Previous courses

2024 Series 1 Autumn

• A - The History of Transport In Otago
  
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• B - Fossil Treasures of Aotearoa New Zealand
  
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• C - Housing Matters
  
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• D - Science Meets Society in History
  
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• E - History of Education in New Zealand
  
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• F - Winter, Spring, the Birds and the Bees
  
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2023 Series 3 Spring

• A - Cat Out of the Bag
  
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• B - Climate Change
  
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• C - Art of Artisans and Artists
  
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• D - Jorge Luis Borges
  
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• E - Thirty Years of MMP
  
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• F - Musicians on Music
  
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2023 Series 2 Winter

• A - Demographics Our World in 2040
  
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• B - Death and Dying – the Art and Science
  
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• C - Music Making in New Zealand 1930 – 1985
• D - Otago Harbour - The Times & Life
  
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• E - The History of Medicine Through the Ages
  
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• F - National Epics
  
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2023 Series 1 Autumn

• A - How to Write and Self Publish a Memoir
  
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• B - Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
  
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• C - Potpourri
  
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• D - Medical Laboratory Diagnostics
  
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• E - Haydn and Mozart
  
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• F - Migration – Past and Present
  
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2022 Series 3 Spring

• A - Gosh! Another 12 Artists
  
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• B - Pandemics, Plagues and Pestilence
  
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• C - Music Matters: Things You Wanted to Know But Never Thought to Ask
  
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• D - The Sonnet
  
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• E - Whistleblowers: Honoured, Vilified or Forgotten?
  
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• F - A Sustainable Dunedin
  
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2022 Series 2 Winter

• A - Let There Be Light – Aspects of the Spectrum
  
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• B - Giving a Taste of Their Own Medicine
  
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• C - Six Musical Journeys
  
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• D - Vision and Practice: Otago Architects at Work
  
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• E - Robert Louis Stevenson
  
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• F - Building Our New Hospital
  
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2022 Series 1 Autumn

• A - How to Write and Self Publish a Memoir
• B - Pandemics, Plagues and Pestilence
• C - Music Matters - Things You Wanted to Know
• D - The Sonnet
• E - Whistleblowers. Honoured, Vilified or Forgotten
• F - A Sustainable Dunedin

2021 Series 3 Spring

• A - Gosh! Another 12 Artists

2021 Series 2 Winter

• B - Exploring Hocken Collections
  
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• C - Engineering in Dunedin
  
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• D - Humour and Laughter
  
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• E - Dunedin Innovators and Innovations
  
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• F - Artificial Intelligence
  
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2021 Series 1 Autumn

• A - Inside Allied Press
  
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• A - Inside Allied Press
  
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• B - Women Leading the Way
  
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• C - The Cosmos Unpacked
  
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• D - Composers and their Singers and Players
  
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• E - Misadventures!
  
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• F - Gods, War and Tragedy: Homer and Euripides
  
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2020 Series 3 Spring

• A - Take Another 12 Artists
  
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• B - Passionate Pursuits of the University of Otago Sesquicentennial Distinguished Chairs
  
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• D - My Hobby 2
  
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• E - From Antikythera to Artificial Intelligence: a short history of computing. Resumed
  
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• F - Rise of a Sporting Nation. Resumed
  
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• G - The Medieval World Through Literature: From Arthur to Dracula
  
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• H - Twentieth Century UK and US Popular Music History
  
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2020 Series 2 Winter

• 1 - Tuesdays - Nobel Prizes
• 2 - Thursdays - Series 1 Revisited and More
• 2020-06-18 Otago Peninsula - Neville Peat
• 2020-07-23 Private Wealth - Resource Packpdf
• 2020-07-23 PrivateWealth
• 2021 - Series 1 - Gods, War and Tragedy
• Reference List for Dunedin U3A Nobel Prizes Lecture 1

2020 Series 1 Autumn

• 2020 - Series 1 - Courses Offered
• A - Take 12
  
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• B - Future Choices - Ironing out the Wrinkles
  
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• C - Rise of a Sporting Nation
  
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• D - Otago Peninsula - Dunedin’s Nature Treasure Trove
  
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• E - From Antikythera to Artificial Intelligence - a short history of computing
  
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• F - Composers and their Singers
  
