The first ever New Zealand Wars conference was held in Wellington, on the Massey University Campus, between 11 – 13 February 2011.
The conference well organised by Paul Diamond, John Crawford and a team of experts; and was attended by about 400 people. An amazing range of papers was also presented by scholars and New Zealand-Wars experts from New Zealand and Australia.
Keynote presenters included Dr John Crawford, Dr Monty Soutar, Kristyn Harman, Cliff Simons, Carl Bradley, Ron Crosby, Jeff Hopkins-Weise, Professor James Belich and Mr. Maharoa Okeroa MP.
The papers presented at the two-day conference covered a broad spectrum of topics relating to the wars, ranging from Māori modes of fighting to shipwrecks, and from monuments to the wars in Australia to Māori imprisoned in Tasmania, alongside incarcerated Aboriginal people.
The conference proceedings were published in 2018: John Crawford & Ian McGibbon, Tutu Te Puehu New Perspectives on the New Zealand Wars, Steele Roberts Publishers, Wellington, 2018. Tutu Te Puehu is one of a rapidly expanding literature on the New Zealand Wars in recent years.