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Weekly newsletter for University staff | 7 March 2016
Diary Tuesday 8 March CDES Business Career Expo 2016 10.30am-2.30pm, Level 0, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road. One of the largest events on our careers calendar, the CDES Business Career Expo attracts over 30 organisations, wanting to meet students from all years and faculties. So, if you are considering a future career in a business related field, this is a MUST attend!Queries to [email protected] Christopher Hinterhuber: Piano Recital 8-9.30pm, Music Theatre, School of Music, 6 Symonds Street, Auckland Central. Cost $15/$20. Born in Austria, Christopher Hinterhuber studied with Axel Papenberg, Rudolf Kehrer, Lazar Berman, Avo Kouyoumdjian and Heinz Medjimorec and received further artistic encouragement from Oleg Maisenberg and Vladimir Ashkenazy among others. After winning several top prizes at international piano competitions in Leipzig, Saarbrücken, Pretoria, Zurich and Vienna, he performed as ‘Rising Star’ 2002/3 at the major European concert halls and Carnegie Hall, New York. The last few years have seen him play in major international festivals and in collaboration with many distinguished conductors and orchestras. Book tickets at https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/christopher-hinterhuber-piano-in-recital-tickets-20738549560. Hosted by the School of Music. Queries to [email protected]
Wednesday 9 March Hood Lecture in History Professor John R McNeill, Georgetown University: The Anthropocene Debates. 6.30 -7.30pm, Room 439, Engineering Building 401. This lecture presents some of the ideas currently in circulation about the concept of the Anthropocene, a term intended to represent the powerful effect of human action upon global ecology and Earth systems. Geologists are contemplating the first substantial revision to the Geological Time Scale in over a century, and scholars from anthropology, biology,
geography, history, and elsewhere are chiming in with advice and objections. Opinions differ as to the utility of the concept, and among those who endorse it, opinions differ radically as to when the Anthropocene began. Some prefer an ‘Old Anthropocene’ that dates to more than 12,000 years ago, while others prefer a ‘Young Anthropocene’ that began only in the mid-twentieth century. The roughly 30-member Anthropocene Working Group, on which Professor McNeill serves as one of two historians amid many geologists, is charged with making a recommendation in late 2016 to the official body that claims sovereignty over the Geological Time Scale. John R. McNeill, currently University Professor at Georgetown University, has held two Fulbright awards, fellowships from Guggenheim, MacArthur, and the Woodrow Wilson Center. His books include Something New Under the Sun (2000), winner of two prizes, listed by the London Times among the ten best science books ever written (despite not being a science book), and translated into 10 languages; The Human Web (2003), translated into 7 languages; and Mosquito Empires (2010), which won the Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association and was listed by the Wall Street Journal among the best books in early American history. In 2010 he was awarded the Toynbee Prize for ‘academic and public contributions to humanity.’
Fast Forward lecture Yo Shimada, Tato Architects, Kobe: Misinterpretation. 6.30pm, Design Theatre, Conference Centre Building 423, 22 Symonds Street, Auckland.Yo Shimada founded Tato Architects in 1997 after completing a number of design build projects. Subsequently, Shimada’s work has been centred on private houses as well interiors and installations.Through a dozen house projects Yo Shimada will explain his diverse approaches to formulating positive outcomes through the understanding of the subtleties and the constraints of everyday life, as these exist within notions of place, culture and the ongoing histories of architecture.Free. Queries to [email protected]
Thursday 10 March Bright Lights 6.30-8pm, Robb Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Building 501, 85 Park Road, Grafton. Cost $15. Contact Diana Kim, email [email protected] or phone 923 6409.Bright Lights showcases the University of Auckland’s Distinguished Alumni Award recipients for 2016 in a candid, entertaining onstage discussion led by alumnus and Qantas Media Award-winner Finlay Macdonald.The seating for this event is general admission.
Friday 11 March COMPASS seminar Liza Bolton: Socioeconomic status and all-cause mortality: Testing life course hypotheses in New Zealand. 3-4pm, Room 104, Fale Pasifika Complex (273-104). Socioeconomic status (SES) has been shown to be related to mortality in a range of contexts. Low SES tends to increase mortality risk, but how exposure patterns across the life-course are related to mortality is not well understood, and have not been explored in the New Zealand context.This research uses New Zealand longitudinal census data to explore whether there is evidence of associations between mortality and cumulative exposure to low SES (accumulation hypothesis), changes in SES between life stages (social mobility hypothesis) and exposure to low SES during specific life stages (sensitive period hypothesis). Understanding these hypotheses in the New Zealand context may allow for better-targetted interventions to address mortality inequalities, for example, disparities between ethnic groups. Liza Bolton is a PhD Candidate in Statistics at the University of Auckland, working with the Centre of Methods and Policy Application in the Social Sciences (COMPASS). Queries to [email protected]
Exhibition opening 5.30pm, Gus Fisher Gallery, 74 Shortland St. 1) Alexis Neal: Korero Tuku Iho: A Traditional Narrative. 2) Dagmar Duck: Kofukofu Koloa. Opening speaker: Dr Karen Stevenson. Queries to [email protected]
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2016 Distinguished Alumni Awards DinnerVice-Chancellor Professor Stuart McCutcheon and the University of Auckland Society are pleased to host the Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner to recognise and celebrate the significant contribution made by our distinguished alumni in their respective fields. 6.15–11pm, Alumni Marquee, Old Government House lawn, corner Waterloo Quadrant and Princes Street. The evening will commence at 6.15pm with drinks on Old Government House lawn. Dress code: Formal. Contact Nicole Maher, email [email protected] or phone 923 5611.
Saturday 12 March Beach Day Out and The Great Waka Ama Race Kick back and relax on the sand, join in on beach games, have a go at waka ama and support your faculty team in the Great Waka Ama Race! Location: Takapuna Beach. Visit www.auckland.ac.nz/beachdayout
Ruaumoko 5pm, the Civic. An Auckland Dance Project. A collaboration between the APO and Atamira Dance Company and student dancers, on as part of the Auckland Arts Festival. A modern Maori fairytale emerges from the depths of a sacred mountain. Tickets available from http://purchase.apo.co.nz/single/SelectSeating.aspx?p=698.
dorf & Bus of Tales at White Night 6pm-midnight, Auckland Central City Library, 44-46 Lorne Street, Auckland CBD. Students from the Elam School of Fine Arts will launch a multi-artist exhibition and showcase publications for one night only. dorf is a visual arts exhibition that challenges the representation of art and breaks down the inherited division between artwork and audience. It erases the borders segregating visual, aural and text-based artworks. dorf rejects the conventional, the stale white cube, and creates an inclusive, active space allowing direct interaction between the artist and audience. It empowers new ideas, thoughts, bonds, relationships, and communities. The Auckland Central City Mobile Library will also be repurposed for Bus of Tales - a showcase of publications produced by an array of artists and writers, highlighting ideologies and dialogues that extend off the shelves and into conversation with our local and extended communities. In keeping with the library’s functionality, the authors warmly invite you to engage with their texts and some publications are available to take home for free. dorf and Bus of Tales are curated by Elam School of Fine Arts student, Dan Sanders. Queries to [email protected]
