Read news items from our 2018 archives.
Associate Professor in Theatre David O’Donnell and co-author Associate Professor Lisa Warrington from the University of Otago have been awarded the Rob Jordan Prize for the best book on a subject related to drama or theatre studies by the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA).
Victoria University of Wellington’s Centre for Strategic Studies (CSS) has started its 25th- anniversary year being named the third best think tank in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific in a prestigious global ranking.
Pacific Studies PhD student Jessica Marinaccio has taken out an international award for her research, winning the European Association of Taiwan Studies' Young Scholar Award for her research paper that discusses the uptake in Taiwan of James Clifford's essay "Indigenous Articulations".
A fundraising evening organised by the Pacific Studies Alumni Association raised well over $5000 for the Teresia Teaiwa Memorial Scholarship fund.
Master of Fine Arts (Creative Practice) Theatre students will get an authentic stage experience as they conceive, plan, pitch and present their works at BATS Theatre.
An upcoming conference at Victoria University of Wellington will explore ways of using restorative philosophy and kaupapa Māori approaches to tackle New Zealand’s rising prison population.
Last Tuesday (16 October), the History and Italian programmes hosted an event dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of Rome’s Jews.
Pasifika Haos was filled with food, song, weaving and speeches on Friday 12 October as students in Matā‘upu Tau Samoa (Samoan Studies programme) celebrated Aso o tu ma aga faasamoa—Samoan Culture Day.
A year 13 student at Wellington’s Queen Margaret College has won first place in the 2018 International Institute of Modern Letters’ (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award, with her poem ‘Vignettes’.
Bachelor of Music in Classical Performance with Honours graduate Joe Haddow has come third-equal in the 2018 Lexus Song Quest.