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2019 Series 3 Spring

• 2019 - Series 3 - Courses Offered
• A - For Our Future – Otago Regional Council
  
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• B - Gardening and Landscaping
  
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• C - Aspects of Nanotechnology
  
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• D - Philosophy at Otago – the Big Ideas
  
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• E - Every Picture Tells a Story
  
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• F - Urban Design for the 21st Century
  
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2019 Series 2 Winter

• 2019 - Series 2 - Courses Offered
• A - Fashion and Dunedin
  
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• B - Delivering Justice
  
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• C - My Hobby
  
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• D - Banding Together
  
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• E - Farming – Present & Future
  
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• F - Morality, Mischief, Politics and Macbeth
  
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2019 Series 1 Autumn

• 2019 - Series 1 - Courses Offered
• A - Researching and Writing Dunedin History
  
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• B - Gems of the Romanesque
  
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• C - The Food We Eat: Contemporary Issues
  
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• C - The Food We Eat: Contemporary Issues
  
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• D - Yesterday’s, Today’s, Tomorrow’s Schools
  
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• E - Crime and Fiction
  
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• F - ‘The Waste Land’ – T. S. Eliot
  
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2018 Series 3 Spring

• 2018 - Series 3 - Courses Offered
• A - Africa: Diversity and Development
  
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• B - Speaker’s Corner
  
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• C - From Here to There using Surveying
  
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• D - Aspects of te ao Māori
  
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• E - The Peopling of Dunedin from the Big Bang
  
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• F - Finding a Sustainable Transition Path to Zero Net Carbon Emissions for NZ
  
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2018 Series 2 Winter

• 2018 - Series 2 - Courses Offered
• A - Nobel Prizewinners 2016-2017
  
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• B - A Bitter Truth - Effect of WWI on the Arts
  
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• C - The Formative Years
  
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• D - High Renaissance Art
  
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• E - Introduction to Brain Health
  
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• F - Passions
  
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2018 Series 1 Autumn

• 2018 - Series 1 - Courses Offered
• A - Love your computer - hot topics in digital technology
  
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• B - Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
  
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• C - Upstairs, Downstairs - the ins and outs of the English stately home
  
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• D - The Magnificat through the ages
• E - Poetry of W B Yeats
  
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• F - Dunedin Buildings - old and new
  
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2017 Series 3 Spring

• 2017 - Series 3 - Courses Offered
• A - Off The Beaten Track #3
• B - 200 Years On: Jane Austen Through Text and Film
  
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• C - Our Southern Skies: Aviation in the South
• D - Our Stories: The Literature of America (1588-1900)
• E - Chemicals that Control Us – Hot Topics in Endocrinology and Research
  
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• F - So, What is Populism?
  
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2017 Series 2 Winter

• 2017 Series 2 Courses
• A - Technology in Art
  
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• B - Yes I worked there
• C - Who are we? In search of a Southern identity
  
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• D - A History of New Zealand Women
• E - Challenging Issues in Bioethics
  
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• F - Hot Topics in Music
  
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2017 Series 1 Autumn

• 2017 Series 1 Courses
• A - The Nursing Profession
• B - Geology for Non-Geologists
• C - Religions and their Impact in the World Today
  
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• D - Speaker’s Corner
• E - Aspects of Agriculture
  
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• F - Henrik Ibsen
  
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2016 Series 3 Spring

• 2016 Series 3 Courses
• A - Hot Topics in Physics
• B - Dunedin Public Art Gallery
• C - Then and Now – Social Change
• D - Living with Breakthroughs
• E - Gloria Through the Ages
• F - Law Matters

2016 Series 2 Winter

• 2016 Series 2 Courses
• A - The Future of the Media in the Digital Age
• B - Yes, I worked there!
• C - The Five Senses
• D - Building Redevelopment in Dunedin
• E - Earthly Paradise to Damnation-Bosch
• F - Heavens Above! - Astronomy

2016 Series 1 Autumn

• 2016 Series 1 - Courses Offered
• A- Advances in Medical Diagnosis
• B- Inside China Today
• C- New Zealand Agriculture
• D- New Zealand Poetry
• E- Off the Beaten Track No 2
• F- Speakers Corner

2015 Series 3 Spring

• 2015 Series 3 - Courses Offered
• A- A Better Start to Aging Well
• B- Climate Change
• C- Innovation & Building Materials
• D- Jen and motorcyling meandering
• E- Vladimir Nabokov

