From: thetroll@rata.vuw.ac.nz (The Troll)
Subject: What's On At Victoria University
Organization: Computing Serv. Ctr, Victoria Uni., Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 04:02:51 GMT

Saturday, 5 September

Wellington Lieder Group:  Celebrate Spring by coming to the group's Spring 
meeting, at which songs about Spring by (inter alia) Beethoven, Schubert, 
Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wolf and Strauss will be performed.  Enquiries to Peter 
Russell ext. 8820 please.  All are welcome.
Venue:	Adam Concert Room
Time:	4.00 to 6.00 p.m.

Centre for Continuing Education Seminar P Art and Ideas:  Lesleigh Salinger, 
Arts Administrator, freelance writer and lecturer in the visual arts, speaks 
on an alternative approach to the history of art and explores the sources 
artists turn to for ideas and inspiration.  The fee for two sessions is $30; 
reduced fee for staff, students and beneficiaries is $20.  Please direct 
enquiries to 471-5356 or ext. 5356.  Venue:	Seminar Room, 86 Fairlie Terrace
Time:	1.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday, 7 September

GSBGM Visiting Speakers in Information Systems:  Peter Abotomey, General 
Manager Information Technology, ANZ Banking Group, will speak on Technology in 
Banking.
Venue:	Murphy 101
Time:	1.00 to 2.00 p.m.

Association of Victoria University Women Special September Meeting:  Margaret 
Clark and Elizabeth McLeay, Department of Politics, and Rowena Cullen, 
Department of Library and Information Studies, will speak on Electoral 
Referendum P Key Issues.
Venue:	Staff Club, Rankine Brown
Time:	5.00 to 6.30 p.m.;  drinks will be available          		for purchase 
from 4.30 to 6.30 p.m.

Wednesday, 9 September

Economics Group Seminar:   Dr Jagadish Guria (Land Transport, Ministry of 
Transport) will speak on The Expected Loss of Life Quality from Traffic 
Injuries Requiring Hospitalisation.
Venue:	Murphy 506
Time:	12.10 p.m., with tea and coffee available 		from 12 noon

Linguistics Research Seminar:  Liz Pearce and Janet Holmes will speak on 
Reports from Australia.
Venue:	von Zedlitz 711
Time:	1.00 p.m. prompt

Victoria University of Wellington Toastmasters Club:  The Toastmasters Club 
welcomes visitors and new members.
Venue:	Meeting Room 3, Student Union Building
Time:	5.30 to 7.30 p.m.

Interdisciplinary Seminar (under the auspices of the Department of Sociology 
and Social Work):  John Pratt will speak on The History of Punishment:  
Foucault and Post-Foucault.
Venue:	von Zedlitz 312
Time:	12.15 p.m., tea and coffee are available             		from 12 noon

Stout Research Centre Seminar:  Harvey McQueen will speak on 'A nation doomed, 
doomed to pass':  the Maori as seen by some nineteenth-century poets.
Venue:	Stout Research Centre, 12 Wai-te-ata Road
Time:	4.10 p.m., with tea and coffee available          		from 3.45 p.m.

Medical School Lecture:  Professor Laurence Malcolm, Community Health, will 
speak on GP Fundholding:  Experimental side show or main event of the U.K. 
health reforms:  lessons for New Zealand.
Venue:	Small Lecture Theatre, Academic Block
Time:	12 noon

School of Biological Sciences Seminar:  Dr Chris Simon, Department of Ecology 
and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, will speak on The 
evolution of 13- and 17-year periodical cicadas based on DNA, allozyme and 
morphological data.   All welcome.
Venue:	Kirk 301
Time:	12 noon

Art  Exhibition:   Visions of Europe and an Academic Alphabet by Jonathen 
Dreadon and Joy Penney opens today on the ground floor of the Main Library.  

Thursday, 10 September

Asian Studies Seminar:   Don Borrie, Chairman, NZ-DPR of Korea Friendship 
Society, will speak on The DPR of Korea P The Hermit Kingdom Emerges.
Venue:	Laby prefabs LBS 3
Time:	4.10 to 5.00 p.m.

