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Posted on August 2 2022
2023 Judith Binney Fellowship and Writing Awards Applications are open Applications close 26 August 2022 This is a friendly reminder that applications for the 2023 Judith Binney Fellowship and Writing Awards close in four weeks’ time, at 5pm Friday 26 August 2022.The purpose of the Judith Binney Trust is to support rigorous and imaginative scholarship of the kind that characterised Judith Binney’s
Posted on August 2 2022
In the context of the pandemic and the immediate period that follows, there is a requirementto take a pause and understand the change, recalibrate, and prepare for what comes next. Atthe same time there are some things that remain constant, continuities that run strongthrough the before and after. The New Historians Conference 2022 is focused on the idea of change
Posted on July 28 2022
Earlier this month Lucy Mackintosh was highly commended in the inaugural Public Environmental History Prize of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network. The judges citation can be read below: Deep Histories of AucklandLucy Mackintosh’s important book, Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland researches the deep history of three sites in present-day Auckland, linking history with archaeology. She demonstrates
Posted on July 26 2022
The Department of Internal Affairs is seeking candidates to be a general member of the Library and Information Advisory Commission (LIAC). LIAC advises the Minister of Internal Affairs, as the responsible Minister for the National Library of New Zealand, on: library and information issues, including mātauranga Māori, and access to library and information services; the role of library and
Posted on July 26 2022
The Department of Internal Affairs is seeking candidates to be a general member of the Guardians Kaitiaki of the Alexander Turnbull Library (Guardians Kaitiaki). Guardians Kaitiaki advise the Minister Responsible for the National Library on key matters relating to the operation of the Alexander Turnbull Library, including: the capacity of the Library to acquire documents to be used for
Posted on July 26 2022
Recently, a very successful online symposium was run by the Canterbury Museum to mark the 200th birthday of Julius von Haast, one of New Zealand’s leading 19th century geoscientists. The online conference took place from 30 April and 1 May 2022 and included speakers from New Zealand and Vienna. The presentations from the conference can now be viewed here, including a virtual
Posted on July 14 2022
Julia Bradshaw attended on behalf of PHANZA a workshop meeting between users and Archives New Zealand regarding their new collections search, 30 June 2022. The meeting confirmed that improving the advanced search facility should be a top priority for Archives New Zealand. A detailed report from Julia on the meeting can be found here.
Posted on July 8 2022
The next Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar is on Wednesday Rāapa 27 July, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoomRegister here Speakers: Sam Iti Prendergast, Dreaming Sovereign Futures in Aotearoa and Hawai’i: Rihi Puhiwahine and Haunani-Kay Trask Sam Iti Prendergast (Ngāti Maniapoto) is lecturer in history at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato. Her work examines the tensions between the aspirations of white
Posted on June 30 2022
The Pacific History Association (PHA) Webinar Series, July – November 2022 is being coordinated by Helen Gardner and Jacqui Leckie. Further details will be announced closer to the dates, including Zoom details. All are most welcome to join. Please check the PHA Facebook page for updates. More information on the 7 July Webinar can be found here. Enquiries to jacqui.leckie@otago.ac.nz Provisional
Posted on June 18 2022
PHANZA member Philippa Werry has won first runner up for The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa’s Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2022. The judges said that Philippa Werry’s manuscript Iris and Me “is a strikingly original story in epic poem form.’” Philippa Werry is a writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays. Her interest in history has produced titles such
Posted on June 18 2022
With the Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum approaching, earlier this week PHANZA members Liz Ward and Margaret Tennant were involved in showcasing local history and heritage resources to teachers at Ka Mua Ka Muri in Pāmutana. Hosted by the Palmerston North City Library, Ka Mua Ka Muri (meaning walking backwards into the future) saw heritage groups and historians offer resources
Posted on June 15 2022
PHANZA member Karin Speedy has a new book out this week. In Foundations, Karin Speedy takes us on a whirlwind journey through time and space as she navigatesintersecting personal, local, family and global histories, stories that help her reckon with who she is andwhere she stands in this complicated (post)colonial world. If colonialism, slavery, violence and heartbreakfeature heavily in her
Posted on June 9 2022
Scholars undertaking research in the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library are invited to apply for the Friends of the Turnbull Library Research Grant, worth up to $20,000. Closing date is 7 October 2022. The research project must include use of material in the Turnbull collections (but does not exclude use of other institutions) The Grant may be shared between
Posted on June 9 2022
The Judith Binney Trust has announced that the opening date for the 2023 Fellowship and Writing Awards is 4 July 2022 and closes at 5pm on 26 August 2022. It is anticipated that the recipients of the 2023 Fellowship and Awards will be announced in November 2022. The Judith Binney Fellowships and Awards support research and writing on the history
Posted on May 30 2022
To mark the occasion of its 25th anniversary in 2016, the Friends of the Hocken Collections (FOHC) offered an award of NZ$10,000 to support a research project on some aspect of the historical development of culture and society in New Zealand, primarily using the resources of the Hocken Collections. Detailed Application Information will be available on the Friends of the
Posted on May 24 2022
PHANZA is delighted to let our members know that two new NZJPH articles are now available. Katie Pickles’ ‘Christchurch’s Cathedral Square and the Importance of Public Squares’ and Sarah Gallagher’s ‘A “Clever Knight of the Camera”: A Biographical Note About Frederick Finch, Resident of Wakatipu’ can both be found on the PHANZA website here. Katie Pickles is Professor of History