Date/Time
Date(s) - Tue 23 February
18:00
Location
National Library Auditorium, lower ground floor, Aitken Street, Thorndon.
Dame Anne Salmond, Distinguished Professor of Māori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, will deliver the 2020 Friends of the Turnbull Library Founder Lecture.
Join us for the annual Founder Lecture and hear from Dame Anne Salmond, whose profoundly significant books have helped New Zealanders understand themselves and appreciate their cultural heritage. She is also a passionate supporter of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
**Seats are limited so please rsvp by emailing turnbullfriends@gmail.com to secure your seat.**
The Friends of the Turnbull Library will provide refreshments after the lecture.
About the speaker
Dame Anne Salmond is a Distinguished Professor of Māori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, and a leading social scientist. She is the first New Zealander to be elected a fellow of both the US National Academy of Sciences and the British Academy. A former Vice-President (Social Sciences and Humanities) of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the first social scientist to be awarded the Rutherford Medal, New Zealand’s top scientific prize, she is also deeply involved in New Zealand’s public life as a scholar and communicator.
In 2013 she was chosen as the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year. Dame Anne Salmond is the author of many significant books on New Zealand’s histories. These include ‘Amiria: the life story of a Māori woman’ (1976), ‘Two worlds: first meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772 (1991) ‘The trial of the cannibal dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas’ (2003), and ‘Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds’ (2017) Anne Salmond is the host of the ‘Artefact’ documentary series with Māori TV.
In August 2020 Dame Anne was awarded the Caird Medal from the UK’s National Maritime Museum for her ‘great contributions to scholarly and public understanding of Māori history, the history of Pacific voyaging and cross-cultural exchange’.