Practice Conference Presentations
Megan Ellison and Lachy Paterson of Te Tumu are two thirds of the panel “He Kōrero, he Tuhituhinga: Utilizing Indigneous-Language Texts”, presenting at the upcoming Pacific History Conference in Wellington later next week.
They will be giving their presentations as a “dry-run” at 2pm on Monday (3 December) in Te Iringa Kōrero (R3S10) on the third floor of Te Tumu.
Lachy’s topic is “He Reo Wāhine: Māori Women’s Voices from the Nineteenth Century” which discusses Angela Wanhalla’s and his research on Māori women’s voices in the archives. Megan’s topic, “Te Ripa Tauārai o kā Reo e Rua: the Crossroads of Two Languages”, investigates some of the texts she will be using for her doctoral study.
If interested, please feel free to come along.
Research Seminar
Professor Isabel Hofmeyr (University of Witwatersrand), author of The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim’s Progress (2004), will give a research seminar co-sponsored by the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture and the Centre for the Book on Monday, December 3rd. Her talk, ‘Gandhi’s South African newspaper Indian Opinion: Towards a Theory of the Imperial Textual Commons’, will take place in the Humanities Division Meeting Room from 10.00 AM until 11.15AM. Please join us for what will be a fascinating research seminar.
