Professor Katie Pickles, University of Canterbury and Associate Professor Angela Wanhalla, University of Otago, explore the suffrage journey from Pākehā and Ngāi Tahu perspectives, followed by a panel discussion and questions.

Associate Professor Angela Wanhalla

Angela Wanhalla is an associate professor and Te Apārangi Royal Society of New Zealand Rutherford Discovery Fellow in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago. Her research focuses on the complex histories and politics of cross-cultural intimacy in colonial societies, particularly for Indigenous communities in New Zealand and the Pacific. Her most recent publications include the award-winning Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand (2013), Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific: The children of US servicemen and Indigenous women, World War II (2016) co-edited with Judith A. Bennett; and He Reo Wāhine: Māori Women's Voices from the Nineteenth Century (2017) with Lachy Paterson. She is also a judge for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards General Non-Fiction Prize.

Professor Katie Pickles

Katie Pickles is Professor of History at the University of Canterbury and current Te Aparangi Royal Society of New Zealand James Cook Research Fellow. After postgraduate studies at UBC and McGill, Katie has worked teaching New Zealand women's/feminist history at UC for 23 years. She has supervised over 30 postgraduate theses and served as the UC Associate Dean of Postgraduate Studies. Katie is the author of three books and the editor of six collections. She has published over 50 essays, journal articles and opinion editorials on a variety of topics that tend to coalesce around gender, empire, heroines, hegemony, landscape and commemoration. She is currently at work on a broad sweep of women's status in society over the past 200 years through an examination of global heroines in history.

The Suffrage Series at the Arts Centre is a partnership between Christchurch City Council, Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga and the Arts Centre as part of Beca Heritage Week 2018 .