All 2012
Tuesday March 20
How globalization drives New Zealand’s transformation: trading goods, ideas and labour
Dr. Kirdan Lees
Friday March 23
Antarctic marine benthos
David Bowden
Tuesday March 27
The Global Financial System – Reflections on the current crisis
Dennis Rose
Friday March 30
Genetics and the Origin of Polynesians
Dr. Geoff Chambers
Tuesday April 3
Revisiting what the French call “Le Grand Siècle” – Part 1
Christiane Mortelier
Tuesday April 24
Revisiting what the French call “Le Grand Siècle” – Part 2
Christiane Mortelier
Friday April 27
What We Owe to Ancient Iraq
Professor Lloyd Geering
Tuesday May 1
The Hellenistic Age 323-30 BC – Part 1
Matthew Trundle
Friday May 4
Fukushima & Nuclear Power
Murray Bartle
Tuesday May 8
The Hellenistic Age 323-30 BC – Part 2
Matthew Trundle
Friday May 11
The Measurement of Poverty
Bob Stephens
Tuesday May 15
The Hellenistic Age 323-30 BC – Part 3
Matthew Trundle
Friday May 18
New Zealand’s 100% pure delusion; the inconvenient reality
Dr. Mike Joy
Tuesday May 22
Religion of Islam
Negar Partow
Friday May 25
Bring light and cleanliness to the masses – a brief history of lighting and hot water in New Zealand
Nigel Isaacs
Tuesday May 29
The Arab Spring
Alex Maxwell
Friday June 1
Department of Conservation – Works
Tom Williamson
Tuesday June 5
The Bible and Literature
David Norton
Friday June 8
Changes to Sleep with Ageing, Dementia and Caregiving
Rose Gibson
Tuesday June 12
Standing Firm on Heritage: Building Resilience in the Face of Change
Shonagh Kenderdine
Friday June 15
Telling Stories in Spaces
James McLean
Tuesday June 19
Pasifika Education at Victoria University
Winnie Laban
Friday June 22
Introduction to Sufism and Rumi
Dr. Art Beuhler
Tuesday 17 July
A Wellington Woman in China 1930-1945: Observations from Agnes Moncrieff when an International secretary with the YWCA of China.
Barbara Francis
Friday 20 July
Real Life meets theory: the hermaphrodite and the sexologist
Mani Mitchell and Dame Margaret Sparrow
Tuesday 24 July
Diplomatic Ladies: New Zealand’s unsung Envoys
Joanna Woods
Friday 27 July
The development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner Aircraft
Bob Ellison
Tuesday 31 July
A playwright’s career
Dave Armstrong
Friday 3 August
To get to the other side
Bob Norman
Tuesday 7 August
Pickwick Club of Wellington
Lydia Wevers
Friday 10 August
Don Merton: the man who saved the Black Robin
Alison Ballance
Tuesday 14 August
Global economy
John McDermott
Friday 17 August
Lost in translation
Vicky Watson & Naomi Scow
Tuesday 21 August
Gallipoli – a health hazard
Roger Ridley-Smith
Friday 24 August
The origins of Todd Energy, where it is today and where it is heading
John Palmer
Tuesday 28 August
Maori in Australia: a history of risk and opportunity
Paul Hamer
Friday 31 August
New Zealand at the click of a mouse: Te Ara: Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Jock Phillips
Tuesday 4 September
French Influences on the English Country House
David Maskill
Friday 7 September
Fraud, deception and drugs
Dallas Mildenhall
Tuesday 11 September
New Zealand’s Oil & Gas Heritage
David Robinson
Friday 14 September
To Quit or not to Quit
Peter Martin
Tuesday 18 September
Prime Ministers of New Zealand
Michael Bassett
Friday 21 September
AGM then ‘Green’ Concrete
Ken MacKenzie:
Tuesday 25 September
Kauri – The History
Tom Williamson
Tuesday 16 October
Charles Dickens – the literary reporter
Nikki Hessell
Friday 19 October
From vine to wine: Linking grape chemistry to wine flavour and aroma
Rob Keyzers
Tuesday 23 October
Joan of Arc in New Age Spirituality
Heather Kavan
Friday 26 October
A surgeon in Vietnam
Michael Shackleton
Tuesday 30 October
Making Festivals Matter in the 21st Century
Shelagh Magadza
Friday 2 November
Researching, Writing and Publishing Local & National History
Judy Siers