Posts by Kate Hannah
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Ooh yay have a contact at Leeds whom I will email forthwith.
And yes. The language of othering mastered by the Nazis has to be read to be believed. -
Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Was hoping you might chime in, Hilary. Would love some ideas of places to look - I've seen images from various exhibitions, haven't looked in the Turnbull for that particular strand of the story... PAS - a wonderful place.
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Sacha,
You've given me a new path to wander down though. I've read a lot of nonfiction re the treatment of the disabled during the third reich. But need to seek out the art...
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to bmk,
Brill. Will do tomorrow from full keyboard & with my books around me.
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to bmk,
Oh yes! Can I email you a starter list?
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Sacha,
Yes. Much of what I'm interested in is conscious acts of bearing witness via Art (literature, performance, etc) - in order to not allow the act of forgetting. So Aktion T4 suggestions gratefully received.
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Sacha,
I'm always looking for more texts that attempt a fictional account of all aspects of the Holocaust & Armenian genocide. My trajectory at present focuses on video art or YouTube streams .... Any tips re Aktion T4 ones ? I "read" them textually rather than visually...
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to John Armstrong,
And it seems you probably work at the department that trained me, given you're Hamilton-based.
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to John Armstrong,
in an economy of scarcity, such as we have now with funding for research, there is indeed the danger of more 'science' funding taking monies away from the social sciences and humanities - I guess what I assumed (because it is my own subjective position, I hasten to add) was that Bart referred to creating an economy of plenty, predicated on funding research for research's sake, and nothing else. (No end-users, no bottom-lines, no benefit to New Zealand). That kind of funding for research means that historians are not 'in competition' with people who are curing cancer ....
I think perhaps the best thing history and its understanding of subjectivities can offer science right now is the notion of subject position - that one needs to accept and understand one's subjectivities instead of assuming an ability to be completely objective .....and Boyd's drawing upon evolutionary theory to understand literature reveals the increasing destruction of traditional disciplinary boundaries .....
I, for one, am firmly of the opinion that a University can only be a University if the Humanities are flourishing. That's my subject position on that one. I'm constantly surprised that most of my Business School colleagues are actually either economists or sociologists ..... not so far apart, in terms of theory and discourse, from this non-practising (ie. not paid to do it) researcher of post-Holocaust representations of genocide in a variety of "texts".
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to BenWilson,
there's patience or at least the gift of time - my 65 year old father-in-law was made redundant about 2 years ago, and in the period of his redundancy, he was a fantastic resource for school trips, attending school events etc. The teachers loved having him as he had the wisdom, as you mention, and patience to answer every question and talk deeply to the children. He's now working again, but that gift - to be able to be generous with time - is precious.
Then there's joy. My grandmother is 91 - she has seen both a husband and a daughter (my mother) die too young. He own mother died when she was 6 months old. Her beloved brother was lost off Tobruk in '42. But her general attitude to life is one of joy, of celebration. Of particular joy for her this year has been having my 9 year old talk rugby to her - something she never imagined she would have in our largely non-sporty family. She rang both my sister and myself five minutes before the grand final kick off to tell us she loved us, to check we were watching, and to tell us about her All Blacks (fake) tattoo .... joy.
She's also taught me a lot about tolerance. With the bearing witness and the wisdom, comes a sense that there is nothing new under the sun, and that we should be kinder to one another. Having seen it all before, our elders have much to teach us about what's important, and what's not - and accepting the quirks and choices of others seems one of the important things.
Those are quite personal, sorry, but I hope they add to your list, Ben.