2018 news

Read news items from our 2018 archives.

  • A small globe with paper, pen and question mark.

    Exploring New Zealand’s future

    Professor of Philosophy Nick Agar is using his interest and expertise in Future Studies to contribute to futures workshops held by Inland Revenue.

  • Professor Helen Small

    Joining Tolkien’s world

    Victoria University of Wellington alumna Professor Helen Small has been appointed to one of the most prestigious English Literature positions in the world—the Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature at Oxford University, once held by J.R.R Tolkien.

  • Feminist Engagements in Aotearoa: 125 Years of Suffrage and Beyond

    Rutherford House was noisy with conversation, challenge, film, applause and song during the weekend, as more than 150 delegates gathered at the Feminist Engagements in Aotearoa: 125 Years of Suffrage and Beyond conference, hosted by Victoria University of Wellington’s Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.

  • Water colour painting of houses with picket fences.

    Finding importance in the small things

    THEA 311 and 308 students in the Theatre programme are challenging people to find value in the smallest events of their daily lives in a reimagining of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town.

  • From lascars to skilled migrants: Indians in Australasia

    The Indian community in the two countries is big and broad-ranging, just like its story over the past 250 years, write Victoria University of Wellington Professor of Asian History Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and University of Canterbury Associate Professor of History Jane Buckingham.

  • Galleries of Maoriland

    Surveying the ethnological art that flourished in New Zealand around the turn of the twentieth century, Roger Blackley's Galleries of Maoriland will be published on 25 October.

  • Adam Browne stands in a suit at a lectern holding an award with Wellington in the background.

    Gold standard for MFA(CP) graduate

    Adam Browne was recently presented with the prestigious New Zealand Cinematographers Society’s (NZCS) ‘Best Student Cinematography’ Gold Award.