The current series of Inaugural Professorial Lectures was established in 1996 with the broad aim of promoting and celebrating the academic reputation of professorial staff.
The series makes an important contribution to the University's role within the wider community by providing a public forum for leading research and enhancing Otago's statutory role as critic and conscience of society.
2018 Inaugural Professorial Lectures
| Professor | Lecture Details |
|---|---|
| Professor Anthony Ritchie Department of Music, Theatre and Performing Arts | Composing music: but is it research? Tuesday 15 May, 5:30pm |
| Professor David Bell UoO College of Education | Why Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Matters Monday 16 July, 5:30pm |
| Professor James Maclaurin Department of Philosophy | Applied Philosophy. Wait. What? Tuesday 31 July, 5:30pm |
Professor Ruth Fitzgerald | A life studying care and choices Monday 6 August, 5:30pm |
| Professor Claudine Stirling Department of Chemistry Director, Centre for Trace Element Analysis | Keeping Time with Earth’s Heaviest Element Thursday 13 September, 5.30pm |
| Professor Paul Hansen Department of Economics | Choices are the hinges of destiny” (Pythagoras, c. 500 BC)...Can we help people make better ones? Monday 17 September, 5.30pm |
Professor Patrick Manning | The Academic Clinician: oxymoron or reality? Tuesday 2 October, 5.30pm |
| Professor Greg Jones Department of Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of Medicine | A picture tells a thousand words; a visual journey in cardiovascular disease research Monday 8 October, 5.30pm |
| Professor Louise Signal - University of Wellington Director - HePPRU Regional Director - International Union of Health Promotion and Education | People, Power and Politics: Insights from an Anthropologist at Home Wednesday 10 October, 5.00pm |
| Professor Stephen Knowles Department of Economics - Otago Business School | Does Charity Begin at Home or Overseas? Monday 15 October, 5.30pm |
| Professor Michelle Thompson-Fawcett Department of Geography - Head of Department | Whakawhanaketanga toitῡ: A tale of tῡ cities Monday 29 October, 5.30pm |
Professor Merata Kawharu | Making the Strange Familiar Wednesday 14 November, 5.30pm |
| Professor Jim Cotter Department of Physical Education | Exploring exercise, the environment, and their extremes Wednesday 21 November, 5.30pm |
| Professor Sarah Derrett Department of Preventive and Social Medicine Dunedin School of Medicine | Public health and communities: people, power and policy Monday 26 November, 5.30pm |
2019 Inaugural Professorial Lectures
| Professor | Lecture Details |
|---|---|
| Professor Ruth Empson Department of Physiology, School of Biomedical Sciences | Tuesday 12 February 2019, 5.30pm |
| Professor Jessica Palmer Faculty of Law |
