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  • “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…

  • 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…

  • Call for papers: Women and the Nation at War

    The Women’s Studies Journal of Aotearoa/New Zealand seeks contributions for a forthcoming special issue on Women and the Nation at War. The issue aims to provide balance to the current fervour surrounding the centennial of World War One by inviting feminist critique of war. To these ends articles are invited which provide feminist reflection, contemporary…

  • The latest issue of the Journal of New Zealand Studies NS17 (2014) is available online

    Journal of New Zealand Studies 17 (June 2014) The latest issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of New Zealand Studies NS17 (2014)  is available online at:  http://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/index This website contains information about forthcoming issues of the journal, as well as back issues of the Stout Centre Review and New Zealand Studies journals. Both of these journals…

  • 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…

  • “Forgiveness based on truth a path we all should follow: In memory of Nelson Mandela”

    In death, as in life, Nelson Mandela has become a focus of debate and contestation in New Zealand. Several of the country’s former right-wing politicians have seemingly disowned their opposition to him and the anti-apartheid movement, while current ones, including the incumbent Prime Minister, stress their supposed indifference to the hugely divisive 1981 Springbok Tour.…

  • Inaugural Mary Boyd Prizewinner

    As part of an effort to better acknowledge and celebrate the work of professional historians, the NZHA established the Mary Boyd prize earlier this year.  This is awarded to the author of the best article on any aspect of New Zealand history published in a refereed journal between biennial meetings of the NZHA.  The judges…