Chronicle of Meetings over the last 6 years
10.2.04 Prof Ad Borsboom "The clan of the Wild Honey" - Aborigines in Arnhem Land
25.2.04 Adriaan van Dis "An evening with Adriaan van Dis", Melbourne Town Hall, evening with Dutch author
27.4.04 Evan Williams & Richard Mason W van Otterloo Award, French Horn & Clarinet recital
24.5.04 Tim Krabbé "An evening with Tim Krabbé", SBS Building Fed Square, evening with Dutch author
17.8.04 Paul Cox Viewing of film Innocence and Q&A with director Paul Cox, ACMI Fed Square
14.9.04 Dr Hans Sondaal "A look behind the doors of the Embassy" by the Dutch Ambassador
23.11.04 Fleur Bourgonje "An evening with Fleur Bourgonje ", evening with Dutch author
22.2.05 Menno van Ruyven & Petra Neeleman "An evening with Dutch Care"
22.3.05 Prof Frank Bovenkerk "Recent Events and immigration to the Netherlands"
7.6.05 Vincent Alessi " Vincent Van Gogh's Print Collection as a Solution to Compositional Problems "
16.8.05
Arjen Duinker , Poet "An evening with Arjen Duinker"
29.11.05 Prof David Runia (talk about Erasmus), Cellists Henry Wenig and Annette Martin "A Festive Evening", 40th Anniversary Erasmus Foundation & Jonas Kreveld Award
12.2.06 Book launch : Dutch migration to Australia: The case of the Indisch Dutch. "Recalling the Indies: Colonial culture and Postcolonial identities" (editors Joost Cote and Loes Westerbeek) and "The Dutch Down Under 1606 – 2006" (coordinating author Nonja Peters)
29.3.06 Willem van Otterloo Scholarship Awarded to violinist at the VCA School of  Music Jackie Xiao
30.5.06 Professor Mark Bovens

"Beyond Pillarization: Changes and Continuity in Dutch politics"

20.9.06 Professor Ronald de Leeuw, Director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. "Forward with Cuypers: The renovation of the Rijksmuseum"
31.10.06 Kees Brusse answering questions after film screening Film "Dokter Pulder zaait papavers" with Kees Brusse. There was financial support for this special event from the Royal Netherlands Embassy
21.11.06 Jan de Jonge
'The SS Rotterdam", the largest passenger ship ever built in The Netherlands
27.02.07 Professor Michael Clyne "Is the Dutch language surviving in Melbourne?"
7.5.07 Dr Sander Adelaar "The Dutch occupation of Taiwan"
10.7. 07 Johan Kruithof ''Rembrandt and other famous Musicians"
17.9.07 Ariella Kornmehl (Dutch author) Readings from her her second novel "The Butterfly Month", including Q&A
22+29.10.07 Judith Scurfield (Map librarian) "Maps and the Dutch Connection" - A visit to the State Library of Victoria
20.11.07 Titiana Haremaker "With Melba in the Wings". Readings and songs performed by Titiana with piano accompaniment
4.3.08 Willem van Otterloo Scholarship Awarded to saxophonist Joshua Hyde at the VCA School of  Music
22.4.08 Frans Uelman "Dredging: Dutch history and Melbourne Channel Deepening"
17.06.08 Gerard Terpstra "Australian wine, Frisian spirit!", including a wine tasting
07.08.08 Movie night Peter Greenaway's "Nightwatching"
14.10.08 Professor David Runia "Philosophy in Action - Three concepts of pleasure"
25.11.08 Seraphim Trio Performance of Mozart Piano Quartet K478 and Brams Piano Quartet Op. 25
12.5.09 Hugh O’Neill Thomas Karsten- His Architecture in Indonesia
21.7.09 Annette Welkamp Nederland Museumland
15.9.09 Johan Kruithof Dutch Guns in Port Philip- 1853
20.10.09 Dolphin Trio AGM and Continental music
24.11.09 Dr. Paul ’t Hart Rough versus Smooth succession in politics.

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