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Inherent - Genes, behaviour, and demolishing the nature-nurture boundary
Inherent - Genes, behaviour, and demolishing the nature-nurture boundary
Starts: 5:30 pm
Ends: 1/02/2019 - 6:30 pm
Location: Quad 4 Lecture Theatre, Geology Building, University of Otago, Dunedin
Description: People commonly, but mistakenly, think of genes as dictating our makeup, our physiology and even our actions. Many attempts to explain behavioural patterns use “inherent” differences as an excuse, perhaps particularly when it comes to gender and the way men and women behave. But we can’t point the finger at biology to account for complex gender differences. More information.
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Polar and Alpine Microbiology Conference
Polar and Alpine Microbiology Conference
Starts: 12:00 am
Ends: 8/02/2019 - 11:59 pm
Location: University of Waikato, Hillcrest, Hamilton 3216, New Zealand
Description: Welcome to the first Polar and Alpine Microbiology conference in the Southern Hemisphere. This conference will continue with the tradition of a single session divided into thematic topics related to the exciting research being carried out globally in polar and alpine ecosystems. The conference is organised by The International Centre for Terrestrial Antarctic Research (ICTAR) at the University of Waikato and the local organising committee. The schedule will include four days of oral and poster presentations with a mid-week day off to participate in a number of organised day trips into the heart of New Zealand. Following the conference, we intend to host a series of workshops presenting some of the latest methods and developments in the field. Early-bird registration deadline: 10th December 2018 Conference Website here.
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Counting absolute numbers of molecules using unique molecular identifiers
Counting absolute numbers of molecules using unique molecular identifiers
Starts: 1:00 pm
Ends: 5/02/2019 - 2:00 pm
Location: Mac 1 Biology Building, 5 Symonds St, Auckland
Description: Speaker: Professor Arndt von Haeseler, Scientific Director at Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna Biocenter / Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Vienna/Medical University of Vienna. Counting DNA or RNA molecules using next-generation sequencing (NGS) suffers from amplification biases. Counting unique molecular identifiers (UMIs) instead of reads is still prone to over-estimation due to amplification and sequencing artifacts and under-estimation due to lost molecules. We present an algorithm that corrects for these errors, based on a mechanistic model of the PCR and sequencing process whose parameter have an immediate physical interpretation and are easily estimated. We demonstrate that our algorithm outputs essentially unbiased counts with substantially improved accuracy. More information.
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Lactoferrin for the developing brain: A promising milk protein?
Lactoferrin for the developing brain: A promising milk protein?
Starts: 2:00 pm
Ends: 5/02/2019 - 3:00 pm
Location: CBR Seminar Room 501-505, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland
Description: Preterm infants and growth-restricted newborns are at high-risk of brain injury that can lead to severe neurological disorders, cognitive deficits and psychiatric diseases. There are currently no therapeutic interventions available to protect the brain of these high-risk infants. Hypoxia-Ischemia, inflammation and fetal growth restriction are major triggers of preterm brain damage and altered brain development. Lactoferrin ß (LF) has roles in the iron homeostasis and anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities. A role of lactoferrin in brain development and cognition is also suggested. Using different rodent models of developmental brain injuries, we have shown that lactoferrin given through lactation reduces inflammation, neuro-axonal apoptosis, and attenuated macro- and micro-structural alterations. In conclusion, LF given as a supplement during lactation reduces acute and long-term cerebral alterations in chronic and acute developmental brain injury models. LF could play a key role in future neuroprotective strategies to protect the brain of the preterm and growth restricted infants. More information.
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The Stereoscopic 3D language in Argentinean Animated Feature Films since 2010
The Stereoscopic 3D language in Argentinean Animated Feature Films since 2010
Starts: 12:00 pm
Ends: 7/02/2019 - 1:00 pm
Location: Room 103, 81 Fairlie Terrace (FT81/103), Victoria University of Wellington
Description: This research looks at the specific language of Stereoscopic 3D techniques (S3D) in the framework of digital technology. It considers the relationship between aesthetic strategies and the forms of story-telling and representational content in Argentinean animated feature films that were produced and exhibited in 3DS since 2010. Considering that animation as a language has its own rules of design, composition, story-telling and assembly in the broad field of audiovisual disciplines (Saenz Valiente, 2009), this study seeks to systematize how the characteristics of the design, production and distribution processes of S3D were constituted. It contextualizes a practice of designer and aesthetic fact, historically at the beginning of the 21st century and in relation to the conditions established by digital technology that makes it possible to sustain the pipe line of production. More information.
