in classical literature, and reception in modern analog and digital games. His work has covered the representation of the Roman Army in Assassin’s Creed Origins, landscapes of violence and Herodotean conspiracy thinking in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, mythic paratexts in Hades, and using modern analog games to teach classics.
'Playing with the past: classical worlds in video games' is the 2022 Graham Zanker Lecture, a series curated by the University of Canterbury Department of Classics.
This event is proudly brought to you by UC Classics, the UC Teece Museum and CCC Libraries.
The Faculty of Law is delighted to invite everyone to participate in the following Public Lecture presented by:Borrin visiting Scholar - Professor Liz FisherUniversity of Oxford, Faculty of Law
Law frames the natural and physical world. Those frames create legal categories and classifications that have legal and wider consequences. In this lecture I explore how that framing has and does occur and what are the implications of it for legal reasoning.
Click here to find out more about Professor Liz Fisher - Liz Fisher | Oxford Law Faculty
Refreshments from 5pmLecture 6pm - 7pm