New Zealand Historical Association

Month: November 2015

  • RE: final 2015 NZHA conference schedule

    Welcome to conference week! The NZHA 2015 CONFERENCE FINAL SCHEDULE with lists of speakers and chairs of the session is now attached.

  • RE: Canterbury University’s regional round-up December 2015

    UC History update After repairs, we are back in our ‘History Building’ – although, despite protest, it is now also known as the ‘Popper Building’ after a certain philosopher. Gone are the glorious days of three floors devoted to History. The Jim Gardner memorial tree was ‘accidentally’ felled during renovations. But fear not, the Canterbury…

  • RE: Congratulations … history news

    Congratulations to NZHA Past-President Professor Catharine Coleborne who leaves the University of Waikato after 16 years to take up a new appointment as Head of School in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle in December 2015.     And, additional congratulations to another NZHA past-president Professor Giselle Byrnes who has…

  • RE: NZHA AGM NOTICE FOR MEMBERS

    Tēnā kotu katoa NZHA members, This is your invitation to the Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Historical Association. Date: Wednesday December 2nd 2015 Time: 1:00−2:00 pm Venue: Wheki 105, Dovedale Campus, University of Canterbury Please forward apologies to nzhawebmaster@gmail.com Free parking is available on Dovedale campus. We look forward to seeing you. Nga…

  • RE: NZHA Conference registration reminder

    A quick reminder that registration for the NZHA ‘History Making a Difference’ Conference closes on Friday 20th November. We’ve got an excellent range of historical perspectives and topics represented in the schedule and UC’s campus is looking exceptionally beautiful at this time of year.

  • RE: Making history make a difference: workshop opportunity with Prof. Paul Ward, University of Huddersfield, UK

    NOTICE: Making History Make a Difference: Collaborating with Community Groups to Create New Knowledge: A Workshop with Professor Paul Ward, University of Huddersfield, UK. A series of developments have created a historical moment in which the Humanities disciplines are expected to have public utility — History is expected to make a difference. This workshop explores…

  • RE: Ravaged Beauty Takes the Prize!

    Environmental historian Dr Catherine Knight has won the Palmerston North Heritage Trust’s inaugural award for the best work of history relating to the Manawatu. Ravaged Beauty: An Environmental History of the Manawatu was described by co-judge Jill White as an outstanding winner from the 2013-14 publications considered. Intensively researched and engagingly written, Ravaged Beauty is…