The Humanities Research Network.

Linking minds and energies in the arts, culture and the humanities

The Humanities Research Network Te Whatunga Rangahau Aronui (HRN) is a dynamic database of individuals, organisations and activity in the wider humanities sector.

Creative Commons.

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. The Council for the Humanities leads the project to establish Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Hutis te rito o te harakeke, Kei hea te komako e ko, Ki mai ki ahau, He aha te mea nui o te ao? Maku e ki atu, He tangata, he tangata, he tangata. If the centre of the flax bush were plucked out the flax would die leaving no place for the bellbird to sing. If you ask me what is the greatest thing in the world? I would answer, it is people.

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The purpose of Te Whāinga Aronui The Council for the Humanities is to promote recognition of the value of the humanities/aronui in the creation, conservation and transmission of knowledge essential to personal well-being and the cultural, social and economic development of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Humanities/aronui signifies a distinctive body of cultural knowledge created from interaction between the many cultures and languages of people resident in Aotearoa New Zealand and anchored by the bilingual text of the Treaty of Waitangi. The humanities/aronui are bodies of knowledge and modes of enquiry and reflection concerning what it means to be human.

This website will grow to provide information relating to the establishment, membership, aims and activities of Te Whāinga Aronui The Council for the Humanities. It will include links to relevant international organisations, it will publicise Council events, it will feature the policy documents and submissions which are the outcomes of the Council's research and advocacy, and it will detail the Council’s recognition of distinction and achievement in the humanities.

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