with Dr Leslie Young, Professor of Economics at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Beijing Friday 31 May, 7pm at Birkbeck College, Lecture Hall B18, Malet Street, WC1E 7HX To book a place register: http://waterdrleslieyoung.eventbrite.co.uk/ The New Zealand Studies Network brings…
To introduce this topic, I really have to start with my life at secondary school –i.e. Wellington Girls’ College, Wellington—where I began developing an interest in languages as well as History and English, and studied Latin, German and French, and…
Katherine Goldsmith, environmentalist, has agreed to introduce the film screening ‘Water Whisperers – Tangaroa’ on Monday 25 March 2013, 7pm at Birkbeck Cinema, Gordon Square, London. Tickets are £5.00 and all proceeds will be given to Wick Candle Film…
Far from Home: The English in New Zealand Lyndon Fraser & Angela McCarthy Otago University Press, 2012. ISBN 978 1 877578 32 8 At my New Zealand primary school in the early-mid 1950s recent arrivals…
‘The Peastick Girl’ Susan Hancock Published by Black Pepper, 2012 IBSN: 9781876044749 (pbk.) Early in this novel someone remarks to its central protagonist that New Zealand is ‘a hard country to…
At the time of writing this flyer, the landmark publication of the Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, edited by Gerri Kimber and Vincent O’Sullivan, is being launched in New Zealand by Edinburgh University Press. This collection includes previously uncollected stories,…
Review of Janet Frame: In Her Own Words Edited by Denis Harold and Pamela Gordon Penguin Books NZ 2011 ISBN 978 0 143 56627 4 Admirers of Janet Frame’s work are being treated to a series…
Margaret Mahy (1936-2012), who passed away in July, was New Zealand’s most lively and distinguished writers of literature for children and young adults. Her work was recognized in her lifetime by the Hans Christian Andersen medal, the Order of New…
Te Hono ki Aotearoa, directed by Jan Bieringa and with a soundtrack from Warren Maxwell, follows the journey of Te Hono ki Aotearoa as it makes its inaugural journey on the river Thames and becomes the waka for Europe. Special guests Anthony Hoete (WHAT_architecture) and Karl Burrows (Manaia)…
‘A charred and battered peninsula’: artistic reflections on the Dardanelles and other sites of memory Friday 18th January 2013 In an illustrated lecture Paul Gough reflects upon his sojourns in the 1990s in the memory-scapes of Gallipoli, exploring the charred…
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce the winner of its fourth international essay competition, on the theme of ‘Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial’. The judges, Professor Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature, University of Oxford), Dr Simone Oettli…
John Greagor, President of the New Zealand Society in the UK,sends New Year’s greetings. The Society is celebrating its 85thBirthday this year. There is a busy and exciting time coming up with the official Waitangi Day (New Zealand’s national day) events being hosted by…
Friday, 18 January 2013, 14:00-18:00 Room MAB104, Homerton College, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ Speakers: Catherine Butler, University of the West of England: ‘The Librarian of Babel’ Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christchurch University: ‘Kiwi Ingenuity: Margaret Mahy, New Zealand Mythmaker.’…
‘A charred and battered peninsula’: artistic reflections on the Dardanelles and other sites of memory 6.00 to 8.00 p.m. Friday 18th January 2013 Birkbeck, University of London (Room Malet St 254) To book: please email info.nzsn@gmail.com In an illustrated lecture…
The Secular Visionaries: Aestheticism and New Zealand Short Fiction in the Twentieth Century Joel Gwynne Rodopi. Amsterdam and New York 2010. ISBN 978-90-420-3184-5; Paola Della Valle . These studies address two major fields of New Zealand writing: the short fiction and Maori writing which rose to prominence in the 1970s,…
The Auckland University Press 2012 ISBN 9781869405892 Order this book Anthologies work most happily when they follow a theme, such as humour, love or war. The all-inclusive anthology has to be almost a lost cause, for omissions are inevitable, inclusions…
Andrew Sharp, Balham, 30 November 2012. I want to take you back in time and place and to make as little reference as I can to where we are sitting now or how we have come to talk about…
A New Zealand Studies Network (UK and Ireland) seminar Friday 30th November 6 p.m. Room 255 Birkbeck University, Malet Street, London The years 1817-23 were very troubling for Samuel Marsden both in New Zealand and New South Wales. In New South…
Speech by Derek Leask New Zealand High Commissioner to the United Kingdom to the New Zealand Studies Network 26 October 2012 E nga hau e whaa, Kua tae mai i te po nei Tena Koutou Tena Koutou Tena tatou…
Reg Eyre, 2012 Abstract of Research This is the abstract dissertation or Reg Eyre who has just completed it at Birkbeck University, London. Purpose This research explores how the use of a social constructivist approach to technology using a sociotechnological…
Peter Brunt and Nicholas Thomas – Art in Oceania: A New History, Thames & Hudson, 2012, 536pp, £60. This is a magnificent book. The editors have brought together a team of expert contributors from New Zealand and the United Kingdom…
The Annual Katherine Mansfield Birthday Lecture 2012 held at 43 Gordon Square Birkbeck, University of London, 14th October 2012 The third annual Katherine Mansfield birthday lecture, this year held on the very day of her birth on 14th October 1888,…
Thursday 1st November 2012 – 7.30pm Fleur Adcock and Kevin Ireland Albion Beatnik Bookstore 34 Walton Street Oxford Tickets: £4 For more information, see The Sounds Of Surprise Fleur Adcock is one of our most celebrated and best loved poets….
