8:30 Joe Kalt: indigenous governance
9:05 Neil Grimstone: police and TV
9:45 Doug Avery: farming and drought
10:05 Jello Biafra: Kennedys to Guantanamo
11:05 Mike Steel: biomathematics and mountains
11:45 Kate’s Klassic: Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl
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8:15 Richard Pitts
Physicist Richard Pitts is the leader of the Plasma-Wall
Interactions Section in the Plasma Operation Directorate at ITER, the centre in
France that is intending to make nuclear fusion the energy source of the
future.
8:30 Joe Kalt
Joseph P. Kalt is Ford Foundation Professor of
International Political Economy (Emeritus) at Harvard University, and
co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. He
has published widely in the area of natural resources economics and policy, is
an internationally recognised expert on energy, and teaches at both Harvard and
the University of Arizona. He is visiting New Zealand as a guest of the
University of Auckland Business School, talking about indigenous
self-governance from the American Indian perspective for the Dean’s
Distinguished Speaker Series.
9:05 Neil Grimstone
As detective senior sergeant in Counties Manukau, Neil
“Grim” Grimstone closed all his cases over a 27-year career, before leaving the
police force in 2007. He is a former Auckland branch manager for Matrix
Security Group, and technical consultant and co-writer for the new six-week
police drama series Harry, starring Oscar Kightley and Sam Neill, which
premieres on TV3 at 9:30pm on Wednesday 8 May.
9:45 Doug Avery
Doug Avery, the 2010 South Island Farmer of the Year,
manages Bonavaree Farm with his family at Grassmere, South Marlborough. The
farm has been owned by the Avery family since 1919, and they have built a
sustainable farming system that is resilient in extreme weather and extreme
variability.
10:05 Jello Biafra
Musician and spoken word artist Jello Biafra is the
former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk band Dead Kennedys. He
visiting New Zealand for concerts in Wellington (7 May) and Auckland (8 May),
as front man for the Guantanamo School of Medicine, who recently released their
second album, White People and the Damage Done.
11:05 Mike Steel
Mike Steel directs the Biomathematics Research Centre,
and is Professor in the Mathematics and Statistics Department of University of
Canterbury. He is the deputy director and a founding principal investigator of
the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, an elected fellow
of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a mountain runner.
11:45 Kate’s Klassic
Kate Camp has published four collections of poems, and
her new collection, Snow White’s Coffin (Victoria University Press, ISBN:
978-0-86473-888-2) is published this month. She will give a talk about its
genesis in Berlin at City Gallery Wellington on Thursday 23 May. Kate’s Klassic
is the 1861 account by Harriet A Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(John Harvard Library, ISBN: 978-0-674-03583-6).
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On Saturday 4 May 2013 during Great Encounters between
6:06pm and 7:00pm on Radio New Zealand National, you can hear a repeat
broadcast of Kim Hill’s interview from 27 April with Alison McCulloch on
abortion.
Next Saturday, 11 May 2013, Kim Hill’s guests will
include William Dalrymple, Helena Popovic and Bobby Womack.
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