School of Music Lunchtime Concert:  Songs of the 1880's of Brahms, Mahler, and 
will feature Peter Russell, baritone, and Margaret Nielsen, piano.  Also 
Kodaly Duo P James Tenant, cello, Douglas Beilman, violin.
Venue:	Adam Concert Room
Time:	1.10 p.m.

School of Music Composition Workshop:  Edwin Carr will talk about his music, 
with illustrations.  His talk will be followed by a short concert of his music 
at 5.00 p.m.
Venue:	Adam Concert Room
Time:	3.00 to 4.30 p.m.

Anthropology Department Staff/Student Seminar:  Dr Nancy Pollock will speak on 
Alcohol, Kava and Other Substances: Constructive drinking in Polynesia.   All 
interested are welcome.
Venue:	Reo Fortune Seminar Room, Jenness House,      		14 Wai-te-ata Road
Time:	9.30 a.m.

Friday, 11 September

Institute of Statistics and Operations Research Wider ISOR Seminar:  Tasha 
Wallis will speak on What is Policy Analysis?  
Venue:	Murphy 101
Time:	12 noon.

Women's Studies Seminar:  Tania Rei from the Women's Studies Research Centre 
will speak about researching the Maori Women's Welfare League for Suffrage 93.
Venue:	20 Kelburn Parade
Time:	1.00 to 2.15 p.m


Saturday, 12 September

Centre for Continuing Education Seminar P Art and Ideas:  Lesleigh Salinger, 
Arts Administrator, freelance writer and lecturer in the visual arts, speaks 
on an alternative approach to the history of art and explores the sources 
artists turn to for ideas and inspiration.  The fee for two sessions is $30; 
reduced fee for staff, students and beneficiaries is $20.  Please direct 
enquiries to 471-5356 or ext. 5356.  Venue:	Seminar Room, 86 Fairlie Terrace
Time:	1.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday, 15 September

Centre for Continuing Education:  David Hamer, Professor of History and 
Assistant Vice-Chancellor, will give this first lecture in a series of five 
taking a look at New Zealand in the 1890's entitled The 1890's:  Decade of 
Transition.  The fee for the series is $40;  reduced fee is $15 for staff, 
students and beneficiaries.  The fee per session is $9 and $6 respectively.
Venue:	Hugh Mackenzie 5
Time:	7.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.

Centre for Continuing Education:  David Groves, Senior Lecturer in Italian, 
offers an introduction to the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, an 
extra-ordinary poem of a visionary journey.  Sessions are designed as a 
sequential adventure of reading.  Knowledge of Italian is not essential.  The 
fee for six sessions is $78;  reduced fee is $54 for staff, students and 
beneficiaries.  Please direct enquiries to 471-5356 or ext. 5356.
Venue:	Seminar Room, 86 Fairlie Terrace
Time:	7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.

School of Music Concert:  Music for percussion and dance composed by John 
Psathas, presented by members of the Wellington Percussion Ensemble.
Venue:	Adam Concert Room
Time:	8.00 p.m.

Wednesday, 16 September

Australian Institute of Tertiary Education Administrators:  Speakers will be 
Rory O'Connor,  New Zealand Qualification Authority;  Charles Edlin, Stratemm 
Pacific Ltd;  and David Maloney,  Interlock Industries Ltd.   The fee is $15 
for members and $20 for non-members, payable to AITEA, C/- John Neas, The Open 
Polytechnic of New Zealand, Private Bag  31-914, Lower Hutt;  telephone 
560-5744;  fax 560-5633.  
Venue:	61 P 63 Abel Smith Street, Wellington
Time:	5.30 p.m.

