A series of panel discussions recorded before an audience during LATE at the Museum - regular curated evenings which include talk, live performances, and exhibition viewing.
Thomas Sainsbury talks with Louisa Wall MP, Prof. Welby Ings, Professor Emeritus Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, and award winning artist and filmmaker Tanu Gago.
Chaired by Mihingarangi Forbes, this Auckland Museum panel explores how scientific and traditional approaches to knowledge can inform how we care for the Pacific.
Four experts explore the practice and ethics of CRISPR gene editing with Russell Brown: Prof. Tim Dare, Associate Professors Peter Fineran and Maui Hudson, and Dr Heather Hendrickson.
The former New Zealand prime minister talks with Noelle McCarthy about sexism, power and the changing role of women in politics and international life.
Noelle McCarthy leads a discussion about what the #MeToo movement really means for Aotearoa/New Zealand. With Kirsty Johnston, Zoë Lawton, Rhonda Tibble and Henry Law.
Victor Rodger explores the personal, cultural and political aspects of transgender and non-binary identity with Georgina Beyer, Lexie Matheson, Nikolai Talamahina and Aych McArdle.
Rose Matafeo talks with Jessie Moss, Ladi6, Dianne Swann and Geneva Alexander-Marsters about life and work for women in the music scene in Aotearoa.
Russell Brown talks about confronting entitlement with the former MP Georgina Beyer, academic Richard Pamatatau, activist Julia Amua Whaipooti and artist Tāwhanga Nopera.
New Zealand's international alliances are discussed by the investigative author Nicky Hager, journalist Maiki Sherman, and Law Professor Jane Kelsey, with Leonie Hayden in the chair.
Immigation is discussed by broadcaster Ali Ikram, refugee rights campaigner Dr Arama Rata, filmmaker Roseanne Liang and Massey University's Professor Paul Spoonley, with Noelle McCarthy in the chair.
Multimedia artist Joseph Michael, oceanographer Dr Mike Williams, Associate Professor Sandy Morrison and entrepreneur Geoff Ross talk about Antarctica with Noelle McCarthy.
Charlotte Ryan talks to Scott Maclachlan, Chip Matthews, Anna Coddington and James Milne AKA Lawrence Arabia about the state of the music scene today.
Associate Professor Damon Salesa talks with Professor Lisa Marriott, Dame Diane Robertson, Lisa King and Dr Teuila Percival about why the diet of Aucklanders depends on where they live.
Russell Brown talks with Laura O'Connell Rapira, Toby Morris, Steve Abel and Sina Brown-Davis about how online awareness can be transformed in to action which changes society.
Courtney Sina Meredith, Dr Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Dr Pala Molisa; and Rosanna Raymond. talk with Mihingarangi Forbes
Jim Mora talks to Associate Professor Maartje Abbenhuis, Dr Felicity Barnes, and Dr Maria Armoudian.
Bill Ralston talks to Marina Matthews, Waikare Komene, Professor Damon Salesa and Rod Oram.
Chefs Connie Clarkson, Te Kohe Tuhaka and Benjamin Bayly join Professor Paul Spoonley. Noelle McCarthy is in the chair.
A panel discussion about the hidden histories of Auckland. Noelle McCarthy talks to Ella Henry, Sarikha Rosli and Michael Stevens.
A panel discussion about the Treaty of Waitangi with Te Radar, Kiritapu Allan, Professor Paul Spoonley, Suzanne Tamaki, and Leilani Tamu.
A panel discussion chaired by Russell Brown with Phil Bell (aka DJ Sir Vere), Dave Dobbyn. Simon Grigg and Rachel Lang.
Russell Brown talks about activism online and on the streets with Marianne Elliott, Nicky Hager, Matthew Hooton and Laura O'Connell Rapira.
Oscar Kightley talks with Danny "Brotha D" Leaosavai'i, Annie Crummer and Tigilau Ness.
Explorer Kevin Biggar, astrophysicist Prof. Richard Easther, designer Kate Sylvester and celestial navigator Jack Thatcher talk with Jesse Mulligan.
Al Brown, Professor Rod Jackson, Professor Grant Schofield and Anne Thorp talk with Jesse Mulligan
Noelle McCarthy talks to Dr Aroha Yates-Smith, Dr Caroline Daley, and Colin Mathura-Jeffree about the idea of beauty.
