Organisers of Waikato University's fourth annual Kingitanga Day say this year's event includes a symposium on the status, place and relevance of the Treaty of Waitangi in a constitution for Aotearoa.
Project manager Maria Huata says it is an important event which recognises the university's unique connection with Waikato-Tainui and Kingitanga.
She says the symposium, which the university's Te Kotahi Research Institute will host, is definitely a highlight with a number of high profile speakers taking part.
They include historian Dame Claudia Orange, Dr Huirangi Waikerepuru from Taranaki who helped lead the fight for Te Reo Maori to be an official language of Aotearoa, lawyer and Treaty expert Moana Jackson and Waikato University senior law lecturer Linda Te Aho.
Ms Huata says Sir Tipene O'Regan will chair the symposium.
Kingitanga day will be held at Waikato University on 16 May.