Economics Group Seminar:  Dr Rod St Hill (ECON, Lincoln) will speak on A 
Post-Keynesian Perspective on the Causal Relationship Between Financial and 
Economic Development in Low Income Countries.
Venue:	Murphy 506
Time:	12.10 p.m., with tea and coffee available       		from 12 noon

Stout Research Centre Seminar:  Adrienne Simpson will speak on Footlights and 
Fenians:  the first New Zealand tour of the Simonsen opera company.
Venue:	Seminar Room, Stout Research Centre,                 		12 Wai-te-ata 
Road
Time:	4.10 p.m., with tea and coffee available                 		from 3.45 
p.m.

Linguistics Research Seminar:  Jeffrey Waite, Ministry of Education, will 
speak on New Zealand Languages Policy P Update and Discussion.
Venue:	von Zedlitz 711
Time:	1.00 p.m. prompt

Interdisciplinary Seminar (under the auspices of the Department of Sociology 
and Social Work):  Joy Anderton will speak on Having the Time of their Lives:  
Older Women and Recreation, Stage 2.
Venue;	von Zedlitz 312
Time:	12.15 p.m., with tea and coffee available         		from 12 noon.

School of Architecture Colloquium:  John Storey will speak at this meeting.  
Coffee and croissants will be served for a nominal fee.
Venue:	Ground Floor, 89 Fairlie Terrace
Time:	12.30 p.m.

Wellington School of Medicine Lecture:  Dr Chris Walls, Manager of 
Occupational Health Services, and Mr Frank Darby, Scientist of OSH, Department 
of Labour, will speak on Occupational Overuse Syndrome.
Venue:	Small Lecture Theatre, Level D, Academic   		Block, Wellington School 
of Medicine
Time: 	12 noon

Thursday, 17 September

Department of Geology Quaternary Tephra Workshop:  Several speakers will 
present talks highlighting recent advances in tephra studies with emphasis on 
widespread Quaternary rhyolite tephras in the New Zealand region.  Contact 
people are Brad Pillans or Paul Froggatt.
Venue:	RSES Seminar Room, CA 3087, Cotton
Time:	1.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.





Asian Studies Seminar:  Heather Baigent, North Asia Division, MERT, will speak 
on Trends in China's Foreign Policy.
Venue:	Laby Prefabs LBS 3
Time:	4.10 to 5.00 p.m.

Energy and Natural Resources Law Association of New Zealand Inc. Seminar:  
Geof Shirtcliffe will speak on Access to Essential Facilities in Electricity 
Supply.  Registration is free but please register by phoning Fran Jenkins on 
473-6661.
Venue:	The Council Room, 8th Floor, NZ Law                  		Society, 26 
Waring Taylor Street
Time:	5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.

School of Music Lunchtime Concert:  Music by Dutch composers will be 
introduced and performed by Alison Isadora and Jan-Bas Bollen.
Venue:	Adam Concert Room
Time:	1.10 p.m.

School of Music  Composition Workshop:   MUSI 303 Compositions:  student 
performances of music by third-year composition students.
Venue:	Adam Concert Room
Time:	3.00 to 4.30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, 
18 and 19 September

Centre for Continuing Education Seminar:   Professor Colin Bundy of the 
Institute for Historical Research, University of the Western Cape, South 
Africa, will address this seminar entitled Responses to a New South Africa.   
The fee is $45, which includes refreshments and Saturday lunch, and the 
reduced fee is $35.  For enrolment and enquiries please telephone 471-5356.
Venue:	Hugh Mackenzie 6
Time:	7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. on Friday
		9.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. on Saturday

Friday, 18 September

Creche Fund Raising:  The Big Bumble Bee Debate:  Fran Wilde, Stephen Rainbow 
and Ruth Gotlieb against Denis Welch, Raybon Kan and Kerre Woodham will debate 
That New Zealand is Still the Land of Milk and Honey.  Tickets cost $15 and 
are available at 18 Kelburn Parade Room 103.  Please direct enquiries to 
Shirley, ext. 8976.  Proceeds will go towards outdoor play equipment for the 
University Staff Creche.
Venue:	Union Hall
Time:	8.00 p.m.





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