All 2017
Tuesday 7 March
All New Zealanders are equal, but some are more equal than others
Professor Lisa Marriott
Friday 10 March
Portholes to the past
Sir Lloyd Geering
Tuesday 14 March
PMs wise and wonderful, PMs great and small
Professor Nigel Roberts
Friday 17 March
The life and work of Suzanne Aubert
Sister Josephine
Tuesday 21 March
The role of police in modern society
Greg O’Connor
Friday 24 March
Old St Pauls. Bringing stories out of the woodwork
Elizabeth Cox
Tuesday 28 March
My life in film
Gaylene Preston
Friday 31 March
Travelling in Iran repairing rugs, and viewing the demise of the carpet trade
Anna Williams
Tuesday 4 April
The kidney: medical history
Dr Peter Hatfield
Friday 7 April
Researching the everyday life of NZ Women who self-identify as “fat.”
Julie Howe
Tuesday 11 April
Psychiatry, blindness and me
Dr Toni Marks
Tuesday 2 May
Making and managing orchestral music in Aotearoa
Christopher Blake
Friday 5 May
NZ Radar, raiders and speed cops
Cam Smart
Tuesday 9 May
The role of business in achieving gender equality
Dr Jackie Blue
Friday 12 May
Applied Mathematics: Problem solved
Dr Mark McGuinness
Tuesday 16 May
Turning knowledge into value
Bill Macnaught
Friday 19 May
Maori relationship building at Treasury
Atawhai Tibble
Tuesday 23 May
Preparing Wellington for the shocks and stresses of the 21st century
Mike Mendonca
Friday 26 May
60 years of NZ science endeavour in Antarctica: What we learned and why it is important
Nancy Bertler
Tuesday 30 May
The state of play in our media
Colin Peacock
Friday 2 June
VUW: A true-blue green university
AProf Marian van den Belt
Tuesday 6 June
Victoria University: past, present and future
Sir Neville Jordan
Friday 9 June
Co-creating with a computer
Ross Stevens
Tuesday 13 June
Translation as socio-political commentary: Heaney and history
Dr Marco Sonzogni
Friday 16 June
Stone rubble masonry buildings – can they survive earthquake effects?
Win Clark
Tuesday 20 June – Mid-winter lunch
‘While I don’t agree with everything you write…’
Dave Armstrong
Friday 23 June
The past and future of virtual reality
Prof Neil Dodgson
Tuesday 27 June
The complexity of youth offending – the more we know the harder it gets
Judge John Walker
Friday 30 June
Economic developments in China and Asia: What NZ needs to know and look out for
Prof Siah Hwee Ang
Tuesday 4 July
Living together: Aotearoa/New Zealand’s new religious diversity
Professor Paul Morris
Friday 7 July
Bringing New Zealand’s industrial heritage back to life.
Tom Williamson
Tuesday 25 July
The office of the Ombudsman – democratic watchdog
Judge Peter Boshier
Friday 28 July
New Initiatives in crime prevention
John Goddard
Tuesday 1 August
Our elusive constitution
Professor Claudia Geiringer
Friday 4 August
Digital media design and wearable technology
Prof Anne Niemetz
Tuesday 8 August
Brexit and New Zealand: is history any guide to the future?
Professor Jim McAloon
Friday 11 August
Golden keys for your grandchildren – unlocking New Zealand’s future
Dr Rosalind McIntosh
Tuesday 15 August
The headquarters of the verb: A vision for the Wellington region
Derek Fry
Friday 18 August
What’s wrong with my house
Nigel Isaacs
Tuesday 22 August
Why consumer protection matters
Sue Chetwin
Friday 25 August
Upping the ante on antibiotics
Dr Rob Keyzers
Tuesday 29 August
My life in film
Gaylene Preston
Friday 1 September
Digital futures and learning
Prof Steven Warburton
Tuesday 5 September
Prospects for democracy in Asia-Pacific monarchies
Christine Bogle
Friday 8 September
Antarctica
Kevin Norton
Tuesday 12 September
Frances Hodgkins, people painter
Dr Pamela Nunn
Friday 15 September – AGM
Development of thermal insulation for NZ houses
Nigel Isaacs
Tuesday 19 September
A Suffrage Day reflection on New Zealand’s struggle for gender equality before and since 1893, when women won the right to vote
Sue Kedgley
Friday 22 September
Antarctica, the Southern Ocean and a cold day in Wellington.
Prof Lionel Carter
Tuesday 26 September
The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato, 1800-2000
Dr Vincent O’Malley
Friday 29 September
NZ China relations in the Trump Era
Dr Jason Young
Tuesday 17 October
Writers and cricket
Professor Harry Ricketts
Friday 20 October
Urban development in NZ
Dr Arthur Grimes
Tuesday 24 October
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, two hundred years on
Dr Heidi Thomson
Friday 27 October
The history of the breast in art and medicine
Dr Burton King
Tuesday 31 October
Who owns the sea and the seabed? Prospects for peaceful use or conflict
Bill Mansfield
Friday 3 November
Tackling poverty in New Zealand: reflections from the 2016 regional workshops
Wendy McGuinness