Writing the New World
The podcast that shares research and ideas related to the research project 'Writing the New World: Indigenous texts 1900-1975' - led by Alice Te Punga Somerville and supported by the Marsden Fund. The podcast is co-produced and hosted by Wanda Ieremia-Allan. Sixteen Indigenous researchers have worked with Alice on this journey of connecting with the massive, multilingual and rich legacy of writing in the Pacific region. This podcast celebrates what can happen when we connect across generations, archives, disciplines, institutions, communities, experiences, and perspectives.
Episodes
19 episodes
ATPS3: Final episode about the WTNW project - the podcast, the politics, the oppression, the future.
Taualuga series: final episode. Associate Professor Alice Te Punga Somerville discusses the inspiration behind the podcast; 'being too political', the 'Modernist' vibe and historical oppression in and by NZ Literary Studies.This concl...
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28:42
ATPS2: Archives, structural inequalities and amazing Indigenous student researchers.
Second episode of the Taualuga Series. Associate Professor Alice Te Punga Somerville discusses archives, structural inequalities and the innovative methodological engagement by Indigenous and Pacific student researchers. Listen in to one last f...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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34:08
ATPS1 "Interconnected, intergenerational, multilingual whakapapa of intellectual thought."
"What are the stakes of the things that we've already forgotten; how do we make sure we connect our memories; how we do we find, track down, remember, acknowledge, learn from and intellectually engage with the work that our people have already ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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37:44
12 Centering Niue knowledges, building research communities and searching for 'Niue Happiness'.
Fakaalofa lahi atu! ‘Faliki e tau momoui he tau atuhau ke he Vagahau Niue’ which in English translates to, “Lay the foundations - give rise to Vagahau Niue for generations".The episode of our podcast series - which was first released for Ni...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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52:06
11 - Shining the light on early 20th century Samoan literary cultures
"I've reconnected with my family; I've never met my grandparents or great grandparents but I feel very connected to them now that I've read their writing.. I've read their feau, I've read ther momoliga alofa, soalaupule - aspiration for the nex...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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44:31
10 "We should not assume non visibility means absence"
'Writing the New World' researcher Vula Utonivaya and 'Pacific Texts' researcher and student Adi Inoke discuss Indigenous Fijian voices in 'Na Mata': a nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Fijian government newspaper. In cel...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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55:04
9 Leading the change in university student newspapers.
"We should have autonomy over the language we write in." Waikato Students' Union President, 'Nukutawhiti' Editor and 'Writing the New World' researcher Kyla Campbell-Kamariera talks frankly about the politics of publishing in NZ university stud...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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27:35
8: WTNW student interns - navigating archival waters
Introducing three of our 2019 & 2020 'Writing the New World' student researchers who navigated archival waters in search of Indigenous and Pacific voices. Their discussions on research findings provide great lessons for other Pacific and In...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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37:33
BONUS Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
Whakanuia Te Reo Māori!BONUS EDITION: In celebration of Māori Language week, Te Reo Māori Education specialist Beau Stowers speaks with ‘Writing the New World’ researchers Ammon Apiata and Areta Ranginui Charlton about early Twentieth Centu...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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27:05
7: A celebration of Tongan literature
A celebration of Tongan Literature with Mele Latunipulu and (soon to be Dr) Elisapesi Hepi Havea, in which they discuss a twentieth first century (re)reading of Professor Konai Helu Thaman's 1974 classic poem 'You, the choice of my parents'. Gi...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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35:01
BONUS Tongan language week
Mālō e lelei, Happy Tongan Language Week! Happy Uike Lea Faka-Tonga!As part of the 'Writing the New World' commitment to profiling Indigenous Voices through early twentieth century Indigenous Language Texts, the 'Writing the New World' proj...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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17:59
6: Navigating Hawaiian language newspapers
Temau'onukuhiva Teikitekahioho-Wolff's 'Writing the New World' research on early twentieth century Hawaiian Language Newspapers draws on his multilingual heritage to not only appreciate the nuances and might of resistance writing in early twent...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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33:42
5: Ammon Apiata: Tracing a whakapapa of Māori spiritual expression.
How does one draw on Māori spiritual concepts to translate the Christian gospel? What are the critical points of tension? Who was thinking about these questions one hundred and five years ago; who is thinking about them now? 'Writing t...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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39:54
BONUS: Poetry, language, archives: Three Indigenous Poets
Special episode produced to launch on NZ's National Poetry Day 2020: Indigenous poets Mere Taito, Essay May Ranapiri and Alice Te Punga Somerville read poems that respond to Indigenous archives... in conversation with podcast host Wanda Ieremia...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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57:22
4: finding Indigenous voices in colonial archives.
Introducing 'Writing the New World' researcher Stacey Kokaua in conversation with her father Dr Jesse Kokaua about her finding Kuki 'Airani voices in the Hocken Collections, University of Otago. Dr Jesse and Stacey talk about the wide ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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19:59
3: honouring our intellectual heritage.
Our third Cook Islands-focused podcast episode features Emma Emily Ngakuraevaru Powell, a PhD student at Va'aomanū Pasifika, Victoria University of Wellington, who is currently based in Rarotonga with an association with the University of the S...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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32:51
2: Embarking on an archival research journey.
Introducing our second regular Cook Islands podcast featuring Marylise Dean from the University of Waikato. Marylise hails from the Cook Islands heartland of Tokoroa and is completing her Hons in Pacific & Indigenous Studies at the Faculty ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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13:15
1: safeguarding our Indigenous archives.
Introducing our first Cook Island Language podcast featuring Vainetutai Parima from the University of the South Pacific, Cook Islands discussing the importance of safeguarding our Indigenous Archives. A special treat for speakers and l...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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42:36
BONUS Cook Islands language week
Celebrating Cook Islands Language Week 2020 by sharing the words of some amazing Cook Islanders... writers from the past, and students + scholars from today.As Mama Marjorie Crocombe said in the Pacific literary journal 'Mana' back in 1...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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