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The symposium has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More information about an alternative date will be available as soon as possible.

The draft programme is available below and is subject to change. To register for the symposium, please email Nikki.Hessell@vuw.ac.nz Registration is free, but places are limited. Thursday 2 July: Pōwhiri (welcome + morning tea) Keynote 1: Arini Loader (Te Herenga Waka) “Huia mai kia kotahi he tikanga mā tātou: Waikato Resistance and Resilience in the Face of Colonial Aggression 1863-1864”  LunchContinue reading “Draft programme and registration”

Robbie Richardson joined the School of English at the University of Kent in 2013 after a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His book The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (University of Toronto Press,Continue reading “Keynote 3: Robbie Richardson”

Manu Samriti Chander is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. He holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and a PhD from Brown University. His first monograph, Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century (Bucknell, 2017), examined the appropriation of British Romantic tropes by colonial poets throughout the nineteenth century.Continue reading “Keynote 2: Manu Samriti Chander”

Arini Loader is a Lecturer in History at Victoria University of Wellington. Here’s Arini talking about her research: “My disciplinary background in Māori Studies enables me to dip my toes in a range of interconnected and overlapping scholarly fields. I am interested in narrative, prose & poetics, kōrero tuku iho, whakapapa, mōteatea, in the tellingContinue reading “Keynote 1: Arini Loader”