Read news items from our 2018 archives.
Today marks the start of New Zealand Chinese Language week, as well as being the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (also known as the Moon Festival). Victoria University of Wellington is hosting a number of events in celebration.
Following the commemoration of ANZAC Day in New Zealand and Liberation Day in Italy, the Italian Embassy, in partnership with the School of Languages and Cultures, hosted the New Zealand premiere of the documentary Kia Ora on Thursday.
Bachelor of Music in Classical Performance with Honours graduate Joe Haddow has come third-equal in the 2018 Lexus Song Quest.
In honour of the acclaimed New Zealand artist and Director of the National Art Gallery, Melvin Day, and his wife Oroya Day, a former lecturer in art history at Victoria University, a scholarship programme has been established by the Melvin and Oroya Day Trust (the Day Trust) to support MA or PhD students who have studied Art History at Victoria University of Wellington.
A competition to write a lullaby, to be gifted to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, has been announced by Victoria University of Wellington’s New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī (NZSM).
Reader in Translation Studies Dr Marco Sonzogni is set to receive an award for his trilogy on Eugenio Montale (1896–1981)—a poet, translator, literary critic and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975.
Associate Professor Nikki Hessell has been awarded a 2018-2019 Peterson Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Congratulations to Va‛aomanū Pasifika (Pacific Studies and Samoan Studies) PhD candidate Jessica Marinaccio who has received a Postgraduate Students Association (PGSA) Research Excellence Award, worth $3,000.
Victoria University of Wellington is about to host 300 of the world’s ablest thinkers as they put their minds to some of life’s knottiest questions.
Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce the appointment of the Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence for 2019.
