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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

'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

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

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