Veronica Tawhai

Fulbright New Zealand invites you to a free public seminar by recently-returned alumna Veronica Tawhai, a lecturer in Māori development at Massey University’s School of Māori Studies, Te Pūtahi-a-Toi. Veronica received a 2012 Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Scholar Award to research indigenous assessments of the transformative potential of citizenship education, at the Center for World Indigenous Studies in Olympia, Washington.

In this seminar, Veronica will share insights learnt from indigenous political educators in the US about citizenship education, and particularly the new directions needed to foster wider understanding of indigenous rights, protest and aspirations for the future. Ethical matters concerning research with indigenous political leaders and activists will also be explored.

Places are limited so please RSVP to info@fulbright.org.nz or 472 2065 by Wednesday 29 May. Bring your own “brown bag” lunch.

The May 2013 edition of our Fulbright New Zealand Quarterly newsletter is online now!

In this issue, read about the successful new seminar series held monhtly at our office in Wellington; our February orientation programme for newly-arrived US grantees; and an update on our 65th anniversary activities and plans.

Current Fulbright New Zealand Graduate Student Bryony Gibson-Cornish reports of her exchange to the, alumni Dan Bidois and Bill Tramposch reminisce about their Fulbright exchange experiences, and we have the usual news updates from the Fulbright New Zealand office and the Fulbright New Zealand Alumni Association, details of our latest grantees, grantee and alumni news in brief, and a full list of available awards.
 
 
 
 

Contents

• Cover story: New seminar series a success
• Editorial
• US grantees welcomed to New Zealand
• 65th anniversary update
• Important Dates
• Alumni Association update
• Grantee and Alumni News
• In Memoriam
• Grantee Voice: Bryony Gibson-Cornish – Juilliard offers once in a lifetime experiences
• Awarded
• Arrivals and Departures
• Alumni Voices: Dan Bidois and Bill Tramposch
• Awards

Download

• Fulbright New Zealand Quarterly, May 2013 (PDF, 1.99 Mb)

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Your chance to find out about Fulbright exchange awards to the United States of America.

Fulbright New Zealand’s campus advisors and educational advising team are holding information sessions at university, polytechnic and wānanga campuses nationwide as part of an annual Outreach Tour to inform students and academic staff about opportunities to study, research, teach or present their work in the United States of America.

Come along to get accurate, current and comprehensive information about higher education in the US and an introduction to the range of prestigious Fulbright exchange awards to help you get there.

