History seminars

Find out about upcoming research seminars hosted by the History programme at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

The History programme hosts a seminar series during Trimesters 1 and 2 with papers presented by visiting speakers, academic staff and postgraduate students from within the Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. All are welcome to attend.

Charlotte Macdonald is the coordinator of the series for Trimester 2 of 2022.

All talks to be held on Friday from 12:10–1:30pm in the Wood Seminar Room (OK406) and online via Zoom unless otherwise noted.

The History seminars are being presented via Zoom and the registration link is sent out through the seminar mailing list. Contact us to be added to the mailing list.

Trimester 1

11 March

  • Alexander Maxwell—Background to the Russo-Ukrainian War

25 March

  • Steve Behrendt—The settlement of Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1650-1800: Reflections on Historical Evidence, Scholarship, and the Limitations of Knowledge

8 April

  • Jim McAloon—Marriage and Property: A Preliminary Discussion of Evidence from Probates

29 April

  • Rebecca Lenihan, Hayden Thorne, and Valerie Wallace—Introducing the People of Parliament Project

13 May

  • Catherine Abou-Nemeh—Daring to Conjecture in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sciences

27 May

  • Arini Loader—Sung Lives: Te Rauparaha nui me āna haka, me āna waiata

Trimester 2

Full schedule to be confirmed.

July 15

  • Dolores Janiewsk, Mark Dunick, and Mark Derby—Researching the Radical Right

July 29

  • Sir Anthony Seldon, University of Buckingham in HULT119—300 Years of the British Prime Minister and Lessons to Be Learned

August 5

  • Daša Ličen, ZRC SAZU (Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)—Class in the Shade of National Belonging: The Case of Late Habsburg Trieste

August 19

  • Seminar TBC

September 9

  • Cybèle Locke—From Bangor to Pākaraka and Kawakawa: Irish Protestant Settler Colonialism in the North

September 30

  • Frances Steel—Title TBC

October 7

  • Matthew Cunningham, Paul Spoonley, and Marinus La Rooy—Title TBC