8:15 Steve Jones: genes, religion and snails
9:05 Sir Geoffrey Palmer: reform
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler: three shows at the Adam
10:05 Playing Favourites with Kelly Joe Phelps
11:05 Huhana Smith: guarding wetlands
11:45 Kate’s Klassic: Love in a Cold Climate
KIm's photo by David White
8:15 Steve Jones
Geneticist and popular science writer Professor Steve
Jones is Principal Research Associate in the Genetics, Evolution &
Environment department of University College London. He is the author of a
number of books, most recently The Serpent’s Promise: The Bible Retold as
Science (Little, Brown, ISBN: 978-1-40870-285-7), and is visiting New Zealand
as a guest of the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution. He
has delivered his lecture, Nurture, Nature, or Neither?, in Auckland,
Wellington, and Palmerston North, and will complete his tour in Christchurch
(22 November), Nelson (23 November), and Dunedin (26 November).
9:05 Sir Geoffrey Palmer
Sir Geoffrey Palmer KCMG AC QC served as the 33rd Prime
Minister of New Zealand, leading the fourth Labour Government. He writes about
his life in Reform: A Memoir (Victoria University Press, ISBN:
978-0-86473-905-6).
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection,
International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She will discuss
three shows at the Adam Art Gallery in Wellington: John Panting: Spatial
Constructions; Peter Robinson: Cuts and Junctures; and State of the Art:
Reproductive Prints from the Renaissance to Now (to 20 December).
10:05 Playing Favourites with Kelly Joe Phelps
Kelly Joe
Phelps is a American jazz and blues guitarist and singer who has played
concerts with Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms (vocals and guitars) this month in
Auckland and Tauranga, with gigs forthcoming in New Plymouth (22 November),
Masterton (23 November), Wellington (24 November), Nelson (28 November), and
Lyttleton (29 November). He will also play a solo concert in Dunedin (30
November), and perform in Wanaka with Warren Maxwell and Gerry Paul (1
December).
http://www.calebklauder.com/
11:05 Huhana Smith
Dr Huhana Smith (Ngāti Tukorehe, affiliated to Ngāti
Raukawa ki te Tonga) is an artist, academic and kaitiaki (environmental
guardian). She is currently Research Leader Māori for Manaaki Taha Moana and
the Horowhenua case study, a kaupapa Māori and action research project in local
wetlands, and sits on the International Advisory Board for the Humboldt Forum,
a new museum project in Berlin, Germany. Her current exhibition, Rae ki te Rae
/ Face to Face, at City Gallery Wellington (to 26 January 2014) reflects her
research into issues of water degradation in a coastal region around
Horowhenua. She will give a talk at the Gallery on 23 November at 1pm, followed
by bus trip to a walking tour of Te Hākari Dune Wetland and Kuku Ōhau Estuary.
Kate Camp
has published five collections of poems, most recently Snow White’s Coffin
(Victoria University Press, ISBN: 978-0-86473-888-2). Kate will discuss Love in
a Cold Climate, the 1949 novel by Nancy Mitford (Penguin, ISBN:
978-0-14-103744-8).
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Next Saturday, 30 November 2013, Kim Hill’s guests will
include Deborah Blum and Nancy Swarbrick.
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Wellington engineer: William Saunders
Auckland engineer: Ian Gordon
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