Eastern Institute of Technology
Fulbright Awards drop-in session w/ Fulbright campus advisor Rachael Vernon
11:00am-1:00pm, Monday 11 March
Student Amenities Building, EIT Taradale Campus
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University of Canterbury
Fulbright Awards drop-in session w/ Fulbright campus advisor Clemency Montelle
12:00-1:00pm, Monday 11 March
Library Foyer
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Otago Polytechnic
Fulbright Awards drop-in session w/ Fulbright campus advisor Linda Wilson
10:30am-2:00pm, Tuesday 12 March
Student Centre, Block M
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Massey University Wellington
Fulbright Awards drop-in session w/ Fulbright campus advisor Grant Hannis
12:00-2:00pm, Tuesday 12 March
The Pyramid
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University of Otago
Fulbright Awards drop-in session w/ Fulbright campus advisor Phil Bremer
10:00am-2:00pm, Wednesday 13 March
Seminar Room, Career Development Centre, IS Building
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Massey University Manawatu
Fulbright Awards drop-in session w/ Fulbright campus advisor Glyn Harper
12:00-2:00pm, Wednesday 13 March
Library, Ground Floor
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AUT University
Fulbright Awards drop-in session w/ Fulbright campus advisor Kate Kearins
12:00-2:00pm, Wednesday 13 March
Outside the Library (student quad area)
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Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Fulbright Awards drop-in session w/ Fulbright campus advisor Hine Waitere
12:00-1:30pm, Thursday 14 March
Student Commons Foyer
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Victoria University of Wellington
Fulbright Awards drop-in session w/ Fulbright campus advisor Art Pomeroy
12:30-1:30pm, Thursday 14 March
AM103 (opp. Wishbone), Alan MacDiarmid Building
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University of Canterbury
Fulbright Awards seminar for Māori and Pacific students and academic staff
3:00-4:00pm, Thursday 14 March
Te Ao Mārama, Room 252 (Level 2)
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Massey University Wellington
Fulbright Graduate Awards seminar for students
1:00-2:00pm, Tuesday 19 March
Room 7C18, Block 7
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Massey University Wellington
Fulbright Scholar Awards seminar for academic staff
2:00-3:00pm, Tuesday 19 March
Room 7C18, Block 7
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Massey University Manawatu
Fulbright Graduate Awards seminar for students
1:00-2:00pm, Wednesday 20 March
Room GLB2.03, Geography Building
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Massey University Manawatu
Fulbright Scholar Awards seminar for academic staff
2:00-3:00pm, Wednesday 20 March
Room GLB2.03, Geography Building
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The University of Auckland
Fulbright Awards drop-in sessions w/ Fulbright campus advisor Penny Brothers
11:30am-1:30pm, Wednesday 20 March, OGGB Foyer
1:30-2:30pm, Wednesday 20 March, Engineering Faculty Foyer
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Massey University Albany
Fulbright Awards drop-in session w/ Fulbright campus advisor Adam Claasen
12:30-2:30pm, Wednesday 20 March
Library Foyer
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University of Waikato
Fulbright Awards drop-in session w/ Fulbright campus advisor Douglas Pratt
1:00-2:00pm, Wednesday 20 March
M.2.09, Student Centre entrance foyer
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Massey University Albany
Fulbright Graduate Awards seminar for students
12:30-1:30pm, Wednesday 3 April
Room QA1, Quadrangle Building
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Massey University Albany
Fulbright Scholar Awards seminar for academic staff
1:30-2:30pm, Wednesday 3 April
Room QA1, Quadrangle Building
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University of Otago
Fulbright Awards seminar for Māori and Pacific students and academic staff
12:30pm, Wednesday 10 April
Practice Suite 1, 530 Castle Street North
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Te Wānanga o Aotearoa – Tāmaki Makaurau
Fulbright Awards seminar for students and academic staff
10:00-11:00am, Friday 3 May
Lecture Theatre, Manukau campus
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The University of Auckland
Fulbright Awards seminar for Māori and Pacific students and academic staff
1:00-2:00pm, Friday 3 May
Waipapa Marae, Wynyard Street
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AUT University
Māori and Pasifika Postgraduate Students Wānanga
5:00pm, Friday 3 May
Ngā Wai o Horotiu Marae
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University of Canterbury
Fulbright Awards seminar for students and academic staff
12:00 noon-1:00pm, Monday 6 May
NZi3, 69 Creyke Road
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Lincoln University
Fulbright Awards drop-in session w/ Fulbright campus advisor Jon Sullivan
12:40-2:30pm, Monday 6 May
Library Foyer
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Massey University Manawatu
Fulbright Awards seminar for Māori and Pacific students and academic staff
1:00-2:00pm, Friday 10 May
Room 3, Social Science Lecture Block
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University of Otago
Fulbright Scholar Awards drop-in session for academic staff
11:00am-1:00pm, Tuesday 14 May
CDC Seminar Room
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University of Otago
Fulbright Graduate Awards seminar for students
1:00-2:00pm, Tuesday 14 May
Commerce 2.03
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Wintec
Fulbright Awards seminar for students and academic staff
10:00-11:00am, Wednesday 15 May
Room A2.09, A Block, City Campus
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University of Waikato
Fulbright Awards seminar for students and academic staff
1:00-2:00pm, Wednesday 15 May
Room S.1.02, S Block
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Victoria University of Wellington
Fulbright Scholar Awards seminar for academic staff
12:00noon-1:30pm, Tuesday 21 May
AM101, Alan MacDiarmid Building
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Unitec Institute of Technology
Fulbright Awards seminar for students and academic staff
9:30-10:30am, Wednesday 22 May
Room 2066, Building 170
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AUT University
Fulbright Awards seminar for students and academic staff
1:30pm-2:30pm, Wednesday 22 May
Room WF302, WF Building
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Massey University Albany
Fulbright Graduate Awards seminar for students
3:30-4:30pm, Wednesday 22 May
Room QA1, Quadrangle Building A
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Victoria University of Wellington
Prestigious International Postgraduate Scholarships Information Evening
5:30pm-7:30pm, Wednesday 22 May
Hunter Council Chamber, Level 2 Hunter Building
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University of Auckland, Epsom Campus
Fulbright Awards seminar for students and academic staff
11:00am-12:00noon, Thursday 23 May
Room 415, N Block
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University of Auckland, Grafton Campus
Fulbright Awards seminar for students and academic staff
2:00-3:00pm, Thursday 23 May
Room 501-505, Building 501

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A unique opportunity to develop your business acumen in the United States of America.

