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The Royal Society of New Zealand is hosting lectures by women to mark its' 150-year anniversary

Five Massey women advisers will present their account in a Royal Society of New Zealand abode alternation adulatory women’s discoveries as allotment of its 150th year anniversary.

From acquirements a adopted accent to the role of amusing media in sport; how the arts can accouterment big issues; Age-old Apple access to Aotearoa artists; and maths with a Pasifika aberration – the women represent acid bend analysis from the College of Abstract and Amusing Sciences, and the College of Health.

The bristles accept been called for the Great Kiwi Research: Sharing women's discoveries alternation to mark the 150th ceremony celebrations of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, starting at the Manawatū campus abutting week. Four added double-billed lectures will be captivated on the Wellington and Auckland campuses in November.

In the aboriginal of the bifold billings, languages and activated linguistics able Professor Cynthia White, from the School of Humanities, will allotment her analysis on accent learning, while Dr Ashleigh-Jane Thompson will altercate the appulse of amusing media in action at the Manawatū campus on October 25.

Professor White will battle with questions acclamation the allowances and difficulties of acquirements addition accent from a New Zealand perspective, acknowledging the acceptation of accent acquirements for individuals, and what’s agitative about new online accent acquirements opportunities.

Professor White has appear broadly on ambit and online learning, affect in accent learning, abecedarian autonomy, and abecedary character and bureau and is currently the Director of the Massey University-Beijing Accent and Ability University Analysis Centre.

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Dr Thompson, a academician in Action Management and Coaching in the School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition, will allocution on Performing in the spectacle: 21st-century Gladiators in the modern-day Coliseum.

She will analyze how selfies, hashtags and Instagram, and amusing media about – as common genitalia of avant-garde customer ability – are axial to “the adjacency and ability of action communication”.

(top, from left) Associate Professor Bobbie Hunter, Dr Ashleigh-Jane Thompson and Professor Cynthia White, and (below) Dr Anastasia Bakogianni and Associate Professor Elspeth Tilley.

In a Wellington campus November lecture; Science and the Arts: Creating futures, Associate Professor Elspeth Tilley’s allocution about artistic activismwill analyze how adolescent bodies who appetite to accomplish a aberration are devising artistic means to abode amusing and ecological problems.

An award-winning author whose works accept performed about the world, Dr Tilley, from the School of English and Media Studies, teaches theatre and writes plays about altitude change and feminism – affected in arbitrary scenarios involving cartage jams and penguins.

She will allotment the belvedere with scientist Dr Dr Jacqui Horswell, from the Institute of Environmental Science and Analysis Ltd, who will altercate her analysis into baptize abuse and abeyant of Manuka roots to both clarify and inactivate pollutants from accelerated agriculture, arch to improvements in baptize quality.

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At Massey’s Auckland campus in Albany, Dr Anastasia Bakogianni will acquaint her new analysis project, Classical Apple New Zealand, in her lecture; Active connections: The Classical Apple in today’s New Zealand,

The project’s aim is to authenticate the avant-garde world’s advancing chat with age-old Greece, Rome and Egypt and highlights New Zealand’s characteristic addition to this conversation.

Dr Bakogianni, a Classical Studies academician in the School of Humanities, says; “the ability of the classical apple charcoal a affluent attitude of adroitness broke by endless active artists alive in New Zealand today. Their art in about-face helps us to re-connect to the age-old world”.

She will allocution about the assignment of artists, actors, theatre directors, filmmakers, writers and advisers she interviewed for the online project.

Globally recognised maths drillmaster Associate Professor Bobbie Hunter will allotment her analysis on the appliance of ability to maths in her talk: Mathematics and Pasifika: Can one abide after allegorical the other?

The focus of Dr Hunter’s analysis and convenance is on “honouring the students’ ability and language, to body in students’ absolute cultural and algebraic identities”.

She works with agents to draw on Pasifika ethics and students’ cultural backgrounds to accomplish mathematics absolute and meaningful, and to appoint their accord in algebraic acumen and communication. Based in the Institute of Education, she will allotment her analysis over the accomplished 15 years in developing culturally acknowledging mathematics teaching, decidedly with Pāsifika and Māori.

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Lectures by women advisers from added institutions will additionally be captivated in Tauranga, Nelson, Hamilton and Auckland as allotment of the series.

Communicate Now: New accoutrement for accent learners and sportDr Ashleigh-Jane Thompson, Professor Cynthia WhiteManawatū campus: 6pm - Wednesday, October 25Sir Geoffrey Peren Auditorium

Science and the Arts: Creating futures Associate Professor Elspeth Tilley, Dr Jacqui HorswellWellington campus: 6pm - Thursday, November 2Theatrette 10A02 200

Culturally abreast research: Mathematics and the Classics in New ZealandAssociate Professor Roberta Hunter, Dr Anastasia BakogianniAuckland campus: 6.30pm - Wednesday, November 22AT2 Auditorium

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Created: 20/10/2017 | Last updated: 20/10/2017

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