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Electronic brief interventions for unhealthy alcohol use
Electronic brief interventions for unhealthy alcohol use
Starts: 12:00 pm
Ends: 8/02/2019 - 1:00 pm
Location: William James Seminar Room 103, William James Building, 275 Leith Walk, Otago Campus
Description: Internet and mobile phone interventions targeting unhealthy alcohol use have been available for more than 20 years. Enough research has accumulated for the conduct of systematic reviews supporting the overall efficacy of these interventions. This presentation will take a ‘trees in the forest’ approach – discussing the types of interventions available, and the issues with conducting research in this area – to provide a critical overview of current research as well as a discussion of future directions. Examples will be drawn primarily from the presenters’ own research in this area. Professor John Cunningham (PhD, experimental psychology, University of Toronto, 1995) works in the intersection between clinical and population health. His research is driven by the question, “how do people change from addictive behaviours?” To answer this question, John has combined population research methods with clinical and other research traditions. The findings from these studies have been translated into a series of brief interventions for people with unhealthy alcohol use, or other addictions concerns, that can be applied in treatment or community settings. John currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Addictions, is a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and a Professor at the University of Toronto. More information.
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Chemical & Process Engineering 75th Anniversary Event
Chemical & Process Engineering 75th Anniversary Event
Starts: 9:30 am
Ends: 8/02/2019 - 6:30 pm
Location: 48 Creyke Rd, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand
Description: 2019 will mark 75 years since the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering first opened its doors. We intend to celebrate this milestone with our alumni on Friday the 8th of February 2019. Over the course of the day we will revisit CAPE's past, explore our curent spaces and activities, and hear from some of our alumni. \ More information
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International Conference on Mindfulness
International Conference on Mindfulness
Starts: 12:00 am
Ends: 13/02/2019 - 11:59 pm
Location: Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Auckland, New Zealand
Description: Here, you will find information about the venue, registration, abstract submission, our keynote speakers, and the programme. Information will be updated regularly as it becomes available. The International Conference on Mindfulness – Asia Pacific (ICM-AP) will bring the ICM conference series to New Zealand. In 2016, ICM was held in Rome, and in July 2018, it will be in Amsterdam (www.cmc-ia.org/icm2018amsterdam). In 2019, we will add a unique South Pacific flavour! We are proud to host our international visitors during the time of the year when Auckland summer weather will present itself at its most magnificent. You will find that the conference has a large variety of topics and presentations to offer. There is a well-established evidence base for the health benefits of mindfulness, and we are now showing how it can be applied in a wide range of situations. Our keynote speakers have been carefully selected to showcase the variety of applications of mindfulness (such as in clinical situations and education), including in the Asia Pacific region. Conference Website here.
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Artificial Intelligence: Is this the end of the world as we know it?
Artificial Intelligence: Is this the end of the world as we know it?
Starts: 5:30 pm
Ends: 11/02/2019 - 6:30 pm
Location: University of Otago, 362 Leith St, North Dunedin, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
Description: By 2062, experts in artificial intelligence estimate we will have created machines as intelligent as humans. Is this the end or a new beginning? Professor Walsh is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives. He has been a leading voice in the discussion about autonomous weapons (aka "killer robots"), speaking at the UN in New York and Geneva on the topic. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and recipient of the NSW Premier's Prize for Excellence in Engineering and ICT. He appears regularly on TV and radio, and has authored two books on AI for a general audience, the most recent entitled 2062: The World that AI Made. For more info, see the University of Otago website.
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Focus on Fibre and Food Monitoring
Focus on Fibre and Food Monitoring
Starts: 12:00 am
Ends: 12/02/2019 - 11:59 pm
Location: Otago Museum, Dunedin
Description: Healthier Lives is pleased to share the details of an upcoming symposium on the role of dietary fibre in preventing and treating non-communicable diseases, and the importance of knowing what New Zealanders eat to inform effective health research and policy.
A line up of distinguished and up-and-coming researchers from New Zealand will be joined by international speakers, Emeritus Professor John Cummings, world expert on dietary fibre, and Tracey Hambridge, of Food Standards Australia New Zealand.
