News and events from the Otago Arts Fellows
News from and about our programmes, staff and students

16 May 2025
A digital poetic regeneration of archival multilingual Rotuman texts
PhD candidate Mere Taito is believed to be the first person to hand in a thesis written on early 20th century multilingu...

13 May 2025
All on board for Lifeship launch
In a future where humanity is on the brink of extinction, you and your crew are on one of the last colony ships to leave...

12 May 2025
Family inspiration for Masters graduate
Iunisi Finau credits constant family support as the driving force which saw her graduate with a Masters of Indigenous St...

12 May 2025
A gathering of clans at Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies
A gathering of Dunedin’s Scottish community was held in the Reading Room of Mātai Airana, Mātai Kotirana - Centre for Ir...

12 May 2025
Arts and science both in the DNA
Graduate Finlay Anderson is used to people commenting on his “unusual” choice of majors, but to him the combination make...

09 May 2025
Laws and Arts graduate leading with a Pacific heart
For Josephine Ripley, completing a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts in Pacific Islands Studies was a journey of b...

08 May 2025
Otago ‘laid the foundation’ for outstanding career
An internationally-renowned cardiac neurobiologist who spent his formative years in Dunedin will be recognised with one...

17 Apr 2025
Otago Humanities graduate finding meaning in walking ancient routes
Jennifer Andrewes is an Otago alumna who has undertaken three pilgrimages since receiving a diagnosis of early-onset Par...

11 Apr 2025
Frenchman’s letters share tales from Otago goldfields
A Frenchman’s letters from Otago’s goldfields to family in France, and how they have come to be gifted to Uare Taoka o H...

11 Apr 2025
A celebration of Māori and Pacific tauira and research in the School of Arts
Undergraduate students of Te Pae Takata - The School of Arts were recently presented with awards recognising their achie...

09 Apr 2025
Otago part of international collaboration on deepfake AI research
An Otago researcher is part of an international collaboration working to protect democracy, identity, and business from...

28 Mar 2025
Working with Tiwai Point artefacts ‘incredible opportunity’
For one Otago researcher, a decades-old archaeological project studying eleven tonnes of artefacts from Tiwai Point – in...
Upcoming events
16 May 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Lunchtime Theatre - Sketches
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, Central Campus
19 May – 29 May 2025
5:15pm to 6:30pm
Burns Lectures 2025 – Christians, Consumption, and Climate Change: Christianity between the Last Ice Age and the Anthropocene
Archway 4, University of Otago, Dunedin
19 May 2025
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Politics public panel: The world turned upside down? Assessing the second Trump administration’s impact on global politics
Burns 2 (ground floor of the Arts Building), 95 Albany Street, Dunedin
21 May 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Lunchtime Concert Series – Bachelor of Performing Arts students in concert
Mary Hopewell Theatre, College of Education, 145 Union Street East, Dunedin
21 May 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
English and Linguistics Seminar: Hannah Fleming
Castle A Seminar Room, Dunedin
22 May 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Lunchtime Theatre: #nocrumbs
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, Central Campus
23 May 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Lunchtime Theatre: #nocrumbs
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, Central Campus
28 May 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Lunchtime Concert – Senior performance students in recital
Hanover Hall, 65 Hanover Street, Dunedin
29 May 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Lunchtime Theatre: Voyager 33
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, Central Campus
30 May 2025
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Lunchtime Theatre: Voyager 33
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, Central Campus
31 May 2025
4:00pm to 8:00pm
German programme reunion
Otago Yacht Club, 25 Magnet Street, Dunedin
18 June 2025
10:00am to 4:00pm
Pacific Thought Network masterclass
William James Building Seminar Room (1.03), Dunedin campus
19 June 2025
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Pacific Thought Network: Pacific lecture
Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, Dunedin campus