Important: The Meetings are usually held in the Lyceum Rooms, Creek Street, Brisbane.
Refreshments are served from 10:00am. Come along and enjoy the opportunity to chat over a cup of tea or coffee before the meeting. A light lunch will be served after the meeting.
No RSVP necessary (except for the Christmas Morning Tea).
2020
Tuesday, 18 February: Dr Bridie Scott-Parker: Driver Safety from adolescent to the older generation
Monday, 2 March: Professor Greg Hainge: French Literature, Critical Theory and Continental Philosophy, Film Studies and noise
Tuesday, 17 March: Professor Glenn King: Biochemistry and Structural Biology
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Tuesday, 18 August: Simone Matthews “How the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health deals with indigenous law issues at the frontline, as part of a larger health practice.”
Tuesday, 29 September: Annual General Meeting
Monday, 2 November: Professor Glenn KingTopic: Deadly cures: human medicines from venomous animals. *** Special General Meeting will follow.
Tuesday, 17 November: tba
December: Christmas Morning Tea
2019 Meetings
7 December: Christmas Morning Tea
November: Prue Pettett: Environmentalist
November: Dr Susan Mercer: Managing Director, Clovely Estate
October: Lyceum Centenary Lecture presented by Professor Mary Garson AM
October: Queen’s Birthday Holiday
September: Annual General Meeting
September: Professor Ranjeny Thomas: Arthritis Research
August: tba
August: Centenary Anniversary Luncheon at the Customs House, Brisbane – Guest Speaker Em. Professor Kay Saunders AM
July: Special Occasion with High Tea and Entertainment – Official Opening of the Lyceum Rooms
June: Dianne Moon: Holmes A’Court Indigenous Art
June: Kelly Greenup
May: Susan Rimmer Harris
May: No Meeting – Labour Day
April: Mia Woodruff: Biofabrication and Tissue Morphology
April: Neita Bell Lecture: Faseny McPhee – The Great Tapestry of Scotland
March: Sarah Percy: Maritime Security
March: Berthine Ommensen: Autism Across the Lifespan
February: Vicky Abad spoke about Music Therapy Supporting lifelong family music practices, and Music.
2018 Meetings
December: Christmas Morning Tea, Tattersall’s Club
November: Simon Farley: Publications in the wake of the Endeavour voyage: Qld Holdings and the Fryer Library Collections
November: Margaret Fisher: Volunteering in Timor L’Este
October: Dale Arvidsson- Curator of Brisbane Botanical Gardens
September: Annual General Meeting
September: Dr Geoff Ginn, Senior Lecturer School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland – the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, Caboolture
August: Meeting Postponed (AALC Conference in Sydney)
August: Emeritus Professor Richard Fotheringham – History of the Brisbane Theatre
July: Mr Bill Syme: The Mechanism of the Brisbane Floods
July: Ms Di Hill: Queensland Women Writers
May: 2018: Dr Madonna Grehan The story of ‘The Australian Hospital Ship Centaur and the nurses who served
May: Anniversary Lunch – Ms Kathleen Noonan
April: Dr Ann Bramwell: Women and the ADF from an historical perspective
March: Jane Clout: An Insight into the Oyster Industry
March: Dr Genevieve Dingle: Music to name and shape emotions
February: Members Stories
2017 Meetings
21 November: Ms Beata Ostapiej-Piatkowski,The Romero Centre, Mercy Community Centre
6 November: Prof Else Wilkins – Music, Maths and Brains
October: Dr Kim Wilkins – Writing fiction and biographies
19 September: Annual General Meeting with entertainment from the Lyceum Lyricists
September: Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex – The public perceptions of scientific innovations from Galileo to climate change
August: Ms Libbie Schmidt. Glamour in the Skies: The golden age of the air stewardess
August: Adjunct Professor Ann Scott: From Shorthand to website management, a personal perspective on living with the technological change
July: Dr Ingrid McGuffog. Photo-storytelling with Criminal Justice involved women in Rochester NY.
(TBC)
July: Ms Dorelle Thompson. Nutrition as best medicine (Lecture notes available on the Members’ Only Page)
June: Emeritus Professor Colleen Cartwright – The legal issues /rights of people with dementia and their carers (A Power Point presentation of this talk is available on the Members’ Only page)
June: Dr Irena Vetter – Developing new pain medications
May: Neita Bell Lecture Assoc.Prof Margaret Maynard: Women’s fashion for flight
May: Anniversary Lunch: Emeritus Professor Bob Milns AM: What made Ancient Greeks laugh
April: Speaker: Ms Annabel Lloyd, City Archivist
March: Speaker: Professor Ben White, Director Australian Centre for Health Law Research QUT Faculty of Law
March: Women’s career development throughout the lifespan: International perspectives – Speaker: Professor Wendy Patton
February: Science and the Great Barrier Reef in Court Speaker: Ms Jo-Anne Bragg, CEO Environment Defenders Office
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