The Department of History and Classics is pleased to welcome Dr. Angela Wanhalla as a Distinguished Visitor to the University of Alberta, Feb. 23 - March 5, 2015.
Angela Wanhalla (Department of History and Art History, University of Otago) researches at the intersection of race, intimacy and colonialism. Her most recent book, Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand (Auckland University Press, 2013), was awarded the Australian Historical Association's Ernest Scott Prize in 2014 for the best book in Australian or New Zealand history. She currently holds a Royal Society of New Zealand Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (2014-19), which supports a major project investigating the politics of intimacy in New Zealand.
Presentations
Lecture: "Mother's Darlings: Children of Indigenous Women and World War II American Servicemen in New Zealand and the South Pacific."
Date: 25 February 2015
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Humanities Centre L 3
Lecture: Indigenous Women, Writing and Colonialism With Dr. Lachlan Paterson.
Date: 03 March 2015
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Pembina Hall 2 06
Lecture: "The Making of Empire: Race and Intimacy in the Colonial World."
Date: 05 March 2015
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Business 1 5