2015 Series 2 Winter

• 2015 Series 2 - Courses Offered
• A- Broadcasting in Dunedin
• B- James Joyce Through Film
• C- Off the Beaten Track
• D- Otago Museum
• E- University of Otago - The Show Must Go On

2015 Series 1 Autumn

• 2015 - Small Groups
• 2015 Series 1 - Courses Offered
• A- Broadcating
• B- Burne Jones
• C- Dunedin Services
• D- MBA
• E- Peace Traditions
• F- Religious Music in time of War

2014 Series 3 Spring

• A- Byron's Don Juan
• B- Hot topics in Zoology
• C- Information Assurance
• D- Mozart in Vienna
• E- Victorian Dunedin
• F- Writings from Ancient Greece

2014 Series 2 Winter

• 2014 Series 2 - Courses Offered
• A- Enthusiasms and Passions
• B- Hot Topics
• C- Literary Themes
• D- The Great War's Effects on Art
• E- The History of Film

2014 Series 1 Autumn

• 2014 Series 1 - Courses Offered
• A- Founded on Gold
• B- History as Viewed by Family
• C- Peace and Conflict
• D- Plants that Changed the World
• E- Saintly Lives
• F- The Artist in Venice

2013 Series 3 Spring

• 2013 Series 3 - Courses Offered
• A- Art and Change
• B- Early Music in Europe
• C- Education Now and in the Future
• D- How to read 'Ulysses'
• E- The Nervous System

2013 Series 2 Winter

• 2013 Series 2 - Courses Offered
• A- Hot Topics in Economics
• B- Our Harbour
• C- Poetry Appreciation
• D - Portraiture
• E- Six journeys by women
• F- Water, our most valuable asset

2013 Series 1 Autumn

• 2013 Series 1 - Courses Offered
• A - Icons of European Literature
• B - Digital Photography
• C -The Immigrants
• D - Glory to God
• E - Dunedin - How we look after it
• F - Explaining Syria

2012 Series 3 Spring

• A - Language and Reality
• B - Six Journeys of Academic Life
• C - Hamlet
• E - Two Aspects of Literature
• F - Tides of Research within the Pacific

2012 Series 2 Winter

• A - The Divided Voice of Germany
• B - Entrepreneurs in Otago
• C - Africa, Diversity and Development
• D - The Art of Still Life
• E - Our Southern Seas

2012 Series 1 Autumn

• A - Chemistry Matters
• B - Some Dunedin Monuments
• C - Two C19th Science Fiction Stories
• D - Glory to God, Vivaldi to Beethoven
• E - Gold
• F - Printmaking as Art
• G - The Industrial Revolution

2011 Series 3 Spring

• Ahead of Their Time
• Contemporary India - Challenges and Opportunities
• Democracy - Why Won't They Listen
• Genealogy
• Medicines and 'Magic'
• Shakespeare and the Roman Revolution

2011 Series 2 Winter

• Current Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region
• Dunedin Futures - The Next Two Decades
• My Life in Writing
• Orokonui Ecosanctuary
• Radical Religion in Cromwell's England
• The Impressionists - Their Forebears and Decadent Followers

2011 Series 1 Autumn

• Digital Photography - The Easy Way
• Induction is a Myth (Karl Popper)
• My Life With Music
• Samuel Beckett
• The Demon Rum - Our Relationship With Alcohol
• The Origins and History of the Civilisation of Angkor

2010 Series 3 Spring

• Art in Otago
• Charles Dickens's Career as a Novelist
• Dunedin's Natural World
• Raiders and Traders - The History of Adventuring
• The Nervous System
• The World in the 1960s

2010 Series 2 Winter

• History of Dress Highlights
• Inside the Orchestra - Southern Sinfonia
• O, The Painter's Life is Not a Happy One
• Six Journeys in Science
• The Victorian Age - 1837-1901
• WB Yeats, Seamus Heaney - And the Irelands of Their Time

2010 Series 1 Autumn

• Aspects of Australia
• Dunedin's Written Treasures
• Health Care Ethics and the New Zealand Health System
• Living on a Plate Boundary
• Public Theology and Global Issues
• Southern Maori

