Next Week in Focus Weekly Newsletter for University Staff

Next Week In Focus Weekly newsletter for University staff | 4 August 2014

with Te Rakau. When he had an affair with Te Accelerator Services at Callaghan Innovation Diary Rakau’s daughter, Tungaroa, he was expelled and Wared Seger, founding CEO of Parrot from the mission. Kendall was enthralled by Analytics and Chiasma Alumnus and more. Monday 4 August Māori cosmological ideas and their expression Don’t miss this chance to network and gain Centre for Addiction research in carving, te reo and the human body. This real industry insight from people, see you there! seminar lecture reflects upon the entanglements Speakers at Synapse 2014: Professor John Cunningham, Australian between worlds in the exchanges between Chris Somogyi: General Manager of National University: Internet interventions for Thomas Kendall and Te Rakau, Tungaroa and Accelerator Services, Callaghan Innovation; people with hazardous alcohol use. 5-6pm, Hongi Hika, and the futures they might flash up Candace Kinser: CEO, New Zealand Function Room 220, Building 730, Tāmaki for us two hundred years later. Technology Industry Association; Wared Seger: Innovation Campus, 261 Morrin Road, St Johns. Visit http://www.winterlectures.ac.nz Founding CEO of Parrot Analytics, Chiasma Professor John Cunningham works in the Alumnus. intersection between clinical and population Piano Master Class Visit www.chiasma.org.nz/synapse2014 health. His research is driven by the question, Henry Wong Doe. 3-5pm, Music Theatre, 6 “how do people change from addictive Symonds Street. Free. behaviours?” To answer this question, John Henry Wong Doe is a prize-winner in Wednesday 6 August has combined population research methods the Sydney, Busoni and Rubinstein piano Not for profit day with clinical and other research traditions. competitions. Henry studied at Indiana Join the Volunteer Hub and Career The findings from these studies have been University Bloomington before earning a Development and Employment Services translated into a series of brief interventions Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The - recognising and celebrating volunteers for people with hazardous alcohol use, or other Juilliard School and is currently Assistant and exploring opportunities to work in the addictions concerns, that can be applied in Professor of Piano at Indiana University of charitable sector. treatment or community settings. Pennsylvania. Vist www.auckland.ac.nz/whatson Professor John Cunningham is currently the Proudly presented by the Auckland Deputy Director of the National Institute for Philharmonia Orchestra (APO) as part of the Open Kitchen: Coffee appreciation Mental Health Research at the Australian APO Connecting programme. Learn about the process of coffee in our coffee National University, Canberra. Prior to Please RSVP to [email protected] appreciation session. See a demonstration taking up this position, John was the Canada of the roasting process and learn to make a Research Chair in Brief Interventions for Exhibition opening Addictive Behaviours at the Centre for barista quality coffee on an espresso machine. Whakaahua | Portrait. 4.30pm, Whare George Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), $30 for students. Fraser, 25a Princes Street. Runs until 15 August. University of Toronto, Canada. Visit www.openkitchen.auckland.ac.nz Bachelor of Fine Arts Māori and Pasifika Tuākana students reflect on the elements Violin master class and recital required to create a successful contemporary Giselle Hillyer. 10am-2pm, Music Theatre, 6 Tuesday 5 August portrait. The show features photography, Symonds Street. Third Winter Lecture painting, sculpture, hybrid contemporary- Giselle Hillyer is a violinist who studied with Jan Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond: traditional Polynesian craft, video and Tawroszewicz at the University of Canterbury, World travellers: Thomas Kendall, Te Rākau installation.Artists include: Taipari Connelly, Beryl Kimber at the University of Adelaide and Hongi Hika. 1-2pm, Maidment Theatre, Annalise Enoka, Holly Houpapa, Ngaumu and Michele Auclair at the New England Alfred Street. Jones, Brook Konia, Jake Krause, Ali Sydenham, Conservatory in Boston. Giselle currently On 10 June 1814, Thomas Kendall landed at Serene Timoteo, Ashley Tofa, Uma Tuffnell. teaches the violin and viola in Northwest Idaho the Bay of Islands, one of two missionaries sent in the United States. on a first exploratory voyage to New Zealand. Synapse 2014 At 1pm Giselle will perform music for solo Ruatara, a young chief whom he had met at 6.10pm, Fisher & Paykel Auditorium, Owen G violin by Johann Sebastian Bach, Helen Port Jackson, took them to Rangihoua, which Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road. Bowater, Gillian Whitehead, Jack Body and became the site of the first mission station. Free. Niccolò Paganini. There he introduced them to Te Rakau, the It’s time to get out and explore the industries Free. Queries to [email protected] principal priest, and his kinsman Hongi Hika, a you could be entering after you graduate. At great warrior and leading aristocrat in the Bay. Synapse you will get to speak to inspirational Thomas Kendall later forged close relationships industry leaders and people from New Libraries and Learning Services with these men, travelling with Hongi Hika Zealand’s top science companies, come join us workshops to England where they worked with Professor for this fantastic opportunity! E-books: Searching and using online books. Lee at Cambridge on a grammar of Māori, The speakers you’ll get to hear from this year 12noon-1.30pm, Room IC 231, Level 2, Kate and studying Māori language and cosmology are Chris Somogyi, the General Manager of Edger Information Commons, City Campus.

