The New Zealand Historical Association

Wednesday Rāapa 28 June, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoomRegister here Speakers: Miranda Johnson, Unsettling Colonialism: Historians, Moral Conscience, and the Nation Katie Cooper, The sphere of women? Gender and the kitchen in rural New Zealand to 1940 Miranda Johnson is associate professor of History at the University of Otago, where she teaches and … More Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar

From Colonial Modernity to Decolonisation: The British Empire and Beyond”, 15-16 September 2023, The University of Auckland Keynote Speaker: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, and Special Invited Expert Addresses by Jim McAloon, Ned Bertz and Miranda Johnson Long ago, the rhetoric of the colonial civilising mission had established colonial modernity as a reference point.Ensured in the privileging of … More Workshop- From Colonial Modernity to Decolonisation: The British Empire and Beyond 15-16 September

New Zealand Historical Association Prizes ­­Call for Nominations & Submissions The New Zealand Historical Association currently offers four prizes, each awarded biennially. These prizes will next be awarded at the NZHA Conference Dinner on 23 November 2023, Prizes for Published Books and Articles The three prizes offered for published works are: The NZHA Executive now … More NZHA Call for Nominations & Submissions

Practice history in the real world 21-24 November 2023, University of Canterbury, Ōtautahi Christchurch The Liberal Arts have been under attack for many years, but interest in history has begun to recover some of its allure. One of the key reasons for the revival of history has been the public’s perception of the benefits arising … More NZHA CFP Reminder

This month Auckland University Press is pleased to publishing ‘A Bloody Difficult Subject’: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History by Professor Bain Attwood. This book is a sophisticated, multi-faceted history of te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi and its place in New Zealand society. It traces the landmark work … More New Book ‘A Bloody Difficult Subject’: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History by Professor Bain Attwood.

The annual New Historians Conference, organised and hosted by Te Herenga Waka’s postgraduate History students is now extending a call for papers.12 May 2023 Historians in Social Movements Historians have always been involved in any great movement for change. Whether the cause has been for women’s liberation, queer rights, freedom from colonisation and racial oppression, … More New Historians Conference 2023 call for papers now open

You are warmly invited to the next Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar. Wednesday Rāapa 17 May, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoomRegister here Sucharita Sen, Gendered Spaces: Memsahibs and their Ayahs in the Anglo-Indian Household, c. 1800-c.1915 Kate Stevens, Gendered violence and medico-legal expertise in the colonial Pacific Sucharita Sen is a 2023 History … More Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar May 17

Next Tuesday (18 April) at 12:00pm, Jared Davidson (ATL Research Librarian Manuscripts) will discuss the ongoing work to review Chief Librarian restrictions that have been applied to Turnbull manuscript collections. He will highlight several collections that are now open access and the human stories this work has revealed. This online only talk is part of … More Exciting withdrawals: Reviewing restrictions in the Turnbull’s manuscript collection

You are warmly invited to the next Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar. Wednesday Rāapa 5 April, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoomRegister here Speakers: Randolph Hollingsworth, Annie Jane Allen Schnackenberg (1835-1905): A Political Life Marianne Schultz, Music, Dance, and the Archive: Princess Iwa and Bathie Stuart Randolph Hollingsworth is an independent scholar working on … More Aotearoa Gender History Network Seminar 5 April

A multi-disciplinary symposium on intrastate conflict is to be held at Auckland War Memorial Museum on the 20th-21st April 2023, convened by the War History Heritage Art and Memory Network Research Group. The programme examines our understanding of the New Zealand Wars, as Aotearoa’s own intrastate conflict (Day 1) and leads onto NZ’s experience of … More Symposium- Scarred Nations: Intrastate conflicts, legacies, and reconciliation

Deakin University Warrnambool Campus 31 October 2023 – 4 November 2023 Tracking the Kooyang: Truth Telling in the History of Oceania For tens of thousands of years, First Nations people in south eastern Australia have harvested shortfinned eels – kooyang, in the language of the Gunditjmara people. Through complex systems of canals, dams, ponds and … More The 25th Pacific History Association Biennial Conference – CFP

On 28 March at the National Library in Wellington, whānau ofTe Pouhere Kōrero gather to wānanga – to make time and space todiscuss their collective work. And we warmly invite you to join us. 5.30 for 6 p.m. start, in Te Ahumairangi Foyer (ground floor)National Library Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa70 Molesworth Street, Wellington Welcome: … More Te Pouhere Kōrero: Sacred Time

