March 1
Writers’ Week
Kathryn Carmody
March 4
Cancer, Therapy Resistance and the Surprising Role of Mitochondria.
Dr Melanie McConnell
March 8
Does New Zealand Need a New Written Constitution?
Sir Geoffrey Palmer
March 11
Cancer Immunotherapy – The Science
Professor Gavin Painter
March 15
The Making of the Film Festival
Lindsay Shelton
March 18
Work of the Land and Water Forum
Alastair Bisley
March 22
Private Lives of Empire: Edinburgh, Rothschild and New Plymouth
Charlotte Macdonald
March 29
Sustainable Development Goals
David Payton
April 1
The Cartoonist in NZ
Martin Doyle
April 8
Polish Children Immigration to Paihiatua
Adam Mantreys
April 12
UNTAC
Rae Julian
April 15
All You Ever Wanted to Know About TTPA
Stephen Jacobi
May 3
Climate Change: A New Deal? Making Sense of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Adrian Macey
May 6
Wellington: from Conception to Capital to Empire City
Gabor Toth
May 10
Should Wellington emulate Oslo’s goal of fossil free public transport by 2020?
Paul Bruce
May 13
Forensics of Catastrophe: Volcanic Eruptions
Colin Wilson
May 17
St Peter’s Basilica, Rome – a ‘Communis Patria’
Christopher Longhurst
May 20
The Commercialisation of University Technology
Geoff Todd
May 24
New Zealand Opera in the 21st Century
Stuart Maunder
May 31
Cabinet, Ministers and Cabinet Office: Is Yes Minister a documentary?
Marie Shroff
June 3
Chinese Immigration in Wellington
Lynette Shum
June 7
Inequality: Where We’ve Been, and Where We’re Going
Max Rashbrooke
June 10
Freaky Scientists Who Have Come My Way
Bob Brockie
June 14
50 Countries in 50 Years
David Barber
June 17
400 Years of Shakespeare
Dawn Sanders
June 24
WWI Exhibition at Te Papa
Sir Richard Taylor
June 28
Never work with kids and animals
Karen Fifield
July 1
The Place of the Battle of the Somme in WW1
Chris Pugsley
July 5
New Zealand’s Marine Estate From the Perspective of a Seafloor Geomorphologist
Joshu Mountjoy
July 8
The United Nations – Can it Survive, Can it be Fixed?
Colin Keating
July 26
Human rights and human wrongs in New Zealand
Judy McGregor
July 29
Exploring Northeast Zealandia
Hamish Campbell
August 2
Diabetes and obesity
Jeremy Krebs
August 5
International Court of Justice
Sir Kenneth Keith
August 9
The future of privacy: the internet of things and other challenges
John Edwards
August 12
Economics of Wellbeing
Dr Arthur Grimes
August 16
The notorious Captain Hayes
Joan Druett
August 19
Work of a Coroner
Peter Ryan
August 23
What Rudyard Kipling can do for you
Harry Ricketts
August 26
From Mull to Mongolia – Wanderings of a materials scientist
Ken McKenzie
August 30
Community music: what is it and who is it for?
Julian Raphael
September 2
Creating new Futures with the Children of the Mist
Hugh Tennent
September 6
Being a Public Servant in Wellington and Whitehall
Len Cook
September 9
Emissions Trading Systems and Pathways to a Low Emissions Future
Dr Suzi Kerr
September 13
UnionAID – cycling solo in Myanmar
Mike Naylor
September 16
Botanic intrigues – from g-forces and radicals to Agincourt
Reg Harris
September 20
Renaissance art and science
Phyllis Mossman
September 23
Photography at Te Papa
Athol McCready
October 11
What’s all this about poverty and inequality in New Zealand?
Bryce Wilkinson
October 14
Devils on Horses
Terry Kinloch
October 21
South Island Alpine Deep Fault Drilling Project
John Townend
October 25
Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Heidi Thomson
October 28
Mountains, Mausoleums and Murder along the Silk Road
Dr Les Molloy