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Food, recipes and empire in Mid-Republican Rome
(2019)Posts on Facebook and Instagram hit us with images of extravagant dishes and recipes of all sorts, all the time. Some include familiar foods, others feature exotic ingredients. As in the past so too today, food is not ... -
The Impact of Issues on the 2016 Presidential Election in Taiwan
(2017)The dramatic DPP victory suggested that fundamental change may have commenced in the nature of Taiwan politics, particularly in the partisan balance (Clark, Ho, and Tan, 2016; Hsieh, 2016; Templeman, 2016). Another area ... -
The Canterbury Magna Carta
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Print past. Digital present. Predictable future? Where will digital technology take the College of Arts in the 21st Century?
(2015)In this seminar Paul Millar discusses his involvement in Digital Humanities activities going back to the early 1990s, and outlines the often-unpredictable trajectory of some of the projects he has been involved with. ... -
The Limits of Humanism in an Era of Ecological Crisis
(2016)At a time when earth system scientists are suggesting that the disruptive ecological agency of humanity has reached geological proportions, social theorists are vigorously questioning the intellectually constructed chasms ... -
Exploring political blogs as a form of alternative media
(University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Media and Communications, 2008) -
Re-presenting climate change in the alternative and mainstream press of New Zealand
(University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Media and Communications, 2009) -
Women's Voices: Finding solace out of disaster
(University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Sociology and Anthropology, 2014)Grief and solace in disasters. Finding Solace - Solace as an approach to the adjustments and transitions of grief ‘it is that which brings hope in the future in the face of despair’ (Klass, 1992). Understanding solace ... -
The Digital Modern: Humanities and New Media
(University of Canterbury. School of Humanities and Creative Arts, 2015) -
Not just a social media platform: Facebook use in a German tertiary learning environment. An ethnographic study.
(University of Canterbury. Global, Cultural and Language StudiesUniversity of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, 2015)Looking for a way to step out of the conventional classroom and to make German language study more relevant, Facebook (FB) was used in a German intermediate language class at a tertiary institution. This provided a way for ... -
Octopropositionalism
(University of Canterbury. School of Humanities and Creative ArtsUniversity of Canterbury. Philosophy, 2016)This paper concerns the necessary/ contingent dichotomy, the a priori / empirical dichotomy and the analytic / synthetic dichotomy. These three dichotomies can be combined to produce a tri-dichotomy of eight modal ... -
The UC Magna Carta
(University of Canterbury. School of Humanities and Creative ArtsUniversity of Canterbury. History, 2016) -
De-extinction, Authenticity and Wildlife Conservation
(University of Canterbury. School of Humanities and Creative ArtsUniversity of Canterbury. Philosophy, 2016)
