Expectant first-time mother wins lullaby competition for the Prime Minister
A competition to write a lullaby to be gifted to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, has been won by Chanelle Davis, a singer-songwriter expecting her first child in January.
2018 news
Read news items from our 2018 archives.
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Experimental musician announced as Composer-in-Residence 2018
Victoria University of Wellington’s New Zealand School of Music (Te Kōkī) has announced composer, performer and sound artist, Antonia Barnett-McIntosh, as the 2018 Creative New Zealand/Jack C. Richards Composer-in-Residence.
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Exploration of Indigenous diplomacy among $2m Marsden Fund awards for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
The use of British Romantic poetry in Indigenous negotiations over treaties and land claims will be explored among the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences projects to receive more than $2 million from the Government’s Marsden Fund for innovative thinking by top researchers.
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Exploring New Zealand’s future
Professor of Philosophy Nick Agar is using his interest and expertise in Future Studies to contribute to futures workshops held by Inland Revenue.
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Feminist Engagements in Aotearoa: 125 Years of Suffrage and Beyond
Rutherford House was noisy with conversation, challenge, film, applause and song during the weekend, as more than 150 delegates gathered at the Feminist Engagements in Aotearoa: 125 Years of Suffrage and Beyond conference, hosted by Victoria University of Wellington’s Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
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FHSS Research Showcase 2018
Ground-breaking research from Schools across FHSS was highlighted at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) Research Showcase on 25 July.
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Finding importance in the small things
THEA 311 and 308 students in the Theatre programme are challenging people to find value in the smallest events of their daily lives in a reimagining of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town.
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From lascars to skilled migrants: Indians in Australasia
The Indian community in the two countries is big and broad-ranging, just like its story over the past 250 years, write Victoria University of Wellington Professor of Asian History Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and University of Canterbury Associate Professor of History Jane Buckingham.
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Galleries of Maoriland
Surveying the ethnological art that flourished in New Zealand around the turn of the twentieth century, Roger Blackley's Galleries of Maoriland will be published on 25 October.
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Gold standard for MFA(CP) graduate
Adam Browne was recently presented with the prestigious New Zealand Cinematographers Society’s (NZCS) ‘Best Student Cinematography’ Gold Award.