Tauhere | UC Connect - Free Thinking
Host: Various
Categories: Learning Centre
Languages: English
Plains Media
Produced By: University of Canterbury
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The University of Canterbury has been connecting local people with global thinking and expanding minds since 1873. We believe in the value of ideas that make a difference. UC’s popular free public lecture series, Tauhere | UC Connect offers topical, educational public lectures by experts in their fields and leading thinkers from Christchurch, Canterbury and beyond. Offered both online and in person throughout the year, we’ve got a free talk for you – ranging from arts, politics and culture to science, business and law.
All Episodes
Tauhere | UC Connect - Mapping the Path to Better Health Unleash the Superpower of GeoHealth
Published: 07/3/2025 8:00 p.m.
Tauhere | UC Connect - The Better Start Literacy Approach success story
Published: 08/2/2025 3:00 p.m.
Tauhere | UC Connect - Why is Aotearoa sending experiments into space
Published: 26/1/2025 5:00 p.m.
Tauhere | UC Connect - Free Thinking - The Ethics of War Reporting in an Unequal World
Published: 09/10/2024 6:00 p.m.
Journalism during wartime is difficult, dangerous, and ethically fraught, but it’s also essential if the public are to know what’s going on. It’s particularly important in holding to account those who use organised violence against others and in recognising people’s suffering. In this free public lecture, University of Canterbury Media and Communication Professor Donald Matheson asks how global journalism could do a better job of telling the stories of war today, including the major wars being fought against Ukraine or Gaza but also a host of other conflicts, from West Papua to Yemen. To address that question, he will use ethical frameworks, to help step back from competing ideologies about whose view is ‘right’ on any particular conflict. “That involves asking what journalism about war does when it is at its best, given the huge pressures on it,” Professor Matheson says. “What can we expect of these professional tourists on war and suffering and what should the profession expect of itself?”
