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Why you should learn another language

Language and culture
07 Nov, 2024
In the age of artificial intelligence, why invest the time and effort to learn another language when it seems technology can do it for you?
Elba Ramirez and Gloria Vazquez stand clapping in front of a sign promoting the LASFF 2024.

LASFF 2024 links communities together

Language and culture
23 Sep, 2024
This month AUT put on the Auckland screenings for the 22nd Latin America & Spain Film Festival.
Dua Lipa at the SWR3 New Pop Festival 2016. CREDIT: Harald Krichel (cropped) CC BY-SA 3.0

Power of words: Dua Lipa is a poet too

Language and culture
23 Aug, 2024
The significance and solace of poetry is closer than you think, writes Siobhan Harvey.
Damon Salesa at AUT's Matariki awards

AUT announces Matariki Award winners

05 Jul, 2024
AUT announces the winners of Ngā Whakamānawa o Matariki, AUT's Matariki Awards, recognising staff excellence across academic and professional disciplines.
Celebrating culture, cuisine and couture

Celebrating culture, cuisine and couture

Language and culture
01 May, 2024
AUT once again hosted the annual Manaaki Scholars Cultural Lunch and Couture, a cultural celebration of food, dress and performances.
Sign Language at AUT

Adapting signs to suit Deaf students

Language and culture
23 Feb, 2024
AUT’s NZSL interpreters have been working with Ko Taku Reo – Deaf Education New Zealand to review signs used in various subject areas.
Siobhan holding a book in a classroom, smiling at the camera, with a view over Auckland through windows behind her.

Landfall win – a Q&A with Siobhan Harvey

Language and culture
27 Nov, 2023
Acclaimed author, and AUT academic, Siobhan Harvey has won the 2023 Landfall Essay Competition.
A person with sunglasses on standing in front of a magnificent old orange building with a canal in front.

Study while working part-time in Spain

Language and culture
17 Oct, 2023
A new online course allows students to continue their degree and have an overseas experience while working in Spain.
An auditorium full of people watching speakers on stage.

Building cultural understanding

Language and culture
12 Oct, 2023
With societies becoming more diverse, the risk of intercultural misunderstanding is very real.
A screenshot from the movie Ainbo.

LASFF film festival growing each year

Language and culture
11 Oct, 2023
More than 1000 theatregoers attended the 2023 Latin America & Spain Film Festival (LASFF) at AUT.

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