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Saving threatened language through literature
30 April 2018A group of linguists from the Faculty of Arts travelled to Bougainville recently to run a workshop on producing literature in a local vernacular. -
Electioneering through religious riot
11 April 2018Dr Chris Wilson and Sanjal Shastri explore the increase in religious rioting and other forms of communal violence in several areas of India. -
The future of food to be explored at symposium
05 April 2018What are some of the big food issues in today’s world? And how can we address them to create food systems that are sustainable, just and resilient? -
United Nations Under-Secretary-General honoured by University
01 March 2018An Arts alumna who holds one of the most senior roles in the United Nations will receive a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Auckland. -
Top ranking for our archaeologists
01 March 2018One of the best places in the world to study archaeology is at the University of Auckland, according to the latest QS World University Rankings. -
New scholarship to study in Italy
27 February 2018University of Auckland students now have a special opportunity to study in Italy thanks to the generosity of Newmarket-based company, Palazzo Italia. -
Diary of a summer scholar: Sarah Heslin
21 February 2018Sarah completed a Summer Research Scholarship translating the diary of a German woman who wrote extensively on Germany's occupation and administration of Samoa. -
Diary of a summer scholar: Jasmin Singh
20 February 2018Jasmin completed a Summer Research Scholarship on indigenous jurisprudence with Associate Professor Tamasailau Suaalii-Sauni. -
Diary of a summer scholar: Noelle Dumo
07 February 2018Noelle completed a Summer Research Scholarship on women's participation in the New Zealand energy sector with Dr Julie MacArthur. -
New degree goes global
31 January 2018The University of Auckland is launching a new degree aimed at exploring and tackling the big issues in an increasingly globalised world. -
What I'm working on over summer: Ngarino Ellis
30 January 2018This summer Dr Ngarino Ellis is researching Māori body adornment, the history of Māori art, and twentieth-century Ngāti Porou carvers Hone and Pine Taiapa. -
What I'm working on over summer: Greg Booth
22 January 2018This summer Associate Professor Greg Booth will be hard at work writing a chapter on film music in Mumbai. -
What I'm working on over summer: Heather Battles
15 January 2018Dr Heather Battles is spending her summer looking at polio mortality in New Zealand in the early twentieth century. -
Junior Arts visits Auckland Grammar
10 January 2018We piloted our new Junior Arts programme for the first time at the end of last year at Auckland Grammar School. -
In memoriam: Milan Kalous, 1936–2017
08 January 2018Dr Milan Kalous, a lecturer in History at the University of Auckland in the 1970s, passed away peacefully on 19 September 2017. -
Arts students directing leadership tour
13 December 2017Victoria Brownlee and Penelope Jones are leading a special educational tour to five cities in the United States in January and February 2018. -
Strangers arrive in New Zealand
13 December 2017In his new book, Associate Professor Leonard Bell introduces us to the twentieth-century migrants whose European modernism radically reshaped the arts in this country. -
New Fellows of the Royal Society
16 November 2017Professor Michele Leggott and Professor Margaret Mutu have been named Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi. -
Book on Ngāti Porou carving a winner
15 November 2017Ngarino Ellis has won the Māori Art award at the 2017 Ngā Kupu Ora Awards: Māori Book Awards. -
Arts student wins Rhodes Scholarship
09 November 2017Marco de Jong is one of three young New Zealanders who have been awarded prestigious Rhodes Scholarships to carry out postgraduate study at the University of Oxford from 2018.