Ann Curthoys Prize – The Australian Historical Association<https://theaha.org.au/awards-and-prizes/ann-curthoys-prize/>The Ann Curthoys Prize is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work by an Early Career Researcher (within 5 years of PhD conferral) in any one or combination of the following fields in which Ann has published: theaha.org.au

New Zealand Historical Association Prizes ­­Call for Nominations & Submissions The New Zealand Historical Association currently offers four prizes, each awarded biennially. These prizes will next be awarded at the NZHA Conference Dinner on 23 November 2023, Prizes for Published Books and Articles The three prizes offered for published works are: The NZHA Executive now … More NZHA Prizes – Call for Nominations

Practice history in the real world 21-24 November 2023, University of Canterbury, Ōtautahi Christchurch The Liberal Arts have been under attack for many years, but interest in history has begun to recover some of its allure. One of the key reasons for the revival of history has been the public’s perception of the benefits arising … More NZHA 2023 Conference – Call for Papers

16-18 Nov 2023 BAY OF ISLANDS This symposium, featuring leading international and New Zealand scholars, will consider the interactions between Christianity, te ao Māori and colonization in Aotearoa New Zealand. Current public conversations on the nature of our history, the Treaty of Waitangi, and issues of Crown governance and Māori authority, call for fresh research … More CHRISTIANITY, THE MĀORI WORLD AND COLONIALISM IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND Wānanga Symposium

Women’s and gender histories in 2020s Aotearoa, Te Wai Pounamu and Moana Nui a Kiwa Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland  21–22 Hui-tanguru February 2023 general registration $80 / ECR and unwaged $25  Register here The programme features 25 research presentations by emerging and established historians working across Aotearoa. Over two days we will discuss topics … More Aotearoa Gender History Network Workshop – 21-22 February 2023

Tēnā koutou katoa, The New Zealand Historical Association’s Annual General Meeting will be held on at 9am 2 December 2022, via Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent out along with the Agenda later this month. We are also in the process of collating a newsletter – if you have anything you would like included … More NZHA AGM 2 DEC 2022

 Wednesday Rāapa 30 November, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoomRegister here Jessica Parr, Unravelling the history of Obesity in Aotearoa: Examining the scientific roots presented in social epidemiology Helen Morten, The ‘Cult of the Expert’: Dietary Advice and Gender in New Zealand, 1930-1960 Jessica Parr is a research fellow at Waipapa Taumata Rau The … More Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar 30 Nov

Tēnā koutou, This is a Save the Date pānui for our upcoming conference at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | the University of Canterbury. This will be held from Tuesday 21st to the 24th November 2023 in Ōtautahi | Christchurch. Stay tuned for a Call for Papers out soon! Ngā mihi nui, The NZHA Exec

Aotearoa Gender History Network seminarWednesday Rāapa 19 October, 12 pm – 1 pm NZT, via zoomRegister here Speakers: Karen Fox, Rank and Reputation in the Tasman World: Reflections on Gender and Place Rachel Boddy, The Heart-throb of 1710: Dr. Henry Sacheverell Karen Fox is a senior research fellow in the National Centre of Biography at … More Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar

The School of Humanities: Te Puna Aronui invites applications for the 2023 History Innovation Fund Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. This fellowship offers early career support for an outstanding recent PhD graduate in history, enabling them to undertake research and writing for publication, whilst also providing some teaching experience. The successful applicant will be accommodated within the … More UOA History Innovation Fund Post Doctoral Fellow Applications

Women’s and gender histories in 2020s Aotearoa, Te Wai Pounamu and Moana Nui a Kiwa With support from the University of Auckland History Innovation Fund, the Aotearoa Gender History Network is convening an in-person meeting to bring together researchers on women’s and gender histories to share their work. A further goal of the workshop is … More Women’s and gender histories in 2020s Aotearoa Te Wai Pounamu and Moana Nui a Kiwa

Aotearoa Gender History Network seminarWednesday Rāapa 7 September, 12 pm – 1 pm NZT, via zoomRegister here Speakers: Ereni Putere, Rau mōrehu ki te ao, rau mahara i te pō: Navigating history and the lives of Kāi Tahu Ahinata Kaitai-Mullane, Power, Positionality, Perspective: Unpacking colonialism in contemporary pornography Ereni Pūtere (nō Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, … More Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar

Scarred Nations: Intrastate Conflict, Legacies and Reconciliation ­– Titiro Whakamuri ki anga Whakamua Symposium 16–21 April 2023, Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Aotearoa New Zealand The organising partners for Scarred Nations would like to announce an extension to the call for papers for this international, multidisciplinary symposium showcasing academic and creative work on … More EXTENDED Call for Papers – Scarred Nations: Intrastate Conflict, Legacies and Reconciliation ­– Titiro Whakamuri ki anga Whakamua Symposium

