Seminar Series, News & Events, History

We are thrilled to announce an upcoming seminar series hosted by the History Programme.

Seminars are held on Wednesday afternoons, 3:30–5pm, unless otherwise stated.

For any questions about the Seminar Series, please feel free to contact:

Associate Professor Miranda Johnson
Email miranda.johnson@otago.ac.nz

Semester 2, 2022

Date	Venue	Presenter(s)
July 13	Burns 7	Angela McCarthy, Otago “Historians, Activists and Britain's Slave Trade Abolition Debate: The Henry Dundas Plaque Controversy”
July 20	Burns 7 [via Zoom]	Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Victoria University of Wellington “Daring to Conjecture in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sciences”
July 27		Rachel Gillett. Utrecht University “Braided Solidarities: Anti-colonial activism and the cultural politics of 'Blackness' in Interwar Europe”
August 10		Joe Shaughnessey, Cambridge “'This Empire Needs Everywhere a Radical Press': International Anticolonialism and Aotearoa New Zealand's Interwar Left”
August 17		Valerie Wallace, Victoria University of Wellington “Murder in the Manawatū: the case of Walter Tricker, legal pluralism and settler sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand”
August 24 3pm		Holger Droessler, Worcester Polytechnic Institute “Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa”
September 14		PhDs in progress: Georgina White Title TBA Steven Talley “Indigenous Enterprise in its Colonial Context: A Case from the New Hebrides, 1914–1922”
September 21		John Stenhouse, Otago “Reading Darwin during and after the New Zealand Wars, 1860–1900: Science, Religion, Politics and Race”
September 28	Burns 5	Claudia Haake, La Trobe “Modernity through Letter Writing: Cherokee and Seneca Political Representations in Response to Removal, 1830–1857”