2010 Fulbright-Platinum Triangle Award in Business recipient Carl Sanders-Edwards

Fulbright New Zealand develops future leaders through one of the most prestigious exchange scholarships in the world. The most valuable of Fulbright New Zealand’s range of graduate awards, the Fulbright-Platinum Triangle Award in Business is for an emerging business leader to complete a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at the leading US business school of their choice, to gain professional work experience in the US, and to access employment networks or venture capital contacts upon their return to New Zealand. One award valued at up to US$75,000 (plus a paid internship) is offered each year.

The Fulbright-Platinum Triangle Award in Business is for a talented business professional who has the academic credentials, work experience, leadership potential and ability to make a real contribution to the development of New Zealand’s economy. If successful, you will be able to further develop your business acumen, leadership skills and aspirations that will accelerate you in your business ambitions, before returning to New Zealand to help grow our economy through new business ventures. You will also develop international networks which last a lifetime and strengthen the relationship between New Zealand and the United States.

There have been eight Fulbright-Platinum Triangle Awards in Business granted since the programme started in 2005. Grantees have drawn on their impressive skills in areas including biomedicine, bio-technology, information technology, agricultural biotechnology, medical information technology, human resource development and clean tech entrepreneurship to create business opportunities that are strengthening NZ-US relations and helping to grow both economies. They have become successful world-class business people and mentors for budding New Zealand entrepreneurs.

If you are an emerging business leader with lots of initiative and want to take your business acumen to a new level, don’t miss this opportunity that could change your life!

Applications for the 2014 Fulbright-Platinum Triangle Award in Business close at 5:00pm on Monday 3 June.

See www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzgraduate/platinumtriangle or contact Kara Wood at Fulbright New Zealand for further information – kara@fulbright.org.nz / (04) 494 1504

Kathy Fox

Fulbright New Zealand invites you to a free public seminar by Kathy Fox, a 2013 Fulbright US Scholar currently based at Victoria University of Wellington. An Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont, Kathy is researching restorative re-entry of criminal offenders to the community.

In this seminar Kathy will compare restorative justice practices for offender re-entry in New Zealand with those in the US, and in particular her home state of Vermont. She will discuss opportunities for greater use of restorative practices in order to make offender re-entry community-based, more effective, and counter to the punitive approach to justice that has dominated the past several decades.

Places are limited so please RSVP to info@fulbright.org.nz or 472 2065 by Wednesday 17 April. Feel free to bring your own “brown bag” lunch.

The first instalment of Fulbright Reflections for 2013 will be presented in partnership with City Gallery Wellington, coinciding with the gallery’s major new exhibition of kinetic works from experimental filmmaker, sculptor, poet, painter and “composer of motion”, Len Lye. Lye was one of the most internationally influential and recognised New Zealand artists of the twentieth century, and spent a considerable part of his career based in the United States of America.

Fulbright Reflections: Experimental Art – Motion and Sound, will feature three esteemed Fulbright alumni – Len Lye historian Roger Horrocks, Adam Art Gallery curator Michelle Menzies and intermedia artist Phil Dadson – sharing their personal stories of passion, inspiration and thought leadership in the field of experimental art, and their experiences in the art world of the US.

Alumni speakers:

Roger Horrocks

Roger Horrocks

Roger Horrocks received a 1963 Fulbright New Zealand Graduate Award to complete a Master of Arts degree in English at the University of Minnesota.

After returning to New Zealand he worked at the University of Auckland, pioneering the teaching of contemporary American literature and the study of film. He was involved in the setting up of the Auckland International Film Festival, Alternative Cinema, Artspace, NZ On Air, NZ On Screen, Script to Screen, and various other organizations. He was a co-editor of the experimental magazines And and Splash.

Roger worked as Len Lye’s assistant in New York during the last year of the artist’s life and has since written a biography and directed a film about him, curated an exhibition of Lye’s art, and edited or co-edited three collections of his writings.

Roger is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Auckland and founding Head of its Film, Television and Media Studies Department. He has won various film awards and in 2004 was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the film and television industries.

Michelle Menzies

Michelle Menzies

Michelle Menzies received a 2006 Fulbright New Zealand Graduate Award to complete a PhD in Literature at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation Archives of Experience: Toward a Digital Aesthetics argues a cultural history of digital aesthetics routed through the history of cinema, and analyses the aesthetics of movement in early film, contemporary art, modern poetry and the philosophy of Henri Bergson.

