Remembering & Forgetting Difficult Histories - Joanna Kidman & Vincent O'Malley (BWB Talks)

Sites of enormous violence can be places of memory embedded in the land, but also of silence and forgetting. The ‘difficult histories’ of the New Zealand Wars are remembered by Māori through many forms - including art and sculpture, while ignored, or at best, mythologised by many Pākehā.
In this talk Professor Joanna Kidman (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa Rangatira) of Victoria University of Wellington and historian Dr Vincent O’Malley examine the role of memory and forgetting in the context of these defining nineteenth-century New Zealand conflicts, drawing on the findings from their Marsden Fund project on these themes.
A BWB Texts title based on this project and coauthored by Joanna Kidman, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa and Keziah Wallis will be published in early 2022.
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With thanks to City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi.