Poweroints from this year are on our Home page, scroll down.
Below are powerpoints from past talks.
2024
27th Feb Jude Ball, on Vaping click here
23rd April, Roger Sutton, Our Electric future click here
25th June Prof Anthony Robins, Artificial Intelligence click here
23rd July Glenn Vallender, “Six sons and a seismograph: The George Hogben story” click here
27th August Prof Adrian McDonald How changes in Antarctica affect the oceans.
3rd Sept Dr Bridie Allan, Plastic pollution of the Oceans. click here
10th Sept Cindy Baxter Seabed exploitation and Small Blue Whales click here
22nd Oct Hallie Buckley, The tales dead men (and women) tell: Bioarchaeological investigations of the lost lives and forgotten stories of Otago’s gold miners click here
2023
Rachel Ah Kit, Living well with arthritis click here
Katharine Watson, The story of Christchurch click here
Peter Dearden Gneonome sequencing click here
Tipene Phillips Matariki click here
Karla Olerenshaw Advanced Care Planning click here
Matthew Hall Fishhooks in wills click here
Chris Hills Scams and frauds click here
Neill Pickard “Big bands, soloists and how to make the hit parade” For the PowerPoint (without the videos) click here
Danielle Campbell "The Role of Museums in preserving History and Beyond " - for the power point presentation click here
The presentation by Dr Annika Seppala "Solar storms and the earth: from aurora to climate"
For the PDF (static presentation) click here
For the Powerpoint presentation which includes the animations and videos ( a large file of 500Mb) click here
A podcast featuring Daphne Lee talking about Foulden Maar click here
An article from the Otago Daily Times about Foulden Maar, featuring Daphne talking about the the planned mining there click here
Hamish Campbell: Zealandia click here
Anne Ford (Assoc professor of Archeology, Otago) : June 2022 "First footsteps" click here
Jenny Haworth April 2022 World War 1 Artists click here
Rose Crossin: Understanding and measuring drug use in New Zealand Rose Crossin U3A presentation_Feb 2022.pptx
Natalie Baird 2021 Refugees click here
Paul Dalziel June 2021 Wellbeing economics click here
Haxby Abbott May 2021 Osteoarthritis: click here
Owen Arnst (April 2021) Spirituality in NZ children click here
Paul Spoonley (Nov 2020) The New New Zealand click here
Joe Boden, Legalising Cannibis click here
August 25th Jeanine Doherty, Ethics and medical professionals.. click here
November 2019 Adrian Paterson: He will discuss what research shows us about how evolution influences society and particularly teenagers. click here
Tuesday October 22nd Prof Reuben Azizian "Security and Diplomacy in the 21st Century" click here
For an interview with Reuben Azizian see click here
For Ian Griffin's powerpoint presentation on " Chasing Auroras" click here
September 24th Ulrich Bergler For the pdf click here