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Annual Talanoa event brings together influential Māori and Pacific thought leaders

Voices of Change

23 Oct, 2025
Annual Talanoa event brings together influential Māori and Pacific thought leaders to discuss doing business in 2025 and beyond.
Niue Language week 2025

It’s Niue Language Week

17 Oct, 2025
This week Niue Language Week is being celebrated across Aotearoa as part of the Pacific language week series for 2025.
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Emotional landscape of language revival

15 Oct, 2025
Receptive bilingualism was at the heart of Te Ipukarea researchers Dr Nogiata Tukimata & Dr Toiroa Williams presentation at PULiiMA 2025.
This week Vaiaso o te Gana Tuvalu – Tuvalu Language Week is being celebrated across Aotearoa.

AUT celebrates Tuvalu Language Week 2025

02 Oct, 2025
Vaiaso o te Gana Tuvalu is being celebrated across Aotearoa this week.
Unity elusive at Pacific Islands Forum

Unity elusive at Pacific Islands Forum

18 Sep, 2025
The Pacific Islands Forum has wrapped up its annual leaders' meeting with some significant agreements - but integration remains a contested term.
Papue New Guinea Language Week

Papua New Guinea Pidgin Language Week

10 Sep, 2025
Papua Niugini Tok Pisin Wikis being celebrated across Aotearoa this week.
Tonga Language week

AUT celebrates Tonga Language Week

19 Aug, 2025
Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e lea faka-Tonga is being celebrated across Aotearoa this week.
Launch of the online “Dictionary of the Māori Language of Rarotonga” at Te Ipukarea Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology, for Cook Islands Language Week

Launch of Online Rarotongan Dictionary

15 Aug, 2025
Te Ipukarea Research Institute has partnered with the Cook Islands Language project to launch an online dictionary for Cook Island Māori.
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Celebrate Cook Islands Language Week

05 Aug, 2025
AUT celebrates Epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki 'Airani | Cook Islands Māori Language Week.
It’s Vanuatu Bislama Language Week

It’s Vanuatu Bislama Language Week

29 Jul, 2025
AUT is this week proudly celebrating the first Vanuatu Bislama language week in the 2025 Pacific Language Series.

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