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Globalisation of Recreation and Ageing: Economic and Social Cost of Exclusion
Globalisation of Recreation and Ageing: Economic and Social Cost of Exclusion
Starts: 3:00 pm
Ends: 14/02/2019 - 5:00 pm
Location: University of Auckland, Tamaki Campus, 261 Morrin Rd, St Johns, Auckland 1072, New Zealand
Description: Jerome F. Singleton, PhD, CTRS is a Professor in the Recreation and Leisure Studies Department in the School of Health and Human Performance at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. His research is focused in the area of Leisure and Ageing. He was made a Fellow of the World Demographic Association, named Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association Professional of the Year and is a founding member of the Leisure and Aging Research Group, which was established in 2008. This free seminar is hosted by the New Zealand Society of Diversional and Recreational Therapists Inc and the School of Population Health. More information
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FinTechNZ & AI Forum NZ
FinTechNZ & AI Forum NZ
Starts: 5:00 pm
Ends: 14/02/2019 - 7:00 pm
Location: Xero Offices, Wellington
Description: Join AI Forum NZ and FinTechNZ at the first joint event of the Tech Alliance 2019 event series, looking at how AI is transforming customer service experience across the financial industry. For AI Forum dates and locations in Auckland and Christchurch, check techalliance.nz.
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Vitamin C for Cancer and Infection
Vitamin C for Cancer and Infection
Starts: 12:00 am
Ends: 16/02/2019 - 11:59 pm
Location: AUT
Description: Symposium – Vitamin C for Cancer and Infection: from Bench to BedsideThere has been an upsurge in new discoveries around the role of vitamin C in cancer and infection. Public awareness and the interest of many health professionals in vitamin C has increased following a number of recent reports of clinical benefit from vitamin C administration and new mechanistic insights are providing rationales for targeted clinical trials. This Symposium brings together the widest group of international experts working in the field of vitamin C, cancer and infectious diseases ever gathered in New Zealand. These comprise respected international research scientists and clinicians conducting clinical trials who will share their latest discoveries in the fields of cancer and infection. More info: http://vitaminc2019.co.nz/
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Commonwealth Ocean Acidification Action Group workshop
Commonwealth Ocean Acidification Action Group workshop
Starts: 12:00 am
Ends: 19/02/2019 - 11:59 pm
Location: University of Otago, 362 Leith St, North Dunedin, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
Description: The Commonwealth Ocean Acidification Action Group Workshop will bring approximately 45 international experts and Commonwealth marine policy and science officials together to share knowledge and experience to better understand and address the impacts of ocean acidification. Dr Christina McGraw of Otago’s Department of Chemistry, and Chair of the NZOAC Council, says the drop in pH of our oceans (or ‘ocean acidification’) in a relatively short historical timeframe makes the issue one of the most significant influencers of ocean health today. “Ocean Acidification is something that is happening now. We can’t stop it until we reduce carbon emissions, but we can start thinking about ways to plan and mitigate for it. The more people we have thinking about it now, the more ideas that can be generated towards the issue,” Dr McGraw says. The workshop is the first activity by the Commonwealth Ocean Acidification Action Group, which New Zealand volunteered to champion as part of its support for the Commonwealth Blue Charter – an agreement by all 53 Commonwealth countries to collaborate to solve ocean-related problems and sustainably manage the ocean. Manager of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Environment Division Rosemary Paterson said New Zealand was proud to support the Commonwealth Blue Charter. “Commonwealth countries are responsible for a third of the world’s national coastal waters and many of us are vulnerable to the impacts of ocean acidification, so it’s vital we step up to lead collective action on this significant threat facing the globe,” she says. More information is available on the Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre website.
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‘Cold and dry’ in the Antarctic dry valleys
‘Cold and dry’ in the Antarctic dry valleys
Starts: 1:00 pm
Ends: 18/02/2019 - 2:00 pm
Location: Mac 1 Biology Building, 5 Symonds St, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Description: The past five decades have seen a total paradigm shift in our understanding of the microbiology of Antarctic terrestrial environments, some of the most extreme habitats on Earth. From the culture-dependent studies of Dry Valley microbiology in the early 1970s prior to the US Mars Viking missions, through to the latest landscape-scale studies using advance metagenomics, international researchers have been fascinated by the ‘extreme’ microbial ecology of the eastern Antarctic desert soils. Over this period and with the dramatic evolution of molecular technologies, Professor Cowan and colleagues have come to understand some of the complexities, both in structure and function, of Antarctic soil microbial communities. These communities are more diverse, more complex, more spatially heterogeneous and more responsive than ever imagined. In this seminar Professor Cowan will summarise the 50-year evolution of Antarctic soil microbial ecology, highlighting both the revelations and the limitations of research on this harsh but charismatic environment. More information.
