Posts by Kate Hannah
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Oh the smallness of New Zealand! Yes they were such key figures in the founding of Waikato.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Rufus Rogers? I interviewed him in oh, 2004/2005 when I was working on some stuff to do with the university's history.....
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I worked with Cathy Colebourne http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/history/people/catharine/ years ago on an oral history project for Tokonui - it was an honour to meet and record stories of former patients and former staff. It may be my bias, given that I'm a lover of words, and stories, but the opportunity to tell our stories about the past, about past trauma, seems to me so important. I'm loving the memories being posted here - the tears turned to words.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
My parents marched in Hamilton - but left the march before the game was famously stopped - they had me, 4, my brother, 7 and my sister was 'on the way' - so decided it was not the best environment for all those small children. Many of their friends (my dad worked - in fact still does - at the university) were those kept on, bloodied and not bowed. yes, the level of passion and organisation was impressive - a forebear of other protests mentioned upthread: the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior looms large in my psyche, as does the 1984 election - we taught my 2 year old sister to say Piggy everytime Muldoon appeared on screen. My parents partied into the night when Lange was elected .....
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Russell Brown,
And everyone but John Key can remember the answer.
I was four. But I 'marched' in my red and white striped mothercare buggy. And I still recall a first year New Zealand history class, maybe in 1999 or 2000 when the whole rest of the class (a few years younger than me, admittedly) referenced sport and rugby as key and critical positive aspects of Pakeha culture. The lecturer, Dr Jeanine Graham, came up to me afterwards and said: "they don't remember the Tour or its aftermath." For me, the Tour has loomed large, and, I imagine, informed my interest in and study of the ways in which cultures and countries describe and remember the traumatic past.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Danielle,
Right - given I'm fighting off seasonal affective disorder with new shoes and workplace hilarity, would you suggest that it would be better for my health to avoid listening? I'm happy to have opinions on things I haven't listened to at this late stage in my highly opinionated career..... and given I'm also particularly likely ot be irritated by the way this issue tends to be discussed, I'm happy to take your advice.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to nzlemming,
thanks: will have a listen and see if the discussion is more reasonable than the hideous promo which was well beneath Ms Ryan
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Sue,
I'm at work, working (natch) so didn't listen to it, but Katherine Ryan did a ghastly intro on monring report about what was coming up on nine to noon - something about new research into the use of date-rape drugs than seemed to boil down to "it's the way the girls are drinking." I may have shouted "no, it's the way the rapists are raping" out loud. Please someone who listened to Nine to Noon fill me/us in on the report.
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to John Armstrong,
oh agree re the simplification of a way of 'creating' a culture anew, by one's self, in a musuem - but I'm a sad mix of sentiment and practicality when it comes to my poetry - a bonus being that I don't have to teach it any more so can just 'like' stuff without having to justify myself .... I think my reaction to Curnow is a 16year old reaction from being that age when I first read it. And well, my Michael King sentiment stems from being his RA when he died. Nepia delivered a beautiful eulogy at Waikato's memorial service for MK, with words written by many of the staff and students who knoew him ..... perhaps my subject position is one of emotional attachment to those collections of words.
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to John Armstrong,
Did my MA with Nepia. Lovely chap and 'tis indeed an excellent article.
And thanks Russell for celebrating Curnow today - those words still resonate so many years later, as we all learn and relearn that trick. One of the little notes above my desk has a scrawled Carol Ann Duffy quote - poetry is the noise of being human - and Curnow's poems have always struck me as being an attempt at the noise of being a New Zealander. I see Michael King's beautifil summary of New Zealanders in the conclusion of the Penguin History as the descendant of Curnow's 'standing upright here'.