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Programme for Term 3, 2012

Term Completed

A Connecting Mouths, Minds and Movements

Dates: Thursdays 23, 30 August, 6, 13, 20 September

B Members’ Miscellany 2012

Dates: Thursdays 23, 23, 30, 30 August, 6, 6, 13, 13, 20, 20 September

C Financial Crises: Past and Present

Dates: Thursdays 27 September, 4, 11, 18, 25 October

D Eastern Europe and Beyond

Dates: Thursdays 27 September, 4, 11, 18, 25 October

Scroll down for full details of each course.

Times: 10:00 am - 11:45 am

Enrolments for this term closed on Thursday 16 Aug 2012.

Officers:

Chairman:Howard Harvey021 1363043
Treasurer:Colin Freeman027 2369476
Please hand your enrolment form to the treasurer at the desk if he is available.


Course A

Connecting Mouths, Minds and Movements

Course organiser:David Chapple and Bob Ryburn

Insights from researchers at the NZ Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, a multi-year, multimillion dollar investment by the University of Canterbury

23 Aug:
Jen Hay: Can we really believe our ears? How what you hear is affected by what you see, feel and believe. Prof Hay is Prof of Linguistics and Director of NZILBB.

30 Aug:
Kevin Watson: The NZ accent. Dr Watson is a lecturer in Linguistics. He will discuss how the NZ accent has changed across space and time.

6 Sep:
Megan McAuliffe: I can’t understand what these young people are saying! Megan is an Assoc Prof and the theme leader for Language and Ageing.

13 Sep:
Vica Papp: Topic to be advised. Dr Papp is a post doctorate fellow in Linguistics

20 Sep:
Lucy Johnston: Speaking with your body. The role of gesture in communication. Prof Johnston is the theme leader for Language and Social Cognition.


Course B

Members’ Miscellany 2012

Course organiser:Garry Jeffery

Ten enthusiastic members will share with their enthusiastic listeners a topic which intrigues them. Two speakers per morning.

23 Aug:
Jocelyn Baird: The Life Education Trust - who we are and what we do. Life Education - helping children reach their full potential; health education in mobile classrooms where the learning begins.

23 Aug:
Faye Fleming: Vietnam - Trips, towns and tunnels. Highlights experienced in a three-week journey in 2012.

30 Aug:
Kathryn Ell: What makes a compelling memoir?A look at weaving together personal narrative and historical events in two memoirs by Madeleine Albright, the first woman to become American Secretary of State.

30 Aug:
Eric Bloxham: The making of a New Zealand mongrel.Reflections on ancestors and migration.

6 Sep:
Bob Ryburn: New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands.

6 Sep:
Bevan Clarke: An unknown land beside you.The telescope and microscope revealed whole new worlds to Galileo and Van Leeuwenhoek. A modern tool reveals a world of beauty that was always there, next to us, and no-one knew.

13 Sep:
Michael Mellon: Farmer Co-operatives.Diminishing democracy in agriculture - the problems arising out of Fonterra's cash flow needs.

13 Sep:
Rex Edwards: Excerpts from a life less ordinary. Some reminiscences from life in a blue suit.

20 Sep:
Garry Jeffery: The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.Courting in the early 1950s.

20 Sep:
Joe Ryan: The American Civil War.A tragic crisis in a nation's history and the reasons for a Kiwi's interest in the subject.


Course C

Financial Crises: Past and Present

Course organiser:Frank Tay

Recent years have seen successive crises in financial markets. Now they are peaking in the turmoil in Euro-land, with sovereign debt bail-outs of enormous proportions. Why have these crises occurred and what lies ahead?

27 Sep:
External Debt Crises: Whys, Wherefores and Solutions: Frank Tay was Head of the Economics Department at Canterbury University before taking early retirement in 1989

4 Oct:
The American Mortgage Train Wreck: Dr Philip Meguire is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Canterbury University

11 Oct:
Central Bank Responses to the Global Financial Crisis and its Aftermath: Dr Alfred Guender is an Associate Professor of Economics at Canterbury University

18 Oct:
Sovereign Debt Crises of Emerging Markets and Eurozone: Dr Kuntal Das lectures on Macroeconomics at Canterbury University

25 Oct:
The Global Financial Crisis Four Years On and The Impact on New Zealand: Dr Paul Dalziel is a Professor of Economics at Lincoln University


Course D

Eastern Europe and Beyond

Course organiser:Mary Carnegie

‘Eastern Europe and beyond’ offers countries enough for a year of fascinating courses. Here is our pick of five.

27 Sep:
Edward & Ludmila Sakowski: Leaving Poland and beginning anew. The Sakowskis are art restorers who fled their native Poland. They will talk about leaving Poland and beginning a career in Art Restoration in New Zealand.

4 Oct:
Joe Studholme: Ukraine and Chernobyl. Joe first went to Russia in 1978 at the invitation of the Russian Dept of Agriculture to talk to state and collective farms about NZ farming. Since then he has been on numerous occasions to the Ukraine, where he has organised medical equipment for the Chernobyl Relief Fund.

11 Oct:
Dr Terry Heiler: Central Asia. Terry, who has a PhD in agricultural engineering, has worked in many Asian countries. He will talk about Central Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

18 Oct:
Dr Evgeny Pavlov: Putin's Russia. Dr Pavlov is a Senior Lecturer at University of Canterbury and a graduate of Moscow University.

25 Oct:
Dr Bob and Joanne Gumbrell: Mongolia. Dr Gumbrell is a veterinarian with long experience in NZ and the UK. The Gumbrells recently went to work for a few weeks with their son, who is working near Ulaan Baator in Mongolia, upskilling the local veterinarians.