List of archived lectures

• Tasmanian Australian 2018, Scott Rankin
• Walking Backwards into the Future
• Christmas Dinner and Lecture
• 25 Nov. – Tasmania’s Forgotten Emus – David Maynard, at QVMAG
• Christmas Lecture and Dinner – 4 Dec. 2018
• Royal Society Postgrad Evening – Tuesday 2 October, 8.00pm – Royal Society Rooms, Hobart
• Dr Patsy Cameron AO – Voices from the Other Side of the Colonial Sea Frontier – 23 September 2018 – QVMAG Inveresk
• 14 Nov. “And so to bed…” Susannah Fullerton
• Associate Professor Arko Lucieer – Rise of the Drones: how Unmanned Aircraft Systems create new opportunities for environmental remote sensing and geosciences – Tuesday 4th September 2018, 8:00 pm – The Royal Society Room, TMAG, Hobart
• The Royal Society of Tasmania Medal Presentation and Lecture – Government House – 6.00 pm, Thursday 30 August 2018
• Associate Professor Jonathan Binns – Why does an Engineer need a PhD? – Sunday 26 August 2018, 1.15 pm, Meeting Room, QVMAG Inveresk, Launceston
• Prof Margaret MacMillan – War and the Making of the Modern World – Friday 10th August 2018, 6:00 pm – Stanley Burbury Theatre UTAS, Hobart
• Dr Andrew Cole – A New High-Precision Look at the Milky Way – TMAG Customs House, Hobart Tuesday 3 July @8 pm
• Dr Andreas Klocker, IMAS ARC DECRA fellow – Sistema Huautla – Cave diving for exploration and science in one of the world’s most spectacular deep caves – Tuesday Jun 5, 2018 @8 pm Royal Society Room, TMAG Hobart
• Ms Sophie Muller, Director of the Tasmanian Climate Change Office in the Department of Premier and Cabinet – Putting the change in climate change – Tuesday 1 May, 2018 @8 pm in Royal Society Room, TMAG
• Prof Michael Breadmore, 2017 M.R. Banks medal recipient – Chemical answers now – safer food, water and environment through chemistry on a chip – Tuesday April 10 @8 pm Royal Society Room
• 2018 AGM guest speaker Rosalie Martin – 2017 Tasmanian of the Year – Tuesdays 6 March Central Gallery, TMAG @7.30 pm AGM, 7.45 pm for Drinks, 8 pm Lecture
• Dr Tas van Ommen – Ice cores and climate: looking back over a million years of earth history – Sep 5, 8 pm @Royal Society Room TMAG
• Saul Eslake – Australia’s ongoing quest for ever-greater ‘security’ – is it rational and has it made us safer?  – Tues Nov 14, 6 pm @Government House, Hobart
• Assoc Prof Tracey Dickson – Cortical Inhibitory Dysfunction in Motor Neuron Disease: How can we get the balance back – Nov 7, 8 pm @Royal Society Room TMAG
• Prof Maggie Walter – Looking Back to Move Forward: The Royal Society and Tasmanian Aborigines – Oct 3, 8 pm @Royal Society Room TMAG
• Winter Series Session 3! Free entry, all welcome
• Winter Series Session 2! Free entry, all welcome
• ATSE Public Forum, free entry, all welcome: Mining in Tasmania: Dinosaur or Deliverer?