Michelle’s research interests focus on twentieth-century aesthetics, particularly phenomenology and critical theory. Ongoing topics of preoccupation include expanded cinema, digital style, film and poetics, and the intersection of film studies, film history and contemporary art.

Michelle has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Intermedia and Time Based Arts from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts. Her artistic practice is based in video, photography and installation. She was co-initiator and curator of the Window art project in Auckland, one of the first galleries in New Zealand to attempt a creative use of the internet through coupling physical and virtual exhibitions.

Michelle is Curator of Victoria University of Wellington’s Adam Art Gallery. She is a fellow of the New Zealand India Research Institute, and a reviewer for Flash Art and Artforum magazines.

Phil Dadson

Phil Dadson (Photograph by Justine Lord, courtesy of the Arts Foundation)

Phil Dadson received a 1991 Fulbright New Zealand Cultural Development Award to research intermedia arts and experimental music at selected art institutions across the US.

Phil is a sound and intermedia artist with a transdisciplinary practice including video and sound installation, sound sculpture, construction of experimental musical instruments, music composition and improvised performance. He founded the original rhythm/performance group From Scratch in 1974, who perform with custom-built instruments made from industrial and natural materials. His kinetic sculptural works include Akau Tangi on Cobham Drive in Evan’s Bay, Wellington. In 2011 Phil was one of nine artists to travel on HMNZS Otago to the remote Kermadec Islands, resulting in a group exhibition at City Gallery Wellington from October 2012-February 2013. He recently travelled to Santiago, Chile for the opening of the Kermadec exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo.

Phil has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts, and a Master of Arts with Honours from the University of Western Sydney. He received a Laureate Award from the Arts Foundation in 2001 and was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2005, for services to the arts.

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Join these Fulbright alumni at City Gallery Wellington on Sunday 7 April, from 2:00-3:30pm, as they discuss Experimental Art – Motion and Sound.

About the Fulbright programme

The Fulbright exchange programme is one of the largest and most significant scholarly initiatives in the world, with more than 300,000 alumni. Included are heads of state, ambassadors, artists, politicians, presidents, teachers, professors and thinkers. The programme was begun in 1946 by American Senator J. William Fulbright “to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship”. To find out more about the Fulbright programme and opportunities for educational and cultural exchange between New Zealand and the United States of America, visit the Fulbright New Zealand website at www.fulbright.org.nz

The 2013 United States-New Zealand Pacific Partnership Forum, to be held in Washington, DC from 19 to 21 May 2013, will bring together over 200 game-changing leaders from government, business, the media and non-profit organizations in a global dialogue. Organized by the United States | New Zealand Council in Washington, DC and the New Zealand United States Council in New Zealand, the Partnership Forum will combine innovative presentations, off-the record discussions, outstanding networking opportunities as well as tangible examples of what’s next.

Hon John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, addresses the 2011 Future Partners Forum in Christchurch

The Future Partners programme is a component of the Partnership Forum and its purpose is to enable a diverse group of emerging American and New Zealand leaders to participate fully and contribute actively to the discussion in the Partnership Forum. Their participation will encourage diversity of view and new thinking at the event, as well as assist a new generation of leadership to develop interest in global issues and in the NZ-US relationship, and gain new insights and connections.

20 places will be offered to New Zealand participants aged 20-30 who are studying or working in either New Zealand or the United States. Of these 20 places, up to 10 places will be reserved for current or former Fulbright grantees including those studying in the United States. Accommodation and most meals during the Forum will be provided. Selected participants who are New Zealand based will be provided with air transport to and from Washington, DC by the Royal New Zealand Air Force. The RNZAF plane’s flight plan is yet to be confirmed but it is likely to depart Wellington on 18 May in the morning, and arrive back at Whenuapai Air Force Base in Auckland on the morning of 25 May. Selected grantees will need to find their own way to Wellington, and from Whenuapai back to their home location. Participants resident in the United States or elsewhere will need to personally meet the costs of transport to and from Washington, DC.

Selection of participants will be based on the applicant’s past experience, future plans, ability to participate in the Forum and reasons for doing so, and desirable attributes such as strong interpersonal skills, ambassadorial qualities and leadership qualities and potential.

Applicants must submit a completed application form and a letter of reference. For further information see the application pack:

• 2013 Future Partners programme application pack (MSWORD, 670.00 Kb)

Applications to be a part of this exciting opportunity close at 5:00pm on 2 April (New Zealand Time).