Ron Palenski, The Making of New Zealanders, Auckland University Press, 2012, 382pp. New Zealand historical writing has a strong tradition of lively, well-informed studies for the general reader and Palenski’s new book is a good example of this. The Making of New Zealanders…
Kea New Zealand is a not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to reach and motivate expatriate Kiwis and ‘friends of New Zealand’ to increase their contribution to New Zealand – thereby turning them into a strategic national asset. Kea New…
See The Mutton Birds in London! The original line-up of The Mutton Birds, reunited after 10 years, has announced a show in London – and Kea is offering VIP tickets for this one-off concert! With this likely to be the…
BNZ Chief Economist Tony Alexander gave a fascinating and insightful talk to a sell-out Kea crowd last year, and we’re lucky enough to have him back again this year! Tony will be making himself available to give an update on…
The Katherine Mansfield Society Birthday Lecture 2012 Presented by Internationally acclaimed authors: Salley Vickers, Ali Smith Susan Sellers (Chair) Download Birthday Lecture 2012 Flyer Date & Location 2pm, Sunday, 14 October 2012 Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H…
Making a Literary Tradition: E. G. Wakefield, Katherine Mansfield and Vital Narratives Saturday 29th September Birkbeck, University of London (MAL B29) Programme Session 1: 10.00 to 12.00 Philip Temple: ‘Fact or Fiction: The Wakefield Literary Tradition’ Philip Temple will discuss…
Call for papers: International Symposium Hosted by the British Residents Association and the English Department of the University of Geneva, together with the Katherine Mansfield Society Crans-Mondana, Switzerland 22-23 September 2012 To be introduced by the New Zealand Ambassador Keynote…
Reading by Chinese New Zealand writer Alison Wong, London 30 September 2012 Alison Wong will be giving a reading (with Australian poet/fiction writer, Andy Kissane) in London at 7:30pm on Sunday, 30 September 2012 at: Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano…
What is it that makes New Zealand unique in an increasingly competitive and dynamic world? Join us for an evening of performances and discussion around creative innovation and ‘brand New Zealand’. Kea advisor and October Gallery coordinator Jo Walsh, is…
The New Zealand Studies Network presents an evening with Fleur Adcock, Helen Rickerby and Anna Jackson from 6pm to 8pm on Friday September 7th 2012 at Birkbeck (Room Malet St 612) To book please email: info.nzsn@gmail.com About the speakers…
Matariki Performance by Baggage Theatre Co-Op of ‘Te Haerenga: A Journey of Identity’ Abstract: Te Haerenga, a journey of identity, combines the ancient art of storytelling with the drama of theatre to interweave three individual stories into one shared journey…
Listen to the speeches made at our inaugural conference over the weekend of 6-7 July 2012. Panel One: Settlement and Unsettlement Stephen Turner: ‘The Stray Culture of Settlement’ Download audio Chris Prentice: ‘The Shaking of New Zealanders’ Download…
This article was originally published by The Independent A young student has just struck literary gold, discovering four previously unknown stories written more than a century ago by Katherine Mansfield. Any new material by Mansfield, who had a dramatic impact…
Fish and Ships! Food on the voyages of Captain Cook, foreword by Glyndwr Williams. Captain Cook Memorial Museum. Exhibition catalogues too often give a weighted, one-eyed view of the shows they attempt to represent, with merely tantalising illustrations and explanations…
Kevin Ireland, Dreamy days & nothing done (Steele Roberts, 2012) Jan Kemp, Voicetracks (Puriri Press, 2012) Kevin Ireland has been publishing poetry since the early 1960s, Jan Kemp since the early 1970s, and both these collections show the benefits of practicing the craft of poetry over…
NZSN Inaugural Conference: ‘New Zealand’s Cultures: Histories, Sources, Futures’ This lively and well-attended conference was organised around seven panels. Those on the first day addressed the nature and legacies of the European settlement of New Zealand and the implications for…
Andrew Sharp: Opening address to the New Zealand Studies Network inaugural conference, 6-7 July 2012. Tena koutou. Kia ora tatou. I am delighted to welcome you all to the inaugural conference of the NZSN, the full title of which is…
