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Anna-Maria Arabia OAM

Winter Tales presents Anna-Maria Arabia OAM

27 Jul 2025 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Join Anna-Maria Arabia as she reflects on her life and work advancing science and the value of evidence-informed decision making in our society.

Conference Room

Talks and ideas

A man with grey hair and brown and grey beard and moustache standing in front of blurred out trees

Professor Brett Sutton AO

2025 Kenneth Myer Lecture: Professor Brett Sutton AO

29 Jul 2025 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm

*Booked out*

Join us for the 2025 Kenneth Myer Lecture, presented by Professor Brett Sutton AO.

Foyer

Online

Theatre

Talks and ideas

Flagship lecture

Booked out

A. de Paszthory, Portrait of Nellie Stewart as Rosalind in As You Like It, oil on canvas, 1904, https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3022148; Broadside advertising George Musgrove’s As You Like It, Princess Theatre, Melbourne, Melbourne: Troedel, 1903, https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn107848

Shakespeare on the move: Gold rush to Great War

01 Aug 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Join us for the third illustrated Shakespeare lecture and discover the objects and stories that reveal how Shakespeare made landfall in Australia.

Online

Theatre

Talks and ideas

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

Wheelchair accessible

Professor Brett Sutton AO

2025 Kenneth Myer Lecture, Melbourne: Professor Brett Sutton AO

05 Aug 2025 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Join us in Melbourne for the 2025 Kenneth Myer Lecture, presented by Professor Brett Sutton AO.

Offsite

Talks and ideas

Flagship lecture

Image courtesy Anne Algar

Deadly Dialogues: Bringing Them Home Oration with Kutcha Edwards

06 Aug 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Kutcha Edwards delivers the inaugural Bringing Them Home Oration.

Theatre

First Australians

Deadly dialogues

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Katherine Parr’s handwriting and signature in a copy of A Sermon of Saint Chrysostom (1542). Image by permission of Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe.

Gorgeous books and royal annotations

07 Aug 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

What did Katherine Parr and Henry VIII write in their books? Hear Professor Micheline White delve into the marginalia left in their personal books.

Online

Theatre

Talks and ideas

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

Wheelchair accessible

Letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, 11 June 1799, nla.obj-229629481

Jane Austen and her legacy – 250 glorious years

20 Aug 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Susannah Fullerton OAM, President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia will deliver a public lecture marking the 250th Anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth.

Online

Theatre

Talks and ideas

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

Wheelchair accessible

Cover of the What a Ripper book and a photo of Tim Ross

What a Ripper! with Tim Ross and special guest Mary Featherston

30 Aug 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:15pm

To celebrate his latest book What a Ripper! 60 everyday objects that shaped Australia, Tim Ross is being joined on stage by one of the designers featured in the book, Mary Featherston.

Foyer

Theatre

Book launch

Talks and ideas

The Great Debate 2025: That Australian history unites us

09 Sep 2025 | 4:00pm - 7:00pm

Will your mind be changed? Join us for the Great Debate and the Great Student Debate during Science Week 2025.

Theatre

Talks and ideas

Assistance animals welcome

Hearing induction loop

Wheelchair accessible

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