Course syllabus
English 718 Opening the Archive
Syllabus for Semester 2, 2020 (subject to change)
Seminars: Tuesday 10am – 11.30am (Arts 1, Room 612) and Thursday 10am - 11.30am (Arts 1, Room 202)
Convenors: Professor Michele Leggott, Arts 1, Room 603
Office Hour: By appointment
Email: m.leggott@auckland.ac.nz
Associate Professor Linda Tyler, Arts 1, Room 741
Office Hour: Wednesday 2-3pm
Email: l.tyler@auckland.ac.nz
Class Rep: Lily Holloway
Week 1 Matrices
Tuesday 28 July
Session 1: Field trip with Katherine Pawley
Location: UoA Special Collections, General Library
Thursday 30 July
Session 2: Spectrality
Location: Home Room
Resources:
Michele Leggott, ‘Opening the Archive: Robin Hyde, Eileen Duggan and the Persistence of Record’
Sue McKemmish, ‘Traces: Document, record, archive, archives’
Week 2 Ordering Worlds 1
Tuesday 4 August
Session 1: Ann Shelton videos and Francis Pound response
Location: Homeroom
Thursday 6 August
Session 2: Taxonomies, ontologies, mattering
Location: homeroom
Resources:
Ann Shelton, ‘A Library to Scale’
Francis Pound, ‘The Reflecting Archive’
Elizabeth Yale, ‘The History of Archives’
Jacques Derrida, from Archive Fever
Jose Saramago, from All the Names
Week 3 Ordering Worlds 2
Tuesday 11 August
Session 1: Field trip – with Ngarino Ellis
Location: Waipapa Marae
Thursday 13 August
Session 2: Whakapapa, kaitiakitanga, korero, matauranga,
Location: Home room
Student seminar #1: Roman and Lily
Resources:
Ngarino Ellis, ‘Te Ao Hurihuri o ngā Taonga Tuku iho: The Evolving Worlds of Our Ancestral Treasures’
Paul Tapsell, The Art of Taonga.
Paki Harrison, Tane Nui a Rangi o Waipapa
Week 4 Memory Machinery
Tuesday 18 August
Session 1: Field trip with Nina Finigan, Curator of Manuscripts, Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
Location: Auckland War Memorial Museum Library
Thursday 20 August
Session 2: The past-present, productive discomfort
Location: Home room
Student seminar #2: Winnie, Jennifer and Amalia
Resources:
Barry Barclay, ‘Before the Beginning’
Stephen Turner, ‘Settler Dreaming’
Hannah Lees, ‘Methexis: Writing in (not of) the University’
Week 5 Memory in the Blood
Tuesday 25 August
Session 1: Field trip with Daren Kamali
Location: Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland City Central Library
Thursday 27 August
Location: Home room
Student Seminar #3: Emma, Olivia and Gabrielle
Resources:
Natalie Harkin, ‘The Poetics of (Re)Mapping Archives: Memory in the Blood’
Lisa Samuels, ‘Luminal Historiography’
Hito Steyerl, ‘In Defence of the Poor Image’
Week 6 Going Digital 1
Tuesday 1 September
Session 1: Virtual field trip – NZ Fashion Museum
Location: Home room
Thursday 3 September
Session 2: Activating Archives
Location: Home room
Student Seminar #4: Catie, Toyah and Mackenzie
Resources:
New Zealand Fashion Museum
Āwhina Tamarapa, from Whatu Kākahu: Māori Cloaks
Jenny Newell, ‘Old objects, new media: Historical collections, digitization and affect’
Mid-semester Break 5 - 20 September
Assignment deadline: Monday 7 September 4pm, Case Study: An Archive (25%)
Week 7: Going Digital 2
Tuesday 22 Sept
Session 1: Field trip – Tapa Notebooks with Selina Tusitala Marsh
Location: UoA Special Collections
Thursday 24 Sept
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’
Linda Tuhiwai Smith, ‘He Hinatora ki te Ao Māori: Māori Perspectives on Justice’
Tapa Notebooks at the NZ Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) (you will be assigned a tapa notebook to investigate
Week 8 Restoration & Creative Engagement
Tuesday 29 September
Session 1: Field trip – with Camilla Baskcomb
Location: Auckland Art Gallery conservation labs
Thursday 1 October
Session 2: Restoration, adaptation, creativity ??
Location: Home room
Resources:
Michele Leggott, ’Some Lighted Windows’
Michele Leggott, ‘Dark Emily’
Michele Leggott and Brianna Vincent, ‘James Upfill Wilson’ and ‘James Upfill Wilson Redux’
Ann Shelton and Stephen Turner, Wastelands
Assignment deadline: Monday 5 October 4pm Seminar facilitation and critical reflection (25%)
Week 9 Societal Power, Hoarding, Disorder
Tuesday 6 October
Session 1: The backside of the university
Location: Home room
Thursday 8 October
Session: Whose rubbish?
Location: Home room
Resources:
Deborah Bird Rose, ‘Decolonizing the Discourse’
Gay Hawkins, from The Ethics of Waste
Hoarders episode
David Rutland, ‘Digital hoarders: “Our terabytes are put to use for the betterment of mankind”’
Week 10 Storehouses
Tuesday 13 October
Field trip with Alicia Taylor, Collection Manager, Collection Care, Auckland Museum.
Location: Auckland War Memorial Museum, B2, meet in the foyer.
Thursday 15 October
Field trip with Alba Letts
Location: MOTAT, M3
Resources:
Anna Boswell, ‘Lessons from the Dodo’
Deidre Brown, Ngarino Ellis and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Does Māori Art History Matter?
Week 11 Social Media Archives
Tuesday 20 October
Session 1: Storehouses debrief
Location: Home room
Thursday 22 October
Session 2: Replaying history
Location: Home room
Resources:
Teju Cole, ‘Unnamed Lake’
Hito Steyerl, ‘Politics of the Archive: Translations in Film’
Week 12 Living Archives
Tuesday 27 October
Session 1: Field trip with Stanley Jones
Location: Old Government House grounds
Thursday 29 October
Session 2; Assignments and review
Location: Home room
Resources:
Mark Adams and Nicholas Thomas, ‘Astronomer’s Point’
Anna Boswell, ‘Climates of Change: A Tuatara’s eye View’
Assignment deadline: Monday 2 November 4pm Research Project (50%)
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718 People in 2020
Week 1, 28 July – Katherine Pawley
Week 3, 11 August – Ngarino Ellis
Week 4, 18 August – Nina Finigan
Week 5, 25 August – Jane Wild, Daren Kamali
Week 7, 22 September – UoA Special Collections (Tapa Notebooks), Selina Tusitala Marsh
Week 8, 29 September – Camilla Baskcomb
Week 10 13 October – Alicia Taylor B2
Week 10 15 October – MOTAT M3, Alba Letts
Week 12, 27 October – Stanley Jones
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