8:15 Riley Elliott: saving sharks
8:45 Lindsey Horne and Leander Schulz: rating flats
9:05 Richie Meyer: silent stars and "fake"
cinema
9:40 Anne Helen Petersen: celebrity gossip
10:05 Playing Favourites with Valerie Davies
11:05 Terry Castle: critical writing
11:45 Golden Books with Kate De Goldi
Producer: Mark Cubey
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8:15 Riley Elliott
Riley Elliott is a shark scientist, spear-fisherman,
surfer and scuba diver. He has studied sharks in South Africa and New Zealand,
and is pursuing his doctorate in the subject at the University of Auckland. He
will be speaking at a Shark Whisperers Public Event with Ocean Ramsey from
Hawaii on 16 February in Auckland.
8:45 Lindsey Horne and Leander Schulz
Lindsey Horne and Leander Schulz are two of four Otago
university students who last year transformed Dunedin's worst flat into a
low-energy liveable home. They have now developed the Rate My Flat platform,
and are one of seven teams who have been participating over the summer in Live
the Dream, New Zealand's first social enterprise accelerator programme. The
programme, organised by the Inspiring Stories Trust, aims to grow New Zealand's
next generation of social entrepreneurs and enterprises, and will culminate after
ten weeks of intensive workshops in a showcase pitching event in Wellington on
19 February.
9:00 Richie Meyer
Dr Richard J Meyer teaches film studies at Seattle
University, Washington, and is President Emeritus of the San Francisco Silent
Film Festival. He has published widely in film and journalism periodicals, and
worked in all areas of film and educational television production, and is the
author of three books about film. He was Visiting Scholar at the New Zealand
Film Archive in 2012 and 2013, and will present a talk, Wang Renmei and
Shanghai Cinema of the 1930s, at Victoria University's Confucius Institute from
3:30pm on 27 February. The talk will be followed by a presentation of the film
Wild Rose, which established Wang Renmei asa leading film star in China.
9:40 Anne Helen Petersen
Anne Helen Petersen is a Doctor of Celebrity Gossip, and
teaches media studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She writes
about stardom, celebrity, and a host of other media-related issues for various
online publications and on her own blog, Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style. Her
first book, Scandals of Classic Hollywood, will collate her writing at The
Hairpin, and will be published later this year. She is a featured speaker next
week at Webstock 2014 in Wellington.
thehairpin.com
10:05 Playing Favourites with Valerie Davies
Valerie
Davies was a journalist in the 1970s, pioneering a column for solo parents in
the New Zealand Women's Weekly that became the popular and long running Family
Forum, and creating the Midweek for Women pullout in the Auckland Star. For the
last few years, she has been writing about her life and gaining an international
reputation with her blog, valeriedavies.com http://valeriedavies.com
11:05 Terry Castle
Terry Castle is Walter A Hass Professor in the Humanities
at Stanford University, San Francisco. She is the author of seven books of
criticism, her new memoir is The Professor and Other Writings (Tuskar Rock
Press, ISBN 978-1-84887-740-5), and she is a visual artist and miniature
daschund enthusiast. Professor Castle is a guest at Writers Week at the NZ
Festival, featuring at two sessions (8 and 10 March).
11:45 Golden Books with Kate De Goldi
New Zealand writer Kate De Goldi is the author of many
books, most recently, The ACB with Honora Lee (Random House). She will discuss
Golden Legacy: How Golden books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing
Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way by Leonard S Marcus (Golden
Books, ISBN: 978-0-375-82996-3), and Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a
Golden Book by Diane Muldrow (Golden Books, ISBN: 978-0-307-97761-8).
This Saturday's team:
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Auckland engineer: Jeremy Ansell
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
kim Hill photo by David White
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