Read news items from our 2022 archives.
Joshua Toumu’a, a Year 12 student from Wellington High School, has won the 2022 International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award with a poem that creates a vivid snapshot of the aftermath of the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai eruption and the ensuing tsunami.
In 2023, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington will launch a new degree designed to meet a growing demand for interculturally confident and civic-minded graduates who can understand and shape solutions to important issues facing the world.
On Tuesday 14 June, film students and their supporters came together for the premiere of eight new films in the Memorial Theatre at the University’s Kelburn campus.
At noon on Bloomsday, 16 June, Reader Sydney Shep, Reader Marco Sonzogni, friends of Wai-te-ata Press, and the Embassy of Ireland New Zealand gathered for what Ambassador of Ireland His Excellency Mr Peter Ryan remarked was “the first Bloomsday event in the world”.
The life and work of one of the foremost scholars of New Zealand culture will be celebrated in an event next month that will feature high profile literary and musical tributes, with details of a new scholarship to be revealed, too.
Professor Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich has been appointed as the Director of the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
Bachelor of Arts in Education and Anthropology graduate Tiketi Auega first came to Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington in 2000. More than 20 years later, after an extensive career in education, he is graduating with his Bachelor’s degree with plans to go on to further study.
Margaret Mahy, New Zealand’s most celebrated children’s writer, is renowned for her warm-hearted authorial persona and playful writing style, says Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington PhD graduate Dr Yuanyuan Liang. But trauma underlies many of her works for teenagers.
Last Wednesday night, a candlelit vigil was held at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington to commemorate PhD student Apsara Wimalasiri who was killed while visiting her home country, Sri Lanka.
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington is grieving the loss of PhD student Apsara Wimalasiri, who was killed last Sunday while visiting her home country of Sri Lanka.
