All 2014
Tuesday 18 March
A Wellington actor
Ray Henwood
Friday 21 March
Keyhole surgery: The journey from candle to robot
Dr Dynes McConnell
Tuesday 25 March
The Kermadec Islands: Vignettes from their history
Steven Gentry
Friday 28 March
An insider’s view of the World Bank
Helen Sutch
Tuesday 1 April
A year on an island adrift in time
Gwen Levick
Friday 4 April
High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Pole 3 Project: The inter-island link
Andrew Gard
Tuesday 8 April
What goes on at our Interest Group meetings?
Friday 11 April
River dog
Grant Muir
Tuesday 15 April
What do unions do?
Helen Kelly
Tuesday 6 May
New Zealand in political time: The 2014 general election and beyond
Dr Jon Johansson
Friday 9 May
Modern weather forecasting
Dr Mike Revell
Tuesday 13 May
Sewing freedom: Philip Josephs and early New Zealand anarchism
Jared Davidson
Friday 16 May
New Zealand fossils
James Crampton
Tuesday 20 May
‘Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink’: Vision and violence in Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Heidi Thomson
Friday 23 May
The New Zealand coast watchers in the Pacific in WW II
Dale Williamson
Tuesday 27 May
The role of the Banking Ombudsman scheme
Deborah Battell
Tuesday 3 June
Remembering war: New Zealand’s changing international situation
Terence O’Brien
Friday 6 June
Sustainable utilisation of fisheries resources in New Zealand
Dr Kevin Sullivan
Tuesday 10 June
Transport, climate and health: Wellington at the crossroads
Russell Tregonning
Friday 13 June
Wellington’s roads of national significance
Rod James
Tuesday 17 June
Colours of India
Valerie Carson
Friday 20 June
A New Zealand environmental issue
Dr Jan Wright
Tuesday 24 June Midwinter lunch
Exhibiting colonial culture
Dr Rebecca Rice
Friday 27 June
Linking eco-restoration, reproductive behaviour and climate modelling to predict tuatara offspring sex ratios
Anna L Carter
Tuesday 1 July
An Insider View into the World of Translation
Liz Seymour
Friday 4 July
Environmental sustainability in New Zealand depends on people, cows and water. What can you do?
Dr Mike Joy
Tuesday 22 July
Mahy magic in New Zealand’s School Journal
Vivien van Rij
Friday 25 July
Wellington’s zoo
Baukje Lenting
Tuesday 29 July
What is it that diplomats do for New Zealand when posted overseas?
Gerald McGhie, Derek Leask, Suzanne Blumhardt, Denise Almao
Friday 1 August
Recent ‘shakes’ in Wellington and the future
Russ van Dissen
Tuesday 5 August
Montecassino, the abbey and WWII: A story of fall and resurrection
Barbara Pezzotti
Friday 8 August
Alcohol
Geoff Robinson
Tuesday 12 August
New Zealand politics in the 1950s: Was it such a boring decade?
Elizabeth McLeay
Friday August 15
Our living city
Myfanwy Emeney
Tuesday 19 August
From Worcestershire to Wellington: A musical voyage
Mark Dorrell
Friday 22 August
The Karori Lunatic Asylum
Dr. Roger Ridley-Smith
Tuesday 26 August
From Brooke to Borges, Brecht to Billy Bragg: Kipling’s legacy
Harry Ricketts
Friday 29 August
3D printing
Ross Stevens
Tuesday 2 September
Talk at work: Addressing challenges for new immigrants
Janet Holmes
Friday 5 September
To mine or not to mine, that is the question
Ian Graham
Tuesday 9 September
SPCA and its future
Iain Torrance
Friday 12 September
Clostridium botulism: Old enemy, new threat?
Steve Flint
Tuesday 16 September
Sewing freedom: Philip Josephs and early New Zealand anarchism
Jared Davidson
Friday 19 September AGM
My life in science
Mike Berridge
Tuesday 23 September
Reporting the full picture
Michael Johnston
Friday 26 September
Medical ethics: Good people doing the right thing cost effectively for a diverse population
Ben Gray
Tuesday 14 October
“A hitch-hiker’s guide to trade agreements”
Stephen Jacobi
Friday 17 October
The Art of Genetic Science.
Dr Kate Neas
Tuesday 21 October
New Zealand Portrait gallery
Avenal McKinnon
Friday 24 October
Maritime Law
Judge Tom Broadmore
Tuesday 28 October
Panel discussion: What agendas are driving tertiary education policy and what are the effects on staff, students and NZ communities?
Dr Sandra Grey, Dr Todd Bridgman, James Houkamau, Rory McCourt, Dr Charles Sedgwick
Friday 31 October
The Origins of New Zealand
Dr Hamish Campbell