Peter Griffin

Fulbright New Zealand invites you to a free public seminar by alumnus Peter Griffin, manager of the Science Media Centre, editor of Sciblogs.co.nz and technology columnist for the New Zealand Listener. Peter recently returned from two months researching public interest journalism in the US as a Fulbright-Harkness New Zealand Fellow. He visited centres of excellence including the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC, Propublica in New York and the Center for Health Reporting in Los Angeles.

In this seminar Peter will discuss lessons from the US about the future of news, and in particular, how public interest journalism that uncovers corruption and speaks truth to power can be carried out when the mainstream media is increasingly unable to pay for it.

Places are limited so please RSVP to info@fulbright.org.nz or 472 2065 by Monday 18 March. Feel free to bring your own “brown bag” lunch.

Fulbright New Zealand invites applications for its first round of short-term NZ-US exchange awards for 2013. The following awards are available for exchanges of up to 90 days in the United States of America by New Zealand academics, artists or professionals:

Fulbright New Zealand Travel Awards

These awards, valued at up to NZ$5,000, are for New Zealand academics, artists or professionals to visit the US for 12 to 90 days in order to present their work to American audiences. Approximately twelve awards are offered each year. Recent grantees have included academic experts in ecological restoration of offshore islands, forensic science, and human digestive health, who will present their work at conferences and university lectures in the US.
www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzscholar/travel

Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Travel Awards in Indigenous Development

These awards, valued at up to NZ$5,000, are for New Zealand academics, artists or professionals to visit the US for 12 to 90 days in order to present their work on a theme of indigenous development to American audiences. A small number of awards are granted each year. Recent grantees will present their research into traditional Māori food crops, indigenous understandings of wellbeing, and indigenous and minority school achievement, at various US universities.
www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzscholar/fulbright-npmtravel

  
In addition, New Zealand institutions are invited to apply to host visiting American academics, artists or professionals on short-term exchanges to New Zealand:

Fulbright Specialist Awards

These awards, valued at up to US$11,700, are for New Zealand academic institutions to host US academics, artists or professionals for two to six week programmes of lectures, seminars, workshops, conferences or symposiums. Up to six awards are granted each year. Recent recipients of awards to host visiting Fulbright Specialists include Massey University, Unitec Institute of Technology, the University of Waikato and the University of Otago, who will host specialists in information technology in emergency management, family violence and sexual abuse prevention, and business law.
www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzinstitution/specialist

  
Applications for each of these awards close at 5:00pm on 1 April 2013.

See www.fulbright.org.nz/awards or contact Ron Mitchell at Fulbright New Zealand for further information – ron@fulbright.org.nz / (04) 494 1500

Note that we have changed our application closing dates for these awards. From this year onwards there will be two award rounds annually, closing 1 April and 1 August.

Fulbright New Zealand and the New Zealand Harkness Fellowships Trust invite applications for the Fulbright-Harkness New Zealand Fellowship, which offers the opportunity for an emerging New Zealand leader in any field of study or vocation other than health care* to study or research in the US for a minimum of six weeks. Successful grantees will receive NZ$15,000 (plus a basic health benefit plan) towards a short fellowship programme of their own design at any US university or institution.

The Fulbright-Harkness New Zealand Fellowship aims to reinforce New Zealand-United States links by improving cross-fertilisation of ideas and experience between the two countries; to enable established or potential leaders and opinion formers in New Zealand to benefit from new ideas, practices and contacts in the US; and to increase Fellow’s abilities to bring about change and improvements in New Zealand.

Previous Fulbright-Harkness New Zealand Fellows include Sacha McMeeking from Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, who spent three months researching the role of indigenous leadership in corporate citizenship at Northwestern University’s prestigious Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. The 2012 Fellow, Peter Griffin from the Science Media Centre, is currently in the US undertaking an intensive seven week research programme into public interest journalism. Peter has visited many high profile media organisations including the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC and the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting in Oakland, California. He is blogging his observations of media trends in the US and New Zealand at www.futurenews.co.nz

Applications for the 2013 Fulbright-Harkness New Zealand Fellowship close at 5:00pm on Monday 1 April Wednesday 1 May.

See www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzscholar/fulbright-harknessnz or contact Stefanie Joe at Fulbright New Zealand for further information – stefanie@fulbright.org.nz / (04) 494 1507

*Candidates in the field of health care should apply for the Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice provided by The Commonwealth Fund, applications for which close in September: www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzscholar/harknessfellowships