BOB'S TALK NOTES & RECORDINGS
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Talk Notes & Recordings
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2022
07 Nov 2022 "Enter Talk Heading here"
Presenter name here
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: Click HERE to view recording
17 Oct 2022 "The Ethics (or not) of Marketing to Children"
Professor Robert Aitken
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: Click HERE to view recording
10 Oct 2022 "Navigating Fake News"
Stephen Davis
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: Click HERE to view recording
30 Sept 2022 "Bob's refresher" ✔️
A second attempt at uploading/linking files and URLs to this page
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xqrzHTz1ehI
20 Sept 2022 "Bob's efforts" ✔️
Mr Bob Cumming
A first attempt at uploading/linking files and URLs to this page
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xqrzHTz1ehI
19 Sept 2022 "Democracy vs Autocracy: which is best, and who is winning?"
Professor Philip Nel
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PTNqrQAJcZY
12 Sept 2022 "Democracy vs Autocracy: which is best, and who is winning?"
Professor Philip Nel
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PTNqrQAJcZY
5 Sept 2022 "Putin’s Ukraine Gamble and its International Implications"
Robert G Patman
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/AKdaf8PtCKo
15 August 2022 "Retirement Villages; Moving In, Living In and Moving Out."
Tristan Fleurty
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FCTasj_Z-iM
Links to ther resources:
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When you’re thinking of living in a retirement village » Sorted (Link to a website)
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Sorted-Thinking-of-living-in-a-retirement-village-2022.pdf (Downloadable document link)
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Resources for retirement village residents | Retirement Commission (Link to a website)
8 August 2022 "The MIND Diet - why all the hype?"
Sharon Sutton
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/n7m_6MeIk80
Pamphlet: Eating for Healthy Older People.
1 August 2022 "Healthy Ageing"
Professor Dick Sainsbury
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/B0B_D_Ykqhw
18 July 2022: "Land use challenges - dairy, meat, forestry and climate change
in a world that needs food."
Dr Keith Woodford.
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/86PagEZqnRs
11 July 2022: "Regenerative Agriculture - an Agronomist's View"
Professor Derrick Moot
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7U4RFdCLHXo
4 July 2022: "Hemp - the Future"
Brad Lake
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/z4DWt_LA_l8
27 June 2022: "Refugees and Manus Island"
Behrouz Boochani
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/25VM_8M1q9s
20 June 2022: "Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in New Zealand"
Professor Richard Jackson
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NKPv4Z3QqMI
13 June 2022: "A new generation fights for democracy in Myanmar"
Ross Wilson
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mUBwvZz_cow
2 May 2022: "The Art of Your Life"
Megan Dunn
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HnviZv1lj7g
11 April 2022: "Reading the Landscape: earthquakes and active faults in South Canterbury"
Dr Tim Stahl
PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download
Recorded lecture on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XV36Z9k4daw
28 March 2022: "Seafloor Sediments and Climate Change"
Professor Andrew Gorman
7 March 2022: "Journey to Lan Yuan: Chinese Settlement in New Zealand"
Sean Brosnahan
(We're unable to provide the PowerPoint presentation Sean intended to use.)
Recorded lecture available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yWsqWDqJq7U
Link to a page listing the Video Series: "The Journey to Lan Yuan" - Click here
28 February 2022: "Owning Our History: The New Zealand Wars"
Dr Vincent O'Malley
Recorded lecture available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cfyaJN6rDgU
14 February 2022: "Turbulent Times: Ngai Tahu in the 19th Century"
Dr Martin Fisher
Recorded lecture available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OPSrGDBJB5Y
2021
18 October 2021: "Why we need to Flip the Fleet - electric vehicles for a net carbon zero future":
Henrik Moller PhD
9 August 2021: "Rapid Response to an Emergent Virus": Professor Miguel Quinones
2 August 2021: "The Taxation of Charities and Hospitals": Michael Gousmett PhD
12 July 2021: "Social and Ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence for Jobs and Work";
James Maclauren
21 June 2021: "Lost Christchurch: We can’t blame it all on the earthquakes"; Dr John Wilson
17 May 2021: "Covid Vaccine Programme for South Canterbury": Carol Murphy
17 May 2021: "The Future of Work - Trends, Projections and Disruptions":
Dr Paula O'Kane & Dr Sara Walton
10 May 2021: "How will AI impact on jobs and work in New Zealand?": Dr Alistair Knott
2 May 2021: "Work and Wellbeing Economics": Dr Paul Dalziel
19 April 2021: "Heart Disease 2021 - an Update": Dr Anna Pilbrow
(Note that the heart function videos in this document are replaced by images.)
