BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//University of Otago//Events Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:University of Otago Calendar X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific/Auckland BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Auckland X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Auckland BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1200 TZOFFSETTO:+1300 TZNAME:NZDT DTSTART:19700927T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=9;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1300 TZOFFSETTO:+1200 TZNAME:NZST DTSTART:19700405T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=4;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Bioethics Seminar: Should BMI be used in the clinical setting? SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20230627T232622Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230710T130000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230710T135000 UID:UniversityOfOtago-Events-Calendar-OTAGO0245906 DESCRIPTION:The Bioethics Centre is pleased to host Dr Taryn Knox's seminar on BMI and stigma in the clinical setting. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Body Mass Index (BMI) is a widely used measure of obesity and is commonly referred to in discourses regarding health.
However, health professionals should be wary of using BMI in the clinic because:
This presentation considers whether and how BMI could be used in the clinic in a way that both recognises the limitations of BMI and reduces weight stigma.
For those who wish to attend the seminar in person, please come to the Bioethics Seminar Room (Room 119), Level 1, 71 Frederick Street, Dunedin 9016.
The Bioethics Centre has two big grey doors off Frederick Street. Come up the stairs through the ‘Bioethics’ door, take a left down the corridor at the top of the stairs, and room 119 will be on your right.
Zoom link: https://otago.zoom.us/j/922351556
Meeting ID: 922 351 556
Password: 595584
To those joining online, we ask that you please mute yourselves upon arrival to avoid any accidental interruptions.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 119, Bioethics Centre, 71 Frederick Street, Dunedin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dalziel Lecture – Laughter is from Mars: Science Fiction in the Anthropocene SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20230329T003642Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230825T163000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230825T180000 UID:UniversityOfOtago-Events-Calendar-OTAGO0243129 DESCRIPTION:A lecture examining science fiction’s capacity to represent and critique science, and the technological power it wields. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Annual Dalziel Lecture – presented by Professor John Plotz, Brandeis University.
This talk proposes that we have underestimated science fiction’s capacity to represent and critique science and the technological power it wields.
When Joseph Conrad called H G Wells the “realist of the fantastic” he set surprisingly durable terms for understanding science fiction’s relationship to actuality. Scholars have argued since about whether the genre principally extrapolates from the present, or speculates on what other economic/political/cultural configurations might be possible.
This talk, by contrast, traces the genre’s long tradition of mocking human self-centredness. Recentring our understanding of SF on satire may offer a way to reframe Amitav Ghosh’s notion of “the peculiar forms of resistance that climate change presents” to “serious” fiction.
For many decades, science fiction’s satiric thrust was Menippean, oriented chiefly against an exaggerated sense of humankind’s importance (do you think the world revolves around you?). But the nature of that satire has changed as writers struggled with the fact that humans truly had a world-altering and world-destroying capacity. In the 20th century, the human capacity to destroy the world (atomically, mainly) was satirized by Capek, Lem, Vonnegut, Le Guin and others.
This lecture, after tracing that legacy, assesses SF’s newfound capacity to satirize humanity’s present destructive power principally by way of N K Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, set in a world where people control and create earthquakes with their minds.
Join us for the annual Dalziel lecture, hosted by the English and Linguistics Programme, in memory of Professor Margaret Dalziel.
LOCATION:Arts/Burns Building, Burns 2 lecture theatre, Department of English, Robert Burns Building, University of Otago, END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Anne-Marie Jackson SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20230703T034458Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230720T160000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230720T200000 UID:UniversityOfOtago-Events-Calendar-OTAGO0245448 DESCRIPTION:Professor Anne-Marie Jackson delivers her Inaugural Professorial Lecture (IPL) titled: Tino Rangatiratanga: A foundation for Flourishing Wellness X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ko mauri ora te kaupapa matua tā Anne-Marie mahi rangahau. E mahi ana rātou ko āna rōpū i ngā kaupapa o: te hauora Māori; Tangaroa me Hinemoana; ngā waka me te haumaru wai, me; te mātauranga ā iwi, ā hapū. He kaiārahi ia o ngā kaupapa e rua, arā Te Koronga Centre of Indigenous Science me te Centre of Research Excellence Coastal People: Southern Skies. He kaiakiaki hoki ia o ngā tauira atamai e whai ana ki te pae tawhiti. Tēnei tātou Te Koronga!
