Talk Notes & Recordings

TALK NOTES & RECORDINGS

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Talk Notes & Recordings

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2024

04 Mar 2024 "TBC"

Speaker

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (as a .pdf in a new window) or download

2023

20 Nov 2023 "Pictures from Parliament"

Phil Smith

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (as a .pdf in a new window) or download

13 Nov 2023 "What's next for our struggling new media?"

Prof Donald Matheson

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (as a .pdf in a new window) or download.

06 Nov 2023 "NZ's Energy Requirements, now and in the future"

Roger Sutton

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (as a .pdf in a new window) or download.

16 Oct 2023 "What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?"

Dr Anthony Robins

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (as a .pdf in a new window) or download.

09 Oct 2023 "How Do We Make Cycle-Friendly Cities?"

Dr Glen Koorey

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (as a .pdf in a new window) or download.

02 Oct 2023 "The Hidden Weeds in All out Gardens"

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (as a .pdf in a new window) or download.

18 Sept 2023 "Heritage, Housing and Social Responsibility"

Bill McKay

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (as a .pdf in a new window) or download.

11 Sept 2023 "The Influence of Western Architecture in NZ"

Associate Professor Ian Lochhead

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (as a .pdf in a new window) or download.

04 Sept 2023 "Aotearoa Collective Housing"

Associate Professor Mark Southcombe

PowerPoint Presentation: is not available for this presentation

Recorded lecture on YouTube : Click HERE to view recording

21 August 2023 "Action on Climate Change - the Timaru District Climate Change Strategy"

Dr Phil Driver

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (as a .pdf in a new window) or download.

Recorded lecture on YouTube: Click HERE to view recording

14 August 2023 "NZ relational foreign policy and China"

Dr Nick Ross Smith

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (as a .pdf in a new window) or download.

07 August 2023 "Explaining the Human Colonisation of the Pacific."

Associate Professor Tim Thomas

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (in a new window) or download.

17 July 2023 "The Making of Our Land."

Geoff Cloake

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (in a new window) or download.

26 June 2023 "ANZACS Defending Trinity College."

Dr Rory Sweetman

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (in a new window) or download.

19 June 2023 "Green Scots and Golden Irish - The Environmental Impact of Scottish

and Irish Settlers in New Zealand."

Dr Tom Brooking

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (in a new window) or download.

12 June 2023 "Should New Zealand Listen? Modern Monetary Theory"

Dr Trent Smith

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (in a new window) or download.

22 May 2023 "Journey to New Edinburgh"

Sean Brosnahan

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (in a new window) or download.

15 May 2023 "Are We Losing the Social Licence to Farm?"

Professor Hugh Campbell

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (in a new window) or download.

08 May 2023 "Inequality & Poverty in NZ"

Stephen Hickson

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view (in a new window) or download.

Lecture was not recorded for this session.

17 April 2023 "Humour in Music"

Dr Patrick Shepherd

Slide Presentation only: Click HERE to view.

NOTE: This is formatted as a Google Slides presentation. Choose 'Slideshow' near top right of page and use space bar or keyboard arrows to view. There are links to audio files as well as YouTube video files, hence a live Internet connection is needed to view. Press ESC to finish.

Lecture was not recorded for this session.

03 April 2023 "David Bowie & the Art of Being Different"

Dr Ian Chapman

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.

Lecture was not recorded for this session.

27 Mar 2023 "What is in Our Oceans"

Dr Bridie Allan

Recorded lecture on YouTube:

TECHNICAL ISSUE - THIS RECORDING IS UNAVAILABLE - OUR APOLOGIES.

20 Mar 2023 "Ocean Acidification" - Cancelled

13 Mar 2023 "Cruising to Disaster"

Dr Tim Welch

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.

Recorded lecture on YouTube: Click HERE to view recording

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2022

21 Nov 2022 "Media Watch"

Jim Hopkins

Questions posed: Click HERE to view (No Powerpoint was used in this presentation.)

Recorded lecture on YouTube: Click HERE to view recording

14 Nov 2022 "Discovering the amazing fungi of Aotearoa/New Zealand"

Dr David Orlovich

PowerPoint Presentation: Click HERE to view or download.

Recorded lecture on YouTube: Click HERE to view recording

7 Nov 2022 "True Crime, Bad Crime and Timaru Crime"

Steve Braunias

PowerPoint Presentation: No Powerpoint was used in this presentation.

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

19 Sept 2022 "Media and Conflict: the new media ecology and the war in Ukraine"

Professor Natalia Chaban

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:

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