Breaking down New Zealand history across disciplines
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Wed Jul 15 2015 12:00:00 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)
Breaking down New Zealand history across disciplines
Wednesday, 15 July 2015, 11:27 am
Press Release: AUT
Breaking down New Zealand history across disciplines
History @AUT, PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES 2015
Mark Twain is reputed to have said that “History never repeats itself, but it does rhyme”. Similarly, there is an old Māori saying about the past always being before us. In a series of five lectures historians at AUT will explore this theme of linking the past, the present and the future in different areas of historical research.
One such area is the subject of the first lecture in the History @ AUT series, presented by Professor Rob Allen:
The Voice of the 99%: from the Knights of Labor to the Occupy Movement
Over the last 150 years, mainstream political parties within western democratic systems have been surrounded by populist organisations of both the right and the left, trying to provide an alternative voice. Using examples from the UK, the US and New Zealand, Professor Allen’s lecture will look at the different ways in which activists and agitators have sought to impact on the democratic process.
Co-ordinated by Professor Paul Moon, AUT’s Professor of History in the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Development/Te Ara Poutama, the series aims to inform, stimulate, entertain and excite debate, in a historical context, within the many disciplines taught at AUT.
“AUT has a great variety of historians – they cover a broad range of subjects including social history, New Zealand history, communication design, physical therapy, and business.”
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There are four more lectures in the series, with each lecture starting at 5.30pm in the Sir Paul Reeves Building, room WG404.
Speakers and topics:
Lecture one: Wednesday 15 July (today)
Professor Rob Allen: The Voice of the 99%: from the Knights of Labor to the Occupy Movement
Lecture two: Tuesday 28 July
Dr Peter Gilderdale: The first Facebook: card-sending in New Zealand, 1880-1920
Lecture three: Tuesday 11 August
Professor Paul Moon: A History of Te Reo Māori in the Nineteenth Century
Lecture four: Thursday 27 August
Associate Professor David Nicholls: Physical therapies in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
Lecture five: Monday 7 September
Associate Professor Simon Mowatt: From Grub Street to the iPad - how the magazine industry survived constant change
For more information on the History @ AUT Public Lecture Series, click here.
To discover more about History at AUT, click here.
ENDS
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