Anne-Marie’s research is focused on indigenous flourishing wellness. Her teams work on Māori physical education and health; the marine environment; traditional canoes and water safety and Indigenous science.
She is a leader of Te Koronga Centre of Indigenous Science and the Centre of Research Excellence Coastal People: Southern Skies. She is also a supervisor to excellent students who seek the distant horizon. Here we are Te Koronga!
Registration is required for this event.
Please register your attendance here
Upon arrival please wait in the carpark for a prompt 4pm start of a formal pōwhiri. Please ensure you are on time, and dress warmly as we will be gathering outside.
This event will be live-streamed, from 4:55pm Thursday 20th July 2023, at the following web address:
Professor Anne-Marie Jackson's IPL video stream
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LOCATION:Arai Te Uru Marae, 24 Shetland Street, Dunedin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Craig Bunt SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20230607T023904Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230713T173000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230713T193000 UID:UniversityOfOtago-Events-Calendar-OTAGO0245471 DESCRIPTION:Professor Craig Bunt delivers his Inaugural Professorial Lecture (IPL) titled: Pharm to farm: Interdisciplinary Agricultural Innovation X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Dr Craig Bunt is the Inaugural Professor of Agricultural Innovation, University of Otago, New Zealand.
In 1995 he completed his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Otago. After a period as a Research Officer with InterAg, a veterinary pharmaceutical company, he became a Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at the University of Auckland, and following this a Senior Research Scientist at AgResearch.
Craig’s research focuses on bioactive delivery, and he is an author on over 120 research publications and 16 patents (6 granted in the USA). Craig has been awarded many honours and distinctions including an OECD fellowship, The Chiasma, Uniservices and Ideas Challenge prizes of the Spark Ideas Entrepreneurship Challenge, the Waikato Agribusiness Innovation Awards Supreme Winner and the Controlled Release Society’s Outstanding Veterinary Paper.
Craig has a wide range of formulations experience over many years, clustered around three key areas; Veterinary Pharmaceutics, Agriculture, and Nutraceuticals, currently with a strong focus on electro-spinning/spraying and 3D printing. He leads the Ag/Vet Controlled Release lab, which researches agri and veterinary controlled release formulations. Craig is also a member of Food Waste Innovation, a University of Otago Research Theme which measures food waste, develops reduction strategies, applies innovative technology, and works to modify producer and consumer behaviour.
This lecture will be followed with light refreshments, tea, coffee and juice.
This event will be live-streamed, from 5:25pm Thursday 13 July 2023, at the following web address:
Professor Craig Bunt's IPL video stream
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LOCATION:Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, Dunedin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor David Eyers SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20230530T001048Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230711T173000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230711T193000 UID:UniversityOfOtago-Events-Calendar-OTAGO0245147 DESCRIPTION:Professor David Eyers delivers his Inaugural Professorial Lecture (IPL) titled, “Head in the clouds: the passing front of a new computing paradigm”. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:David's research examines how to structure interacting software components for safety, efficiency and usability; and approaches to software engineering that result in auditable systems. He has developed security technology that tracks the provenance of data as it is processed by interacting computer systems. This ensures that the users’ data management policies can be upheld: e.g. sensitive data can be protected from exfiltration attacks, and data sovereignty requirements can be supported. This work applies particularly to cloud computing, in which the cloud provider becomes an additional stakeholder in software systems. He is interested in computationally and energy efficient large-scale data processing techniques, for example speeding up reconstruction of 3D landscape models from geospatial measurements using high performance computing clusters. His research also investigates potential social impacts of software systems, such as determining how compliance to regulation can be demonstrated, and reducing risks caused by recommender systems within social media platforms.
This lecture will be followed with light refreshments, tea, coffee and juice.
