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2011 Speeched, Interviews and Talks:

June 09, 2011 - The 12 month Travel and Work Program for students and recent Grads
U.S. Consul Dana Deree gave a talk on the 12 Month Work and Travel program for students and recent grads. It is open to New Zealand and Australian students, and recent graduates. It allows up to one year of work and travel in the U.S. The podcast includes Dana's talk as well as a questions and answers session

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May 02, 2011 - Smart Justice, Judge Peggy Fulton Hora
Judge Peggy Fulton Hora retired from the California Superior Court after serving 21 years. She had a criminal assignment that included presiding over the Drug Treatment Court. She is a former dean of the B E Witkin Judicial College of California and has been on the faculty of the US National Judicial College for 17 years. Judge Hora is a Senior Judicial Fellow for the National Drug Court Institute, and Judicial Outreach Liaison for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Judge Hora has been instrumental in building the problem-solving courts movement. Her work in this area, informed by therapeutic jurisprudence, focuses on the improvement of justice throughout the world.She has lectured nationally and internationally and has written extensively on justice issues. The appellate court and over 100 journals and law reviews have cited her work.

She was the 2009-2010 Thinker in Residence appointed by the Premier of South Australia. She advised the government on justice issues.

Her latest article, 'Courting New Solutions Using Problem-Solving Justice: Key Components, Guiding Principles, Strategies, Responses, Models, Approaches, Blueprints and Tool Kits', will be published in the Chapman Law Review in 2011.

It's all about Smart Justice - a range of new ideas and approaches on how the justice system could work differently. These include therapeutic jurisprudence and restorative justice.

"We have to be smart on crime and spend our dwindling dollars wisely on justice initiatives."

"Incarceration does nothing to reduce reoffending for many non-violent offenders, who could be better managed through court-supervised treatment and community corrections." Judge Peggy Fulton Hora

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2010 Speeches, Interviews and Talks:

October 14 - Edward Gresser - The 2010 Elections: A Foreign Policy Non-Debate?
Edward Gresser spoke at U.S. Embassy Wellington on October 14, 2010, on the 2010 Elections: A Foreign Policy Non-Debate?

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September 23 - William Chafe - Obama and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
William Chafe spoke at U.S. Embassy Wellington on September 23, 2010, on the expectations associated with the Obama presidency and the challenges he faces in trying to realize those expectations. He spoke of the dramatic changes in human rights in America that have occurred in the past 50 years, but also the degree to which we (and the President) have generated expectations that are hard to achieve.

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September 13 - Joseph Cirincione - The Policy and Politics of the New U.S. Nuclear Security Agenda.
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January 30 - Nina Federoff - genes and food: Interview with Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand. Nina Federoff is a Molecular biologist who is Science and Technology Adviser to US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and to the US Agency for Independent Development. Interview (duration: 28′14″, MP3 stream).

2009 Speeches:

June 5 - Dr. Terry Michael - Obama's First 100 Days
May 13 - Dr. Brian Linn - A New American Way of War? The US Army from Vietnam to Iraq
March 5 - Dr. Jerry Jordan - Economic and Financial Crisis: Origins and Consequences

2008 Speeches:

September 30 - Dr. Lonnie Thompson - Understanding Climate Change: A Paleoclimate Perspective from the World's Highest Mountains
September 17 - Thomas Mann & John Mercurio - The 2008 U.S. Election: History’s Unique Race to the White House
August 21 - Professor Michael Hanemann - The Economics of Climate Change Reconsidered
March 27 - Dr Roger Davidson - How U.S. Parties Pick Their Presidential Candidates
March 18 - Ms. Amy Walter - The 2008 U.S. Elections
February 12 - Dr. Bronson Percival - China Looks South: Implications For The United States

2007 Speeches:

August 8 - Dr. Pamela Chasek - Mind The Gap: Confronting the MEA Implementation Gap in the Pacific Island Countries

June 21 - Dr. Karen Litfin - Scientific Uncertainty and Precautionary Action in Protecting the Ozone Layer: Are There Lessons for Climate Change?

May 30 - Larry Colton - Larry Colton: The Revised Edition

May 18 - Frances Hesselbein - Volunteerism: Management, Motivation, Recruitment, Retention

May 17 - Frances Hesselbein - The Leadership Imperative

May 4 - Greg Notess - Reinventing Ourselves as Internet Librarians
March 21 - Jackie Ogden - Zoos in the 21st Century: Meeting the Challenges of Inspiring and Engaging Audiences

March 1 - Zachary Abuza - The Potential for Terrorism in Southeast Asia and the Pacific

2006 Speeches:

November 15 - Dr. Erin Griffey - Facing Status: Contemporary Portraiture in the United States and New Zealand

November 14 - Amy Walter - 2006 mid-term election analysis

October 25 - Dr. Timothy J. Coutts - Thin-Film Solar Cells: Successes and Challenges

September 25 - Dr. Gerard Finin - Aotearoa Policy in the Pacific Islands Region: Exemplar for Australia and the USA

September 20 - Dr. Charles Quigley - Cultural Diversity and Citizenship Education: Learning From Each Other

September 11 - Dr. Anthony Cordesman - Dr. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic Studies Washington, D.C speaks at the U.S. Embassy Wellington

July 11 - Patrick Lencioni-The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
June 19 - Dr Robert Sutter - China's Rise in Asian and World Affairs: U.S. Debate Over the Implications for the United States and U.S. Policy
June 14 - Peter Brookes - A Security Srategy for a New Century?

May 22 - Professor Stan Taylor - Intelligence Reform: Have More Agencies, Money, and Personnel Fixed the Problem?

May 18 - Dr. Kevin Trenberth - A presentation by Dr. Kevin Trenberth, Head of the Climate Change Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

March 15 - Dr Norwood Knight-Richardson - The Human Brain in Crisis: Mental Health in the Age of Unreason

March 14 - Dr Rita Colwell - Chairman of Canon US Life Sciences

February 10 - Deborah Jowitt - A discussion with Deborah Jowitt, Senior Dance Critic with The Village Voice magazine (New York) on dance criticism and writing

February 8 - Steven Emerson - Maintaining the Balance: Civil Liberties and Counter-Terrorism

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