Course syllabus

 

Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4
Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8
Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12

 

List of Key Terms

Further Sites of interest

Examples of Creative Engagements

Links of Interest

ENGLISH 718: Opening the Archive

English 718 Opening the Archive

Syllabus for semester one 2018 – subject to change

Last updated 16 February 2018

 

Seminars: Tuesdays 1 - 2.30pm in 206-302
Wednesdays 3 - 4.30pm in 206-213

Convenor: Professor Michele Leggott, Arts 1, Room 603

Office Hour:  by appointment
Email: m.leggott@auckland.ac.nz
Course support: Makyla Curtis    
Email: mcur487@aucklanduni.ac.nz

 Student rep: Aida Chung, kchu642@aucklanduni.ac.nz

Week 1:                      Matrices

Tues 27 February

Session 1:  Fieldtrip with Katherine Pawley

Location: UoA Special Collections, General Library

Wed 28 February

Session 2: Spectrality

Location: Home room

Resources:      

Michele Leggott, ‘Opening the Archive: Robin Hyde, Eileen Duggan and the Persistence of Record’

Record Keeping in Society - Chapter 1 - Traces Documents

 

 

Week 2:                      Ordering worlds I

Tues 6 March

Session 1: Ann Shelton videos / Francis Pound response

Location: home room

Wed 7 March

Session 2: Taxonomies, ontologies, mattering

Location: home room

Resources:      

Elizabeth Yale, ‘The History of Archives’

Jacques Derrida, from Archive Fever

Jose Saramago, from All the Names

Francis Pound, The Reflecting Archive

 

Week 3:                      Ordering worlds II   

Tues 13 March 

Session 1: Field trip – with Hirini Kaa

Location: Waipapa Marae

Wed 14 March

Session 2: Whakapapa, kaitiakitanga, korero, matauranga,

Student seminar: Melaia, Amy, Zech

Location: Home room

Resources:    

Ngarino Ellis, Te Ao Hurihuri o ngā Taonga Tuku iho

Tapsell, Paul. The Art of Taonga.

Paki Harrison, UoA, Tāne-nui-a-rangi

 

Week 4:                      Memory machinery  

Tues 20 March

Session 1: Fieldtrip – with Nina Finigan

Location: Auckland War Memorial Museum & Library

Wed 21 March

Session 2: The past-present, productive discomfort (with Stephen Turner),

Student seminar:Brianna, Annie-Rose, Jemma

Location: Home room

Resources:

Barry Barclay, ‘Before the Beginning’

Stephen Turner, 'Settler Dreaming'

LOUNGE 60 Wednesday 21 March at Old Government House, 5.30-7 pm. All welcome

 

Week 5:                      Copies

Tues 27 March

Session 1: Field trip – with Tessa Stubbing & Iain Sharp

Location: Auckland Central Library, Lorne St

Wed 28 March

Session 2: Multiples and Editions (with Makyla Curtis),

Student seminar: Aida, Rebecca, Kevin

Location: home room

Resources:   

Makyla Curtis, Certified Copies

Johanna Drucker, The Myth of the Democratic Multiple

Hito Steyerl, In Defence of the Poor Image

Interview with Tessa Stubbing

 

                                    MID SEMESTER BREAK

Deadline: Monday 16th April, 4pm, Case Study: An Archive

 

Week 6                       Restoration & Creative Engagement

Tues 17 April

Session 1: Fieldtrip – with Sarah Hillary and Linda Tyler

Location: Auckland Art Gallery conservation labs

Wed 18 April

Session 2: Restoration, adaptation, creativity

Location: home room

Resources:  

Michele Leggott, ‘Emily and Her Sisters’

Michele Leggott, ‘Writing Lines: Emily Harris’s Taranaki War’

Ann Shelton and Stephen Turner, Wastelands

Brown, Deidre, Ngarino Ellis and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki. Does Māori Art History Matter?

 

LOUNGE 61 Wednesday 18 April at Old Government House, 5.30-7 pm. All welcome

 

Week 7:                      Going digital I

Tues 24 April.

Session 1: Virtual fieldtrip – NZ Fashion Museum - with Linda Tyler

Location: home room

No Wednesday class due to Anzac day

Resources:   

New Zealand Fashion Museum

Āwhina Tamarapa, Introduction of Whatu Kākahu: Māori Cloaks

Jenny Newell, Old objects, new media: Historical collections, digitzation and affect 

 

Week 8:                      Going digital II              

Tues 1 May

Session 1: Fieldtrip – Tapa Notebooks with Selina Tusitala Marsh

Location: UoA Special Collections

Wed 2 May

Session 2: curation, gift economy, va, mauri

Location: home room

Resources:       

Deidre Brown, Te Ahua Hiko: Digital Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Objects, People, and Environments

Tapa Notebooks at the NZ Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) (you will be assigned a tapa notebook to look at)

archillect.com (Just spend 5 or 10 min to see how the website works)

 

Week 9:                      Societal Power

Tues 8 May

Session 1: Fieldtrip with Belinda Battley and Linda Tyler

Location: Archives NZ, 95 Richard Pearse Dr, Mangere, Auckland 1062

Wed 9 May

Session 2: Disorder, hoarding, backside

Location: home room

Resources:

Deborah Bird Rose, ‘Decolonizing the Discourse’

Gay Hawkins, from The Ethics of Waste 'Preface' (read the beginning and then skim it)

Hoarders episode

Deadline: Mon 7 May, 4pm Seminar facilitation and critical reflection

 

Week 10:                    Dark Arks

Tues 15 May

Session 1: Fieldtrip – with Georgia Brockhurst and Anna Boswell

Location: Auckland Museum basement

Wed 16 May

Session 2: Basements

Location: home room

Resources:  

Anna Boswell, Lessons from the Dodo

 

Week 11:                    overload, disintergration                    

EXTRA CLASS

Mon 21 May – 11am-12noon & Ochre Rm, CLEAR bldg, 18 Waterloo Cr

Special guest: Terese Svoboda on Lola Ridge – biography as archive

Tues 22 May

class cancelled

Wed 23 May

Session 2: Afterlives

Location: home room

Resources:  

Terese Svoboda, Anything That Burns You: Lola Ridge, Radical Poet (excerpt)

Emma Winsor Wood May, The Rumpus Interview with Terese Svoboda

Michele Leggott, Verses and Beyond: The Antipodean Poetry of Lola Ridge (read the first 10 pages)

Teju Cole, Unnamed Lake

Hito Steyerl, ‘Politics of the Archive: Translations in Film’ (recommended but not compulsory reading)

Week 12:                     Living archives and review

Tues 29 May

Session 1: Leigh Davis Flags – family archives with Susan Davis

Location: Teal Rm, Fisher Building

Wed 30 May

Session 2: Living Archives with Stanley Jones

Location: Old Government House - Wear weather appropriate clothes

Resources:

Mark Adams and Nicholas Thomas, 'Vanishing Points' from Cook’s Sites (just browse this reading)

 

LOUNGE 62 Wednesday 30 May at Old Government House, 5.30-7 pm. All welcome

 

Deadline: Tuesday 5^th June 4pm Research Project

 

Learning aims:

This course aims to support you in developing:

• Your critical awareness of what archives are and how they are formed, maintained and used
• Your ability to conduct research using practical, transferrable skills

 

Assessment plan:

1. Case study: an archive (25%, 2,500 words)
2. Seminar facilitation and critical reflection (25%, 2,500 words)
3. Research project (40%, 4,000 words) + portfolio (10%, 1,000 words)