The Royal Society of Tasmania

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List of archived lectures conducted in Southern Tasmania
(starting with the most recent)

Lectures in 2023

Date.of.this.eventSpeaker(s)Topic
2023, Aug 6Dr Rachel Climie and Dr Vipul GuptaDr Rachel Climie – “Cardiovascular Health in Early Life”
Dr Vipul Gupta – “Transforming 3D Printing from Rapid Prototyping to Advanced Manufacturing”.
2023, July 30Kerry Sculthorpe“2023 Voice Referendum. An exploration of the Voice to Parliament – how we got here, and what we might expect after the referendum” (Click to view recording)
2023, Jul 2Michael Mansell “2023 Voice Referendum. Empowering Aborigines: Voices inside parliament or advisers outside? Voting ‘No’ to the referendum is a vote of support for Aboriginal self-determination”. (Click to view recording)
2023, Jun 8Dr Shasta Henry“Future Shock” (Click to view recording)
2023, May 25Anne Cripps, in conversation with Kate Warner“The research for Gardeners, Plant Collectors, Friends” (Click to learn more)
2023, Apr 2Dr Keith Hayes“Assessing the risks of eliminating malaria with gene drives” (Click to view recording)
2023, Mar 6Emeritus Professor
Stefan Petrow		“A very great idea’? Acclimatisation in Tasmania, 1862 – 1895” (Click to view recording)

Lectures in 2022

Date.of.this.eventSpeaker(s)Topic
2022, Dec 4Rodney Gibbins“Truth telling and treaty as it relates to Tasmania now” (Click to view recording)
2022, Oct 16Dr Rebecca Carey“Bang, Fizzle, Pop: Case studies of the interactions between volcanoes and magma with the ocean.” (Click to view recording)
2022, Sep 4PhD ShowcaseGrace Martini (Clothing waste), Brenda Mooney (Mine waste) and Mars Buttfield-Addison (Space junk). (Click to learn more)
2022, Aug 25Dr Julie McInnes“Macquarie Island seabirds; their place in the food web” (Click to learn more)
2022, Aug 7Doctoral Award Winner lecturesDr Pratiksha Srivastava “Electron exchange between living and non-living things for developing sustainability in the environment” and Dr Rhondda Waterworth “The therapeutic potential of magistrates and court systems”. (Click to view recording)
2022, July 14Anita Hansen and Marley Large“A picture is worth a thousand words” (Click to view recording)
2022, July 7Dr John Gunn, Dr Justin Coombs, Prof Catriona Macleod, Paul Garrott. “Blue Biotechnology Revolution” (Click to view recording)
2022, June 19Dr Sally Bryant“Little bird of lutruwita: Saving Tasmania’s forty-spotted pardalote” (Click to view recording)
2022, May 15Dr Tony Webster“Geology, landscape and European Settlement: small things meant a lot” (Click to view recording)
2022, Apr 3Dr Lisa Gershwin“Jellyfish blooms and the future of the ocean” (Click to view recording)
2022, Mar 7Prof Kate Warner AC and David Owen“Government House Tasmania – a remarkable story” (Click here to view recording (Click here to view recording)

Lectures in 2021

Date.of.this.eventSpeaker(s)Topic
2021, Dec 9Prof. Greg Lehman“Terra nullius in Tasmanian colonial art” (Click here to view recording)
2021, Nov 7Dr Lila Landowski“Brain hack: Sharing the secrets to productive learning, backed by neuroscience“
2021, Oct 3Assoc. Prof. Rebecca Carey“Volcanic eruptions in the deep submarine environment: Are the dynamics and products the same as on land?“
2021, Sept 5 Dr Alessandro Silvano “The global influence of ice-ocean interaction in Antarctica”
2021, Aug 1Dr Adam Abersteiner“Kimberlites – Volcanic insights into Earth’s deep interior“
2021, June 23Nathan Bindoff, Mary O’Kane and Andrew Catchpole“Climate challenges and the path to mitigation“
2021, May 2Dr Imogen Wegman“The Messiness of Colonial Exploration and Cartography“
2021, April 11 Dr Frances Sussmilch“Tales of evolution from the mouths of plants”
2021, March 16Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner AC, Governor of Tasmania“Improving Literacy and Education Standards in Tasmania“
2021, March 7Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas“Engagement, diversity and interdisciplinarity to tackle future challenges”

