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Distinguished American academic Professor Ronald Inglehart from the University of Michigan and well known New Zealand scientist Professor Paul Callaghan will give keynote addresses at Fulbright New Zealand’s 60th Anniversary Symposium in Auckland on November 22nd.
A specially invited Fulbright Distinguished US Scholar, Professor Inglehart is Director of the World Values Survey which measures political and sociocultural change in societies around the world. His keynote address to the symposium will be on “Development, Freedom and Rising Happiness”. The World Values Survey has charted increasing happiness in most countries over the past two decades and this year ranked New Zealand 15th of 52 countries surveyed, one place ahead of the United States. The symposium’s New Zealand keynote speaker is well known local scientist Professor Paul Callaghan, who will discuss the life and legacy of Nobel Prize-winning Fulbright alumnus Professor Alan MacDiarmid and the continuing intellectual interchange between New Zealand and American science. He will screen excerpts of SuperPlasticsMan – The Alan MacDiarmid Story, a recent documentary he presented for the online science channel HotScience. A number of Fulbright alumni from the creative arts will discuss or perform their work including author Witi Ihimaera, poet Bill Manhire and filmmaker Sima Urale. Alumni Susana Lei’ataua and Gareth Farr will perform music they composed together for Susana’s new play Breaking the Surface during her tenure as a 2008 Fulbright New Zealand Senior Scholar at New York University. During Professor Inglehart’s visit to New Zealand he will give further public addresses in Palmerston North, Wellington and Christchurch. At those engagements he will focus on a different topic - “Changing Mass Attitudes and Democracy” - discussing how the basic values of publics around the world are changing in ways that lead them to give increasingly high priority to individual autonomy and free choice. Combined with increasing levels of education these changes have given rise to increasingly widespread and effective demands for changes to democracy from authoritarian rule. Professor Inglehart will also meet with New Zealand government officials and university contacts including Dr Paul Perry from Massey University, who has been New Zealand’s principal investigator for the World Values Survey since 1985 and was recently appointed to the Survey’s scientific advisory board.
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