As a special event to mark the 150th anniversary of the University of Canterbury, the UC Teece Museum is is pleased to present ‘A Distant Prospect: Memories of Canterbury University College’ as part of Open Christchurch 2023.

This free public talk will explore the memories of a selection of staff and students who worked, studied and played on the ‘town site’, the original location of Canterbury University College. Dr Erin Harrington, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, will converse with former students, academics and support staff, and highlight some of the personal stories captured in the walls of these historic buildings in our 150th anniversary year.

The UC Teece Museum is proud to present this event as part Open Christchurch 2023, alongside our 'open house', and the mini-exhibition 'A Solid Foundation: celebrating 150 years of UC in the City'.

Our Panel

Erin Harrington is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Canterbury. Erin's primary area of research is post 1960s horror cinema, but she is broadly interested in wide range of approaches to culture, especially the 'everyday', including digital culture, spectatorship, science and technology, issues of taste and consumption, camp and queerness, and so-called 'low' culture. Erin is active in the arts community - she is on the board of WORD, writes regularly as an arts critic, participates in performance work, and appears regularly as a panellist, speaker and adjudicator.

This is a FREE public talk, but seats are limited, so please register to attend.

Where: UC Teece Museum, 3 Hereford St, Christchurch
When: Sun 7 May 2023, 3pm in the Recital Room

Image credit: University procession, FD856.0005.0003.0006, Eric Mangin papers, Macmillan Brown Library