This event will be livestreamed, from 5:25pm Tuesday 11 July 2023, at the following web address:
Professor David Eyers's IPL video stream
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LOCATION:Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, University of Otago Dunedin campus END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor David Orlovich SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20230530T013026Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230718T173000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230718T193000 UID:UniversityOfOtago-Events-Calendar-OTAGO0245149 DESCRIPTION:Professor David Orlovich delivers his Inaugural Professorial Lecture (IPL) titled, “Exploring the Fungal Underworld”. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:David is a mycologist and botanist with expertise in fungal cell biology, molecular ecology, plant and fungal evolution, taxonomy and systematics. He has a Bachelor of Science and PhD from the University of New South Wales, and conducted postdoctoral research at the Universities of Melbourne, Queensland and New South Wales before coming to New Zealand and Otago. He currently leads a Marsden-funded study to understand the genetic basis for the evolution of truffle-like fungi. Other current research focuses on discovering and describing new species of native mushrooms.
David curates the fungal and slime mould collections in the Otago Regional Herbarium and adds to this collection through the annual New Zealand Fungal Foray.
David shares his passion for plants and fungi through teaching at all levels. He has been President of the Fungal Network of New Zealand since 2004 and the Head of the Department of Botany since 2017.
This lecture will be followed with light refreshments, tea, coffee and juice.
This event will be live-streamed, from 5:25pm Tuesday 18 July 2023, at the following web address:
Professor David Orlovich's IPL video stream
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LOCATION:Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, University of Otago Dunedin campus END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Joel Tyndall SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20230530T034812Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230727T173000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230727T193000 UID:UniversityOfOtago-Events-Calendar-OTAGO0245165 DESCRIPTION:Professor Joel Tyndall delivers his Inaugural Professorial Lecture (IPL) titled: Looking at molecules and what they do in disease. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Joel Tyndall is a medicinal chemist with expertise in drug discovery using computational methods. He has a BSc(Hons) from Monash University and a PhD from the University of Queensland’s Centre for Drug Design and Development.
He completed postdoctoral work at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Queensland before taking up a position in the School of Pharmacy here at Otago.
His research involves the understanding of proteins as potential drug targets, and their role in disease, particularly infectious disease. He is part of several multidisciplinary teams covering numerous infectious diseases as well as cancer.
He is currently Associate Dean (International) for the Division of Health Sciences.
This lecture will be followed with light refreshments, tea, coffee and juice.
This event will be live-streamed, from 5:25pm Thursday 27 July 2023, at the following web address:
Professor Joel Tyndall's IPL video stream
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LOCATION:Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, Dunedin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Patricia Coleman Public Lecture SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20230628T211234Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230710T173000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230710T183000 UID:UniversityOfOtago-Events-Calendar-OTAGO0245924 DESCRIPTION:"Earth, Wind, Fire and Water: Advanced Separation Methods for Chemical Discovery" by Professor Philip Marriott, School of Chemistry, Monash University, Australia. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Professor Philip Marriott, School of Chemistry, Monash University, Australia
Professor Philip Marriott is a global expert in advanced analytical techniques. In this free public lecture, he will discuss methods for chemical discovery in essential oils, food, drug and petroleum applications. Hosted by the Department of Food Science.
Free public Lecture, All Welcome.
LOCATION:Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, Dunedin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Public Talk Series: Adolescent Health – Raising Mentally Resilient Teens SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20230510T014757Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230809T173000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230809T190000 UID:UniversityOfOtago-Events-Calendar-OTAGO0244628 DESCRIPTION:Raising happy, healthy teenagers – it can be the biggest parental challenge. But how do I know if I’m getting it right? Join our leading clinical researchers as they share the latest thinking on sleep, social media, vaping, eating disorders, and fad diets. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Raising happy, healthy teenagers – it can be the biggest parental challenge. But how do I know if I’m getting it right?
Join our leading clinical researchers as they share the latest thinking on the importance of sleep, the perils of social media, vaping, eating disorders, and fad diets.
