Brian Boyd
Bookmarks with Brian Boyd
Today's Bookmarks guest is Distinguished Professor of English Brian Boyd, who is widely recognised as the world's leading scholar on the Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov. Audio
Scientists and scholars gather for annual awards
Scientists and scholars gathered in Wellington last night for the annual Research Honours Aotearoa awards.
While Covid-19 put paid to the usual black-tie dinner, the first of what will be three… Audio
'Academic superstar' wins top research award
NZ's top research award, the Rutherford Medal, has gone to Brian Boyd, whose work spans Shakespeare to Nabokov to Popper, & weaves arts and sciences together. Audio
Our Changing World for 5 November 2020
The 2020 Research Honours go to a Nabokov expert, a Maori political economist & a colourful plant breeder, and students talk climate change. Audio
Researchers win big at awards
Researchers from the sciences and the humanities have had their achievements recognised with awards from the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Nabakov's future dreams
What if your dreams could tell the future?
Famed Russian-American author Vladimir Nabakov tested just that theory by keeping a dream diary documenting 64 dreams over 80 days and ordering them with… Audio
Brian Boyd on Vladimir Nabokov's letters
Brian Boyd is the author of a new collection of previously unseen letters from Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov to his beloved wife, Vera. Professor Boyd has written and edited 19 books and… Audio
Brian Boyd: sonnets
The world's foremost authority on the works of Vladimir Nabokov; his new book is Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition and Shakespeare's Sonnets. Audio
Ideas for 07 March 2010
This week looks at the evolution of evolutionary ideas on disciplines other than biology. Audio
Professor Brian Boyd
The author of a new book on Dr Suess and Homer's Odyssey and the evolutionary connection between them. Audio