The RGSSA hosts a series of stimulating lectures on a broad range of geographical topics, both current and historical.
Experience. Geography. Together.TM
Monthly Lectures are generally held on the third Thursday of the month at 5.30 pm, preceded by drinks and nibbles from 5:00 pm in the Hetzel Theatre, Institute Building on the corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue. Members are requested to make a gold coin donation to help offset the cost of hospitality. The cost for non-members is $10. Meetings may be followed by an optional light dinner at a local venue.
Lunchtime meetings are held during the cooler months of the year. Members are requested to make a gold coin donation while the cost for non-members is $5.
Videos of some previous lectures are available on YouTube.
The Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Lecture Program is supported by the State Library of South Australia.
8 May 2025 | 5:30 pm
Monthly Lecture
Come and be inspired by Sophie who believes that aside from the obvious environmental benefits, gardening improves our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing as well as that of the broader community.
12 June 2025 | 12:00 pm
Lunchtime Meeting
Rose de Freycinet’s Journal covered a three-year circumnavigation around the World from 1817 to 1820, including a shipwreck.
Is it more enriching for the Anglophone reader to hear the woman traveller’s own voice, albeit in translation, than to take cognizance of Rose’s adventures in a third-person narrative, as told by several scholars?
Professor Rivière is a recipient of an RGSSA Library Research Fellowship.
Image from Rose de Freycinet - Wikipedia
16 June 2025 | 12:30 pm
Lunchtime Meeting
This lecture traces strands of the environmental history(ies) of the Black Swan – particularly its long disruption of settler-colonial imaginaries of possibility – to open up what ‘black swan’ events and disruptions might yet be crafted for our shared uncertain climatic and ecological futures.
Melina is the recipient of an RGSSA Library Fellowship.
19 June 2025 | 5:30 pm
Monthly Lecture
Skye Krichauff will draw on maps and other historical documents to illustrate the types of country that was most sought after by colonists and to discuss the failure of early-colonial government officials to recognise Aboriginal people’s proprietary rights.
Image from David Collin's account of the colony of NSW, 1798
17 July 2025 | 5:30 pm
Monthly Lecture
Iain will discuss why the public, professional geographers, and their professional associations should engage with voluntary, community-based, learned societies such as RGSSA for mutual benefit and the discipline of geography's sustainability.
23 July 2025 | 12:00 pm
Lunchtime Meeting
The 19th century saw the formative development of botany into the scientific discipline we recognize today. The construction of networks among practitioners and correspondents is a means of exploring the foundations of modern botanical science and horticulture.
James Wilson is a recipient of an RGSSA Library Research Fellowship
14 November 2024 | 5:00 pm
15 August 2024 | 5:30 pm
18 July 2024 | 5:30 pm
2 July 2024 | 5:00 pm
15 February 2024 | 5:30 pm
11 October 2023 | 12:00 pm
20 April 2023 | 5:30 pm
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