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.
27 March 2025 | 5:30 pm
Monthly Lecture
Could Australia ever have been French? For this talk, Danielle will narrate a richly illustrated documentary film exploring the role French exploration played in Australia's colonial history.
10 April 2025 | 5:30 pm
Monthly Lecture
Understanding your elevation is integral to many decision-making processes; from determining a safe development threshold to avoid flood risk, for monitoring sea-levels, through to making sure sewers flow downhill as designed. But have you ever wondered how a vertical datum is defined and how you then establish this for a country that is also a continent?
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
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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