Category: Research
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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…
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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…
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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…
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New book on Dunedin’s Chinese garden: “Lan Yuan 蘭園 A Garden of Distant Longing”
The Shanghai Museum and the Dunedin Chinese Garden Trust have just published a book on Dunedin’s Chinese garden: LAN YUAN 蘭園: A GARDEN OF DISTANT LONGING. Written by Dr James Beattie, a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Waikato, and Duncan Campbell, of the Australian National University, the book features poetry by Sue…
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2013 Ernest Scott Prize shortlist
The Ernest Scott prize is an annual award administered by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. It is awarded to work “based upon original research which is, in the opinion of the examiners, the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand or to the history of colonisation.” Founded…
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Legacies of British Slaveholding
It is generally well known, and celebrated, that Britain played a key role in formally ending the slave trade in 1807 and emancipating slaves throughout the British Empire from 1833. Indeed, in October 2012, the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, described Britain as “the country that…invented the computer, defeated the Nazis, started the web, saw…
The New Zealand Historical Association 