Tuesday 3 March
New Zealand Art on the World Stage
Dr Rebecca Rice
Friday 6 March
Rainwater Collection
Stan Abbott
Friday 13 March
Managing and Minimising Your Power Bill
Bruce Medcalf
Friday 20 March
The Science of Geodesy: Measuring a Dynamic World
Dr Graeme Blick
Tuesday 24 March
New Zealand Schools: A Changing Landscape?
Dr Cathy Wylie
Friday 27 March
Radiation Technologies. Science, the Public and Controversy
Dr Peter Roberts
Tuesday 31 March
New Zealand Trade Policy: CER Today
Charles Finny
Tuesday 21 April
Stealing Beauty – The Fate of Great Art in Wartime
Judge Arthur Tompkins
Friday 24 April
Crohn’s & Colitis (Inflammatory Bowel Disease or IBD): a New Zealand Story
Brian Poole
Tuesday 28 April
Organised Crime: It’s What We Do
John Goddard
Friday 1 May
Accelerating Today for a Better Tomorrow
Dr William Rolleston
Tuesday 5 May
The NZ Legal System Today – Changes, Themes and the Future
Christine Grice
Friday 8 May
The NZ – Germany Bilateral Relationship: A Proven Recipe for Success in a Changing World
Dr David Lowe
Tuesday 12 May
Patients’ Rights and Citizens’ Rights: Reflections from a Former Health and Disability Commissioner and Current Parliamentary Ombudsman
Professor Ron Paterson
Friday 15 May
Place Names in New Zealand
Wendy Shaw
Tuesday 19 May
Transparency International & the Broader Implications of its Work for NZ
Suzanne Snively
Friday 22 May
The Surveying of New Zealand
Tony Bevin
Tuesday 26 May
The Independent Bookseller’s Response to the Electronic Age
Lincoln Gould
Tuesday 2 June
A 12th-century manuscript in the Alexander Turnbull Library
Ruth Lightbourne
Friday 5 June – Note: Change of topic & speaker
What Lies Beneath? – Wellington’s Archaeology
Mary O’Keeffe
Tuesday 9 June
Investigative Journalism: “How it is Done and Why it is Needed”?
Nicky Hagar
Friday 12 June
The Corporation Yard: A Forgotten Microcosm of Wellington’s Urban Working-Class
Gábor Tóth
Tuesday 16 June
A 3D Printed World
Ross Stevens
Friday 19 June
Surviving Pol Pot
Dr Max Stevenson
Friday 26 June
Fruit and Vegetables for Human Health
Professor Julian Heyes
Tuesday 30 June
Niue Island Involvement in World War I
Margaret Pointer
Friday 3 July
Food and Food Manufacture in the Future
Professor Richard Archer
Tuesday July 21
“I’ve just got no idea what you’re talking about – just absolutely no idea:” music students talk about transition to tertiary study
Lynne Wenden
Friday July 24
Modern Wooden Building
Alistair Cattenach
Tuesday July 28
Outlook for NZ Growth Amidst High Uncertainty
Tony Alexander, Chief Economist, Bank of NZ
Friday July 31
Euthanasia, a Debate – or a discussion on how to live with people we disagree with
Dr Ben Gray
Tuesday 4 August
Trade Aid: improving the life of the world’s most disadvantaged
Ken Nelson
Friday 7 August
Tsunamis in New Zealand – their past impact and implications for the future.
Dr Bruce McFadgen
Tuesday 11 August
The Opportunities and Challenges of Asia – three views based on the personal experiences of three New Zealand Ambassadors.
Friday 14 August
India – A Superpower-in-waiting?
Srikanta Chatterjee, Emeritus Professor, School of Economics and Finance, Massey University
Tuesday 18 August
Sobieniowski, Wyspianski and Kraków: Katherine Mansfield and Poland
Dr Gerri Kimber
Friday 21 August.
Landcorp Farming Limited, the Growth Years
Christopher Kelly
Tuesday 25 August
Thornbirds to Luminaries: historical fiction and why it’s hot
Dr Lydia Wevers
Friday 28 August
The Role of the Hikurangi Plateau in the Canterbury and Cook Strait Earthquakes
Dr Martin Reyners, Principal Scientist at GNS Science, Lower Hutt
Tuesday 1 September
Capturing Courtesans, Cardinals and Caliphs: the Renaissance portrait reconsidered
Phyllis Mossman
Friday 4 September
Natural Disasters: a function of global environmental change
Dr Michael Crozier
Tuesday 8 September
Gold Card Years: delights, challenges, and opportunities.
Anne Horrill
Friday 11 September
Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World.
Assoc. Prof. Andrew Mackintosh, Deputy Director, Antarctic Research Centre
Tuesday 15 September
Matiu Somes – the Jewel in our Harbour
Gerald Rawson
Friday 18 September AGM
The Sistine Chapel
Dr Christopher Longhurst
Tuesday 22 September
The Young Eye
Kate De Goldi
Friday 25 September
Recent Advances in Medical Imaging in New Zealand with Nuclear Medicine Techniques
Dr Trevor Fitzjohn
Tuesday 13 October
PHARMAC’s Value to Health in New Zealand
Dr John Wyeth, Medical Director, PHARMAC
Friday 16 October
Te Araroa – NZ’s Long Pathway From Cape Reinga to Bluff
Bill Wakelin
Tuesday 20 October
Jane Austen: Body and Mind
Heidi Thomson
Friday 23 October
The Real Oil: exploring for New Zealand’s elusive (or illusory?) petroleum resources
Dr Peter King
Tuesday 27 October
Cartoon number 2000
Dr Bob Brockie
Friday 30 October
Modern Harbour Management
Mike Pryce