• Dr Henry Reynolds – From Tasmanian patriotism to Australian nationalism: A little known story in three acts – Free lecture, all welcome: Royal Society Room, TMAG @8 pm Tuesday August 1
• Dr Meredith Nash – What is it like to be a woman in STEMM? Gender bias, sexual harassment, and the myth of meritocracy – Free lecture, all welcome: Royal Society Room, TMAG @8 pm Tuesday July 4
• Winter Series: The Future of the World’s Oceans – free entry, all welcome – last one! 7 pm drinks, 7.30 pm lectures Wednesday Aug 2, Stanley Burbury Theatre, UTAS Sandy Bay
• The Future of Humanity – Professor Barry Brook – Free lecture, all welcome: Royal Society Room TMAG @8 pm Tuesday June 6
• Melting in the Earth – complexity, diversity and a key to understanding “Seismic Shifts” and “Tectonic Plates” Prof Emeritus David Green Royal Society Room 8 pm 2 May 2017
• “Height, Health and History” Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stuart, University of Tasmania – 4th April 8 pm Royal Society Room TMAG
• Annual General Meeting 7 March 7.30 pm Central Gallery TMAG followed by free lecture 8 pm
• Where did all the tigers go? The Tasmanian Museum thylacine collection 7 March 8 pm @Central Gallery TMAG Hobart
• AGU Chapman Conference on Submarine Volcanism: New Approaches and Research Frontiers
• Dr Steve Rintoul ‘Hunting for Climate Clues in the Southern Ocean’
• Tuesday November 1 8 pm Royal Society Room TMAG Associate Professor Gretta Pecl
• Tuesday October 4, 8 – 9.30 pm TMAG Central Gallery Royal Society Postgrad Evening
• Extinction Matters: Could Citizen Science Help?
• “Living in an uncertain world: data and decisions”: The psychology of Climate Science Denial
• “Living in an uncertain world: data and decisions”: Smart Grids, Messy Society
• An Antislavery Moment in the Antipodes
• National Science Week presentation: Reflections on a Career in Astrophysics
• July Lecture presented by Prof John Dickey — What the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Will Tell Us about the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds — Tuesday June 7 2016, 8 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
• Dr Matthew Wilson presents Commercialisation of Tasmanian native pepper — Tuesday June 7 2016, 8 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
• Winter Lecture Series: “Living in an uncertain world: data and decisions”
• Dr Dan Gregory presents The accumulation of trace elements in diagenetic pyrite, an example from the metal rich Derwent Estuary and metal poor Huon Estuary — Tuesday May 3 2016, 8 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
• John K. Davidson presents The Upstream Petroleum Industry; Tasmania’s Position — Tuesday 5 April 2016, 8.00 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House Building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
• Professor Matt King presents Antarctica: Frozen not Frigid — Tuesday 1 March 2016, 8.00 pm — Venue: TMAG Central Gallery enter via Main entrance through the courtyard from Dunn Place
• 2016 Presidents Address, The Royal Society of Tasmania — Ocean Acidification and Atmosphere Oxygenation in Deep Time: A Multi-Proxy Approach to Tracking Past Ocean Chemistry — Tuesday 2 February, 8.00 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House Building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
• Seeking the Master Cave – Tasmania’s Junee-Florentine Karst System – Talk – Tuesday, January 19 2016, 8.00 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House building, TMAG, Hobart. Entrance via Dunn Place. Excursion – Saturday, 23 January 2016