2009 Series 3 Spring

• Digital Photography - The Easy Way
• Explaining Today's Middle East
• Five Men Who Changed The Way We See The World
• Impressions of Art
• Some Issues With Criminal Justice in New Zealand
• The Novels of Joseph Conrad

2009 Series 2 Winter

• Book Discussion Group
• Islamic Arts, Crafts and Architecture
• Issues in Conservation
• Poetry Appreciation Group
• Transforming Church and Society - The C16th Perspective
• Women in Society - Perception and Reality

2009 Series 1 Autumn

• Christianity without Theism
• Realism and Antirealism About Science
• The Metaphysical Poets
• The Real Thing - 170 Years of Photography

2008 Series 3 Spring

• A Bitter Truth
• All at Sea
• Contemporary Otago Writers
• Sir Ed, Mount Everest and the Sherpa
• The History of Embroidery
• The World of Waitangi
• Triumphs, Frauds, Disasters and Scandals

2008 Series 2 Winter

• Book Discussion Group
• Dunedin - Our City
• George Eliot
• Mozart's Milan Operas
• Poetry Reading Group
• Six Journeys (Our Members)
• Women in Society

2008 Series 1 Autumn

• Bookplates - Ex Librus
• Current Research in Human Nutrition
• Every Picture Tells a Story
• Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
• Mozart's Milan Operas
• The Printed Word (Pages 1,2)
• The Printed Word (Pages 3,4)

2007 Series 3 Spring

• Digital Photography
• How (Not) to Compose an Opera
• Perspectives in Psychology
• Shakespeare - Falstaff and the Prince
• Sustainability
• Traders and Raiders

2007 Series 2 Winter

• Book Discussion Group
• Enjoying Stained Glass
• Faking It - The History and Science Behind Fakes and Hoaxes
• How to Read a Holy Book
• The Religious Poetry of TS Eliot
• The Shaping of Modern Otago
• The Yellow Brick Road - Journeys in Fantasy Literature and Film

2007 Series 1 Autumn

• Every Picture Tells a Story
• Explaining Todays Middle East
• John Milton - Paradise Lost
• Living on a Plate Boundary - Plate Tectonics and What it Means to Us
• Taiwan to Easter Island - Colonising the Pacific

2006 Series 3 Spring

• Digital Photography
• Shakespeare, The Marvellous Season - Hamlet and Twelfth Night

2006 Series 2 Winter

• After the Great Dictator - The Soviet Union After 1953
• Antarctica
• Architecture - Building Dunedin
• Book Discussion Group
• Do We Get the Media We Deserve

2006 Series 1 Autumn

• Cosmology
• Ethnic and Civil Conflict in the Post-Cold War World
• Faking It
• Richard Wagner - the Early Operas
• Study Group - Pilgrimage Through the Ages
• What Does it Mean to Be Human

2005 Series 3 Spring

• Discussion Group - 'God or Godswallop, That is the Question'
• Study Group - The Medieval World
• The World in 1900
• Word & Image

2005 Series 2 Winter

• The Remarkable Immune System

2005 Series 1 Autumn

• Aspects of Modern French History 1815-1970
• Genetic Engineering
• The Enigma of the Atom - From the Greeks to the Bomb and Beyond
• Topical Issues in Human Nutrition

2004 Series 3 Spring

• Computers - Their History and Development
• Is Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand Just - Perspectives
• More Psychology in Everyday Life
• Shakespeare on Love and War in the Ancient World

2004 Series 2 Winter

• Book Discussion Group
• Modern Medicine - Some Historical Perspectives
• Otago Harbour - Shipping and Sea Transport
• The Southern Ocean

2004 Series 1 Autumn

• Freedom, Religion and Spirit
• French Grand Opera
• New Zealand Poetry
• Should We Be Intervening In Human Reproduction
• Southern Maori

2003 Series 3 Spring

• Enjoying Opera
• Food Glorious Food
• The Brontes
• This Is The Way The World Ends

2003 Series 2 Winter

• Antarctica
• Art Now - In Dunedin
• Book Discussion Group
• Dunedin's Rich Heritage - Our Cultural Blend
• Money

2003 Series 1 Autumn

• Changing Landscapes
• Five Men Who Changed The Way We See The World
• Greek and Roman Comedy
• Heraldry

