All 2018
Tuesday 20 February
Wellington – Most Liveable City
Mayor Justin Lester
Friday 23 February
Work and Prayer in the Medieval Monasteries
Dr Roger Ridley-Smith
Tuesday 27 February
Being a Music Critic
John Button
Friday 2 March
Digging up the Romans
Doug Miller
Tuesday 6 March
Stonehenge Aotearoa
Richard Hall
Tuesday 3 April
Food and Health
Jason Shon Bennett
Friday 6 April
Education and Entrepreneurship, the way forward in Afghanistan
Tariq Habibyar
Tuesday 10 April
U3A Interest Groups
Margaret and Ian Garrett
Friday 13 April
The future of work and the future of tertiary education
Stuart Brock
Tuesday 17 April
1915 The Gallipoli Campaign revisited with New Zealand women
Jane Tolerton
Friday 20 April
Current New Zealand Pandemic Planning
Dr Ryan McLean
Tuesday 24 April
Xero
Larissa Paris
Friday 27 April
Climate Change – Recent conference updates
Adrian Macey
Tuesday 1 May
Why did Wellington suffer nearly double the death rate of
Christchurch in the 1918 influenza pandemic?
Dr Geoffrey Rice
Friday 4 May
Artificial Intelligence and the impact on NZ
Ross Young
Tuesday 8 May
A Musical Life
Gareth Farr
Friday 11 May
Where the romance of the high seas meets hard reality
Joanna Mossop
Tuesday 15 May
The Banking Ombudsman Schemes – Complaints Traps and Scams
Kate Kenworthy and Tim Hope
Friday 18 May
Jury decision making
Yvette Tinsley
Tuesday 22 May
Tuatara
Susan Keall
Friday 25 May
What’s more important – physical health or mental health?
Bernadine Reid
Tuesday 12 June
The challenge of governing for the long-term in a short-term world
Jonathan Boston
Friday 15 June
Biodiversity in Borneo
Ghazally Ismail
Tuesday 19 June
Midwinter Luncheon – Lord Reith and his Ideals
Sharon Crosbie
Friday 22 June
Foreign Aid: What is it and does it work?
Doug Webb
Tuesday 26 June
Visualising History
Bob Kerr
Friday 29 June
A Journey of discovery in Chemistry culminating in a cancer drug on the market
Richard Furneaux
Tuesday 3 July
The Power of the Story
Joy Cowley
Friday 6 July
Crime and victimization: modernising the courts
Andrew Bridgman
Tuesday 10 July
Where men can do what men do?
Archie Kerr
Friday 13 July
Medical conditions and harnessing the power of plants
Reg Harris
Tuesday 17 July
Zealandia: how social enterprise can transform a city
Denise Church
Friday 20 July
Base Isolation – a safe ride in earthquakes
Cam Smart
Tuesday 24 July
Can Art Change the World? : How New Arts Build Community and Bring Generations Together
Jo Randerson
Friday 17 August
Christopher Cockerell, of Hovercraft fame
Anthony Fletcher
Tuesday 21 August
The Early History of Anti-Nuclear New Zealand
Dr Matthew O’Meagher
Friday 24 August
Relations with China
Prof Robert Ayson
Tuesday 28 August
Government in the Pacific Islands
Dr Graham Hassall
Friday 31 August
Productivity: What it is and why it matters
Murray Sherwin
Tuesday 4 September
Electric cars
Dr David Bibby
Friday 7 September
Scotland before it was Scotland
Maureen Johnson
Tuesday 11 September
What does it really mean to be homeless in Aotearoa NZ today?
Rev Tric Malcolm
Friday 14 September
Discoveries in Superconductivity: Taking New Materials to Advanced Technologies
Bob Buckley
Tuesday 18 September
Educational Psychology understanding problems differently
Amanda Moore – U3A Wellingtoncity 2018 Award winner
Friday 21 September
The new magical theatre of the museum world
Ken Gorbey
Tuesday 25 September
The Story of ActionStation: Combining the Power of the Cloud with the Power of the Crowd for a fair and flourishing future.
Laura O’Connell Rapira
Friday 28 September
Designing a fair tax system for New Zealand-what works, and what doesn’t?
John Shewan
Tuesday 16 October
The Value of a University Education
Chris Whelan
Friday 19 October
Seven Sawmills
Tom Williamson
Tuesday 23 October
What would the option of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 mean for the Wellington Region
Dr Roger Blakeley
Friday 26 October
Blasted by Seeds – Surviving prostate cancer and treatment and writing about it.
Tom McGrath
Tuesday 30 October
John Keats, Poet-Physician
Dr Heidi Thomson
Friday 2 November
The Infant Micro-biome – what it is, and why it is important.
Thorsten Stanley