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Previous Seminar events

Ngā kaupapa e heke mai

Clocktower.
01 Feb February

Green Hydrogen: Status, developments and implications

Wednesday, 1 February 2023 at 5:30pm - St David Lecture Theatre, University of Otago Dunedin campus
A public lecture by Professor Martin Kaltschmitt of Hamburg University of Technology, Germany.

08 Feb February

Serpentinite mud volcanoes as windows to the forearc of the Mariana Subduction Zone

Wednesday, 8 February 2023 at 1:00pm - Benson Common Room (Gn9, Geology Building), Dunedin and
Zoom via https://bit.ly/otagogeology
A seminar presented by Dr Catriona Menzies, Durham University. Geological processes at subduction zone margins control seismicity, plutonism/ volcanism, and geochemical cycling between the oceans, crust, and mantle.

13 Feb February

Reading Buddhist poetry from Southeast Asia – Lecture 1: Language

Monday, 13 February 2023 at 3:00pm - Information Services Building AV Conference Suite 1 W05b, University of Otago Dunedin campus, and online via Zoom
Many Buddhist poems from Southeast Asia are products of an interconnected web of translations between languages across the region over a period of centuries. How do these historical and linguistic layers affect how we read Buddhist poems?

14 Feb February

Reading Buddhist poetry from Southeast Asia – Lecture 2: Prayer

Tuesday, 14 February 2023 at 3:00pm - Information Services Building AV Conference Suite 1 W05b, University of Otago Dunedin campus, and online via Zoom
Most Buddhist poems in Southeast Asia begin and end with stanzas of homage, aspiration, or absolution. How does the logic of these distinct forms of Buddhist prayers and vows affect the formal structure and aesthetic sensibility of Southeast Asian poetry?

15 Feb February

Reading Buddhist poetry from Southeast Asia – Lecture 3: Debt

Wednesday, 15 February 2023 at 3:00pm - Information Services Building AV Conference Suite 1 W05b, University of Otago Dunedin campus, and online via Zoom
A common thread in Southeast Asian Buddhist literature is the repayment of debts to parents, teachers, and other revered figures.

16 Feb February

Reading Buddhist poetry from Southeast Asia – Lecture 4: Shock

Thursday, 16 February 2023 at 3:00pm - Information Services Building AV Conference Suite 1 W05b, University of Otago Dunedin campus, and online via Zoom
How do the aesthetics of shock shape the way poems are written and performed in Southeast Asia?

17 Feb February

Department of Medicine Seminar Series

Friday, 17 February 2023 at 12:30pm - 9th floor Seminar room, Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin
Department of Medicine Seminar Series: Mr Fraser Harrold, MBChB, PhD, FRCSEd (T&O) Senior Lecturer, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Otago – Improving the Assessment and Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers

 

Improving the Assessment and Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Friday, 17 February 2023 at 12:30pm - 9th Floor Seminar Room, Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin
Also online via Zoom
This talk lays out proposed research on the relationship between diabetic eye disease and diabetic foot disease using novel diagnostic tools.

 

Reading Buddhist poetry from Southeast Asia – Lecture 5: Pleasure

Friday, 17 February 2023 at 3:00pm - Information Services Building AV Conference Suite 1 W05b, University of Otago Dunedin campus, and online via Zoom
What is the role of pleasure in how Buddhists have written and received poetry in Southeast Asia over the past millennium?

24 Feb February

Department of Medicine seminar series: Aysu Shahin

Friday, 24 February 2023 at 12:30pm - 9th Floor Seminar Room, Dunedin Hospital, and online via Zoom
PhD student Aysu Shahin discusses her research on objective biomarkers of dietary intake.

 

COVID-19 in the UK: risk factors, infections, and mortality postcards

Friday, 24 February 2023 at 12:30pm -  University of Otago, Wellington - Department of Public Health, Room 4.4, Level 4, 29 Brandon St, Wellington.
Please join us for our first Public Health seminar of 2023.Hear from Professor Neil Pearce, Director of the Centre for Global Non-communicable Disease, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

 

Pass it on! The channeling method in consumer ethics

Monday, 6 March 2023 at 5:15pm - Burns 5, Arts Building, 95 Albany Street, Dunedin
How should consumers respond to the numerous ethical concerns about products they might want to buy? Ewan Kingston (College of Charleston) explores this topic in relation to the role NGOs might play.

08 Mar March

HEDC Learning Café – Introduction to AI tools in education (ChatGPT)

Wednesday, 8 March 2023 at 10:00am - Online via Zoom
This is the first of a series of learning cafés and research seminars on AI in higher education. In this café we will introduce AI in education, examine and discuss the recent explosion of AI tools in education, their potentials and risks.

09 Mar March

Implications of generative AI such as ChatGPT in higher education

Thursday, 9 March 2023 at 1:00pm - Otago University Media Productions Studio, Level 2, Owheo Building, 133 Union Street East, Dunedin
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and language models like ChatGPT in higher education has the potential to revolutionize the way students learn and teachers teach.

 

Under the Waves – Connecting with taonga species in Otago

Thursday, 9 March 2023 at 5:30pm - Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin.
From paua to parãoa, join marine science experts from Coastal People Southern Skies and the Department of Marine Science, University of Otago.

10 Mar March

Critical Disability Studies Research Network Hui

Friday, 10 March 2023 at 11:30am - Mark Parker Seminar Room, University College (Unicol), and online via Zoom (link to be provided following registration)
Interested in disability-related matters? Already researching in this area or would like to? We invite you to a Critical Disability Studies Research Network Hui – an opportunity to meet with like-minded others for lunch and discussion about disability research.

16 Mar March

TRN Seminar

Thursday, 16 March 2023 at 12:00pm - Zoom, Dunedin
Join us for our Transport Research Network (TRN) online seminar: Weather or not to go: The travel impact of nuisance flooding and heavy rain for disabled and older people. Presented by Emily Ward from the University of Canterbury. This is a free online TRN seminar, all welcome!

 

Fire and Climate across scales: A North American perspective

Thursday, 16 March 2023 at 12:00pm - Centre for Sustainability, Toroa Seminar Room, 563 Castle St, Dunedin
Fire and Climate across scales: A North American perspective. Seminar presented by Piyush Jain, Research Scientist with the Canadian Forest Service.

 

Bubbles, brands, bugs and bytes … an unlikely career journey into technology

Friday, 17 March 2023 at 1:00pm - Room 1.17, Level 1, Otago Business School, 60 Clyde Street, Dunedin
Kylie Jackson, Client Director, Datacom and IT Professionals NZ board member, has worked in several business areas, started up a games studio and now works for NZ’s largest IT company. One of the Business for Good seminar series.

20 Mar March

Inhaled formulations for respiratory diseases

Monday, 20 March 2023 at 1:00pm - The Biochemistry Building, 710 Cumberland Street, Ground Floor, Room BIG13, Dunedin.
Inhaled formulations for respiratory diseases. Presented by Associate Professor Shyamal Das from the School of Pharmacy.