The next Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar is on Wednesday Rāapa 28 August, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoom
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Speakers:
Kirstine Moffat, ‘Male and Female Impersonation on the Colonial Stage’
Felicity Barnes, ‘A Missionary Tale? New Approaches to the Life of Jane Kendall’
Kirstine Moffat is Associate Professor in the English Programme at the University of Waikato. She has published widely on nineteenth-century New Zealand literature, music, and culture and is the author of Piano Forte: Stories and Soundscapes from Colonial New Zealand. In 2020 she was the recipient of a national Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award.
Felicity Barnes is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Auckland. A cultural historian, much of her work has been interested in issues of settler colonial identity. Her award-winning book, Selling Britishness, published by McGill-Queens and Auckland University Press, considers the role of commodity cultures in fashioning of Dominion identity in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. Work on Jane Kendall represents a new research direction.
This is a regular, online seminar. Each session (held via zoom) features 2 x 10–12-minute research presentations on current research in Gender History with a focus on Aotearoa New Zealand, followed by discussion.
Convenors: Charlotte Greenhalgh (charlotte.greenhalgh@waikato.ac.nz) and Charlotte Macdonald (charlotte.macdonald@vuw.ac.nz)