List of publications by Antje Lubcke
Journal articles by Antje Lubcke
Making the visual record of New Guinea: William G. Lawes’s photographic encounters
History and Anthropology, Volume 33 - Issue 1: Material Encounters; Guest Editors: Bronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard, 2022
Missionary relationships with local populations following annexation of Pacific places by imperia... more Missionary relationships with local populations following annexation of Pacific places by imperial powers involved intense interactions with potential and actual converts. Reverend William G. Lawes of the London Missionary Society and other New Guinea missionaries supplied photographs from the field to anthropologists and to the secular press. How such images were created in situ demands detailed study. This article examines embodied encounters involving the camera between Lawes and Papuans of the Port Moresby mission district and ambiguous materializations of such encounters in the physical mediums of glass plates and paper. Investigating photographic equipment and materials, place and climate, and their impact in early photographic encounters reveals the complexity of such meetings of European/missionary, Papuans, and camera technology in which Indigenous populations frequently shaped the visual conception of their land and their persons.
Two New Hebrides Mission Photograph Albums: An Object-story of Story-objects
The Journal of Pacific History, 2012
Book chapters by Antje Lubcke
Encounters and the photographic record in British New Guinea
Indigenous Intermediaries: New perspectives on exploration archives. Edited by Shino Konishi, Maria Nugent and Tiffany Shellam. ANU Press, 2015
The intricacies of encounters between photographers and their subjects need to be examined more c... more The intricacies of encounters between photographers and their subjects need to be examined more closely, especially in the colonial context, as it has too often been taken for granted that the photographer was solely responsible for the resulting image or the only agent in the photographic encounter. The cameras that were used and the associated materials and chemicals needed for photography in the late nineteenth century meant that setting up a shot and developing a photograph were neither simple nor quick tasks. European photographers who travelled to the newly acquired territories of empire relied on local carriers and interpreters to assist them in their work; and when it came to photographing the indigenous people of these lands, the photographic encounter was shaped to varying degrees by their willingness to be photographed. Just as Felix Driver and Lowri Jones assert that ‘exploration was a joint project of work’ and a ‘shared experience’,1 I argue that the practice of photog...
Narrative and J. W. Lindt's "Picturesque New Guinea" Series, 1885
Shifting Focus: Colonial Australian Photography 1850-1920. Edited by Anne Maxwell and Josephine Croci. Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2015
Conference presentations by Antje Lubcke
The Carpentries, a model for teaching "foundational coding and data science skills to resear... more The Carpentries, a model for teaching "foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide" (https://carpentries.org/), are slowly gaining traction in research institutions in NZ. The short workshops (usually run over two days) aim to provide access to computational skills development in an environment where time constraints on the part of faculty means these skills are mostly left up to individuals to teach themselves. Librarians have also seen the value in this approach to teach their colleagues skills they might not otherwise have the time or opportunity to learn. Enter: Library Carpentry. But how applicable are coding and data science skills to librarians in their day-to-day work? <br>This presentation will introduce Library Carpentry - what it is and how it is taught - and address the question of how it can be connected to real world Librarianship. How can we show transfer of learning to real work situations? How do we follow up workshops to ens...
Co-authored works by Antje Lubcke
Listening and learning: myths and misperceptions about postgraduate students and library support
Shiobhan Smith, Antje Lubcke, Dean Alexander, Kate Thompson, Christy Ballard, Fiona Glasgow. Reference Services Review, 2019
Purpose The University of Otago Library conducted a review of its postgraduate support program in... more Purpose The University of Otago Library conducted a review of its postgraduate support program in 2018. The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings of a questionnaire and follow up focus group undertaken as part of the review. It highlights postgraduate student preferences for learning about support services, their ideas on marketing these services effectively and the kind of engagement that works best for them. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was developed and deployed in July 2018. It contained 20 questions and was emailed to 2,430 enrolled Otago doctorate and master’s students by the University of Otago (GRS). A total of 564 responded, 391 completing all questions. A follow-up focus group was held in August 2018. Quantitative data were collected and analyzed using Qualtrics software and qualitative data were coded and analyzed using NVivo software. Findings Respondents highlighted the difficulty they have learning what support services are available to them...
