CRoCC member shortlisted for prestigious book prize
Congratulations to Angela Wanhalla, member of CRoCC and the University of Otago’s History Department, for the shortlisting of her recent book, Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand, for the Ernest Scott Prize for History for 2014. This prize, given annually to the book judged to be the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand or to the history of colonization, will be awarded at the upcoming Australian Historical Association Conference in Brisbane in July. Angela’s book was published by Auckland University Press.
Forthcoming Conference
Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters: A Multidisciplinary Conference
24-26 November 2014
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Historical and contemporary global migration involves a range of cross-cultural encounters, but how are these interactions discussed, debated, and defined? This three-day multidisciplinary conference seeks to examine past and present migrant encounters with other peoples in a diverse range of locations. Papers from various disciplinary angles are welcome from a variety of themes and from any historical period or region.
Themes may include but are not limited to:
- Race, ethnicity and citizenship
- War, migration and cross-cultural contact
- Labour, migration and cross-cultural encounters
- Empire, contact and mobility
- Gender, migration, and cross-cultural encounters
Please provide:
- a title
- a 250-word abstract of your paper
- brief biographical information (including institutional affiliation and contact details).
All proposals will be assessed after the deadline of Friday 11 July 2014. If you require an earlier acceptance please advise us.
Proposals or requests for further information should be sent to: migrants@otago.ac.nz
The conference is sponsored by four key multidisciplinary research hubs in the Division of Humanities at the University of Otago:
- Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies
- Centre for Research on Colonial Culture
- Asian Migrations Research Theme
- Comparative and Cross-Cultural Studies Research Theme
For further information see the website (click the highlighted text).
Indigenous Textual Cultures Symposium
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On 30 June and 1 July the Indigenous Textual Cultures Symposium will be held in the Seminar Room at the Hocken Collections. The Centre is excited to host this event, with leading academics from South Africa, North America, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific presenting research looking at how indigenous peoples interacted with literacy and texts during the colonial period.
Check out the programme and the presenters’ Abstracts.
All interested staff, students and members of the public are most welcome to attend. There is no fee for attendance but please RSVP to lachy.paterson@otago.ac.nz so that we have some idea about numbers for catering.
Environmental History Symposium
Paper proposals are now being invited for an upcoming CRoCC event, an environmental history symposium at the Hocken Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin. It will be held on 31 October, and feature an address by Associate Professor Grace Karskens (University of New South Wales), author of The Colony.
If you are interested in presenting a paper or you want to attend the event please contact Professor Tom Brooking (tom.brooking@otago.ac.nz).