Lectures before 2021

Date.of.this.eventSpeaker(s)Topic
2020, Dec 3John Williamson“Hobart and Amundsen: An Antarctic Gateway Illusion?“
2020, Nov 8Dr Jessica Ericson“Antarctic krill: What do the Southern Ocean’s charismatic “omega-fauna” eat, and how might they fare in a future high CO2 world?“
2020, Oct 4Dr Indrani Mukherjee“An account of Earth’s Middle Ages – Life and Resources”
2020, Sep 6Prof. Jamie Kirkpatrick“Cyclic dynamics in Tasmanian high mountain treeless vegetation“
2020, Aug 2Prof. Arko Lucieer“From Surface to Satellites – remote sensing from drones advances our understanding of plant biodiversity”
2020, June 21Dr Eloise Foo“Dating in the dark – The underground world of beneficial plant-microbe relationships”
2020, May 17Dr Edward Doddridge“Going With The Wind – Our Changing Southern Ocean”
2020, March 1Prof. Jean-Philippe Beaulieu“The Secret Garden at Recherche Bay,1792”
2019, Dec 3Dr Alison Alexander“Maria Lord: from convict to Governor’s lady”
2019, Nov 5Luisa Fitzpatrick, Habacuc Pérez-Tribouillier, and Patrick YatesPost Graduate Night
2019, Oct 1Dr Lucia McCallum“The Dish redux – from the Apollo Mission to Earth surveying”
2019, Sept 3Dr Anita Hansen“Creating History: how does a settler society create its own independent history and identity?”
2019, August 6Marley Large“Snapshots of 175 Years of The Royal Society of Tasmania’s Minutes”
2019, July 2Garry Bailey“Vision Zero: Road Safety in Tasmania”
2019, June 4Theresa Sainty and Annie Reynolds“palawa kani  – The revival of Tasmanian Aboriginal language”
2019, May 7Jack Mulder and Feng Pan2018 Doctoral Awards lecture
2019, April 2Dr Elizabeth Robinson“On educating young people in Tasmania today”
2019, March 5Scott Rankin“Inclusive growth – creating new pathways out of deep poverty”
2018, Dec 4Prof. Rufus BlackChristmas dinner speaker
2018, Nov 14Susannah Fullerton“And so to bed …”, Samuel Pepys
2018, October 2Nicole Hellessey, Shasta Henry, and Peter LynchAnnual Postgraduate evening
2018, September 4Assoc. Prof. Arko Lucieer“Rise of the Drones: how Unmanned Aircraft Systems create new opportunities for environmental remote sensing and geosciences”
2018, August 10Prof. Margaret MacMillan“War and the Making of the Modern World”
2018, July 3Dr Andrew Cole“A New High-Precision Look at the Milky Way”
2018, June 5Dr Andreas Klocker“Sistema Huautla – Cave diving for exploration and science in one of the world’s most spectacular deep caves”
2018, May 1Ms Sophie Muller“Putting the change in climate change”
2018, April 10Prof. Michael BreadmoreM.R. Banks Lecture “Chemical answers now – safer food, water and environment through chemistry on a chip”
2018, March 6Rosalie MartinAGM “Transforming lives – the role of speech pathology in improving prisoners’ lives and society’s future”
2017, Sep 5Dr Tas van Ommen“Ice cores and climate: looking back over a million years of earth history”
2017, Nov 14Saul Eslake“Australia’s ongoing quest for ever-greater ‘security’ – is it rational and has it made us safer?”
2017, Nov 7Assoc. Prof. Tracey Dickson“Cortical Inhibitory Dysfunction in Motor Neuron Disease: How can we get the balance back?”
2017, Oct 3Prof. Maggie Walter“Looking Back to Move Forward: The Royal Society and Tasmanian Aborigines”
2017, Aug 2Prof. Terry Hughes and Prof. Philip BoydPart 3 of Royal Society Winter Lecture Series
2017, August 1Dr Henry Reynolds“From Tasmanian patriotism to Australian nationalism: A little known story in three acts” (Clive Lord Medal Lecture)
2017, Jul 19Dr Taryn Noble and Prof. Matt KingPart 2 of Royal Society Winter Lecture Series
2017, July 4Dr Meredith Nash“What is it like to be a woman in STEMM? Gender bias, sexual harassment, and the myth of meritocracy”
2017, June 6Prof. Barry Brook“The Future of Humanity”
2017, May 2Prof. David GreenMelting in the Earth – complexity, diversity and a key to understanding “Seismic Shifts” and “Tectonic Plates”
(RM Johnston Memorial Medal lecture)
2017, April 4Prof. Hamish Maxwell-Stuart“Height, Health and History”
2017, March 7Kathryn Medlock“Where did all the tigers go? The Tasmanian Museum thylacine collection” (AGM)
2016, Nov 9Dr Stephen Rintoul“Hunting for Climate Clues in the Southern Ocean”
2016, Nov 1Assoc. Prof. Gretta Pecl“Global and local implications of species on the move as a function of a changing climate”
2016, October 4Many speakers.Royal Society Postgrad Evening
2016, Sep 6Dr Clare Hawkins“Extinction Matters: Could Citizen Science Help?”
2016, August 15Dr Jules Harnett“Reflections on a Career in Astrophysics” (Science Week)
2016, August 2A/Prof. Penelope Edmonds“An Antislavery Moment in the Antipodes: Cross-cultural Quaker Witnessing and Botanical Collecting in the Bass Strait Islands, 1832”
2016, July 27Dr John Cook“Living in an uncertain world: data and decisions: The psychology of Climate Science Denial”
2016, July 27Assoc. Prof. Heather Lovell“Living in an uncertain world: data and decisions: Smart Grids, Messy Society”
2016, June 7Prof. John Dickey“What the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Will Tell Us about the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds”
2016, June 7Dr Matthew Wilson“Commercialisation of Tasmanian native pepper”
2016, May 3Dr Daniel Gregory“The accumulation of trace elements in diagenetic pyrite, an example from the metal-rich Derwent Estuary and metal-poor Huon Estuary”
2016, April 5John K Davidson:“The Upstream Petroleum Industry; Tasmania’s Position”
2016, March 1Prof. Matt King“Antarctica: Frozen not Frigid”
2016, Feb 2Prof. Ross R. Large“Ocean Acidification and Atmosphere Oxygenation in Deep Time: A Multi-Proxy Approach to Tracking Past Ocean Chemistry”