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Wakatipu U3A January Newsletter 2015
www.u3awakatipu.org.nz
email: [email protected]
Season’s greetings and welcome to the 2015 U3A lecture series.
After the Christmas and New Year break it is time to stimulate the brain cells again. From the
beginning U3A Wakatipu lectures have maintained a very high standard and I’m sure that with
Marion’s skill in tracking down new subjects and speakers, this high level will continue.
Welcome back,
Bob Cranfield
2014-5 Committee:
Bob Cranfield (Chairman), Athol Dickson (Deputy), Jon Bitcheno (Treasurer), Justine
Cranfield (Administration), Marion Borrell (Programme), Mary Stamers-Smith, Alan
Townsend, Janie Murdoch, Kirsty Sharpe and Jeanette Thompson
LECTURE PROGRAMME FEBRUARY TO MAY
All lectures start at 10am
9 February – 2 March: Living Sustainably Here and Now
9 February
St Margaret’s
Frankton
Cr Clair Higginson & Sophie Mander,
Central Otago District Council
The ‘Making a Difference in Central
Otago’ programme on sustainability
16 February
St M’s
Michael Sly/Mathurin Molgat –
founders of Wilding & Co; and Pierre
Poyet, leader of Skyline’s Sustainable
Development Programme
Sustainable Businesses in the
Wakatipu: making pine oil from
wilding pests; and Skyline’s actions to
gain a QualMark Enviro Gold Award
23 February
St M’s
Dr Ella Lawton
QLDC councillor, and Otago Polytech
Centre for Sustainable Practice
Ecological Footprints and Food
Sustainability – international, national
and local applications
2 March
St M’s
Dr Mike Underhill
CEO of Energy Efficiency &
Conservation Authority, Wellington
NZ’s Energy Future – fossil fuels versus
renewable versus, economic growth
versus environmental impacts.
Prof Parry Guilford
Otago Centre for Translational
Cancer Research
Prof Dirk De Ridder
Otago - Chair of Neurosurgery
Neurological Foundation public
lecture
Penny O’Connor
International health administrator
and local resident
Genomic technology is transforming
cancer treatments
March: Health
9 March
St Margaret’s
17 March
Events Centre
23 March
St M’s
His work in surgery and research, and
experience since coming to Otago.
Maternal and child health
development in PNG, and health risks
for the world e.g. epidemics, Ebola
April – 4 May: New Zealand Society
13 April
St Margaret’s
27 April
St M’s
4 May
St M’s
May: Beliefs and Values
11 May
St M’s
19 May
St M’s
25 May
St M’s
Dr Liz Craig
Dept of Women’s and Children’s
Health
OU School of Medicine
Dr Jen Moore
Otago Legal Issues Centre, now Dept
of Social and Preventive Medicine
Dr Yvette Tinsley, Victoria University
of Wellington
Poverty in Paradise
Dr Greg Dawes
Otago University, Philosophy and
Religious Studies
Dr Majid Ganeshgar
Otago University, Religious Studies
Prof Barbara Brookes
Otago University, History
Religion and Science
Coroners –her research into their
work and recommendations for the
Law Commission
Court Systems in NZ – Law
Commission research
Islam and Buddhism
50 years of the Women’s Movement –
-final part of the New Zealand Society
series
Study Groups: Sharing enthusiasm
We have on-going music and art groups, but they are full.
There may well be interest in having other shared groups on these subjects, and all we
need is for someone to offer to be a co-ordinator - no expertise required.
Or if you would like to offer a study series on a subject in which you have expertise or coordinate a shared one of a topic, please contact Marion Borrell,
[email protected].
We gratefully acknowledge the support of