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  • Bull.. has been a genuine topic of study at Canterbury

    Audio
    education life and society
    26 Jul 2023
    Steven Ratuva

    Would you believe that the theory of bulls*** has become a genuine area of study? It's called "bullsh**ology", and it all kicked off when American philosopher Professor Harry Frankfurt published his… Audio

  • The Macmillan Brown Lectures

    Programme

    Exploring a wide range of subjects about New Zealand and Pacific history and culture, the MacMillan Brown Lecture series has been an institution at the University of Canterbury since 1941.

    The Macmillan Brown Lectures
  • Are Kiwi slices getting out of control?

    Audio
    food
    20 Sep 2019
    Ginger slice with tea.

    If you're a fan of old New Zealand cookbooks, you might have noticed a gradual shift in our baking through the years... "We're being supersized," culinary anthropologist Helen Leach tells Jesse… Audio

  • Winston could reset ANZAC-Fiji relations

    News
    Pacific Fiji
    3 Mar 2016
    Damaged buildings in Rakiraki after Cyclone Winston hit Fiji.

    International relations experts say there could be a silver lining to Cyclone Winston's massive devastation in Fiji. Audio

    Winston could reset ANZAC-Fiji relations
  • Macmillan Brown Lecture 2012

    Audio
    20 Jan 2013

    After a break of two years, this long-running lecture series resumes with an address by Sitiveni Rabuka and an introduction by the Rt Hon Murray McCully. They discuss democracy in the South Pacific… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 3, 2010

    Audio 1 Jan 2010

    Indigenous heritage and museums today. Encyclopaedic museums were institutions born of 'Enlightenment' values and committed to a belief that through the study of things from all over the world, truth… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 2, 2010

    Audio
    1 Jan 2010

    Museums in the Colonies The great natural history and encyclopaedic museums of Europe arose as colonial empires were expanding round the globe. Efforts to organise, classify and display the material… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 1, 2010

    Audio
    1 Jan 2010

    Temples to Science: Museums continue to be a burgeoning worldwide phenomenon. They come in a myriad of sizes and guises. Today it seems no community is complete without one or more! But how many of… Audio

  • MacMillan Brown lecture 3, 2009

    Audio
    1 Jan 2009

    The 2009 Macmillan Brown lectures explore how Maori culture operates as a force for New Zealand's social and scientific advancement. In this third lecture, Professor Michael Walker argues that… Audio

  • MacMillan Brown lecture 2, 2009

    Audio
    1 Jan 2009

    The 2009 Macmillan Brown lectures explore how Maori culture operates as a force for New Zealand's social and scientific advancement. In this second lecture, Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith looks at how… Audio

  • MacMillan Brown lecture 1, 2009

    Audio
    1 Jan 2009

    The 2009 Macmillan Brown lectures explore how Maori culture operates as a force for New Zealand's social and scientific advancement. In this first lecture, Professor Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 3, 2008

    Audio
    1 Jan 2008

    Cookbooks and Cultural Identity in the 20th Century. In this final Macmillan Brown lecture for 2008, Prof Helen Leach of the University of Otago exposes the way in which cultural identity can be… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 2, 2008

    Audio
    1 Jan 2008

    Cookery in the Colonial Era. Contact with the immigrants brought new types of kai and ways of cooking to Maori, explored by Prof Helen Leach of the University of Otago in the second of her 2008… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 1, 2008

    Audio
    1 Jan 2008

    Maori Cookery Before Cook. What impact did migration from a tropical homeland have on Maori cookery? They experienced drastic changes in their traditional foods, yet the rules that were part of their… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 3, 2007

    Audio 1 Jan 2007

    A Tale of Two Mats: technology and transformation. The ways in which new technologies are transforming the worldviews and lifestyles of Pacific societies. Pacific societies were changed early, and… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 2, 2007

    Audio 1 Jan 2007

    A Tale of Two Ways : ideas and transformation. The ways in which ideas are transforming the worldviews and lifestyles of the Pacific societies. Pacific societies were changed early, and fundamentally… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 1, 2007

    Audio 1 Jan 2007

    The Globalisation of the Village. The consequences of the recent movements of people on the organisation of Pacific societies. Pacific societies were once considered somewhat remote and isolated… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 3, 2006

    Audio
    1 Jan 2006

    A broader context: Pacific art in global terms. The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has a significant advocacy role to play in speaking for and about the art of New Zealand's Polynesian… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 2, 2006

    Audio
    1 Jan 2006

    A tuakana-teina relationship: contemporary Maori and Pacific Art. Contemporary Pacific art has tended to be defined as art by New Zealand residents or New Zealanders of Pacific Islands, mainly… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 1, 2006

    Audio
    1 Jan 2006

    Island culture and urban life: the span of contemporary Pacific art. "As it happens, I am not an expert in contemporary Pacific art, but I have played a role in supporting and promoting it." In this… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 3, 2005

    Audio
    1 Jan 2005

    'A whirlpool of impure vocalisation': attitudes to New Zealand English. When the New Zealand accent was first noticed it was roundly condemned. Critics said it was the product of poor homes and… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 2, 2005

    Audio
    1 Jan 2005

    'Afghans' and 'cheerios', 'kiwi' and 'iwi': the words we use. The beginnings of New Zealand English go back to the time when Captain Cook borrowed Maori words into English. In this lecture Elizabeth… Audio

  • Macmillan Brown lecture 1, 2005

    Audio
    1 Jan 2005

    The New Zealand accent was first noticed around 1900 when it was called a 'colonial twang'. Recordings of old New Zealanders collected in the 1940's by the New Zealand National Broadcasting Service… Audio

  • 1999 - Glynn Christian's Fragile Paradise

    Audio 26 Jun 1999

    Glynn Christian, the great-great-great-great-grandson of the Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian talks to Brian Edwards about his family heritage and the story behind a mutiny on Bounty on 28 April… Audio

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