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Coming In Slantwise: Sexuality Education Otherwise
Coming In Slantwise: Sexuality Education Otherwise
Starts: 12:00 am
Ends: 20/02/2019 - 11:59 pm
Location: University of Canterbury, 20 Kirkwood Ave, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand
Description: This two day symposium provides an opportunity for both emergent and established scholars and practitioners in the field of sexuality education to engage with what more sexuality education could become. Responding to contemporary issues in sexuality and gender politics, the presenters will explore what might be productive about considering alternative approaches to sexuality education which come in "slantwise". For more info, see the University of Canterbury website.
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The health and developmental determinants of adolescent criminalisation
The health and developmental determinants of adolescent criminalisation
Starts: 10:30 am
Ends: 20/02/2019 - 11:30 am
Location: Beaven Lecture Theatre, 7th Floor, University of Otago, Christchurch
Description: Professorial Fellow Nathan Hughes, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, examines the influence of health and developmental difficulties on the risk of criminality and criminalisation among young people and young adults, with a particular focus on experiences of neurodevelopmental disorders and traumatic brain injury. Strong international evidence shows that neurodevelopmental disability, poor mental health, trauma, and experiences of child maltreatment all appear to increase the risk of exposure to criminal justice systems in adolescence. Come along to find out more about the persuasive evidence that could influence approaches to reforms relating to criminalisation on the basis of health and developmental difficulties. More information.
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What is the future of the engineer?
What is the future of the engineer?
Starts: 5:00 pm
Ends: 20/02/2019 - 7:00 pm
Location: Engineering Core, Creyke Road, Ilam Campus, Christchurch
Description: The University of Canterbury's engineering school presents this year's Guthrie Debate on the future of the engineer. Professor Peter Guthrie OBE FREng, will be joined by the following speakers for the debate: - Dr Duncan Webb – MP, Christchurch Central
- Shirley van Waveren – Business and International Trade Adviser, Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce
- Dr Kristen MacAskill – Fellow of St Edmund's College, Construction Engineering Masters Associate Course Director, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
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NZ Science System – Opportunities and Challenges
NZ Science System – Opportunities and Challenges
Starts: 2:30 pm
Ends: 21/02/2019 - 3:30 pm
Location: University of Waikato Campus, KG 11 Lecture Theatre
Description: Professor Gary Evans, Dr Rob Murdoch, and Professor Hamish Spencer, Science Advisors at MBIE, are giving a presentation on The New Zealand Research, Science and Innovation System. During the talk, they will offer some thoughts on the challenges and opportunities for the science system and the wider science community. All welcome to attend; no RSVP needed. More information.
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Quake kids: After 10,000 plus quakes, how do we help our tamariki?
Quake kids: After 10,000 plus quakes, how do we help our tamariki?
Starts: 7:00 pm
Ends: 21/02/2019 - 8:00 pm
Location: Central Lecture Theatres, Ilam Campus, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
Description: After 10,000+ quakes, how do we help our tamariki? On the eve of the eighth anniversary of the deadly 2011 Canterbury earthquake, a panel of mental health and education experts will discuss ways to help quake-affected children, who’ve been shaken by thousands of aftershocks and the chaos of living in the aftermath. How do we improve learning and behaviour of school children after a natural disaster? Panellists · Principal Investigator Associate Professor Kathleen Liberty, School of Health Sciences, UC College of Education,Health and Human Development · Maureen Allan, Cluster Manager, Te Paeroa Resource Teacher of Learning and Behaviour (RTLB) · John Bangma, Principal | Tumuaki of Mairehau Primary School, Lead Principal of Te Paeroa RTLB Cluster and former President of the Canterbury Primary Principals’ Association · Britta Liberty, educator, Bromtreeinquiry.com More information.