2002 Series 3 Spring

• Hazardous Substances and New Organisms
• Islam - In History and Today
• Islam - More Than 'Religion'
• Photography
• Psychology in Everyday Life
• The Poetry of W H Auden (1907-1973)

2002 Series 2 Winter

• A Passion for the Land - Novels..NE Scotland..1920sand30s
• Interrupted Cadences - Musical 'What Ifs'
• The Sky's the Limit - High Performance Sport and How it is Achieved

2002 Series 1 Autumn

• Book Discussion Group
• English Renaissance Poetry and Drama
• Islam - In History and Today
• Medicine Past and Present
• The Media in Dunedin

2001 Series 3 Spring

• Anthony Trollope
• A Week of Cornish Archaeology
• Central Otago
• The Bible - Modern Questions and Scholarship
• The Wisdom of Bones

2001 Series 2 Winter

• Food, Glorious Food
• Immigration
• Otago Regional Council
• Russian Art

2001 Series 1 Autumn

• Astronomy
• History on Our Doorsteps
• Six Compelling Topics
• The Renaissance

2000 Series 3 Spring

• A Little Bit of Business in the City
• George Eliot
• Magic of Gilbert and Sullivan
• Our Garden Heritage

2000 Series 2 Winter

• A Century of Jazz
• Chemistry Demystified
• Girls and Boys Come Out to Play
• How Dunedin Works

2000 Series 1 Autumn

• Book Discussion Group
• Genetics
• Modern Sculptors
• Monasticism
• Otago Architectural Heritage

1999 Series 3 Spring

• 1999_3_An Introduction to Dickens
• 1999_3_Medicine from History
• 1999_3_Minorities Within Nations
• 1999_3_Six Lives and an Epilogue

1999 Series 2 Winter

• 1999_2_Chaucer
• 1999_2_Poetry - WB Yeats and TS Eliot
• 1999_2_The Play's the Thing

1999 Series 1 Autumn

• 1999_1_Development and Practice of Commercial Shipping and Sea Transport
• 1999_1_Dunedin Treasures
• 1999_1_Milton in America
• 1999_1_The Educated Person
• 1999_1_Victorian Poets

1998 Series 3 Spring

• 1998_3_Aspects of Growing Older
• 1998_3_English Romantic Poetry 1789-1824
• 1998_3_Music and Wellbeing
• 1998_3_Snippets of Botany
• 1998_3_Weather and Climate

1998 Series 2 Winter

• 1998_2_Around the World - Problems and Issues
• 1998_2_Movers and Shakers (NOT HELD)
• 1998_2_Philosophy, Science and Bioethics
• 1998_2_The Farthest Promised Land

1998 Series 1 Autumn

• 1998_1_'A Thousand Ages in Thy Sight'....
• 1998_1_Accessing Historical Research Material
• 1998_1_Aspects of Otago Geology
• 1998_1_Philosophers for Our Time

1997 Series 3 Spring

• 1997_3_Colours and Shapes of Dunedin - Houses, Glass and Hangings
• 1997_3_Corporatism vs Democracy
• 1997_3_Medieval England - Local Church and Community

1997 Series 2 Winter

• 1997_2_A Reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets
• 1997_2_Defining Moments
• 1997_2_Our Energy Sources and How We Use Them
• 1997_2_The World About Us - No2

1997 Series 1 Autumn

• 1997_1_Embellishment or Art - The Evolution of Craft Guilds in Otago
• 1997_1_Land Forms of Otago
• 1997_1_Poking Around the Pacific (Aspects of Oceania)
• 1997_1_The Writings of Charles Dickens and Education

1996 Series 3 Spring

• 1996_3_Jane Austen (repeat)

1996 Series 2 Winter

• 1996_2_Into 20th Century NZ Society With Phoebe Meikle
• 1996_2_Jane Austen
• 1996_2_The Making of a Nation
• 1996_2_The World About Us

1996 Series 1 Autumn

• 1996_1_Our Planet and its Space Environment
• 1996_1_Reconsidering Shakespeare - The Convergence of Comedy and Tragedy
• 1996_1_The Peopling of Otago

1995 Series 2 Winter

• 1995_2_Then and Now

1995 Series 1 Autumn

• 1995_1_Insights Into...

1994 Series 2 Winter

• 1994_2_The Treasures of Otago

1994 Series 1 Autumn

• 1994_1_The Peopling of Otago