Impacts of Research
Larcombe, Maria; Coleman, Michele; Stokes, Tim; Cannon, Richard; Lübcke, Antje; Smith, Shiobhan, 2020
High quality research that changes the world is what we strive for at the University of Otago Div... more High quality research that changes the world is what we strive for at the University of Otago Division of Health Sciences. It’s also what governments around the world are asking for. They want greater accountability from researchers who must articulate how research investment benefits communities and
populations. Those benefits include health, societal, cultural, economic or environmental factors at the individual, whānau and community level. This booklet describes eight research impact case studies. They come from across the seven Schools in the Division of Health Sciences and highlight different stages of their impact journey. Each has been selected for making a meaningful contribution in a different field of research. These researchers are improving people’s health, changing local and central government policies, contributing to best practice guidelines, creating spin-off companies to commercialise research and building capability by training the next generation of scientists. By forming meaningful relationships with stakeholders, creating strong networks with other researchers and being advocates for policy change they are achieving success. We hope you enjoy discovering how their impact was achieved.
Theses by Antje Lubcke
Exposing New Guinea: The early photographers, W. G. Lawes and J. W. Lindt
PhD thesis, Australian National University, 2016
This thesis explores the early photographic representation of southeast New Guinea through a clos... more This thesis explores the early photographic representation of southeast New Guinea through a close examination of the lives and work of two of the first Europeans to fix the region and its inhabitants on glass plate negatives. It has been acknowledged that the London Missionary Society missionary William G. Lawes and the professional photographer John W. Lindt created images of New Guinea that have become iconic through their repeated reproduction in print media, their global dispersal, and replication by subsequent visitors-with-cameras to the region. However, the immediate circumstances of their photographs’ production have received little attention in the literature. Focusing on the nature of Lawes’s and Lindt’s photographic encounters, traces of which can be read from the images themselves as well as their writings, reveals the significance of the camera as well as the agency of Papuans in shaping the photographic record. The contemporary framings of their New Guinea images are also considered in order to understand fully the different trajectories for the promotion and influence of their photographs, which are now equally widely dispersed in archive collections around the world. In the chapters that follow I reconstitute the histories of Lawes’s and Lindt’s New Guinea photographs in order to better understand their production and circulation. The result of this investigation is a more nuanced visual history that encompasses the specific encounters, networks, technology, and texts that shaped the early photographic record of New Guinea.
The Photograph Albums of the New Zealand Presbyterian Mission to the New Hebrides
MA Thesis, University of Otago, 2009
While it has been acknowledged that photographs are valuable sources for the historian, photograp... more While it has been acknowledged that photographs are valuable sources for the historian, photograph albums have yet to receive the same level of critical attention. This thesis traces the social biographies of seven photograph albums held at the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand archives in order to understand how the narratives contained inside are constructed, as well as to uncover the trajectories of the albums through different social and physical spaces. The albums relate to the Presbyterian Church’s New Hebrides (Vanuatu) mission field, which was established in 1869, and all date to the early twentieth century. While the majority of the photographs contained in these albums were taken with an official function in mind, namely the documentation and propagation of the mission work, it is the ways in which they are ordered, juxtaposed and framed on the pages that determines their meaning. This shift in focus from the contents of photographs to their placement in a visual narrative constructed by a missionary working in the New Hebrides or a mission organisation in New Zealand leads to a classification of the albums that ranges from public to private – from a presentation album compiled to garner support and raise funds for the mission, to a more personal storehouse of images of friends and family in the islands. Further, by approaching these albums as not only collections of photographs but also as objects that traversed certain social and physical spaces it has been possible to uncover the changing meanings attached to them over time. What this thesis demonstrates is that the seven New Hebrides photograph albums are more complex historical objects than they may appear at first glance.
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List of publications by Antje Lubcke
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populations. Those benefits include health, societal, cultural, economic or environmental factors at the individual, whānau and community level. This booklet describes eight research impact case studies. They come from across the seven Schools in the Division of Health Sciences and highlight different stages of their impact journey. Each has been selected for making a meaningful contribution in a different field of research. These researchers are improving people’s health, changing local and central government policies, contributing to best practice guidelines, creating spin-off companies to commercialise research and building capability by training the next generation of scientists. By forming meaningful relationships with stakeholders, creating strong networks with other researchers and being advocates for policy change they are achieving success. We hope you enjoy discovering how their impact was achieved.
Theses by Antje Lubcke
populations. Those benefits include health, societal, cultural, economic or environmental factors at the individual, whānau and community level. This booklet describes eight research impact case studies. They come from across the seven Schools in the Division of Health Sciences and highlight different stages of their impact journey. Each has been selected for making a meaningful contribution in a different field of research. These researchers are improving people’s health, changing local and central government policies, contributing to best practice guidelines, creating spin-off companies to commercialise research and building capability by training the next generation of scientists. By forming meaningful relationships with stakeholders, creating strong networks with other researchers and being advocates for policy change they are achieving success. We hope you enjoy discovering how their impact was achieved.