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Investigations in forensic linguistics
Investigations in forensic linguistics
Starts: 12:00 pm
Ends: 22/02/2019 - 1:00 pm
Location: Lecture theatre KG.02, University of Waikato - Hamilton Campus, Gate One Knighton Rd, Hillcrest, Hamilton 3216, New Zealand
Description: How accurately do people remember what they hear? How good are people at identifying voices? Can people disguise their writing enough to get away with a crime? These questions are investigated through forensic linguistics - the intersection of language and the law. In this talk, Corinne Seals, Senior Lecturer from the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies – Victoria, will present some of the science behind forensic linguistics to explain how this field assists in solving crimes and in supporting due process. Drawing upon real cases, this talk will show how forensic linguistics investigates the reliability of witness testimony as well as questions of authorship. More information.
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Symposium on childhood brain injury
Symposium on childhood brain injury
Starts: 4:00 pm
Ends: 22/02/2019 - 6:00 pm
Location: Undercroft 101, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
Description: Childhood TBI is associated with increased risk of school failure and negative outcomes over the life span. • This symposium will bring together research on difficulties associated with reintegration into the school seeing and community from a number of different countries (New Zealand, USA, Northern Ireland). • Presenters will provide an overview of practical tools and strategies for identifying and supporting children and young people following brain injury. More information.
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Nanotechnology at single-cell level
Nanotechnology at single-cell level
Starts: 1:00 pm
Ends: 25/02/2019 - 2:00 pm
Location: Mac 2 Biology Building, 5 Symonds St, University of Auckland, Auckland
Description: Speaker: Professor Cees Dekker, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Nanotechnology offers fantastic opportunities to contribute to biology. Professor Cees Dekker will present some recent examples from his lab where nanofabrication and single-molecule tools are used to unravel the biology of cells down to the single-molecule level. During this talk, he will specifically focus on his recent results on real-time imaging of DNA loop extrusion by condensin; solid state nanopores for manipulating single DNA and protein molecules; and from pattern formation of biomolecules in shaped bacteria towards the bottom up assembly of synthetic cells. More information.
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Debating forced medical feeding
Debating forced medical feeding
Starts: 1:00 pm
Ends: 25/02/2019 - 2:00 pm
Location: Room C31, University of Otago, Wellington
Description: Bioethicist Noam Zohar, of Bar Ilan University, will critically examine Israeli institutional responses to hunger strikes, mainly by Palestinian prisoners. A crucial part of the background is the unique clause 15 of Israel’s Patient’s Rights Act of 1996, which allows forced, life-saving treatment in the expectation of retroactive consent. Recently, however, the government initiated legislation aimed to mandate forced feeding for reasons that include not only concern for the hunger striker’s life, but also concern for state security. The National Bioethics Council unanimously opposed this expansion of grounds for forced treatment, though a minority within the Council endorsed placing hunger strikers in a separate category from other patients. I will discuss the ethical and political values expressed in this debate, as well as the dubious notion of retroactive consent. More information.
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Cannabis Conundrums symposium
Cannabis Conundrums symposium
Starts: 9:00 am
Ends: 26/02/2019 - 5:00 pm
Location: University of Otago, Wellington, 23 Mein St, Newtown, Wellington 6242, New Zealand
Description: The Cannabis Conundrums and Other Drug Policy Challenges symposium will offer a framework and evidence that underpins a public health approach. Meet our expertsThe Drug Foundation teaching team will be joined by Portugal's Dr João Goulão and Canada's Eric Costen, who were both instrumental to drug law reform in their own countries. MP Chloe Swarbrick will take us down the Parliamentary track, and Khylee Quince from AUT will draw on 20 years of experience to talk about the impacts of current law on Māori. General Manager of the Independent Police Conduct Authority, Warren Young led the Commission’s review of the Misuse of Drugs Act. More information.
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What NZ can learn about cannabis legalisation from Canada
What NZ can learn about cannabis legalisation from Canada
Starts: 5:15 pm
Ends: 26/02/2019 - 6:15 pm
Location: University of Otago, Wellington, 23 Mein St, Newtown, Wellington 6242, New Zealand
Description: How did Canada go about legalising and regulating cannabis? Learn from Eric Costen, a senior Canadian Department of Health official who spearheaded the design, development and implementation of new legislation to legalise and strictly regulate cannabis for non-medical purposes. More information.
