News and events from the Otago Arts Fellows
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News from and about our programmes, staff and students
12 Sep 2024
Otago announces inaugural Chair of Māori, Moriori and Indigenous Peace Studies
The University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka welcomes a new leadership appoint...
06 Sep 2024
Closing time never sounded so sweet
Night owls may have noticed something a bit different in the Robertson Library a...
04 Sep 2024
Stitched together
Women across the motu are creating community while simultaneously creating beaut...
30 Aug 2024
Why 'Sixteen Candles' is still lit at 40
Footloose. Sixteen Candles. Gremlins. Ghostbusters. What do all of these movies...
27 Aug 2024
Janet Frame centenary brings special recognition
The centenary of celebrated Dunedin author Janet Frame’s birth is being marked b...
26 Aug 2024
S-U-C-C-E-S-S for Dynasty cheer squad
Otago’s Dynasty cheerleaders deserve a cheer squad of their own after taking out...
26 Aug 2024
'The Career Break Paradox' wins Otago's Three Minute Thesis
For some people, it may well have been the ‘worst year of their life’, but it se...
22 Aug 2024
Rowing for good
While most of his Otago peers were doing nothing more challenging over winter th...
16 Aug 2024
Te Reo and kapahaka at core of thesis
Writing a doctoral thesis entirely in Te Reo is no easy task. And while it has b...
12 Aug 2024
Depths of tomboy trauma revealed in study
‘Tomboyism’ is often fondly celebrated by society as an accepted form of gender...
07 Aug 2024
Students stepping up to support refuge
A group of Otago tauira are calling on people to turn up and support an excellen...
05 Aug 2024
Brexit untangled in public lecture series
The United Kingdom has a new Prime Minister, and a different political party in...
Upcoming events
11 September 2024
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Lunchtime concert at Hanover Hall – Roderick Williams, baritone (UK) and Terence Dennis, piano
Hanover Hall, 65 Hanover Street, Dunedin
13 September 2024
5:30pm to 6:30pm
The third annual Hoani Parata Lecture
All Saints' Anglican Church, 786 Cumberland Street, Dunedin
14 September – 27 October 2024
Various times
Hou Rongo: Moriori, Music and Manama – A Multisensory Experience
Tūhura Otago Museum Beautiful Science Gallery, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin
16 September 2024
5:15pm to 6:15pm
Suffrage Lecture 2024: Mana Wāhine Mana Motuhake
Archway 1 Lecture Theatre, Dunedin
18 September 2024
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Lunchtime concert at Te Korokoro - Meet the Mozart Fellow
Te Korokoro Recording Studio, School of Performing Arts, 141 Union Street East, Dunedin
19 September 2024
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Making peace with our past and our future
Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, University of Otago, 75 Albany St, Dunedin
26 September 2024
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dan and Gwen Taylor Fellow Lecture: My future and past selves
Burns 1, 95 Albany Street, Dunedin and online
03 October 2024
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dan and Gwen Taylor Fellow Lecture: AI consciousness and neo-feudalism
Archway 2, 290 Leith Walk, Dunedin and online
19 November – 20 November 2024
8:00am to 5:00pm
Australian New Zealand Social Work and Welfare Education and Research Symposium (ANZSWWER)
Archway, Arts building and Castle, Dunedin