The Zonta Club of Auckland and Auckland Libraries are holding a panel discussion addressing the issue of violence against women and children. The discussion is being held tonight at Auckland central library at 5:30pm. 95bFM producer Hannah Ross spoke to one of the panelists, Janet Fanslow, who is an Associate Professor from the School of Population Health at Auckland University, about what the panel is focusing on.
It’s estimated that more than half of New Zealand’s 41 thousand homeless are aged under 25. Tonight a documentary about why this is a problem & how it urgently needs to be addressed will be screening for free at AUT, with a panel of academics & people on the frontline tackling the issue to discuss the issue afterwards. Ahead of this event tonight, Ximena speaks to panel member and housing spokesperson for the Child Poverty Action Group, Alan Johnson, about the controversial issue.
Dr Brian Greene is professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and co-founder of the World Science Festival, an annual week-long series of seminars and panel discussions that has taken place in New York since 2008 (loads of those panel discussions are available to watch here)
Ahead of his live talk this Sunday - A Time Travelers Tale - Dr Greene spoke to Hugh Sundae about string theory and science in the age of Trump.
Was the 2020 US election conducted properly? Will mail-in ballots be counted and will that count be allowed to stand? Will the US Supreme Court decide the final outcome? And what, in any case, will become of American democracy? In this urgent and timely event, University of Auckland lecturers use the lenses of law, political science, and psychology to explain this contested election and discuss the implications of the final outcome.
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Maria Walls discusses 'The First Monday in May', a film about a 2015 Art Exhibition run by Vogue's Anna Wintour at the Met Gala, New York. Thanks to Madman!
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