This looks interesting. A shame that I won’t be able to get to it. Hopefully something similar turns up when I get some sabbatical time.
Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
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Lecturer in Biblical Studies
Location: Auckland City Campus
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: PermanentThe School of Theology at the University of Auckland seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Biblical Studies with expertise in Hebrew Bible, but capacities to teach into the New Testament. The position may expand to include studies of Emerging Judaism in the future.
The successful applicant will be expected to undertake research, to teach at introductory undergraduate, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and to supervise research students for the MTheol and PhD degrees.
Applicants will be expected to have a PhD or equivalent in Biblical Studies, some research publications and teaching experience.
Closing date: Applications close on 21 March 2010.More details available here.
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Interesting short op-ed piece on some of the pressures on seminaries in the West. See The Christian Century – Seminaries under pressure
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I often get annoyed by the various ‘powers that be’ spouting on about faster broadband and how it will improve life and business for all in NZ because I don’t think speed is the issue – it’s data caps. Until broadband in general in NZ stops being charged by the bit (or subsidising that through something like a pay TV subscription) then digitally downloadable movies, music, TV programmes and large software updates in bulk just isn’t a reality for most people.
Nice to see an outsider’s perspective on this, from someone who’s recently moved to NZ. See TidBITS Networking: Paying by the Bit: Internet Access in New Zealand. And interesting to read the comments from folks who live in the US but outside of larger cities.
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Way, way back as a kid I can remember us owning a couple of the “Terran Trade Authority” books that were packed full of space opera concept art and historical vignettes that tied them all together. (see here also). The best work in the books was, IMHO, that of Peter Elson (some of whose images you can see here)
Anyway, this nostalgic ramblimg was all brought on by this When Space Opera Becomes Art – space opera – io9.
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The New Zealand Film Archive has been putting a selection of it’s archives of old television advertisements up online. Makes for some interesting viewing – though they didn’t have the ad I really wanted to see (the late 1970’s TV ad for Cadbury Crunchie bars based around a Star Wars saga motif).
See The Film Archive – It’s a Sellebration | They don’t make them like they used to.
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A quick list from Newsarama site of movies coming out this year using comic books as their original source material. Newsarama.com : Comic Book Movie Decade – the Next 365 Days.
As noted around the web with Disney’s acquisition of Marvel, Warner Bros. and DC have some significant challenges facing them – though it looks like we might finally get Wonder Woman and the Flash on the big screen because of it. (See Newsarama.com : MARVEL VS. DC – AT THE MOVIES)
Of course, we’re all waiting for 2011 and the Green Lantern movie.
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While looking around the web for the ‘Sierra Leone’ music video (by 80’s band Coconut Rough) I stumble across this really cool archive of NZ music videos. There goes the evening.
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Terry Pratchett on why ‘assisted death’ should be seriously considered – see Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal | Society | The Guardian.
Of all the topics in ethics class last year, this one was the one most hotly debated by the students. Touches nerves on so many levels, I think, and not just theologically or spiritually.
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Vampires appear to be the order of the day, starting off with:
And then all the recent religion and popular culture posts about Twilight and Mormonism:
- Touchstone Archives: Mormon Vampires in the Garden of Eden by John Granger
- The Sci Fi Catholic: John Granger on Twilight
- Where Twilight Studies Meets Mormon Studies: Setting the Record Straight | A Motley Vision
- Mormon Vampires in the Garden of Eden? « Daniel O. McClellan
And then, in general: