Featuring Catriona Nguyen-Robertson, Sarah Belet and Dwan Price.

The Annual General Meeting for the Royal Society of Victoria’s 2019 Financial Year. Voting members only please. This meeting will be held online as a Zoom conference.

Our second watch party features a half an hour looking at the future of electronics, the interactions of our brains with the “second brain” in our gut and the remarkable medicinal and nutritional properties of the plant kingdom. Join us to enjoy some of the highlights of the RSV’s science program.

Our first watch party features a half an hour looking at simulating the cosmic interactions of dark matter, the whims of fashionable science (and scientific fashion) and the neuroscience of addiction and compulsion. Join us to enjoy some of the highlights of the RSV’s science program!

Members are invited to commemorate 160 years since the official opening of the Royal Society of Victoria’s Hall on 10th December, 1859 by Sir Henry Barkly, Governor of Victoria.

The evening will begin with the presentation of the Society’s Medal for Excellence in Scientific Research, now in its sixtieth year, to the 2019 Medallist (to be announced shortly), and the Medallist’s Lecture. Following the presentation, members and their guests will celebrate an outstanding year of science engagement with Victorian communities at a special cocktail dinner function, featuring short presentations from our President and a small selection of the RSV’s many wonderful partners and collaborators.