Links
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter.
Conversation with Prof Daniel Heath Justice (UBC)
February 2021
“Singing in their genealogical trees”
‘Entangled Modernities: New Directions in Settler Colonial and Critical Indigenous Studies’ conference - University of Kent 2020
“Decolonising teaching and research” panel 2019
This panel was part of a flagship public symposium hosted by the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University. The symposium, entitled Trans-Indigenous Approaches to Decolonising the Academy, was held in 2019 on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country.
Panel details: Moderator: Associate Professor Katerina Teaiwa, Australian National University Panel: Dr Natalie Harkin, Flinders University; Associate Professor Alice Te Punga Somerville, University of Waikato; Dr Leah Lui-Chivizhe, University of Sydney
“Captain Cook: the beginning of what?”
Hear Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Āti Awa, Taranaki) and Emalani Case (Kanaka Maoli/ Hawaiian) in conversation about James Cook’s legacy in Aotearoa and the Pacific. How do New Zealanders address this legacy 252 years after Captain Cook circumnavigated New Zealand? How should Captain Cook be remembered?
“Taupata, taro, roots, earth: the (Indigenous) politics of gardening”
Drawing on scholarship and activism connected to cultivation by Indigenous peoples, this talk - examines texts by Indigenous writers alongside historical and contemporary media texts about gardens and gardening to explore the diverse ways in which relationships (human and non-human) are mediated and nurtured through acts of gardening.
>> HumanNature is a landmark series of talks by a stellar line up of leading Australian and international scholars. They will share with us their insights from history, literature, philosophy, anthropology and art to examine the significant interplay between the humanities and the environmental crisis we face today.
This series was hosted at the Australian Museum. Listen to the recording of the lecture here.
“Too Many Cooks?”
Michael King Memorial Lecture
Auckland Writers Festival 2021
Can we blame Cook for everything that followed? Is it the fault of the Englishman who met his early end in 1779 that Māori are statistically likely to meet an early end in 21st century New Zealand? This is not a biographical or historical lecture about Captain James Cook; nor is it a morbid tale of indigenous destruction. Instead, Indigenous Studies scholar and author of Once Were Pacific: Māori Connections to Oceania and Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay About Captain Cook, Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Ātiawa, Taranaki), leads an examination of past, present and future, reflecting on the many stories we tell about Cook and his legacy and what they suggest about the different futures imagined for Aotearoa.
Listen to a podcast of the lecture here.
“(Not quite) 250 ways to start an essay about Captain Cook”
Read on the e-Tangata online magazine website.
In the midst of debate last year about the national commemorations to mark the 250th anniversary of James Cook’s arrival in Aotearoa, poet and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville wrote an article for a history journal about the commemorations and Cook’s global colonial legacy. It has now been turned into this BWB Text: Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook. Here are numbers 1 to 49.
