BWB Talks: The Dark Island All welcome, no RSVP necessary. Event description The remarkable story of the Quail Island leprosy colony in Lyttleton Harbour sheds light on how New Zealand has treated some of its most marginal, unfortunate and isolated people. Historian Benjamin Kingsbury explores these little-known stories through his new book The Dark Island, … More BWB Talks: The Dark Island with Benjamin Kingsbury
In 1982-1983, volunteers from the Society for Research on Women in New Zealand (SROW) interviewed 51 Wellington women who were about the give birth to their first child at the age of 30 or over. Five years on, SROW researchers visited 37 of the women to interview them for a second time. This paper considers … More Seminar: Charlotte Greenhalgh, ‘Motherhood after 30: Age, Pregnancy, and Parenting in 1980s New Zealand’
Registration for Dragon Tails 2019 is now open. Theme: Translation and TransformationLocation: Hunter Building, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandDate: Wed 20 – Sat 23 November 2019 Wednesday will be pre-conference tours and eventsConvenors: Grace Gassin, Karen Schamberger See Draft programme for conference details. Following on from the success of the Dragon Tails conferences … More Registrations open: Dragon Tails conference
The Judith Binney Fellowship is available for an established scholar to undertake or complete significant research. The Writing Award is for an emerging scholar, or for the beginning or completion of a project. The Fellowships and Writing Awards support research and writing on New Zealand history or associated topics. This might include: social history; women’s … More 2020 Judith Binney Fellowship and Writing Awards applications open
The Stage 2 Report on the National Freshwater and Geothermal Resources Claims – Pre-publication Version This seminar introduces a part of a collaborative project with Benoît Trépied (CNRS, IRIS, Paris), examining the history of a “mixed-race” family in New Caledonia over three generations from the 1890s to the 1970s. My focus is a member of … More Seminar: Adrian Muckle, ‘Becoming Kanak: the life of Louis (“Loulou”) Henriot / Napoarea’
29 Aug 2019 5:30 pm to 29 Aug 2019 6:30 pm Victoria University Wellington, Rutherford House RH105 The Bible is read many ways by many people. In this lecture, Dr Meredith Lake explores the cultural significance of the Bible in Australia and New Zealand. The Bible arrived down under at a time when Europeans were … More Seminar: Dr Meredith Lake, ‘Race and the Bible Down Under’
The New Zealand History Research Trust Fund offers financial assistance to people carrying out projects that will significantly enhance the understanding of New Zealand’s past. The funding can be used for a variety of purposes: to enable historians to work full-time on a project; to pay for research and writing costs; and to pay for … More New Zealand History Research Trust – applications open