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Weekly newsletter for University staff | 6 July 2015

Diary Monday 6 July People and Places 2015: Universitas 21 Undergraduate Research Conference Runs until 10 July, the University of Auckland. The University of Auckland is proud to host the Universitas 21 (U21) Undergraduate Research Conference (URC), an event that each year attracts excellent students from a wide range of disciplines. Participants will have the opportunity to polish their presentation skills, showcase their research and connect with students from around the world. In addition to the academic programme, the event will include fieldtrips and social activities. Up to three students enrolled at the University of Auckland will be selected to participate in this event alongside students from our 25 U21 partner universities. About the 2015 Conference: Our world is one of astonishing environmental and cultural diversity that is in a state of constant and often rapid transformation. Peoples and places interact in a myriad of ways, on scales ranging from local to global, shaping both human experiences and the landscapes that surround us. Research topics encompassed by this theme can include those relating to climate change, migration, physical and cultural landscapes, identity, indigenous studies, social structures and many more. Beyond that, Peoples and Places lends itself to applications for policy and practice in a wide variety of fields including education, business, law, health, international development and planning. The research topic opportunities are as diverse as the world in which we live. For further information and to apply, please visit www.auckland.ac.nz/u21-opportunities Winter Week on Campus Runs until 10 July. Lectures for adults with a love of learning and an interest in key issues of our time. University academics who are both expert in their field and passionate about teaching adults will deliver three lectures each day on topics such as Nationalism, David Brubeck and the evolution of Māori Blues, predator free New Zealand and geothermal energy. For more information on the full programme,

enrolment options and registration fees, phone 0800 864 266, email conted@auckland.ac.nz or visit www.cce.auckland.ac.nz Magna Carta 800: Magna Carta and the Kiwi constitution 6.45-8pm, Lecture Theatre 4, Owen G Glenn Building,12 Grafton Road, Auckland. As part of the University of Auckland’s week long public lecture series for the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, this session looks back upon the roles of Magna Carta in New Zealand’s constitutional traditions and examines its present roles, both in law and in the constitutional imagination. Speakers: Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias, Dr Lindsay Diggelmann, Hon. Judith Collins. Chaired by Dr Jennifer Lees-Marshment and Dr Stephen Winter, Politics and International Relations, University of Auckland.

Tuesday 7 July Magna Carta 800: The Māori Magna Carta - Waitangi and Beyond 6.45-8pm, Lecture Theatre 4, Owen G Glenn Building,12 Grafton Road, Auckland. The Treaty of Waitangi has been said to be the ‘Māori Magna Carta’. What role has the connection between Magna Carta and the Treaty played in Māori politics and how is that role changing as the in the context of present-day Treaty politics? Speakers: Hon Chris Finlayson, Attorney-General; Isaac Hikaka, LeeSalmonLong Barristers and Solicitors; Judge Carrie Wainwright, Waitangi Tribunal. Chair: Lisa Chant, Senior Lecturer, Inter-professional Health Studies, AUT.

Wednesday 8 July Magna Carta 800: Magna Carta online - security and privacy in the digital age 6.45-8pm, Lecture Theatre 4, Owen G Glenn Building,12 Grafton Road, Auckland. Last September, Tim Berners-Lee, the ‘Inventor of the Internet’, said that the world needs an online ‘Magna Carta’. How can the history and principles of Magna Carta inform contemporary debates over digital privacy and security?

Speakers: Howard Broad, CNZM, Deputy Chief Executive, Security and Intelligence, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Joy Liddicoat, Assistant Privacy Commissioner; Martin Cocker, Executive Director, NetSafe. Chaired by Rod Oram.

Thursday 9 July Speed Flatting 1-2pm, ispace, Level 4, Room 491, Kate Edger Information Commons Building, 9 Symonds Street. Are you looking for a place to live but don’t want to live alone? Do you have a flat and are on the lookout for some flatmates? Come along to one of our Speed Flatting sessions and match yourself up with potential housemates! Nibbles and a bus tour of available apartments around Auckland are provided after the session. To register your attendance to this Speed Flatting session, please email advisoryaccom@auckland.ac.nz Cost free, but please email to register. Magna Carta 800: Magna Carta beyond the Commonwealth: Migration and refugees 6.45-8pm, Lecture Theatre 4, Owen G Glenn Building,12 Grafton Road, Auckland. Migration presents major global challenges. How should the principles of Magna Carta inform our understanding and practice? Speakers: Grant Bayldon, Director, Amnesty International; Michael White, Senior Legal and Policy Analyst, Human Rights Commission; Andrew Lockhart, National Manager, Refugee and Protection Unit, Immigration NZ. Chaired by Dr Anita Lacey, Politics and International Relations, University of Auckland.

Friday 10 July Thirty years after the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior: The past and future of pacific environments and environmentalism 5-6pm, Fale Pasifika, Building 275. When French terrorists bombed Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985, they tried to smash the environmentalist movement’s radical challenge to environmental politics in the Pacific. The Rainbow Warrior sunk, but was its message silenced? Thirty years later, this

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panel will assess: What is the meaning of the Rainbow Warrior in the history of Pacific environmentalism? How have Pacific environments rebounded or worsened in the last 30 years? How have the ecological challenges facing Pacific people changed since 1985? What role can environmentalism play in the Pacific today? Presenters: Ryan Tucker Jones, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland; Trish Tupou, University of Auckland; Sue Taei, Conservation International; Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato; Carmen Gravatt, Greenpeace International. All welcome. Magna Carta 800: Magna Carta - Visions for the future 6.45-8pm, Lecture Theatre 4, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland. How does Magna Carta’s past inform our expectations of the future? What challenges await? This is part of the University of Auckland’s week long public lecture series for the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. Anyone can attend, but please register in advance to guarantee your place as we have limited lecture capacity. Speakers: Andrew Little, Leader of the Labour Party; Patrick Riley, Deputy Head of Mission, British High Commission New Zealand; Dr Chris Jones, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Canterbury; Johanna McDavitt, JustSpeak.