2017 news

Read news items from our 2017 archives.

  • Global and local writing showcased in Turbine | Kapohau 2017

    New work from emerging and established writers, including the latest graduates of Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), features in online literary magazine Turbine | Kapohau.

  • Arthur Prior

    Grant to research NZ philosopher who laid path to AI

    Two Victoria University of Wellington Professors of Philosophy are part of a research team that has received $630,000 from the Marsden Fund to write a series of books illuminating the significance of New Zealand’s most famous philosopher.

  • Three women marching with thier backs to the camera wearing Humanities robes.

    Humanities provide world-class education

    The latest international rankings published this week place Victoria’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) amongst the top places to study in the world.

  • Ataria Sharman and Alan Hunt stand outside the marae at Victoria University.

    Iwi internship first of its kind

    Two Victoria University of Wellington students are the first in the country to undertake an iwi internship at Te Tatau o Te Arawa, the Te Arawa and Rotorua Lakes Council partnership board.

  • Japan’s strategic choices in a dangerous world

    Japan’s place in an increasingly unstable northeast Asia is the subject of an upcoming talk at Victoria University of Wellington by Professor Toshihiro Nakayama, the 2017 Sir Howard Kippenberger Chair in Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.

  • the covers of two books. Colonial Literature and the Native Author: Indigeneity and Empire and Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper: The ‘Morning Post’ and the Road to ‘Dejection’.

    Judging two books by their covers

    Two literature academics at Victoria University of Wellington have turned to New Zealand’s visual archives to source cover images for their latest publications.

  • Blurry image of two lovers.

    Labour of love to be launched on Valentine’s Day

    Victoria University Doctoral candidate Sian Robyns is finally getting to see her Master’s thesis in print. A Tale of Love, her translation of French author Linda Lê’s novel, Conte de l’amour bifrons, is set to be launched on Valentine’s Day.