Events Programme
Wednesday 25 September: 4.00 - 5.00pm
See Dunedin Gothic en masse and at its finest on the University of Otago campus with a walking tour of Heritage New Zealand’s listed places. Learn about the people that built these places, and the trials and tribulations of New Zealand's oldest university as it expanded.
Book a guided tour with local experts from Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga and Southern Heritage Trust.
Tours are limited so secure your place now.
Meet outside the University of Otago Visitors' Centre and Gift Shop at least 10 minutes before your selected tour is scheduled to begin.
Register: https://forms.gle/faoPZSRZuesRS3LC8
Wed 25 Sept: 6.00pm - 7.00pm
Castle 1, University of Otago.
FREE EVENT
We bring four individuals together to talk about an expansive and inclusive concept of cultural heritage through the lenses of literature, literary criticism, film, and textiles:
- Tina Makereti grew her latest novel, The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke, from an 1846 article in the London Times
- Lisa Chatfield is charged with bringing 1860s’ Dunedin and the West Coast to life as producer of the BBC-adaptation of The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton's Booker Prize-winning novel
- Catherine Smith’s current research focus is the interdisciplinary analysis of Māori textiles based on a background in archaeology and conservation of cultural materials
- Madeleine Seys is an expert in the narrative and sartorial threads of Victorian popular literature.
Chaired by Kirby-Jane Hallum and supported by Dunedin City of Literature
Thurs 26 Sept 6.00 - 7.00pm
St David’s Lecture Theatre FREE EVENT
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of Nature, the most authoritative scientific journal in the world. The history of Nature mirrors how science and its role in society have changed over that time. Helen Pearson, Nature’s Chief Magazine Editor, will talk about the journal’s rich legacy and its continued mission to serve the global research community and communicate the results of science worldwide
Friday 27 Sept: 6.00 - 10.00pm
Larnach Castle $161.06 (INCL GST and fees) includes transport, self-guided tour, canapés and beverage on arrival, three-course meal and complimentary wines on the table.
Situated on the picturesque Otago Peninsula, Larnach Castle is one of New Zealand’s premier visitor attractions. Lovingly restored by the Barker Family, the Castle and surrounding grounds are at the heart of the Dunedin visitor experience. Larnach Castle has received numerous national and international accolades.
Our dinner speaker, Professor Liam McIlvanney, Otago’s inaugural Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies, will comment on early predominantly Scottish early Otago’s lead in education in New Zealand. M.C. William McKee, Toitu Otago Settlers Musuem.
Sat 28 September
1869 Conference Day Pass, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm, St David Lecture Theatre Complex, $45 (includes morning tea)
Register Here: www.otago.ac.nz/1869/registration
9.00 – 11.00am Concurrent Sessions:
Landscapes:
- Jonathan West, ‘You see the blank on the map? I wish you to fill it up: James McKerrow’s exploration of the southern lakes in the 1860s'.
- James Beattie and Warwick Brunton, ‘The Place and Power of Natural History in Colonization: William Lauder Lindsay and the scientific development of Otago’s human and natural resources, 1860-80'.
- Matthew Schmidt, 'Dunedin – a City Built on Reclamation'.
- Jane McCabe, 'A Pivotal Year: Land Alienation and Entitlement in Taieri and Hokianga'.
Intellectual Networks:
- Peter Clayworth, Sketchy Histories: What were the 1860s Pakeha views of Maori migration to New Zealand.
- John O’Leary, Hand-axes, saurian and kobongs: Governor Grey’s London year.
- Kate Hannah, Correspondence, Colenso, and cultural shifts: Visualising New Zealand in 1869.
- Helene Connor, Reflections on the letters of Geraldine Ensor Jewsbury (1812–80) to Walter Durrant Mantell (1820–95) with a focus on 1869.
Dunedin People, Places and Institutions:
- Lyall Hanton, Joseph Mellor: the man who described the Periodic Table in 16 million words Tom Barker and John Isdale, Thames School of Mines.
- Susan Irvine and Sarah Gallagher, Blowing Up Boundaries.
- Rosi Crane Beyond Albums and Paintbrushes: Women and the Otago Museum, 1869-1936.
Reformers and Campaigners:
- Anna Clark, 'Josephine Butler’s Women’s Work and Women’s Culture (1869): The paradoxes of individualism in Britain and New Zealand'.
- Chieko Ichikawa, 'Women’s Writing on Sex: Rhetoric and Gender in the Social Purity Movement'.