In the context of the pandemic and the immediate period that follows, there is a requirementto take a pause and understand the change, recalibrate, and prepare for what comes next. Atthe same time there are some things that remain constant, continuities that run strongthrough the before and after. The New Historians Conference 2022 is focused … More Call for Papers: The New Historians Conference 2022

Wednesday Rāapa 27 July, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoom (Register here) Sam Iti Prendergast, ‘Dreaming Sovereign Futures in Aotearoa and Hawai’i: Rihi Puhiwahine and Haunani-Kay Trask’ Sam Iti Prendergast (Ngāti Maniapoto) is lecturer in history at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato. Her work examines the tensions between the aspirations of white nationhood and … More Aotearoa New Zealand Gender History Network – July Seminar

Massey University’s School of Humanities, Media & Creative Communication invites you to a research seminar: ‘Mired in controversy: The history of the dum-dum bullet’. By Professor Maartje Abbenhuis 12:30pm, Wednesday 27 April (Zoom Link: https://massey.zoom.us/j/3240170162) Abstract: In 1899, the delegates gathered at The Hague Peace Conference agreed to prohibit the military use of a particular … More Massey University Research Seminar – Professor Maartje Abbenhuis

NOHANZ is holding its biennial conference in November this year. The theme is Te Reo a Ngā Taputapu, Memory, Oral History and Material Culture. Please see below for the call for papers.

Following interest from the NZHA conference in November, a group of people with interests in Family History research is being formed, and we invite all those interested to join us for our first online event on Thursday 10 March, from 12 – 1pm.  The event will start with a presentation by Bettina Bradbury, entitled: “Tracing family … More Invitation to a First Meeting of the Family History Network

Dr Hazel Riseborough, 3 March 1930 – 8 January 2021 Dr Hazel Riseborough passed away peacefully at her home in Taupō in January this year, aged 90. Hazel’s tangi was held at Parihaka. Hazel had a very rich and varied life. Among other things Hazel was an historian, published author, Alumni of Massey University, wool-classer, … More Eulogy for Dr Hazel Riseborough

Kia ora koutou, Thank you to all those who attended last week’s NZHA Conference, and particularly to those who presented papers. We were delighted with how the event went and loved hearing about all the fantastic work that is being done. One consequence of having such a rich and diverse programme was that you couldn’t … More Recordings of NZHA Conference Presentations

Kia ora koutou Following the Prize Giving session on Friday, the outgoing NZHA Executive are delighted to confirm the winners of the 2021 NZHA Prizes: The W.H. Oliver Prize for the Best Book on Any Aspect of New Zealand History Joint Winner: Bain Attwood, Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous … More NZHA 2021 Prize Winners

Kia ora koutou, In readiness for the New Zealand Historical Association’s AGM – Friday 26 November at 3pm – please see below the following three documents. Agenda for the 2021 AGM (including the Zoom link) Minutes from the 2020 AGM Consolidated document that includes: President’s report Treasurer’s report Constitutional change document New Zealand Journal of … More Documents for the NZHA 2021 AGM

Kia ora koutou, An important email containing NZHA Conference information and passwords has been sent out this morning (at 10:30am) to all registered attendees. If you are registered for the conference and did not receive the email (and it has not scandalously been diverted to your junk mail folder), please email David Littlewood (D.C.Littlewood@massey.ac.nz) and … More NZHA Conference Information Sheet

Kia ora koutou, One of the most enjoyable parts of the NZHA Conference is always the Prize Giving. Owing to the high number of entries received for each prize, the NZHA Executive undertook to produce shortlists, before sending the chosen books and articles to the judges for a final decision. The Prize winners will be … More Shortlists for the NZHA Prizes

The University of Waikato is seeking a continuing Lecturer in History. Applications are especially welcome from historians early in their academic careers and with expertise in America, Europe, Africa or Asia, that complements and adds to the Programmes current areas of expertise (particularly Indigenous Histories, Oral History, Pacific History, Historical Theory and Method). Applications are due … More Lectureship in History at the University of Waikato

We will be meeting again at the Association’s conference in less than a month. The programme has been finalised, if subject to the inevitable tweaking as we get closer to the day. We are delighted with the range and depth of submissions and look forward to an extremely worthwhile conference that will recognise the wealth … More NZHA Newsletter re Conference & Constitutional Amendments