A space open to all interested in discussing current research in women’s and gender history with a focus on Aotearoa New Zealand. Zoom meetings are held every 6 weeks on Wednesdays – Rāapa, 12 noon to 1.00pm.
Zoom link (recurring): https://waikato.zoom.us/j/82421107647
| Wednesday 17 March | Paulien Martens, The History of Fatherhood in Otago, 1840-1914. Rachel Tombs, An End to Spousal Immunity: Rape Law Reform in 1980s New Zealand. |
| Wednesday 28 April | Mana Wahine Session: Hineitimoana Greensill, ‘Wahine ma Korerotia’: Māori Women’s Writing & Activism, 1975–1984. Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu, Retracing the Storylines of Hina – A Mana Wahine Journey. |
| Wednesday 9 June | James Keating, Distant Sisters? Writing a History of Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote. Violeta Gilabert, Emotion, Modernity, and the Campaign for Christian Order in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1942-1946. |
| Wednesday 21 July | Charlotte Macdonald, Standing on the Threshold: Mary Anne at the Door of the Sydney Refuge 1867, the Historian at her Keyboard, 2021. The Tricky Business of Fragments and Interpretation. Randolph Hollingwood, A Tale of 29 Cities: Mary C. Leavitt’s Organizing Tour of New Zealand in 1885. |
| Wednesday 1 September | Julia Laite, From Chelmer Street to Piccadilly Circus: The Individual, the Local, and the Global in the Search for a Missing History. Cheryl Ware, Oral Histories of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978-2008. |
| Wednesday 13 October | Katie Pickles, Approaching a New Biography of Kate Sheppard. Phoebe Fordyce, Interactions Between Māori and Pākehā Women of the WCTU (1893–1897). |
| Wednesday 8 December | Elizabeth Bowyer, The Contractual Engagements of Colonial Women: The Case of Elizabeth Ellen Hadfield. Second speaker TBC |
Convenors: Charlotte Greenhalgh (charlotte.greenhalgh@waikato.ac.nz) and Charlotte Macdonald (charlotte.macdonald@vuw.ac.nz)
The New Zealand Historical Association 