AUT - Upcoming events
Upcoming events
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE: Two Cultures - Fifty Years On
Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve
Past President of the British Academy and Cambridge Professor of Philosophy
Wednesday 15 September 6.30pm
Lecture Theatre, WA220, WA Building,
Wellesley Street entrance, AUT City Campus, Auckland.
Places are limited so register to ensure a seat at www.royalsociety.org.nz/aronui-lecture
The humanities and science were once seen as entirely different cultures. Now that we appreciate their similarities, how will looking at the world through two lenses infl uence our future? In his 1959 Rede lecture The Two Cultures, C.P. Snow contrasted what he called ‘the traditional culture’ of literary study with the culture of natural science, and judged them wholly different in approach and achievements. The scientifi c culture, as he saw it,was rigorous and productive; the literary culture was neither. However, a wider look at inquiry in the humanities and the natural sciences reveals a very large overlap in approach.
In both domains inquiry relies on interpretation and inference, aims at empirical truth claims and relies on normative assumptions, in variable proportions.
Light refreshments will be offered at 6pm before the lecture.
12th New Zealand Language and Society Conference
22-23 November 2010Hosted by Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication (ICDC), AUT University, Auckland
Māori Association of Social Science 2010 Conference
This year’s conference will be hosted by AUT University in association with Whariki Research Group at Massey University (Auckland), and will explore the practices, outcomes and potential of the work of Māori social scientists with Māori communities. MASS welcomes participation in the conference from Māori social science academics, scholars, researchers, postgraduate students and community workers.
Presentations can be delivered in Te Reo Māori or English.
Vist the MASS website for more information.