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Wednesday 15th May
Date: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
Venue: ROOM: 505-011 - LECTURE THEATRE ONE, THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND
Category: SCIENCE AND REASON
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
In a lecture for medical specialists, Ben Goldacre will address how health professionals, doctors and regulators should respond to those pharmaceutical companies driven by marketing rather than best practice...
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Friday 17th May
Date: Friday 17th May 2013
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: SCIENCE AND REASON
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
American professor Sylvia Nasar is the author of the award-winning A Beautiful Mind , about the mathematician John Forbes Nash (played by Russell Crowe in the movie of the same name). In Perfect Rigour , Russian...
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Saturday 18th May
Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: NON-FICTION, SCIENCE AND REASON
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
Almost 30 years on from our nuclear-free legislation, most New Zealanders see the country as an avowedly nuclear-free zone. They would be wrong. In Rebecca Priestley’s fascinating and often hilarious look at...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Venue: AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM
Category: NON-FICTION, SCIENCE AND REASON
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
The title of writer and documentary maker Quinn Berentson’s Moa: A History of Our Strangest Bird says it all. Berentson will use 170 years of art and scientific illustration to tell the darker side of the...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 05:30 p.m. - 06:45 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: NON-FICTION, SCIENCE AND REASON
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD 2 for 1 deal only available by phone, call (09) 357 3355 or 0800 289 842
The Auckland Writers & Readers Festival regrets to advise that, due to a family illness, Ben Goldacre is unable to travel to New Zealand in May.
The Festival has been unable to secure a...
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Sunday 19th May
Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: NON-FICTION, SCIENCE AND REASON
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
At 95, theologian Sir Lloyd Geering continues his lifelong inquiry into the nature of the divine and the human. He remains robust and articulate, impressively taking on cosmologist Lawrence Krauss at last year’s...
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: NON-FICTION, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS, SCIENCE AND REASON
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
Just how is the most revolutionary innovation of our time - the Internet - transforming our world? How has it changed our concepts of privacy? Of love? Of belonging? Of bad behaviour? Join BBC and Guardian digital...
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: NON-FICTION, SCIENCE AND REASON
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
Dr. Helena Popovic , a brain specialist and author of In Search of My Father , and Kate De Goldi , whose latest book The ACB of Honora Lee references dementia, are both daughters of dementia sufferers.
In a...
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