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Posted on October 27 2022
Every year the Mina McKenzie Memorial Lecture discusses a topic near and dear to the museum community. In 2022, Dr Bronwyn Labrum’s subject is “Stories of change and innovation in the regions: Women in New Zealand museums since the 1950s” “Women now run most of the significant regional museums in New Zealand, including Te Manawa, and yet the figure of
Posted on October 25 2022
About this event ‘Votes for Women’ was not the only issue being discussed by Canterbury’s feminists of the 1890s. Should women cycle and if so what should they wear, were also topics of debate. Some women were brave enough to abandon their corsets and even wear knickerbocker costumes as they enjoyed the freedom that cycling and this new style of
Posted on October 25 2022
“Mothering in Crisis”, a Melbourne Climate Futures CRX Project headed by Dr Carla Pascoe Leahy and Dr Julia Hurst. Climate change is sparking more frequent and more intense environmental disasters, with worse forecast across this century. As a population group with a heightened care burden during disasters, as well as an explicit investment in the future in the form of
Posted on October 13 2022
J.D. Stout Annual Lecture 2022 Dr Ben SchraderJ.D. Stout Fellow 2022 Fabricating identities: a short history of historic preservation inAotearoa New Zealand, 1890-1990 Scholars have linked the evolution of historic preservation with the rise of nineteenth century nation states, where nation builders used historic places to invent traditions that rooted people in (national) soils. This was harder to do in
Posted on September 29 2022
Members are advised that the PHANZA AGM will be held in person and on-line on Zoom at 5pm on Wednesday 26 October 2022 at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington’s Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation Campus – 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro, Wellington. Room VS204. This is a slightly earlier time than usual and is intended to
Posted on September 29 2022
The next meeting of the Family History Network will be a presentation by Karin Speedy on her work for her recently published book Foundations, followed by discussion. Thursday, 6th October, 12-1pm Online via zoom: https://massey.zoom.us/j/85919513154 The abstract for Karin’s presentation is: Researching and Writing FoundationsAssociate Professor Karin Speedy Foundations is a memoir/literary nonfiction novel that interweaves family and personalhistories into the histories of Aotearoa,
Posted on September 27 2022
Date: Friday 30 September 2022, 12pm to 2pm Cost: Free Location: Whare Wananga, Level 2, Auckland Central City Library, 44-46 Lorne Street, Auckland Part of the 21 years of Papers Past series. Papers Past website turns 21! To celebrate, join our discussion with Papers Past regular users — Caroline Daley, Seonaid Harvey, Carmen Parahi and David Reeves — as they talk about how
Posted on September 22 2022
The next Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar is on Wednesday Rāapa 19 October, 12 pm – 1 pm NZT, via zoom Register here Speakers: Karen Fox, Rank and Reputation in the Tasman World: Reflections on Gender and Place Rachel Boddy, The Heart-throb of 1710: Dr. Henry Sacheverell Karen Fox is a senior research fellow in the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National
Posted on September 17 2022
The History Programme of the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington is hosting a seminar with Dr Ben Schrader on Friday 23rd September | 12.10-1.30pm . Presented in OK406 at VUW and via ZOOM—please register for the Zoom by clicking this link: https://vuw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkdOirpjkjGNbzqsryWn6vlNf5Ti2iD9v1 Inventing History: The Curious 1958 Campaign to Save Wellington’s Oldest Pākehā Building This talk
Posted on September 9 2022
Te Hui Ahurei Reo Māori o Te Whanganui-a-Tara (The Māori Language Festival of Wellington) celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Māori language petition. The petition was delivered to Parliament by Hana Te Hemara with support from Te Reo Māori Society of Victoria University and Ngā Tamatoa of The University of Auckland on 14 September 1972. It called for the revitalisation of
Posted on September 2 2022
Date: Monday 12 September 2022, 12pm to 2pm Cost: Free Location: Spark Place (ground floor), Tūranga, 60 Cathedral Square, Christchurch Papers Past website turns 21! To celebrate, join the discussion with Papers Past regular users — Katie Pickles, Lydia Mearns, Kamala Hayman and Martin Fisher — as they talk about how the website has changed research in New Zealand. The event
Posted on August 12 2022
The next Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar is on Wednesday Rāapa 7 September, 12 pm – 1 pm NZT, via zoom Register here Speakers: Ereni Putere, Rau mōrehu ki te ao, rau mahara i te pō: Navigating history and the lives of Kāi Tahu Ahinata Kaitai-Mullane, Power, Positionality, Perspective: Unpacking colonialism in contemporary pornography Ereni Pūtere (nō Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha,
Posted on August 10 2022
August 2022 marks the 21st anniversary of the initial release of Papers Past. It is regarded as a go-to site for researchers, genealogists, students, and all with an interest in our history. The range of uses and impact the website has had on research in New Zealand is vast. Join the National Library in person or online for a panel
Posted on July 26 2022
August 2022 marks the 21st anniversary of the initial release of Papers Past. It is regarded as a go-to site for researchers, genealogists, students, and all with an interest in our history. The range of uses and impact the website has had on research in New Zealand is vast. To celebrate, join the discussion with Papers Past regular users —
Posted on June 23 2022
Lucy Mackintosh will present the 2022 Michael King Lecture at the upcoming Auckland Writers Festival on Saturday 27 August 2022 3.30pm-4.30pm. Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland by Lucy Mackintosh – co-winner of the 2022 Ernest Scott Prize for History and shortlisted for the 2022 Ockham NZ Book Awards – is a landmark publication, a history of Auckland that takes as
Posted on June 22 2022
The next online meeting of the Family History Network on Thursday 7 July from 12-1pm. Zoom link: https://massey.zoom.us/j/88589262250 PHANZA member Helen Leggatt will present, followed by a group discussion. Helen’s presentation details are: Burning God’s Own: A Prosopographical Approach to the Early Adoption of Cremation in New Zealand (1874-1946) Historians and sociologists have long debated individual motivations underlying the transition from earth