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Macmillan Brown Lectures

27 August 2024

The Macmillan Brown Lectures are a prestigious series of public lectures given by scholars and prominent individuals at university centres in New Zealand. They explore a wide range of subjects about New Zealand and Pacific history and culture. Learn more.

HOW TO APPLY

You can find recordings of MacmillanBrown Lectures from 2005 to 2012 on the. The table below lists the lectures going back to 1941.

Next Lecture Series

Dilemmas of our time:Unconscious (implicit) bias and race relations

By Dr Benjamin Reese Jr

Venue:A3 Lecture theatre

Time:6-8pm, Thurs 25th July 2019

Refreshments will be served

ALL WELCOME

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List of Lectures

YEAR

LOCATION

LECTURER

TITLE

2019

Canterbury

Dr Benjamin Reese (Vice President Institutional Diversity, Duke University)

Subconscious bias and subtle racism in modern institutions

2018


Canterbury

Marama Davidson (Co-leader Green Party)

Lopeti Senituli (Advisor to Tongan PM)

Dr Iati Iati (Otago University)

Darren Brunk (Oxfam)

Distinguished panel discussion. Theme: Should New Zealand accept climate change induced migrants from the Pacific?

2017

Canterbury

Dr Satyendra Prasad (CEO, PNG-Australia governance facility)

Trajectories of socio-economic development in the Pacific

2016

Canterbury

Dr Colin Tukuitonga (Director General, Pacific Community)

The future of Pacific regionalism

2012

Canterbury

Right Honourable Murray McCully and Mr Sitiveni Rabuka

Democracy in the South Pacific with particular focus on recent history in Fiji

2010

Canterbury

Associate ProfessorRoger Fyfe

The World Under One Roof - who owns the past?

2009

Canterbury

Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal, Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith and Professor Michael Walker

Reflections on Maori, Pacific and (Western)/Scientific Knowledge

2008

Canterbury

ProfessorHelen Leach

From Kai to Kiwi Kitchen - tracing the development of New Zealand's Culinary traditions

2007

Canterbury

ProfessorCluny Macpherson

The Warm Winds of Change in the Contemporary Pacific

2006

Canterbury

Mr Jonathan Mane Wheoki

Pasifika Rising: A Cultural Strand in Contemporary New Zealand Art

2005

Canterbury

Associate ProfessorElizabeth Gordon

Finding our own Voice: The English language in New Zealand

2004

Auckland

Professor Albert Wendt

From the Vaipe to Waipapa: Autobiography as History

2003

Auckland

Dame Ann Salmond

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, or Why did Captain Cook die?

2000

Auckland

Professor Michael Peters

Education and Culture in Postmodernity: The Challenges for ΢ҕl New Zealand

1999

Victoria

Dr Nancy Pollock

Pacific Studies in New Zealand - Macmillan Brown's megalithic images as viewed through the 20th Century

1998

Canterbury

Dr Sir Tipene O'Regan

The Journey and The Dream

1997

Massey

Professor Kerry Howe

Nature, culture and history: The knowing of Oceania

1996

Waikato

Dr Robert Mahuta, Dr Tamati Reddy, Dr Richard Benton

Issues in Maori development: The Tainui settlement - vision and reality

1995

Canterbury

Dr William Sax

The Gods at play: Art, politics, religion

1994

Victoria

Dr James Belich

Race and New Zealand: Some social history of ideas

1993

Lincoln

Professor EmeritusKevin O'Connor

Traditional cultural values and the sustaining of life on earth

1992

Auckland

Professor Emeritus Bruce Biggs

Kimihea te mea ngaro: Seek that which is lost

1990

Waikato

Professor G M Walker andMr Robert Mahuta

University and the space where God was: Post hoc ergo Propter Hawke & Taawahio's dream

1989

Massey

Professor Ben Finney

From sea to space

1988

Canterbury

Dr Malama Meleisea

The seeds of change: Political development in Western Samoa

1987

Auckland

Dr Andaya

Glimpses of Indonesian history: A commentary on Macmillan Brown's 'The Dutch East'

1986

Otago

Professor EmeritusA Thornton

Maori oral literature as seen by a classicist

1983

Canterbury

Dr Margaret Orbell

Hawaiki: a new approach to Maori tradition

1982

Auckland

Professor W H Pearson

Rifled sanctuaries: Pacific Islands in Western literature

1981

Otago

Professor Peter J Wilson

Three problems in human evolution

1979

Canterbury

Dr. Richard D Bedford

Perceptions Past and Present of a Future for Melanesia

1978

Auckland

Professor Maurice P K Sorrenson

Some modern Maori myths and legends

1977

Otago

Professor EmeritusA Ross

New Zealand to 1947: A developing nation-state

1976

Victoria

Professor Roger Robinson

Satiric fantasies in modern fiction

1975

Canterbury

W J Gardner

Early university life in Australia and New Zealand

1974

Auckland

Lady Aileen Fox

Prehistoric Maori fortifications

1973

Otago

Professor Ernest A Horsman

On the side of the angels? Disraeli and the Nineteenth-century Novel

1972

Victoria

Professor W Oliver

New Zealand about 1890

1971

Canterbury

Professor Raymond A Copland

God above and God within: The literature of belief

1970

Auckland

Associate Professor E A Sheppard

Henry James: 'The Turn of the Screw'

1969

Otago

Associate Professor Gordon S Parsonson

Oceania in the age of imperial Spain

1968

Victoria

D F Crozier

Tongan and papalangi: Anomie in Polynesia

1967

Canterbury

Professor John C Garrett

Utopias in literature since the romantic period

1966

Auckland

Professor F S Scott

The art of the Icelandic family sagas

1965

Otago

Professor William P Morrell

British policy and the Maori wars

1963

Victoria

Montague H Holcroft

Islands of innocence: the childhood theme in New Zealand fiction

1962

Canterbury

Ngaio Marsh

Three-cornered world: the producer, the actor, the audience

1959

Otago

Jack Golson

Prehistory in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

1959

Victoria

Dan M Davin

Joyce Cary

1957

Auckland

S Musgrove

Shakespeare and Jonson

1957

Canterbury Museum

Roger S Duff

The settlement of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands

1943

Victoria

Heinrich F von Haast

The lectures and articles of the late Professor John Macmillan Brown on Shakespeare and the Elizabethan drama

1941

Canterbury College

Alexander G Henderson

John Macmillan Brown Lectures

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