News and events from the Otago Arts Fellows
SGCNZ University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival
Tuesday, 30 May 2023 9:30am
A double major in Psychology and Theatre Studies at Otago underpins actor and playwright Hamish Annan’s award-winning performance artwork Access.
Monday, 29 May 2023 12:12pm
Wendy Adam clearly remembers her job interview for the role of marketing and communications adviser for Te Kete Aronui Division of Humanities as a “disaster” but, as she told her partner afterwards, “I think they liked me”.
Friday, 26 May 2023 10:10am
Professor Lachlan (Lachy) Paterson is retiring from Otago, where he has been a member of Te Tumu - School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies.
Friday, 26 May 2023 12:06pm
“It’s a great privilege to pass your life among enthusiastic, intelligent young people,” says Emeritus Professor John Dawson.
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 3:15pm
What is time? It is a question people often struggle to answer, says Jean Campos, who is working on a PhD on the philosophy of time.
Friday, 19 May 2023 10:31am
Dr Lynne Taylor has been accepted into a Psychology Cross-training Fellowship Programme for Theologians, which is run by Birmingham University with funding from the John Templeton Foundation.
Wednesday, 17 May 2023 10:08am
For one University of Otago honours student, music is a creative outlet that allows her to shift her focus from her multiple disabilities.
Wednesday, 17 May 2023 8:45am
Thanks to a fabulous team effort by Otago alumni, students and staff, Te Kaupeka Tātai Ture Faculty of Law students’ moot team had a very successful trip to Washington DC in April, to compete at the Jessup International Law Moot Competition.
Wednesday, 17 May 2023 8:36am
Representing Canada and New Zealand, attending both Cambridge and Columbia universities, an eminent law academic and a leading counsel, Emeritus Professor Don McRae CC, ONZM, FRSC, brings a wealth of different perspectives to his profession.
Tuesday, 16 May 2023 12:26pm
For Otago graduate Te Hau Ariki Gardiner-Toi, the richness of his learning was not only found in the classroom.
Tuesday, 16 May 2023 11:12am
The 2023 University of Otago Arts Fellows were welcomed to the University and wider Ōtepoti community at an event at the Hocken Collections on 27 April.
Friday, 12 May 2023 11:12am
A potential silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic could be the changes taking place within Aotearoa New Zealand’s tourism industry, says an Otago PhD candidate studying the relationship between humans and nature.
Thursday, 11 May 2023 9:59am
The Southern Cemeteries Archaeological Project will soon be complete, when the third and final reburial ceremony takes place at Drybread Cemetery this month.
Wednesday, 10 May 2023 9:08am
When something goes wrong, we intuitively want to hold someone accountable and have them pay for, and learn from, their mistake. But what happens when the thing that goes wrong is the result of artificial intelligence (AI)?
Wednesday, 10 May 2023 10:56am
It is déjà vu for Lisa Carlin, who is graduating this month with a Bachelor of Arts Honours in History.
Monday, 1 May 2023 11:41am
Law faculty hosts, alumni and guests from across Aotearoa New Zealand and around the globe gathered for three days of reminiscing, reuniting, and sharing legal expertise and insights at University of Otago Law celebrations at the weekend.
Thursday, 27 April 2023 1:00pm
Dr Charles Radclyffe feels “a huge sense of pride” becoming the first Pacific lecturer in Otago’s Mātai Whaipara Takata Archaeology programme.
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 8:44am
Associate Professor Anna High has been awarded an Otago Excellence in Teaching Award for leadership in mindfulness pedagogy and student-centered legal education.
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 9:49am
Are we really educating people the best way about how to prevent sexual violence?
Friday, 21 April 2023 1:19pm
Two team categories have been introduced to the University of Otago Awards for Excellence in Teaching, in addition to awards offered to individual faculty members.
Monday, 17 April 2023 11:23am
Tenaya Brown (Te Aitanga a Hauiti ki Uawa) has received a Ngarimu VC and 28th Māori Battalion Memorial Scholarship.
Friday, 14 April 2023 12:04pm
A team of three students from Otago’s Te Kaupeka Tātai Ture Faculty of Law are in Washington DC this month to compete in the world’s largest moot court competition.
Friday, 14 April 2023 10:35am
A team of three students from Otago’s Te Kaupeka Tātai Ture Faculty of Law are in Washington DC this month to compete in the world’s largest moot court competition.
Thursday, 13 April 2023 9:07am
The path from Arts graduate to international digital government expert involved leaping from a love of history to embracing the future, but Jude Hanan says her time as a Humanities student at Otago created the foundations for her 25-year career.
Thursday, 6 April 2023 9:43am
Top Canadian law professor and University of Otago alumnus, Emeritus Professor Don McRae CC, ONZM, FRSC, will be recognised for his significant achievements with the conferring of an Honorary Doctor of Laws next week.
