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

Date.of.this.event	Speaker(s)	Topic
2021, May 2	Dr 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 16	Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner AC, Governor of Tasmania	“Improving Literacy and Education Standards in Tasmania”
2021, March 7	Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas	“Engagement, diversity and interdisciplinarity to tackle future challenges”
2020, Dec 3	John Williamson	“Hobart and Amundsen: An Antarctic Gateway Illusion?“
2020, Nov 8	Dr 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 4	Dr Indrani Mukherjee	“An account of Earth’s Middle Ages – Life and Resources”
2020, Sep 6	Prof. Jamie Kirkpatrick	“Cyclic dynamics in Tasmanian high mountain treeless vegetation”
2020, Aug 2	Prof. Arko Lucieer	“From Surface to Satellites – remote sensing from drones advances our understanding of plant biodiversity”
2020, June 21	Dr Eloise Foo	“Dating in the dark – The underground world of beneficial plant-microbe relationships”
2020, May 17	Dr Edward Doddridge	“Going With The Wind – Our Changing Southern Ocean”
2020, March 1	Prof. Jean-Philippe Beaulieu	“The Secret Garden at Recherche Bay,1792”
2019, Dec 3	Dr Alison Alexander	“Maria Lord: from convict to Governor’s lady”
2019, Nov 5	Luisa Fitzpatrick, Habacuc Pérez-Tribouillier, and Patrick Yates	Post Graduate Night
2019, Oct 1	Dr Lucia McCallum	“The Dish redux – from the Apollo Mission to Earth surveying”
2019, Sept 3	Dr Anita Hansen	“Creating History: how does a settler society create its own independent history and identity?”
2019, August 6	Marley Large	“Snapshots of 175 Years of The Royal Society of Tasmania’s Minutes”
2019, July 2	Garry Bailey	“Vision Zero: Road Safety in Tasmania”
2019, June 4	Theresa Sainty and Annie Reynolds	“palawa kani  – The revival of Tasmanian Aboriginal language”
2019, May 7	Jack Mulder and Feng Pan	2018 Doctoral Awards lecture
2019, April 2	Dr Elizabeth Robinson	“On educating young people in Tasmania today”
2019, March 5	Scott Rankin	“Inclusive growth – creating new pathways out of deep poverty”
2018, Dec 4	Prof. Rufus Black	Christmas dinner speaker
2018, Nov 14	Susannah Fullerton	“And so to bed …”, Samuel Pepys
2018, October 2	Nicole Hellessey, Shasta Henry, and Peter Lynch	Annual Postgraduate evening
2018, September 4	Assoc. Prof. Arko Lucieer	“Rise of the Drones: how Unmanned Aircraft Systems create new opportunities for environmental remote sensing and geosciences”
2018, August 10	Prof. Margaret MacMillan	“War and the Making of the Modern World”
2018, July 3	Dr Andrew Cole	“A New High-Precision Look at the Milky Way”
2018, June 5	Dr Andreas Klocker	“Sistema Huautla – Cave diving for exploration and science in one of the world’s most spectacular deep caves”
2018, May 1	Ms Sophie Muller	“Putting the change in climate change”
2018, April 10	Prof. Michael Breadmore	M.R. Banks Lecture “Chemical answers now – safer food, water and environment through chemistry on a chip”
2018, March 6	Rosalie Martin	AGM “Transforming lives – the role of speech pathology in improving prisoners’ lives and society’s future”
2017, Sep 5	Dr Tas van Ommen	“Ice cores and climate: looking back over a million years of earth history”
2017, Nov 14	Saul Eslake	“Australia’s ongoing quest for ever-greater ‘security’ – is it rational and has it made us safer?”
2017, Nov 7	Assoc. Prof. Tracey Dickson	“Cortical Inhibitory Dysfunction in Motor Neuron Disease: How can we get the balance back?”
2017, Oct 3	Prof. Maggie Walter	“Looking Back to Move Forward: The Royal Society and Tasmanian Aborigines”
2017, Aug 2	Prof. Terry Hughes and Prof. Philip Boyd	Part 3 of Royal Society Winter Lecture Series
2017, August 1	Dr Henry Reynolds	“From Tasmanian patriotism to Australian nationalism: A little known story in three acts” (Clive Lord Medal Lecture)
2017, Jul 19	Dr Taryn Noble and Prof. Matt King	Part 2 of Royal Society Winter Lecture Series
2017, July 4	Dr Meredith Nash	“What is it like to be a woman in STEMM? Gender bias, sexual harassment, and the myth of meritocracy”
2017, June 6	Prof. Barry Brook	“The Future of Humanity”
2017, May 2	Prof. David Green	Melting in the Earth – complexity, diversity and a key to understanding “Seismic Shifts” and “Tectonic Plates” (RM Johnston Memorial Medal lecture)
2017, April 4	Prof. Hamish Maxwell-Stuart	“Height, Health and History”
2017, March 7	Kathryn Medlock	“Where did all the tigers go? The Tasmanian Museum thylacine collection” (AGM)
2016, Nov 9	Dr Stephen Rintoul	“Hunting for Climate Clues in the Southern Ocean”
2016, Nov 1	Assoc. Prof. Gretta Pecl	“Global and local implications of species on the move as a function of a changing climate”
2016, October 4	Many speakers.	Royal Society Postgrad Evening
2016, Sep 6	Dr Clare Hawkins	“Extinction Matters: Could Citizen Science Help?”
2016, August 15	Dr Jules Harnett	“Reflections on a Career in Astrophysics” (Science Week)
2016, August 2	A/Prof. Penelope Edmonds	“An Antislavery Moment in the Antipodes: Cross-cultural Quaker Witnessing and Botanical Collecting in the Bass Strait Islands, 1832”
2016, July 27	Dr John Cook	“Living in an uncertain world: data and decisions: The psychology of Climate Science Denial”
2016, July 27	Assoc. Prof. Heather Lovell	“Living in an uncertain world: data and decisions: Smart Grids, Messy Society”
2016, June 7	Prof. John Dickey	“What the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Will Tell Us about the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds”
2016, June 7	Dr Matthew Wilson	“Commercialisation of Tasmanian native pepper”
2016, May 3	Dr 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 5	John K Davidson:	“The Upstream Petroleum Industry; Tasmania’s Position”
2016, March 1	Prof. Matt King	“Antarctica: Frozen not Frigid”
2016, Feb 2	Prof. Ross R. Large	“Ocean Acidification and Atmosphere Oxygenation in Deep Time: A Multi-Proxy Approach to Tracking Past Ocean Chemistry”