Read news items from our 2023 archives.
In 2022, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington film alumnus Tom Field created a short documentary for the course FILM311: Documentary Production. In 2023, this film screened at New Zealand’s DocEdge Film Festival, with hopes that 2023 will also see it screen at festivals around the world.
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce Viki Moananu as the 2023 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence.
Since her arrival in Aotearoa in 2011, Associate Professor Inbal Megiddo of the New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī (NZSM) has co-organised annual concerts commemorating Kristallnacht, raising funds and awareness for the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand. In 2020, an international connection gave Dr Megiddo the chance to bring one of these concerts, and the story behind it, to life on film with the help of internationally renowned film director Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri.
After a three-year hiatus during COVID-19 restrictions, the popular lunchtime series Writers on Mondays is returning in 2023.
When Louis Lagaluga Hutchings was six years old, he decided he wanted to be Prime Minister.
For graduate Emily Woods, studying history is about bringing to light forgotten stories, both to honour those forgotten and help us better understand the world we live in today.
In the late 1980s, psychologists first started to understand how people experience and process trauma. From the early 1990s onwards, writers of fiction started to explore these ideas in their work. These ideas have continued to evolve in literature and in psychology, further helping us understand how trauma impacts us, and how we can heal and move on.
After gaining his Master of Music Therapy in 2009, Ajay Castelino spent more than ten years practising as a music therapist. During that time, Ajay says he noticed a gap in how music therapists could support families and children in their own homes.
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) has delivered the New Zealand English Language Training for Officials (NZELTO) programme for over 30 years. It has an alumni of government officials of over 2,000 from Asia alone as well as from Africa and Latin America.
Research by Assistant Lecturer in Criminology, Rebekah Bowling (Kāi Tahu), and Emeritus Professor John Pratt, explores the early history and cultural meaning of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s first prisons.