- Jane Tolerton, 'Otago’s Three Women’s Suffrage Movements: 1869-1893'.
- Joanne Wilkes, 'Middlemarch and Reform: Looking Back from 1869'.
11:00am - 11: 30am Morning Tea
Tea, coffee, water, crumpets with cream and baked custard pots with raspberry jelly.
11.30am - 12.30pm Keynote Address: Tilly Boleyn, 'Breaking the Rules, Transforming the Future'
St David Theatre Lecture
Scientific and cultural institutions worldwide have traditionally focused on knowledge creation and production. But what then? How do you engage the 'general public' with all your excellent knowledge? And how do you share that knowledge to create a scientifically literate society ready to tackle the world's biggest challenges?
This paper explores the evolution of approaches to engaging people with science and culture. Case studies, including cabinets of curiosities, World Fairs, science centres, museums, and the Science Gallery approach, illustrate some of the complexities at play when we invite people into our hallowed halls to see ‘the thing’. Have we, as a sector, become better at engagement over the last 150 years? What do we all mean by engagement anyway?
Fear not, Science Gallery Melbourne (SGM) is opening in 2020 with the aim of blurring the boundaries between science, art, design, technology, maths, and engineering. We’ve flipped engagement on its head, and instead embed our target audience, young people aged 15-25, into every aspect of our approach: idea generation, exhibition planning, work selection, promotion, and in-gallery engagement. This presentation takes audience members through what happens when you connect and involve young people in the creation of a new gallery…the agony and ecstasy of curating with young people, for young people.
This paper challenges the traditional narrative about who’s opinion matters, how to engage young people in important issues and what makes a transformational experience. Prepare for feathers to be ruffled.
Sat 28 September 1.30 - 2.30pm
FREE
See Dunedin Gothic en masse and at its finest on the University of Otago campus with a walking tour of Heritage New Zealand’s listed places. Learn about the people that built these places, and the trials and tribulations of of New Zealand's oldest university as it expanded.
Book a guided tour with local experts from Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga and Southern Heritage Trust. Tours are limited so secure your place now.
Meet outside the University of Otago Visitors' Centre and Gift Shop at least 10 minutes before your selected tour is scheduled to begin.
Register: https://forms.gle/faoPZSRZuesRS3LC8
Saturday 28 September, 2pm - 4pm
Quad 4 (Behind the Clocktower Building)
The Geology Museum contains large and scientifically important collections of rocks, minerals and fossils - the largest such collection in the South Island.
Recommended for children 11 years and older. No need to register.
Saturday 28 September 3.00 - 4.30pm
Quad 4 Lecture Theatre - Geology Dept FREE
Find out why this rapid-fire image and storytelling event has become a global phenomenon Presenters have just 20 seconds to speak to each of their own 20 images. Come and experience an exciting line up of impassioned speakers.
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
The Bluestone Award is presented every two years at the Dunedin Heritage Festival to acknowledge an outstanding contribution to the preservation and appreciation of Dunedin’s heritage.
Come and celebrate our Town and Gown Heritage Hero!
Sponsored by the Dunedin City Council.
Sun 29 September
FREE
Tour Times:
9.30am - 11.00am
11.30am - 1.00pm
1.30pm - 3.00pm
The Anatomy Museum holds a large collection of anatomical specimens and models, many of which are unique in Oceania. Many of the models and specimens date back at least 100 years. Displayed alongside the more modern specimens of anatomy, a walk around the museum brings to life the wonders of the human body.
Bookings are essential (maximum 40 participants per tour). No food or drink permitted in the museum. No cameras or other visual recording devices are permitted in the museum.
Register: https://forms.gle/PNan346qXrzXXbVM6
Sunday 29 September 1.00pm - 3.00pm
Ground Floor Lab, Richardson Building
FREE
Archaeology is the study of the material evidence of the human past. This evidence can include:
- Monumental structures like the ceremonial statues and platforms of Easter Island
- Smaller portable artefacts such as pots and stone tools
- The buried foundations of structures and
- The remains of animals and plants used by ancient peoples
This research can contribute significantly to our knowledge of human origins, and the variety of societies and environments in the past.
The University of Otago Archaeology labs provides specialist services for post-excavation analysis including zooarchaeological analysis, artifact analysis, and collections management. they are designed for the efficient throughput of archaeological remains from initial processing to detailed post-excavation analysis.
