New Zealand Historical Association

Category: Conferences

  • “Brothers and Sisters in Arms: Historicising Indigenous Military Service” Australian Catholic University, Melbourne

    CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference: “Brothers and Sisters in Arms: Historicising Indigenous Military Service” Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, 25-26 June 2015. This conference is part of the ARC-funded project ‘Serving our Country: a history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the defence of Australia http://www.ourmobserved.com/events/ The centenary of the First World War has generated…

  • I Nga Ra o Mua: The Days Before Us

    New Zealand History Teachers 2014 Conference Dilworth School Auckland, Monday 29 & Tuesday 30 September 2014. Follow on Twitter: @thedaysbeforeus Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NZHTAConference 2014 A forum of teachers, educators, historians, researchers and community activists to engage and interact over teaching New Zealand history. Further information is available on this flyer NZHTA-Conference-2014

  • “PEACE, NOT WAR, SHALL BE OUR BOAST”

    HISTORICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON PEACE AND CHRISTIANITY IN NEW ZEALAND Victoria University of Wellington, 18-20 November 2015 The conference will be hosted at Victoria University of Wellington, but supported by a number of organisations. In 2014, centennial commemorations of the Great War begin; 2015 will have special significance for New Zealanders, in light…

  • ‘War Memorialisation and the Nation’ call for papers

    Notice of special conference and call for papers/panels: War Memorialisation and the Nation (areas: war commemoration/history/cultural heritage/archaeology/peace and conflict studies) University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 12 – 15 November 2014 An inter-disciplinary conference concerned with war memorialisation in the interests of the nation is to be held at the University of Otago, Dunedin, in…

  • Photos from the NZHA’s 2013 Biennial Conference

    As with most academic historians, the good folk in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago are busily tidying loose ends now that the silly season is out of the way, and before Semester 1 gets underway. As part of this, we have just posted 25 photos from the NZHA’s…

  • Submissions are open for the inaugural Mary Boyd Prize

    The New Zealand Historical Association is calling for submissions to be considered for the inaugural Mary Boyd Prize. Named in memory of the Pacific historian Mary Beatrice Boyd (1921-2010), this award is for the best article on any aspect of New Zealand history published in a refereed journal. For this initial competition such articles need…

  • Rethinking War – Is there anything new that can be said about the First World War?

    The Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, is holding a multidisciplinary conference on rethinking ‘the Great War’ especially New Zealand’s connections with and contribution to it. The conference will cover presentations related to New Zealand and the First World War or that may contextualise the…