New Zealand Historical Association

Category: Events

  • ‘Championing the Humanities’ Royal Society talk

    “Messy, debatable and unquantifiable”: Championing the Humanities Dr Robin Jackson, Chief Executive and Secretary of the British Academy A review of some of the challenges and issues that face humanities in the USA and UK and possibly Australia/New Zealand too; some reflections on the nature of the study of the humanities which might explain why…

  • World War 1 Book Club

    World War One Book Club – Explore the legacy of World War One in literature World War One fever is spreading in New Zealand, causing everything from traffic congestion to a rash of poppy lapel badges. But among the history, the geography and the hagiography, what is the place for the literature of the Great…

  • 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

  • Unlocking the secrets of tectonic plates

    Dr Martin Reyners presents “unlocking the secrets of tectonic plates’. Dunedin | 5.30pm Thursday 7 August | Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum By using earthquake waves themselves to map our underlying plates – the earthquake equivalent of a medical scan – Marsden-funded researchers have developed a three-dimensional model of the rock structure under New Zealand. In…

  • Notice: ‘Powering the Future,’ Ten by Ten talk by Dr Jeff Tallon

    Powering the future Dr Jeff Tallon Auckland | 6pm Thursday 24 July | Auditorium, Auckland Museum The Domain, Parnell, Auckland New Zealand is poised at the forefront of the huge new industry based on high-temperature superconductors. In this talk, Jeff Tallon will outline how New Zealand scientists have been pivotal in finding materials that superconduct…

  • Robert Winston :: Where does science end and art begin? :: Wellington, 14 July

    Royal Society of New Zealand, University of Otago Wellington, Allan Wilson Centre and Gravida National Centre for Growth and Development present Professor Robert Winston Where does science end and art begin? Wellington | 6pm Monday 14 July | Embassy Theatre Robert Winston is Britain’s best known fertility expert and BBC presenter of popular television series…

  • NZHA 2013 Biennial Conference: Registration Details

    The NZHA conference organising committee is delighted to be able to finally announce  the registration details for its November conference. The early bird deadline will be 15 October. The fee for standard registrations received on or before that date will be $330, while the student rate will be $200. After 15 October the rates will…