Register for Adolescent Health – Raising Mentally Resilient Teens
LOCATION:Rolleston Lecture Theatre, University of Otago Christchurch, 2 Riccarton Avenue, Christchurc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Public Talk Series: Ageing Well – Never too early, never too late SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20230613T230701Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230712T173000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230712T190000 UID:UniversityOfOtago-Events-Calendar-OTAGO0244626 DESCRIPTION:Hhow exactly do we maintain our dignity, brain health and spark in the older years? Learn from our top clinical researchers how to ‘use it before you lose it’. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:How exactly do we maintain our dignity, brain health and spark in the older years? Learn from our top clinical researchers how to ‘use it before you lose it’ – the power of positive thinking, how to eat smart, think smart and keep your body strong.
Artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robotics, 3D bone printing and ‘smart’ implants – high tech innovation is revolutionising the future of surgery and medicine.
Come and hear our leading surgeons and researchers explain how futuristic technology could soon be coming to an operating theatre near you.
Register for: Surgery and medicine of the future – AI, robotics and "smart” implants
LOCATION:Rolleston Lecture Theatre, University of Otago Christchurch, 2 Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Public Talk Series: You Are What You Eat – Your Gut, Nutrition and the Bowel SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20230510T021642Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230823T173000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230823T190000 UID:UniversityOfOtago-Events-Calendar-OTAGO0244629 DESCRIPTION:The experts tell us we are actually “more bug than human”. What does that mean and how do we optimise gut health? Join our top clinicians and researchers as they lead you on a journey through the gut. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The experts tell us we are actually “more bug than human”. What does that mean and how do we optimise gut health?
Join our top clinicians and researchers as they lead you on a journey through the gut – learn how nutrition affects disease, the importance of the microbiome and how to reduce your risk of colon and gut cancers.
The location of this event has been changed from Castle 2 Lecture Theatre to Archway 4 Lecture Theatre.
How can we understand the increase in climate disruptions and converging crises as examples of environmental and climate injustice?
This talk will address two different conceptual issues stemming from the climate and environmental crises:
This public lecture is presented by Professor David Schlosberg who is the Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Sydney.
Professor Schlosberg's main theoretical interests are environmental politics, environmental movements, and political theory, and in particular the intersection of the three with his ground-breaking and highly-cited work on environmental, ecological, and multispecies justice.
Professor James Robert Flynn (28 April 1934–11 December 2020), Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand was the Foundation Professor of Political Studies at Otago in 1967. An American-born New Zealand moral philosopher and intelligence researcher, he is noted for his publications about the continued year-after-year increase of IQ scores throughout the world, which is now referred to as the Flynn effect.
He wrote a number of books on moral and political matters, including a treatise on climate change. In addition to his academic work, he championed social democratic politics throughout his life.
LOCATION:Archway 4 Lecture Theatre, Archway Building, corner Union Street East and Leith Walk, Dunedin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:eResearch@Otago Day 2023 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20230614T205602Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230704T093000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230704T150000 UID:UniversityOfOtago-Events-Calendar-OTAGO0245621 DESCRIPTION:eResearch@Otago Day focuses on research being undertaken at the University as well as an update on new/upcoming eResearch services. Registration required. Morning tea and lunch provided. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This eResearch focused event is free for all University staff and postgraduate students.
This year’s event will focus on research being undertaken at the University as well as an update on new/upcoming eResearch services.
If you’re joining us in person, we’ll start the day with morning tea. A light lunch will also be provided.
Register for the eResearch@Otago Day 2023
Registration closes 9:00am Tuesday 20 June. This is a hard deadline for catering purposes.
If you will be joining us via Zoom only, please still register so we can keep you up-to-date and advise of future eResearch events. A Zoom link will also be sent to you.
If you are unable to join us on the day, but would like a link to the recorded talks, please email Nicola Walmsley. These will be available for a week after the event.
Email nicola.walmsley@otago.ac.nz
If you have any queries about the event, please contact Darren Hart, Manager, Research and Teaching IT Support.
Email darren.hart@otago.ac.nz