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Upcoming Tauhere Connect talks
We bring a fresh series of free Tauhere Connect public lectures each year.
16 October 2024
Discover why Aotearoa is sending experiments into space at UC’s out-of-this-world public talk by the woman who sent NZ’s first experiment to orbit Earth.
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In this free public lecture, University of Canterbury Media and Communication Professor Donald Matheson asks how global journalism could do a better job of telling the stories of war today, including the major wars being fought against Ukraine or Gaza but also a host of other conflicts, from West Papua to Yemen.
The stars we see in the beautiful night sky of Aotearoa hold the secrets to the origins of the Milky Way galaxy, according to Senior Lecturer in Astroinformatics & Data Science, Dr C Clare Worley.
UC’s Associate Professor Heather Purdie discusses the impact of glacier recession on alpine recreation and tourism, sharing insights from her latest research.
In this talk, Associate Professor Adrian Clark looks at Generative AI, how it works, what it can do, where it might be heading, and what this all means for the entertainment industries. “We may be standing on the precipice of a new golden age of entertainment and storytelling, or perhaps Pandora’s box been inadvertently opened – never to be closed again,” Dr Clark says.
In this Tauhere Connect public lecture, Tolerate Online Abuse or Resign: How the Law Fails Women MPs, UC Senior Lecturer and international human rights law expert Dr Cassandra Mudgway will examine the issue of online violence against women in politics, both here and overseas.
As the University of Canterbury (UC) celebrates its 150th year, two historians will investigate medieval links in modern Ōtautahi Canterbury via a 600-year-old document. The Canterbury Roll is a five-metre-long 15th century genealogical text. Created nearly six centuries ago, it was subsequently modified on a number of occasions in the course of the English civil war known as the Wars of the Roses.