Wednesday, 5 April 2023 10:00am
Preserving a language is crucial because it’s not just language, but the preservation of a culture as well, says PhD candidate Eleanor Scoon.
Tuesday, 4 April 2023 2:22pm
Brent Paehua reckons that if his dad, “a Māori guy born in the ‘50s”, can accidently buy alternative meat burgers and enjoy them, that shows how far research and development into alternative proteins has come.
Tuesday, 4 April 2023 4:02pm
Queer people aligning themselves with the far-right can be doing it out of fear and are, in many cases, committed, quite violently, to national socialism, says Joshua James.
Saturday, 1 April 2023 11:55am
A pair of Otago University student sisters are putting in the mahi to raise awareness about food waste and its impacts on the climate crisis.
Friday, 31 March 2023 10:41am
This summer, tauira from Canada’s Brock University attended Otago as part of their Summer School Abroad programme, 11 years after Brock’s last visit to our shores.
Monday, 27 March 2023 9:02am
Dr Andrew Shepherd is one of twelve international scholars chosen for the Centre of Theological Inquiry study programme ‘Thriving in Diverse Contexts’.
Thursday, 23 March 2023 4:59pm
University of Otago PhD candidate Wanda Ieremia-Allan would spend Sunday afternoons delivering 'O Le Sulu Samoa' newspaper as a young girl.
Thursday, 23 March 2023 3:18pm
A geographer whose career has focused on ensuring those who are marginalised, vulnerable, and discriminated against are made visible and included, has been appointed the new Ron Lister Chair in Geography.
Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:12am
The inaugural Festival of Interactive Narrative and Storytelling launches in Ōtepoti Dunedin on 1 April 2023.
Thursday, 23 March 2023 4:39pm
Hailey Kapadia has been attending Relay for life since 2014, when she was a high school akonga in Wellington.
Tuesday, 21 March 2023 10:43am
A geographer whose career has focused on ensuring those who are marginalised, vulnerable, and discriminated against are made visible and included, has been appointed the new Ron Lister Chair in Geography.
Sunday, 19 March 2023 12:01pm
A multi-award-winning non-binary fashion designer is taking a moment away from their avant-garde clothing line to try something new at Otago.
Thursday, 16 March 2023 4:17pm
A national network which aims to promote brain health throughout the lives of New Zealanders will launch tomorrow.
Thursday, 16 March 2023 3:13pm
A national network which aims to promote brain health throughout the lives of New Zealanders will launch tomorrow.
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 9:13am
One workforce in New Zealand has doubled since the lifting of international travel restrictions due to COVID-19; we can now boast two professors of medieval literature in Aotearoa, and both are at the University of Otago.
Tuesday, 7 March 2023 9:49am
Discovering local sites and working with local materials has enabled multi-media artist Sorawit Songsataya to produce an exhibition which explores their relationship between two homes: Aotearoa and Thailand.
Friday, 3 March 2023 1:26pm
The University of Otago’s second year Law programme got off to a special start this year. For the first time, tauira are part of a seven-day wānanga engaging with mātauranga and tikanga Māori.
Monday, 27 February 2023 9:14am
Te Kura Ākau Taitoka – the University of Otago College of Education and New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) are pleased to announce that they have been contracted to collaborate on the new curriculum insights and progress study for the Ministry of Education.
Thursday, 23 February 2023 12:22pm
When he decides to do something, Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) recipient Wallace Bain, doesn’t do it by halves. Having developed a strong interest for the law after sitting in on a retrial of alleged murderer Arthur Allan Thomas in the early seventies, he decided to pursue a career in law at the University of Otago.
Tuesday, 14 February 2023 12:44pm
The University of Otago’s Archaeology field school received a warm welcome to the site they will be exploring from 3 to 23 February at Doctors Point Beach, Waitati.
Monday, 13 February 2023 9:13am
When Nan Xin Wang arrived in Dunedin to start her PhD studies in the Department of Human Nutrition, Professor Sheila Skeaff immediately made a very deep impression on her.
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Calling all researchers at Otago doing age-related research. A morning of thought-provoking discussion and collaboration to help CARE understand the age-related research landscape, identify synergies and plan for the future.
Thursday, 15 June 2023
Centre for Sustainability and He Kaupapa Hononga: Otago's Climate Change Research Network co-hosted seminar presented by Dr Robert McLachlan who will discuss: Aviation emissions: hard to abate, or hard to manage?
Thursday, 15 June 2023
Dr Marissa Kaloga will host speakers on different approaches to creating social impact with research, and insight into how to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of their work.
Wednesday, 21 June 2023
We invite you to join us for the Bachelor of Teaching Information Evening in Invercargill. Make a difference. Become a teacher.
