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Upcoming Public History Lectures
Upcoming Public History Lectures
Our History Programme and Historical Research Unit, in conjunction with the Waikato Museum, are proud to present a series of free public History lectures featuring guest speakers from New Zealand and overseas. Topics covered will include New Zealand environmental history, art history, animals and culture and the formation of transpacific indigenous networks.
The first lecture features
Dr Jemma Field who has taught at the
universities of Auckland and Sydney. Dr Field will deliver a
talk titled ‘Art, History and Culture: The Changing
Visual Persona of Anna of Denmark, 1603-1619’ on
Thursday, June 25. The second will be delivered by the
prestigious US scholar, Harriet Ritvo, who
is Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her talk, titled
'Wanting the Wild: People, Animals and Culture in the
Long 19th Century' is on Thursday, July 2.
Both
lectures run from 5.30pm in the Museum Lecture Theatre
(Waikato Museum, 1 Grantham Street, Hamilton). They are free
and open to the
public.
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