Read news items from our 2019 archives.
Next weekend 27–29 September, the Begonia House in the Wellington Botanic Garden will be transformed into a multimedia event, Bloom, created by students from the New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī, the School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies, and the School of Design.
Think beer and the chances are you may also think of a largely male-dominated culture.But that hasn’t always been the case, with women doing most of the work in the brewing industry since ancient times.
The Latin America Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence (Latin America CAPE) and the Southeast Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence (SEA CAPE) are delighted to announce an innovative collaboration with Toitoi Media and the School of Languages and Cultures at Victoria University of Wellington to produce two special publications.
The capstone projects of the Victoria University of Wellington Master of Fine Arts (Creative Practice) (MFA(CP)) Film and Music/Sound students were showcased recently to mark the culmination of a year’s intensive study.
A comic novel has been awarded the 2019 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing by Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML).
Dr Adrian Muckle of the School of History, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations has been awarded the John Dunmore Medal 2019 by the Fédération des Alliances Françaises de Nouvelle-Zélande in recognition of his major contribution to knowledge of the history of New Caledonia and of the role of the French in the Pacific region.
From Wednesday 20–Saturday 23 November, Wai-te-ata Press co-hosted ‘Dragon Tails 2019: Translation and Transformation’, the sixth Australasian Conference on Chinese diaspora history and heritage, at Victoria University of Wellington.
‘Education is power. Education is growth. Education is freedom.’ This is the mantra recent graduate Widad Ballo lives by.
Congratulations to the English Literature programme’s Dr Nikki Hessell, her former summer scholar Stephen Clothier, and Dr Dougal McNeill who have won the inaugural Jack Prize from the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures (IASSL) with their papers related to poet, Robert Burns.
Master of Arts in English graduate and research assistant Emma Rayner has been awarded a prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation studentship to complete a four-year PhD at the University of Fribourg.
