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W.H. Oliver Humanities Research Academy - Seminar

Date: 15-5-2018
Time: 5.30pm

Our Rivers: complex histories, hopeful futures

Catherine Knight

Tuesday 15 May 5.30pm

Davis Theatre, Watt street

Free entry, all welcome

Wine and juice available

Catherine Knight is and independent historian living in the Manawatu. She is the author of New Zealand's Rivers: An Environmental History, and contributor to Rachel Bell ed, NZ Between the Wars published by Massey University Press in 2017.

The W.H.Oliver Humanities Research Academy series of Whanganui Seminars 2018 is a partnership between the Alexander Heritage and Research Library, the Whanganui Regional Museum and Massey University's W.H. Oliver Humanities Research Academy. It aims to raise awareness of the presence of history in the local community as well as celebrating students embarking on careers in the rich field of New Zealand historical research.

Home and away is the theme for the 2018 seminar series.