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Legal liability and ethics in climate adaptation
Legal liability and ethics in climate adaptation
Starts: 12:00 pm
Ends: 27/02/2019 - 1:00 pm
Location: Virtual hui and various physical locations
Description: In the first Deep South Challenge seminar for 2019, Lisa Ellis and Catherine Iorns, researchers from different fields, look at the question of who should fund climate adaptation. Lisa Ellis's research report, How should the risks of sea-level rise be shared?, was published late last year, and received wide coverage in the media. In a recent long-form Stuff article, Beach Rd: The rising sea and the reshaping of New Zealand, Lisa said: "Sea-level rise as a whole poses the threat of a 'perfect moral storm of risk transfer' - without a solid, fair legal framework, the disadvantaged would bear the brunt of the problem... The problem is we don't have a predictable, legal framework outlying where those risks should lie." Lisa will be joined by Catherine Iorns, whose Deep South Challenge research project, Sea level rise, housing and insurance: Liability and compensation, is due for completion later this month. Catherine's research investigates the extent to which homeowners can or should rely on the EQC, or on local or central government, to compensate them if their homes become uninsurable, or uninhabitable, due to sea level rise, or because of associated climate risks like storm surges or coastal erosion. The research also looks into current trends in international climate litigation, and investigates the Crown’s Treaty of Waitangi obligations in relation to sea level rise. For more information, including how to join the virtual hui, check the Deep South Challenge website.
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Toward a good old age?
Toward a good old age?
Starts: 12:00 pm
Ends: 27/02/2019 - 1:00 pm
Location: Room PLB 2.22, Massey University, Palmerston North
Description: In adopting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, member states pledged to leave no one behind in their implementation. Yet there is evidence of increasing disparities across the life course and of deep exclusion of some older people. In this presentation, Dr Norah Keating will discuss her research on patterns of family care across the life course and their association with material resources and social connections in later life. The intersections between family care work and employment are highlighted to illustrate pressure points that can tip people into late life poverty and isolation. More information.
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Origins of Coding: DNA, RNA and Proteins
Origins of Coding: DNA, RNA and Proteins
Starts: 10:00 am
Ends: 27/02/2019 - 4:30 pm
Location: Biology Lecture Theatre 1, Old Biology Building, University of Auckland
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Societal cyber security
Societal cyber security
Starts: 10:00 am
Ends: 27/02/2019 - 11:00 am
Location: Room KG.11, University of Waikato, Hamilton
Description: The cyber security landscape has evolved over the last decade to the point where cyber-attacks now constitute serious threats to international security and stability. Often during this period cyber security has been treated as a national and military security issue, with responses to attacks formulated and implemented by military and intelligence agencies. This has created path dependencies in which tensions between the private sector and governments have worsened, where over-classification of cyber threats has occurred, and where the broader societal impacts of malicious use of the internet have been underestimated and sometimes ignored. Drawing on the concept of Societal Security established by the Copenhagen School of International Relations, Dr Joe Burton will be presenting on the need to reframe cyber security as an issue of societal security rather than national security. More information.
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Impact of electric vehicles on the NZ power system
Impact of electric vehicles on the NZ power system
Starts: 6:00 pm
Ends: 27/02/2019 - 7:00 pm
Location: E14, Engineering Core, Engineering Precinct, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
Description: In efforts to reduce emissions and fossil fuel dependence, the replacement of Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles with Electric Vehicles (EV) has been promoted as the future of transportation. In New Zealand, government policy is aimed at increasing the uptake of EVs. However, what is the true impact of adding electric vehicles to New Zealand? New UC research has addressed this question, modelling the effects of added EVs on the functionality of the NZ power system and the total effects on carbon emissions. Additionally, the power infrastructure (generation, distribution and vehicle charging equipment) required for EVs, the potential of EVs in the “smart-grid” and the embedded emissions and availability of battery materials are explored. The event will cover the research results followed by an open discussion on the role of EV’s in New Zealand’s future. More information.
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Oral traditional stories applied to digital artifacts
Oral traditional stories applied to digital artifacts
Starts: 10:30 am
Ends: 28/02/2019 - 11:30 am
Location: Cotton Club, Cotton 350, Victoria University, Wellington
Description: Construction of the indigenous artifact has been in practice for thousands of years however, many differing views concerning the creation of the digitally formatted artifact are beginning to emerge. The increased use of IT artifacts globally has spurred debate as to what degree indigenous community's benefit from the usability of such technologies. Seminar by Kevin Shedlock. More information.
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