Ngā kaupapa e heke mai
Friday, 25 October 2019
at 1:00pm
- Burns 1W1 (English Seminar Room)
Associate Professor Rick Weiss (VUW) argues for a fundamental shift in the way we conceptualise the nature of the “modern” in South Asia, and the processes that led to its emergence.
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
at 12:10pm
- Otago Business School LG04
29 October 2019 marks 100 years since women won the right to stand for election in New Zealand. Join us for a Brown Bag lunchtime lecture.
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
at 5:30pm
- Moot Court Lecture Theatre (10th floor Richardson Building, Dunedin campus)
'To Not Die of History' will draw on "Famished" (Pindrop Press, 2019) Cherry Smyth’s book-length poem that explores the Irish Famine (1845-52) and how British imperialism helped cause mass starvation and the largest refugee crisis of the 19th century.
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
at 12:00pm
- 1W1 : 1st floor, Burns building, Albany Street
This masterclass relates Cherry’s research around the Irish Famine and forced emigration to issues of form, musicality and activating the archive in socially engaged poetry.
Thursday, 31 October 2019
at 4:00pm
- Centre for Sustainability Seminar Room, 563 Castle Street, Dunedin
Rural sociologist, Associate Professor Paul Stock, presents The New Farmers Project: Collaborative Creative Scholarship and Utopian Futures of Food - an interdisciplinary art and research ethnography of new and emerging farmers in the U.S. Midwest.
Sunday, 3 November 2019
at 2:00pm
- Toitū Otago Settlers Museum
Professor Barbara Brookes examines the life and legacy of Isabel Fraser (1863-1942). Like many early women graduates of the University of Otago, Isabel Fraser became a teacher, one of a cohort who helped raise the standard of girls' education in New Zealand. From 1894 she served as Principal of Wanganui Girls' College, the largest girls' boarding school in New Zealand, before becoming the founding Principal of the first Presbyterian boarding school for girls, Iona College.
Thursday, 7 November 2019 at 6:30pm - Moot Court, 10th floor Richardson Building
Friday, 15 November 2019
at 8:30am
- Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, Dunedin
The Leap Dance symposium invites dance scholars, pedagogues, curators, choreographers and practitioners to celebrate iconic choreographers and dance educators in New Zealand.
Sunday, 17 November 2019
at 2:00pm
- Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin
Join us for the final talk in the 2019 Global Migrations Public Lecture Series as Professor Angela McCarthy explores the Scottish role in developing the Ceylon tea enterprise.
Monday, 18 November 2019
at 8:30am
- Allen Hall theatre
The Performing Artefacts conference considers how peoples’ experiences and knowledge of ‘the real’ are communicated via performances involving artefacts – performances of the everyday, as well as activities explicitly labelled ‘performances.’
