We are increasingly livestreaming our events to help members stay connected to our programs during the pandemic, and to reach communities from regional and rural areas. If you want to join an event happening *right now,* you can access any active livestream from our Facebook site at https://www.facebook.com/royalsocietyvictoria/live/ , or review past livestreamed presentations by selecting the corresponding tab below.
Missed an event? We’ve recorded many of our recent presentations, either in high quality with accompanying interview material, or very simply through livestream footage. You can browse through our video highlights below, check out our YouTube channel for full lectures, or see our livestream archive on our Facebook page.
Summaries of major presentations hosted by the Royal Society of Victoria in 2018. Full presentations are available at our YouTube channel.
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Australian Indigenous Astronomy - 65.000+ Years of Science
You and Your Racist Brain: The Neuroscience of Prejudice
Earthrise: Looking Back at our Planet (Short)
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Future Thinking
Recent presentations to the Royal Society of Victoria concerned with environmental conservation, climate change adaptation and mitigation.
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The Goulburn Murray Resilience Strategy
Climate Change - Managing the Unavoidable, Avoiding the Unmanageable (Short)
Imagine a World - Postcards from the Pandemic (Short)
Future Thinking: Preparing for the Transition of the Water Sector
Future Thinking: Taking a Place-Based Approach - The Voice of a Region
Future Thinking: Preparing for Biodiversity Decision Making
Future Thinking: Climate Change and Systems Transformation
Future Thinking: Agricultural Transitions
Future Thinking: Building Community Agency
A Message From The Future - Lauren Rickards
A Message From The Future - Sharon Friel
A Message From the Future - Peter Doherty
A Message From The Future - Dr Jenny Gray
Changing Forests in a Changing Climate - What Might the Future Hold? (Short)
The Land and its Laws of Obligation
Rehabilitation of the Ranger Uranium Mine
Australian Landscapes from Eocene to Anthropocene
Managing the Unmanageable - the New Australian Pastoralism
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Live-streamed Presentations on Facebook
Live-stream footage of lectures and seminars hosted by the Royal Society of Victoria (note: these are mostly very basic video recordings. There’s some overlap with our professionally filmed YouTube content). You can click “load more” to scroll through the archive here, or visit our Facebook page to browse playlists.
Victoria’s Zoos, Museums and Botanic Gardens are more than interesting places for people to visit - they are also engines of cutting-edge research and field work.
Join us for a special online event, streamed live from Victoria’s Parliament House during National Science...
The tradition of Western science is barely 400 years old, but we still call it a tradition. Around the world, a vast number of research institutions maintain learning traditions with this distinctly European cultural legacy. But there are other, valid ways of understanding the world...
This World Environment Day, join leaders from government, industry, the community and academia, who will provide their perspectives on protecting and recovering Victoria’s biodiversity.
"It's obvious in science that we can't always give absolute answers, we know this. That's the nature of science; science is also evolving, so those answers can change. But what do the public expect? When they're making choices based on risk, it is very challenging...
Nature-harnessing technologies are key to effectively and sustainably restoring contaminated ecosystems, using naturally occurring microorganisms to clean up contamination from oil and other organic pollutants in soils, groundwater and water bodies. The bioremediation process both destroys contaminants and restores an ecosystem’s functional microbiome.
ACCLIMATISE, from composer Catriona Nguyen-Robertson:
"I wrote this choral piece for Inspiring Victoria's 2021 ACCLIMATISE program to highlight environmental changes that are already happening, so that it might spark change among people. It touches on the melting ice sheets of Antarctica,...
Nature-harnessing technologies are key to effectively and sustainably restoring contaminated ecosystems, using naturally occurring microorganisms to clean up contamination from oil and other organic pollutants in soils, groundwater and water bodies. The bioremediation process both destroys contaminants and restores an ecosystem’s microbiome.
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Tours of the RSV’s Hall
We are a small and very busy organisation. Our historic building is not open to the public, but we offer guided tours on Thursdays between 12.30 and 1.30pm (except during Public Holidays and the Christmas/New Year close), depending on prevailing conditions. Please ring ahead to confirm: 9663 5259.