You can find recordings of Macmillan Brown Lectures from 2005 to 2012 on the Radio New Zealand website. The table below lists the lectures going back to 1941.
Next Lecture Series
Dilemmas of our time: Unconscious (implicit) bias and race relations
By Dr Benjamin Reese Jr
Venue: A3 Lecture theatre
Time: 6-8pm, Thurs 25th July 2019
Refreshments will be served
ALL WELCOME
List of Lectures
YEAR | LOCATION | LECTURER | TITLE |
2019 | Canterbury | Dr Benjamin Reese (Vice President Institutional Diversity, Duke University) | Subconscious bias and subtle racism in modern institutions |
2018 | Canterbury | Marama Davidson (Co-leader Green Party) Lopeti Senituli (Advisor to Tongan PM) Dr Iati Iati (Otago University) Darren Brunk (Oxfam) | Distinguished panel discussion. Theme: Should New Zealand accept climate change induced migrants from the Pacific?
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2017 | Canterbury | Dr Satyendra Prasad (CEO, PNG-Australia governance facility) | Trajectories of socio-economic development in the Pacific |
2016 | Canterbury | Dr Colin Tukuitonga (Director General, Pacific Community) | The future of Pacific regionalism |
2012 | Canterbury | Right Honourable Murray McCully and Mr Sitiveni Rabuka | Democracy in the South Pacific with particular focus on recent history in Fiji |
2010 | Canterbury | Associate Professor Roger Fyfe | The World Under One Roof - who owns the past? |
2009 | Canterbury | Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith and Professor Michael Walker | Reflections on Maori, Pacific and (Western)/Scientific Knowledge |
2008 | Canterbury | Professor Helen Leach | From Kai to Kiwi Kitchen - tracing the development of New Zealand's Culinary traditions |
2007 | Canterbury | Professor Cluny Macpherson | The Warm Winds of Change in the Contemporary Pacific |
2006 | Canterbury | Mr Jonathan Mane Wheoki | Pasifika Rising: A Cultural Strand in Contemporary New Zealand Art |
2005 | Canterbury | Associate Professor Elizabeth Gordon | Finding our own Voice: The English language in New Zealand |
2004 | Auckland | Professor Albert Wendt | From the Vaipe to Waipapa: Autobiography as History |
2003 | Auckland | Dame Ann Salmond | The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, or Why did Captain Cook die? |
2000 | Auckland | Professor Michael Peters | Education and Culture in Postmodernity: The Challenges for Aotearoa New Zealand |
1999 | Victoria | Dr Nancy Pollock | Pacific Studies in New Zealand - Macmillan Brown's megalithic images as viewed through the 20th Century |
1998 | Canterbury | Dr Sir Tipene O'Regan | The Journey and The Dream |
1997 | Massey | Professor Kerry Howe | Nature, culture and history: The knowing of Oceania |
1996 | Waikato | Dr Robert Mahuta, Dr Tamati Reddy, Dr Richard Benton | Issues in Maori development: The Tainui settlement - vision and reality |
1995 | Canterbury | Dr William Sax | The Gods at play: Art, politics, religion |
1994 | Victoria | Dr James Belich | Race and New Zealand: Some social history of ideas |
1993 | Lincoln | Professor Emeritus Kevin O'Connor | Traditional cultural values and the sustaining of life on earth |
1992 | Auckland | Professor Emeritus Bruce Biggs | Kimihea te mea ngaro: Seek that which is lost |
1990 | Waikato | Professor G M Walker and Mr Robert Mahuta | University and the space where God was: Post hoc ergo Propter Hawke & Taawahio's dream |
1989 | Massey | Professor Ben Finney | From sea to space |
1988 | Canterbury | Dr Malama Meleisea | The seeds of change: Political development in Western Samoa |
1987 | Auckland | Dr Andaya | Glimpses of Indonesian history: A commentary on Macmillan Brown's 'The Dutch East' |
1986 | Otago | Professor Emeritus A Thornton | Maori oral literature as seen by a classicist |
1983 | Canterbury | Dr Margaret Orbell | Hawaiki: a new approach to Maori tradition |
1982 | Auckland | Professor W H Pearson | Rifled sanctuaries: Pacific Islands in Western literature |
1981 | Otago | Professor Peter J Wilson | Three problems in human evolution |
1979 | Canterbury | Dr. Richard D Bedford | Perceptions Past and Present of a Future for Melanesia |
1978 | Auckland | Professor Maurice P K Sorrenson | Some modern Maori myths and legends |
1977 | Otago | Professor Emeritus A Ross | New Zealand to 1947: A developing nation-state |
1976 | Victoria | Professor Roger Robinson | Satiric fantasies in modern fiction |
1975 | Canterbury | W J Gardner | Early university life in Australia and New Zealand |
1974 | Auckland | Lady Aileen Fox | Prehistoric Maori fortifications |
1973 | Otago | Professor Ernest A Horsman | On the side of the angels? Disraeli and the Nineteenth-century Novel |
1972 | Victoria | Professor W Oliver | New Zealand about 1890 |
1971 | Canterbury | Professor Raymond A Copland | God above and God within: The literature of belief |
1970 | Auckland | Associate Professor E A Sheppard | Henry James: 'The Turn of the Screw' |
1969 | Otago | Associate Professor Gordon S Parsonson | Oceania in the age of imperial Spain |
1968 | Victoria | D F Crozier | Tongan and papalangi: Anomie in Polynesia |
1967 | Canterbury | Professor John C Garrett | Utopias in literature since the romantic period |
1966 | Auckland | Professor F S Scott | The art of the Icelandic family sagas |
1965 | Otago | Professor William P Morrell | British policy and the Maori wars |
1963 | Victoria | Montague H Holcroft | Islands of innocence: the childhood theme in New Zealand fiction |
1962 | Canterbury | Ngaio Marsh | Three-cornered world: the producer, the actor, the audience |
1959 | Otago | Jack Golson | Prehistory in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands |
1959 | Victoria | Dan M Davin | Joyce Cary |
1957 | Auckland | S Musgrove | Shakespeare and Jonson |
1957 | Canterbury Museum | Roger S Duff | The settlement of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands |
1943 | Victoria | Heinrich F von Haast | The lectures and articles of the late Professor John Macmillan Brown on Shakespeare and the Elizabethan drama |
1941 | Canterbury College | Alexander G Henderson | John Macmillan Brown Lectures |
