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News and events from the Otago Arts Fellows

News from and about our programmes, staff and students

A woman standing in front of shelves of books

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...

The team from Ikarangi Labs are pictured with Lifeship, the epic table top board game they’ve been working on for the past three years. Pictured from left: Bradford Brizzell, Jesse Watts, Chris Jacobs and Odin Jacobs.

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...

An exciting morning for Iunisi Finau as she is pictured in front of the University clock tower on graduation day.

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...

Pictured from left are Professor Liam McIlvaney (Stuart Chair in Scottish Studies) with Bruce Spittle (representing the Dunedin Burns Club), and Dr Royden Somerville KC (representing the Otago Scottish Heritage Council).

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...

Finlay Anderson, who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Science at the weekend, kept his parents – Otago Professors Vivienne and Greg Anderson – on side with his double degree.

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...

Graduate Josephine Ripley dressed in her regalia before her graduation.

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...

Jennifer Andrewes with the Otago Peninsula behind her. The Otago languages and history alumna has undertaken three pilgrimages after a diagnosis of early-onset Parkinson’s.

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...

Descendants of Claude Félix Faisandier gifting his collection of letters to Hocken Collections.

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...

Kaylee Driver with Hugh Campbell receiving her award

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...

Woman with binary code on her face

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...

Southern Pacific Archaeological Research Senior Archaeologist Dr Chris Jennings holds a stone toki (adze) that was excavated from a 700-year-old settlement at Tiwai Point, Bluff.

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

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