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Associated event: The Katherine Mansfield Centenary Conference The Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, in association with the University of Northampton Birkbeck, University of London, 4-6 September 2008 Keynotes: Professor Mary Ann Caws, Dr Ian Conrich, Professor Clare Hanson, Kathleen Jones, Professor Sydney Janet Kaplan, Margaret Scott, Professor Angela Smith, Professor C. K. Stead, ONZ, CBE, Professor Vincent O’ Sullivan, DCNZM, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Professor John Worthen. The year 2008, as well as being the 120th anniversary of her birth, celebrates the centenary of Katherine Mansfield’s arrival in London in 1908 from New Zealand at the age of nineteen, in order to pursue a career as a writer. This major three-day international conference aims to re-evaluate Katherine Mansfield’s contribution to twentieth-century literature, as well as assessing the state of Mansfield scholarship and criticism today. Special events to co-ordinate with the conference include a screening of John Reid’s Mansfield biopic Leave all Fair, a conference dinner in the Penthouse of New Zealand House, and a one woman show by Lorae Parry based on the personal writing of Mansfield.
Conference sponsored
by
Ki te taumata, Aotearoa ki Ingarangi
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New Zealand and the Mediterranean The 15th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) together with the Centre for New Zealand Studies (CNZS), Birkbeck, University of London. Florence, Italy, 2-4 July 2008 Keynotes: Dr Claudia Bell, Dr Roger Collins, ONZM, Dr Caroline Daley, James George, Patricia Grace, DCNZM, Jan Kemp, MNZM, Dr Michele Leggott, Professor Karen Nero, Professor Vincent O'Sullivan, DCNZM, Dr Christopher Pugsley. The conference venue, at the Florence campus of Richmond The American International University in London, is a 16th century palace just 300 yards from the Uffizi Gallery, 200 yards from the Ponte Vecchio, and 100 yards from the Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens. A conference dinner and excursions are planned, with Florence within easy travel of Pisa, Rome, Bologna and Venice. One excursion included within the conference will be an exclusive coach trip 30 miles south of Florence where Christopher Pugsley will provide a guided tour of the battle of San Michele. A second event will be an evening of poetry reading from Jan Kemp, Michele Leggott and Vincent O'Sullivan at a special location. Other events to be announced.
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The State of the Nation: New Zealand's Centenary as
a Dominion The 14th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA), together with the Centre for New Zealand Studies (CNZS), Birkbeck, University of London, and the Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University Birkbeck, University of London, and New Zealand House, 28-30 June 2007 Opened by His
Excellency The Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt ONZ, High Commissioner for New
Zealand to the United Kingdom, and Sir Graeme Davies, FREng, FRSE,
Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. |
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New Zealand, France and the Pacific The 13th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) together with the Centre de Recherche sur les Identités Culturelles et les Langues de Spécialités (CICLaS) University Paris Dauphine, 29 June to 1 July 2006
Opened by The Rt Hon Winston Peters,
New Zealand Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| Small Nations, Big Neighbours Joint Annual Conference The 30th annual conference of the British Association for Canadian Studies/ The 12th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association University of Kent at Canterbury, 11-14 April 2005
Attended by His Excellency Mel Cappe,
High Commissioner for Canada to the United Kingdom, Suzanne
Blumhardt, Deputy High Commissioner for New Zealand to the United
Kingdom, and George MacLaren, Agent General for Quebec in London. |
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Imagining New Zealand/ Aotearoa:
Histories and Representations The 11th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association Penthouse, New Zealand House, London, 3 July 2004
Opened by Suzanne Blumhardt, Deputy
High Commissioner for New Zealand to the United Kingdom |
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New Zealand - The Urban and the
Rural The 10th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association Penthouse, New Zealand House, London, 28 June 2003
Opened by Suzanne Blumhardt, Deputy
High Commissioner for New Zealand to the United Kingdom |
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New Zealand, Identities, and Globalisation The 9th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association Penthouse, New Zealand House, London, 2 July 2002
Opened by Suzanne Blumhardt, Deputy High
Commissioner for New Zealand to the United Kingdom |
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Postcolonial New Zealand The 8th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association Penthouse, New Zealand House, London, 28 June 2001
Opened by Suzanne Blumhardt, Deputy High
Commissioner for New Zealand to the United Kingdom |
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New Zealand Then...and Now: Society and Culture The 7th annual conference of the New Zealand Study Group Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 28 June 2000
Opened by His Excellency Paul East, High
Commissioner for New Zealand to the United Kingdom |
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New Zealand Fictions: Literature and Film The 6th annual conference of the New Zealand Study Group Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 15 June 1999
Opened by His Excellency Paul East, High
Commissioner for New Zealand to the United Kingdom |
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New Zealand - A Pastoral
Paradise? The 5th annual conference of the New Zealand Study Group Penthouse, New Zealand House, London, 3 June 1998
Opened by His Excellency Dr Richard Grant, High
Commissioner for New Zealand to the United Kingdom |
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Focus on Australian and New Zealand Cinema Special conference of the New Zealand Study Group Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 4 October 1997 Speakers include: Dr Brian McFarlane, Dr Jonathan Rayner, Nick Roddick. Poster |
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Neither Here Nor There: New Zealanders Abroad The 4th annual conference of the New Zealand Study Group Penthouse, New Zealand House, London, 4 June 1997 Speakers include: Lisa Harrow, Dr Michael King, Austin Mitchell MP, Emma Neale, Noel Virtue Poster |
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Focus on Aotearoa/ New Zealand The 3rd annual conference of the New Zealand Study Group Penthouse, New Zealand House, London, 30 May 1996 Speakers include Judith Binney Poster
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