• JOINT LECTURE WITH AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING – Professor James Vickers and Professor Alison Venn – Wednesday 11 November, 6.30 pm Sir Stanley Burbury Theatre
• Dr Rachel Popelka-Filcoff presents Tracing the Past: Characterisation of Indigenous Australian Pigments to Understand Technology and Exchange: Wednesday 4 November, 8.00 pm
• Challenges for hydro development in Papua New Guinea – presentation by David Wilson – Tuesday 1 September 8.00 pm
• Jane Franklin – the real founder of The Royal Society of Tasmania by Dr Alison Alexander – Tuesday 4 August 8.00 pm
• Jane Franklin: the real founder of The Royal Society of Tasmania – presented by Dr Alison Alexander – Tuesday 4 August 8.00 pm
• Doctoral Award Winner 2014 Amy Peacock:A Mixed Hazard? The consequences of Co-Ingesting Alcohol with Energy drinks. Tuesday July 7 at 8.00 pm
• Winter Lecture Series June – July 2015 – Theme: Scientific Advances in Understanding The Evolution of Life on Earth over the Last 3.5 Billion Years
• Singapore: Global Pantry of the Future? – Dr Nicki Tarulevicz – Tuesday June 2 – 8.00 pm
• Come and join us for an evening on Maatsuyker Island with Marina Campbell and Gary Miller. Tuesday 5 May 2015 8.00pm
• “Global Hunger and Malnutrition: A practical Tasmanian ‘food plant’ solution.” – Dr John Thorne & Ian Geard – Wednesday April 8 2015 8.00 pm
• 3rd March Prof. Matt King – Continental loss: The quest to determine Antarctica’s contribution to sea-level change
• Walking from Hobart to Launceston with Dr Pugh in 1836 – Dr John Paull – Christmas Dinner Lecture – Tuesday 2 December 6.00 pm
• What has the ocean got to do with climate? – Prof Trevor McDougall FRS- Tuesday 4 November
• Post Graduate Night – October 7, 2014 – 8.00 pm
• The Library at the end of the World: Natural Science and its Illustrators – An upcoming new Royal Society publication – Editors and Authors whet your appetite! Tuesday 2nd September 2014 8.00 pm
• Bookending Tasmanian Education from Antarctica to Thailand – Presentation by Niall Doran Tuesday 5 August 2014
• Exercise Hypertension: Physiology and Clinical Consequences – Tuesday 1 July – Martin Schultz – Doctoral Award Winner 2013
• WINTER SERIES LECTURE – TUESDAY 15 JULY – POWER OPTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
• WINTER SERIES LECTURES – TUESDAY 17 JUNE – POWER OPTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
• What is special about Australian Caves and Karst? – Andy Spate -Tuesday June 3 – 8.00pm
• Vaccination: its Benefits, Risks and Problems of Community Acceptance – Dr Katie Flanagan – 25 May 2014
• “Volcanoes on the seafloor” presented by Professor Jocelyn McPhie Tuesday May 6th 2014
• MR Banks Lecture – Prof. Emily Hilder – Taking separations from the laboratory to the sample to the individual – April 1 2014
• The Tasmanian Aborigines and the Constitution of Modern Human Behaviour – Associate Professor Richard Cosgrove – 27 April 2014
• Discovering Tasmania’s Eucalypts – March 4 2014 at 8.00pm
• The Politics of Insanity – Dr Eric Ratcliff – 23 February 2014
• SPECIAL LECTURE February 4 2014 How warm is the water? or How much warm water?
• The Long Road Back from the Edge of Extinction by Robin Walpole [full text of presentation]
• From spiny ant-eater to promiscuous spiky baby killer: an incomplete natural history of echidnas – December 3 2013
• Delving into the Soil Carbon Black Box – November 24th 2013
• The Long Road Back from the Edge of Extinction – the Tasmanian Railway dilemma.
