New Zealand’s First Taste of Jihad
Damien Fenton has written the superb, family-friendly ‘New Zealand and the First World War’ and is now looking more closely at our involvement with th …
Where is home?
Katherine Mansfield wrote many of her finest stories about her home in Wellington – but she had to leave home in order to write about it and yearn for …
Keeping it in the family
CK Stead and Charlotte Grimshaw will discuss some of the ideas that drive their own writing, the differences between good and bad writing, and the ple …
Book launches – free event
Join us to launch Ian Wedde’s memoir The Grass Catcher (Victoria University Press) and Laurence Fearnley’s new novel Reach (Penguin).
This is your life
Is a writer forever remembering times past and writing about them in the present? And how differently does a writer shape their own lives in print as …
Tim Finn – White Cloud
Join Tim Finn, one of our most celebrated singer-songwriters, for his performance of White Cloud – a solo journey that takes us into his family, his i …
Money makes the world go round
Are we witnessing the victory of communism with a profit motive in China? Who is funding the Islamic State/Isis in Iraq and Syria? Journalist and poli …
Telling stories
“I want the process of reading to be so transparent that it almost feels to the reader to be a kind of a dream – something that they are experiencing …
Inequality – the growing gap between rich and poor
Max Rashbrooke, Deborah Morris-Travers and Scott Gilmour explore the issues of inequality and the impacts in New Zealand, on children and our future.
How to run the world
Hear Dr. James Manyika, Dr. Mary Quin and Dr. Jacques Bughin as they debate the impacts of information technology on our businesses, on our economics …
Water – how do we balance the competing demands?
Who has rights to water? Are the standards of water quality set too low? Can we have it all – clean water, dairy farming and the 100% Pure brand that …
