This symposium, featuring leading international and New Zealand scholars, will consider the interactions between Christianity, te ao Māori and colonisation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Spaces are limited, so register now to get a place.

This symposium, featuring leading international and New Zealand scholars, will consider the interactions between Christianity, te ao Māori and colonisation in Aotearoa New Zealand. 

Current public conversations on the nature of our history, the Treaty of Waitangi, and issues of Crown governance and Māori authority, call for fresh research and perspectives on multi-faceted relationships and processes.

The wānanga-symposium will canvass such questions as: 

• How can this ‘national history’ be reframed in terms of local and global interconnections? 
• What was the indigenous response to Christianity by Māori leaders and communities? 
• How should we understand te Tiriti o Waitangi in light of the local context and the wider picture of European empires? 
• What do these entangled histories of beliefs and practices, of ideas and institutions, and of texts and state power, mean for our identities and common life in these islands called New Zealand or Aotearoa?

The wānanga-symposium will be hosted in the beautiful Bay of Islands, at Te Tii marae and Copthorne Hotel (Waitangi).

For more info on this event, including accommodation options and an overview of key speakers and the papers that will be presented, go to our event listing here.

We've had over 450 people register their interest to attend this event, so we recommend you get in quick if you would like a ticket as we have spaces for only 200. Once we are full, we will open a waitlist, but unfortunately we won't be able to open up further spaces.

REGISTER NOW

For all logistical pātai, please don’t hesitate to email symposium@laidlaw.ac.nz and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Ngā manaakitanga,

Ness Johnson
(on behalf of the Organising Committee)

Brought to you by Te Tii Marae, Te Pihopatanga o te Tai Tokerau, Karuwhā Trust, New Zealand Church Missionary Society, St John's Theological College, and Laidlaw College.