Nathalie Philippe
Biography
Originally from Paris, Nathalie Philippe has lived in New Zealand for the last thirty years. She has a doctorate from the Sorbonne University. She was the BNZ River of Time 1998 Historian-in-Residence and lived in Hamilton's oldest surviving building Beale Cottage for a year. She researched and curated the Waikato Museum of Art and History exhibition All Quiet on the Western Front? about New Zealand's involvement in the First World War. She works as a senior lecturer in French at the University of Waikato and teaches cultural studies, language and translation methodology. She has organised two conferences on France and New Zealand during the First World War. These were held in 2008 and 2018 in Le Quesnoy, the town liberated on 4 November 1918 by New Zealand soldiers. She has recently worked as a historical consultant on the permanent exhibition designed by Weta Workshop for the New Zealand Memorial Museum in Le Quesnoy.