The University of Auckland | 1 This workshop introduces effective ways to Politics and International Relations This is a free event with a focus on career find, download and manage electronic books seminar pathways. We ask the panel about music relevant to your area of research. The main Professor Peter Davis: “Valuing” the social income streams and career options within focus is on EBSCO eBook Collection, Ebrary, sciences: an agenda for hard times. 4-5pm, the music industry in the digital age and and major subject specific e-book collections. Federation of Graduate Women’s Suite, Old beyond. We will discuss current artists and Book at http://library.auckland.ac.nz/booking/ Government House. management, how they create longevity and Queries to learningskillsworkshops@auckland. It is clear that current policy settings in the offer advice for upcoming artists and those ac.nz or ext 89744. tertiary sector - including research funding - interested in other avenues of the music industry, including management, music writing, favour the STEM subjects (science (including medicine), technology, engineering and music law, artist development, and music Thursday 7 August mathematics). This is not unique to New licensing. The changing landscape of Zealand. This seminar will outline various Queries to [email protected] corporate law conference potential strategies that the social sciences 8.45am -5.30pm, Pullman Hotel, Waterloo - including political science - can deploy in Quadrant. a programme of regrouping, renewal and Saturday 9 August Keynote speaker - Professor Joe McCahery. response. In particular, I will draw on the Exhibition talk The changing landscape of corporate law will findings of a recently published book, “The 1pm, Gus Fisher Gallery, 74 Shortland Street. be examined by eminent international and Impact of the Social Sciences”, by Simon John Pusateri and Pepe Long from Auckland local presenters at a one-day conference in Bastow and colleagues. While this book is UK- Print Studios explain how their business runs, Auckland to mark 20 years of the Companies focussed, their work has broader application. with reference to the New Zealand artists with Act 1993. Although the tenor of my argument will whom they work. The timely event will look at the impact of be influenced by my experience of working www.gusfishergallery.auckland.ac.nz those legislative innovations on the practice in a predominantly applied and research- of corporate law, and also look forward to intensive setting, I believe there are lessons see how our company law might adapt and and discussion points for the wider academic Sunday 10 August develop in a fast changing world.Conference agenda of the social sciences, including New Clavichord Premiere Recital speakers will question whether this law has political science. James Tibbles. 5-7pm, Gus Fisher Gallery, 74 adapted sufficiently to current business Peter Davis is Professor of Sociology, at the Shortland Street. conditions, and make suggestions for change. University of Auckland. Until recently he was James Tibbles is one of New Zealand’s leading The event, supported by the Legal Research Senior Editor (Health Policy), Social Science players of historic keyboards and a key figure Foundation, University of Auckland Law and Medicine and was the recipient of the in New Zealand’s early music scene. Head School and the Law Foundation, will also mark New Zealand Medical Association’s highest of the Early Music Department in the School Professor John Farrar’s career in New Zealand, honour, the Chairman’s Award in 2003. Peter of Music, James will present works by Bohm, Australian and UK company law, where he has has cross-appointments in the Department Bach, Turk and Haydn played on the School of been an influential figure since the 1970s. of Statistics and in the School of Population Music’s new clavichord kindly donated by Anna The keynote speaker is Professor Joe Health, and also heads the COMPASS (Centre Nathan. McCahery, a Professor of International of Methods and Policy Application in the Social Hosted by the School of Music. Cost: $15-$20. Economic Law at Tilburg University, where Sciences) Research Centre. Queries to [email protected] he is also a Fellow of the Tilburg University Book at iTICKET. Law and Economics Centre and the European 3 Minute Thesis finals Banking Centre. He is programme director 5.30-7pm, Level 0, OGGB4, 12 Grafton Road, of the MSc and LLM in Finance and Law at City Campus. Duisenberg School of Finance in Amsterdam. Come and support our 3 Minute Thesis The Companies Act 1993 was a watershed finalists. Hear some interesting research piece of legislation. It marked a turning away delivered in a quick and engaging way. There from an approach to corporate law where New will be food and entertainment. Bring your Zealand essentially adopted UK legislation, ticket along to stand in line to win some great to the adoption of legislation that had its audience spot prizes. foundations in North American legislation but Please register for your free ticket at with its own idiosyncratic New Zealand flavour. https://3minutethesis.eventbrite.co.nz Many parts of the legislation were ground breaking with the codification of directors’ duties and the statutory derivative action Friday 8 August legislative innovations that have ironically Lunchtime Concert been followed in the UK 2006 Companies Act String and woodwind students. 1.05-1.55pm, (although the UK legislators may not view their Music Theatre, 6 Symonds Street. adoption in quite that way. A series showcasing School of Music students The conference will be relevant to New in both individual and ensemble settings. Zealand practitioners and academics. The Free. Queries to [email protected] distinguished panel of international speakers will set out international developments and the Music industry road map seminar New Zealand speakers will discuss the impact 1.30-3pm, Studio One, Kenneth Myers Centre, of those international developments on the 74 Shortland Street. New Zealand corporate law landscape. The University of Auckland School of Music with support from Recorded Music NZ are proud to present this year’s music industry road map seminar 2014.

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