Gaylene Preston, Nicky Hagar, Prof. Kevin Clements and RSA head Dr Stephen Clarke talk to Wallace Chapman.
Wallace Chapman talks with Dr Rochelle Constantine, Dr Tom Trnski, Don McGlashan and Sam Judd.
Wallace Chapman with Professor Dame Anne Salmond, Professor Paul Tapsell, and Professor Michael Walker
Finlay Macdonald analyses contemporary manifestations of greed with academics Phoebe Fletcher, Dr Campbell Jones, and the leading financial journalist Bernard Hickey.
Comedians Ben Hurley, Irene Pink and Chris Brain along with political and social commentator Martyn (Bomber) Bradbury provide a light-hearted look at laziness in New Zealand society.
Russell Brown discusses what’s possibly the best-known of the seven deadly sins with prominent journalist David Farrier, author and blogger Emma Hart and adult shop owner Ema Lyon.
Richard Pamatatau explores our relationship with food with Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, Dr Andrew Dickson and Ray McVinnie.
Wallace Chapman looks at tall poppies and humble heroes with Independent Maori Statutory Board chief executive Brandi Hudson, journalist Gordon McLauchlan and the religious historian Dr Peter Lineham.
Finlay McDonald talks to Professor Michael Corballis, Dr Janet Fanslow and Ruia Aperahama.
Kicking off a series of lively panel discussions on the Seven Deadly Sins, theologian Sir Lloyd Geering, designer Denise L'Estrange Corbet and artist Reuben Paterson consider Envy with moderator Wallace Chapman.
Theologian Sir Lloyd Geering, designer Denise L'Estrange Corbet and artist Reuben Paterson consider Envy with moderator Wallace Chapman.
Professor John Montgomery, Dr Marjorie van Roon and Dr Alys Longley discuss water sustainability with Oliver Driver.
The renowned Australian author, journalist and science communicator Professor Julian Cribb in conversation with Finlay Macdonald about how we are to feed ourselves in the coming years and decades.
Russell Brown chairs a discussion about marginalisation with Philip Patston; David Cohen; Ella Henry and Jacinda Ardern, the Labour Party's Youth Affairs spokesperson.
Maggie Barrie talks rugby with historian Jock Phillips, political scientist Dr Jennifer Curtin and rugby legend and former All Black Grant Fox.
Haare Williams, Whirimako Black, Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal and Pita Turei discuss Matariki with Kirk Torrance.
Professor Greg Newbold, Sam Chapman, and Professor Warren rookbanks discuss the state of our criminal justice system with Finlay Macdonald.
Angelina Russo, John Barnett and Aidan Lang explored the challenges of attracting and engaging new audiences with Finlay Macdonald.
A conversation between Finlay Macdonald and theologian Sir Lloyd Geering, aged 92, who is still encouraging people to re-think the idea of religious belief.
Ray McVinnie, Dr Karen Cronin and Rob Whitbourne explore aspects of food production and consumption with Finlay Macdonald.
Simon Terry, Guy Salmon and Nandor Tanczos discuss sustainability and other environmental issues with Finlay Macdonald.
Professor John Hattie, Gordon Dryden and Charmaine Pountney, survey the education scene with Finlay Macdonald.
Finlay Macdonald talks to Professor Tim Hazledine, Associate Professor Susan St John, and Brian Gaynor.
Dr Martin Hirst, Brent Impey,Eric Kearly and Colin Peacock talk about media to Finlay Macdonald.
Finlay Macdonald talks to Pete Bossley, Dr Chris Harris, and Rod Oram, about urban design.
Dr Helen Anderson and Ray Avery discuss the nature of innovation in science with Finlay Macdonald,
A spirited discussion with Sir Douglas Graham and Dr Hone Kaa, recorded at the Auckland Museum before Waitangi Day 2010. Finlay Macdonald is in the chair.
Professor Brian Boyd, The University of Auckland. Brian Boyd will focus on art, perhaps the feature of human behavior that might seem to have least to do with a struggle for existence. Can biology explain why art (music, dance, visual art, storytelling and verse) is a human universal? Why do we so compulsively invent and engage with stories we know to be untrue? Recorded 8 September, in Nelson.
Tens of millions of years ago the New Zealand landmass separated from Gondwanaland with its cargo of plants and animals. But is there another theory?