• Science Education in Tasmania – a teacher’s perspective – 22 September, 2013
• Winter Lecture Series-Future proofing the food supply: food security and food innovation in Tasmania
• Delving into the soil carbon black box – 24th November, 2013
• Trace Element Chemistry of the Oceans Reveals New Theory on Mass Extinction Events – 5th November, 2013
• Post Graduate night – 1st October, 2013
• The Kennedy family in Battery Point – 3rd September, 2013
• Behind the scenes at TMAG – 6th August, 2013
• Sir Joseph Banks – 2nd July, 2013
• Marine Biology Research – 23rd June, 2013
• Cloud Seeding – 4th June, 2013
• Systematic methods for Natural Disaster Risk Management – 7th May, 2013
• Edgeworth David in Antarctica – 9th April 2013
• Treating osteoarthritis with bone acting agents – 5th March 2013
• How we came to know (we think)! – 4th December 2012
• Ocean Wave and Tidal Energy Research at the Australian Maritime College – 25th November 2012
• The Ambitions of Lady Franklin – 6th November 2012
• Postgraduate Student Night – 2nd October 2012
• Tasmania’s Impact on the World Pulp and Paper Industry – 4th September 2012
• Texting: Spoiling our spelling or enhancing communication? – 7th August 2012
• WINTER SERIES-Saving Tasmania’s Unique Animals – 17th July 2012
• Sir Raymond Priestley and his Antarctic adventures – 3rd July 2012
• WINTER SERIES Saving Tasmania’s Unique Animals – 19th June 2012
• The ‘String of Beads’ (Horodyskia) in Proterozoic slate – 5th June 2012
• History of Steam Driven Cars – 1st May 2012
• Evolutionary landscapes of lizards – the accidental story of a climate change biologist – 3rd April 2012
• Genetics; A fast-track to the discovery of new therapies – 6th March 2012
• Building and testing of ship models and marine structures at the Australian Maritime College. – 4th March 2012
• Great Scott! (and the ACY?) – 6th December 2011
• Mawson Symposium – 30th November 2011
• Crisis between the Aborigines and white settlers circa 1830 – 1st November 2011
• Postgraduate Student talks – 4th October 2011
• SEPARATION SCIENCE IN PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS – 6th September 2011
• WINTER SERIES “Forests and Carbon” Northern Edition – 16th August 2011
• Agricultural research and teaching in Tasmania-responding to the ‘unprecedented confluence of pressures’ – 2nd August 2011
• WINTER SERIES – 19th July 2011
• Tasmania: the southern hemisphere’s hub for marine and Antarctic research – 5th July 2011
• The Derwent Estuary: what’s its health – 7th June 2011
• UTAS Library Tour – 17th May 2011
• Brunel’s Crimean War Hospital and its significance – 6th May 2011
• Diagnosing Darwin – the contribution of his Australian experiences – 3rd May 2011
• Erosion, fire, megafauna and the arrival of people in the Tasmanian landscape – 5th April 2011
• Tasmania’s Environmental Effect on my Music – A Personal Response – 1st March 2011
• Special Meeting then AGM – 1st March 2011
• New Worlds – 7th December 2010
• Are we seeing the physical impacts of renewed sea-level rise on Tasmania’s coasts yet? – 2nd November 2010
• Postgraduate Student Night – 5th October 2010
• The Royal Society of London after 350 Years including its beginnings and what it is today. – 7th September 2010
• WINTER SERIES – 3rd August 2010
• Microbial Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean : threats from climate change – 6th July 2010
• WINTER SERIES – 15th June 2010
• Tasmania’s Ancient Bushfire Heritage – 1st June 2010
• Tasmania’s Ancient Bushfire Heritage – 1st June 2010
• Update on architectural design for the future of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery – 4th May 2010
• Conflicting Anthropological Concepts: Georg Forster and Johann Reinhold Forster on New Zealand – 6th April 2010
• Conflicting Anthropological Concepts: Georg Forster and Johann Reinhold Forster on New Zealand – 6th April 2010
• HMS Beagle in Tasmanian Waters -Presidential Address – 2nd March 2010
• 2010 is the sesquicentary of the publication of The Flora of Tasmania by Joseph Hooker. – 17th February 2010
• Ex. Ex. and that odd view of the world (it couldn’t be right?) – 1st December 2009
• The Nature of the Discipline of Information Systems – 3rd November 2009
• Site Visit Radio Telescope, Cambridge – 31st October 2009
• Distant Suns and Hidden Earths – 6th October 2009
• Mathematics in 2020 – 1st September 2009
• Tasmania’s Energy Future – 18th August 2009
• Democratic Sanctions and Australia’s Role in the Pacific Islands. – 4th August 2009
• Tasmania’s Energy Future – 21st July 2009
• Fitzroy of the Beagle – 7th July 2009
• Tasmania’s Energy Future – 16th June 2009
• Food plants of the world: “Helping the hungry feed themselves” – 5th June 2009
• As the population clock winds down – 2nd June 2009
• William Archer: Tasmania’s links with Darwin – 5th May 2009
• TBA – 7th April 2009