Come and explore the art and science of archaeology and learn about researchers’ recent Dental School excavations and various other fieldwork projects.
FREE
Tour Times
10.00am - 11.00am
1:00pm - 2:00pm
When the first Pakeha settlers stepped onto land next to the Toitu Stream in 1848 in a location near the top of today's Water Street, they were greeted with a shoreline which quickly rose upwards towards Dunedin’s hilly and forested flanks. The plan for the city devised in 1846 already considered reclamation of the harbour to provide more flat land for industry and government close to where ships would anchor or dock. Reclamation began immediately as the day-to-day workings of a new colony dumped anything they did not want or could not use into the harbour. Things dramatically changed in 1861 with the discovery of gold in Otago. From this date onwards, Dunedin expanded rapidly as people from all walks of life flooded into the city. Step back in time and walk along Dunedin’s shoreline in 1865 for a tour of early Maori and Pakeha Dunedin!
Book a guided tour with Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga's Dr Matthew Schmidt.
This is a popular tour. Tour numbers are limited so secure your place now.
Meet at the Exchange Plaza, 263 Princes Street beside the Tauraka Waka monument at least 10 minutes before your selected tour is scheduled to begin.
Register: https://forms.gle/UuA3JfThbdpfcDRP7
Sun 29 September 10.00am - 11.30am
Cost $5 per person / $10 family (proceeds go to the Gasworks Museum)
Within one month of the ordinance of the Otago Provincial Council establishing the University of Otago, the first bicycle built in Auckland was ridden for the first time in 1869. Bicycles are also built and ridden in Christchurch and Dunedin in that year.
Get on your bike, young or old, and join the annual fun ride from the Gasworks Museum, Braemar Street, South Dunedin to the University Clocktower. We will set off at a leisurely pace, flat all the way, stopping at the Railway Station for a photo opportunity, before finishing at approximately 11:30 am at the University.
Members of the Gasworks Guild of Gadgeteers steampunk group and Images of the Past Victorian costume group will be waiting to welcome us at the University, as well as a coffee cart!
Prizes for best-dressed riders.
Meet at the Gasworks Museum on Braemar Street at 10am for a 10.30am start.
Sun 29 September
FREE
Tour times:
11:30am - 12:30pm
3:30pm - 4:30pm
See Dunedin Gothic en masse and at its finest on the University of Otago campus with a walking tour of Heritage New Zealand’s listed places. Learn about the people that built these places, and the trials and tribulations of of New Zealand's oldest university as it expanded.
Book a guided tour with local experts from Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga and Southern Heritage Trust. Tours are limited so secure your place now.
Meet outside the University of Otago Visitors' Centre and Gift Shop at least 10 minutes before your selected tour is scheduled to begin.
Register: https://forms.gle/faoPZSRZuesRS3LC8
Sun September 29
3pm
St Paul’s Cathedral, The Octagon
KOHA towards Dunedin Night Shelter Trust
The Phillip Neill Memorial Prize in Music prize was founded in the year 1943 in memory of the late Philip Foster Neill, a medical student of the University of Otago, who died in 1943.
Sun 29 September: 5.00pm - 6.30pm
Quad 4 - Geology Dept (Behind Clocktower Building)
FREE
The chemical compound used in celluloid film dates back to its invention and patenting in 1869 by John W. Hyatt.
Sit back for a nostalgic glimpse at Dunedin in bygone years.
1877 Gallery, Otago Museum
FREE
Open daily 10am – 5pm
The University of Otago’s 150th anniversary exhibition, Dare To Be Wise, showcases the far-reaching benefits to both students and society of the University’s history.
Articles, artefacts, stories, and memorabilia from the first 150 years have been carefully collected and presented in this wonderful display of University of Otago history.
FREE
Open Monday to Saturday, 10am - 5pm
When James Cook sailed down the Otago coast in 1770 he observed what he thought to be a barren, uninhabited land. This exhibition weaves together taonga, images, maps, and knowledge handed down from ancestors to tell the story of how fifty generations had been living in southern New Zealand when the first explorers from another world visited these shores.
Sunday 29th September, 11am - 2pm
University of Otago Staff Club, Leith Walk.
Collect your treasure map from the ground floor of the Staff Club and begin your exploration of the campus.
Colouring sheets and a giant colouring board are available. Prizes on offer.
Sat 28 September 5.30pm - 6.30pm
University of Otago Staff Club, Leith Walk
Celebrate the launch of Philippa Keaney’s book with Professor Mark Henaghan.
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