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SPEAKERS’ CORNER: WHY DEGREES MATTER
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 12.00-12.30PM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
With some major business leaders decrying the value of degree-qualified employees, universities must defend their worth. Professor Giselle Byrnes of Massey University puts the case for a tertiary-qualified workforce. 20 minutes at the podium, 10 minutes of questions.
60 GENERAL EVENT
TEARS OF RANGI: ANNE SALMOND
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 1.00-2.00PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
In her most ambitious book to date, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlisted Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds, Anne Salmond reframes our understanding of
NZ. Beginning with the earliest encounters between Ma- ori and European New Zealanders, Salmond suggests that the legacy of those clashes and exchanges provides us with an opportunity to rethink our relationship to the waterways, the
land, and each other. Salmond puts forth her thesis with Chris Wikaira.
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AFTERGLOW: EILEEN MYLES
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 1.00-2.00PM LOWER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE
Poet, novelist, performer, librettist, one-time presidential candidate and counter-cultural icon, Eileen Myles, has lived a life artfully engaged
with the times – evident in their autobiographical novel Chelsea Girls, which recounts life in the Lower East Side of New York in the 60s and 70s, and in the poetry collection I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems 1974-2014, as well as in their latest work Afterglow, a memoir of a dog of which The Guardian said, “For all its dog-leg turns, there
is no putting down of Rosie or of this book.” Join this singular New York artist, in conversation with Ian Wedde. Supported by Sarah Broom Poetry Trust.
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WHY FICTION?
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 1.00-2.00PM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE
Australian writer Alex Miller’s latest book The Passage of Love is
an autobiographical novel; Fiona Farrell’s Decline and Fall on Savage Street explores one hundred years
of history in the shadow of the Christchurch earthquakes, a ctional companion to her previous non- ctional work The Villa at the End of Empire. Both accomplished writers across genres, Miller and Farrell discuss why they opted for ction
to tell their very real stories, with Catherine Robertson.
63 FREE EVENT
A FOREIGNER ABROAD: XUE YIWEI
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 1.00-2.00PM UPPER NZI, AOTEA SQUARE
In his novel Dr Bethune’s Children, banned in China, the expatriate Montreal-based Chinese writer Xue Yiwei recounts the tale of Canadian doctor Dr Norman Bethune, credited with bringing modern medicine to China. His death in 1939 on the front
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