Prestigious Fellowship for Dr Sydney Shep
Reader in Book History Dr Sydney Shep has been awarded a six-month British Academy Visiting Fellowship at the University of Southampton from this August.
2018 news
Read news items from our 2018 archives.
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Prestigious prize for Master’s student
Master of English Literature student Emma Rayner has won the Lloyd Davis Prize for the Best Postgraduate Student Paper at the 2018 Australia New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference in Melbourne.
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Prestigious prize for Pasifika theatre book
Associate Professor in Theatre David O’Donnell and co-author Associate Professor Lisa Warrington from the University of Otago have been awarded the Rob Jordan Prize for the best book on a subject related to drama or theatre studies by the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA).
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Prestigious rankings show Victoria leading thought on major issues
Victoria University of Wellington’s Centre for Strategic Studies (CSS) has started its 25th- anniversary year being named the third best think tank in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific in a prestigious global ranking.
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Prize win for Victoria PhD candidate
Pacific Studies PhD student Jessica Marinaccio has taken out an international award for her research, winning the European Association of Taiwan Studies' Young Scholar Award for her research paper that discusses the uptake in Taiwan of James Clifford's essay "Indigenous Articulations".
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Quiz night fundraiser a success
A fundraising evening organised by the Pacific Studies Alumni Association raised well over $5000 for the Teresia Teaiwa Memorial Scholarship fund.
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Real world experience for MFA(CP) students
Master of Fine Arts (Creative Practice) Theatre students will get an authentic stage experience as they conceive, plan, pitch and present their works at BATS Theatre.
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Restorative and Māori justice approaches to the prison crisis
An upcoming conference at Victoria University of Wellington will explore ways of using restorative philosophy and kaupapa Māori approaches to tackle New Zealand’s rising prison population.
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Rome, 16 October 1943: Voices from the Ghetto
Last Tuesday (16 October), the History and Italian programmes hosted an event dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of Rome’s Jews.
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Samoan Culture Day at Pasifika Haos
Pasifika Haos was filled with food, song, weaving and speeches on Friday 12 October as students in Matā‘upu Tau Samoa (Samoan Studies programme) celebrated Aso o tu ma aga faasamoa—Samoan Culture Day.