12 April 2021: "Health, Environment and Location": Assoc Prof Malcolm Campbell
29 March 2021: "The Maths of the Covid-19 Pandemic" Professor Shaun Hendy
22 February 2021: "Brexit: the Rewriting of History and the Erosion of Democracy in the UK": Professor Robert Patman (Note that this is a link to a recording of the talk on YouTube)
15 March 2021: "How Healthy is Democracy in New Zealadnd?": Dr Chris Rudd
2020
16 November 2020: "Making Food Systems Healthy, Sustainable, Equitable and Prosperous": Professor Boyd Swinburn
9 November 2020: "Oral Health of Older New Zealanders": Professor Murray Thomson
2 November 2020: "Transition or Transformation?": Dr Ganesh Nana
12 October 2020: "My Life With Music": Judy Bellingham
5 October 2020: "The Clash of the Nightingales": Professor John Drummond
10 August 2020: "China's Great Leap Outwards": Dr Brian Moloughney
3 August 2020: "Moa Footprints / Adventures in Astronomy": Dr Ian Griffin
13 July 2020: "Science: Good, Bad and Ugly": Dr Doug Campbell
(Click the links in these notes to go to the websites indicated. The notes contain more material than was presented at the lecture.)
2 March 2020: "Dendrochronology": Dr Gretel Boswijk
2019
21 October: "Global Security vs America First and Iran": Dr Robert Patman
14 October 2019: "Despot Housewives - First Ladies & Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East and North Africa": Dr Nadine Kreitmeyr
7 October 2019: "China and Vietnam's Perspectives on the South China Sea Disputes": Minh Tran
16 September 2019: "Vibrations: From Music to the Universe": Dr Roger Browne
9 September 2019: "From the Formation of the Sun to a Habitable Planet"; Dr Annika Seppälä
2 September 2019: "Alpine Fault Magnitude 8": Mat Darling
26 August 2019: "And then the Sun went "Bang". An Overview of Space Weather Research"
Prof Craig Rodger PhD.
5 August 2019: "Who was the Buddah?": Dr Elizabeth Guthrie-Highbee
29 July 2019: "Secular New Zealand or God's Own Country?": Professor John Stenhouse
17 June 2019: "AssureQuality involvement in Food Safety": Dr David Sterling
10 June 2019: "Ten Things We Can Learn About You from your DNA.": Martin Kennedy
27 May 2019: "Climate Change - Climate Disruption": Professor James Renwick
20 May 2019: "A Perspective on the Practice of Orthopaedic Surgery": John Dunbar
29 April 2019: "The Feminist Judgements Project Aotearoa": Dr Rhonda Powell
8 April 2019: "The Future of Trusts in New Zealand": Nicola Peart
11 March 2019: "The Power of Music for a Healthy Brain": Prof Warren Tait
4 March 2019: "From Wrecked on a Reef" to Jules Verne's "Mysterious Island": Christiane Mortelier
2018
29 October 2018: Touch - the Neglected Sense: Dr Louisa Baillie
8 October 2018: Synaesthesia, a World of Sound and Colour: Patrick Shepherd
1 October 2018: Taste and Smell: Dr Kristin Hillman
10 September 2018: Plant Bio-security: Professor Hulme
3 September 2018: Early Christchurch Archaeology: Hamish Williams
27 August 2018: Brexit: Dr Jim Headley
20 August 2018: 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Dr Geoffrey Rice
30 July 2018: Did Eugenics Rest on an Elementary Mistake? Professor Hamish Spenser PhD
23 July 2018: Gentlemen Art Thieves and their Art: Judge Arthur Tompkins