Overview of some of the Guest Speakers in Recent Years

  • Ariella Kornmehl: Readings from her her second novel "The Butterfly Month"
  • Dr Sander Adelaar: "The Dutch occupation of Taiwan"
  • Kees Brusse: "Dokter Pulder zaait papavers". Film night with actor.
  • Professor Ronald de Leeuw: "Forward with Cuypers: The renovation of the Rijksmuseum" .
  • Rolf de Heer (Director): ''Ten canoes"- Film night with the director
  • Prof Mark Bovens: "Beyond Pillarization: Changes and Continuity in Dutch politics".
  • Prof Frank Bovenkerk: "Recent Events and immigration to the Netherlands"
  • Fleur Bourgonje (Author): "An evening with Fleur Bourgonje"
  • Dr Hans Sondaal (Ambassador): "A look behind the doors of the Embassy"
  • Paul Cox (Director): "Innocence" - Film night with the director
  • Tim Krabbé (Author): "An evening with Tim Krabbé"
  • Adriaan van Dis (Author): "An evening with Adriaan van Dis"
  • Prof Ad Borsboom: "The clan of the Wild Honey" - Aborigines in Arnhem Land
  • Dr Frank Heckes: "Vel‡zquez and Goya:  Master Painters at the Spanish Court"
  • Hans Nieuwland (Consul): "In memory of the 50th anniversary of  the first climb of the Mount Everest by Sir Edmond Hillary"
  • Rolf de Heer (Director): "The Old Man Who Read Love Stories"- Film night with the director
  • Prof Merle Ricklefs: "Creating Indonesia? The Dutch in the Indies 1800-1930"
  • Prof David Runia: "Happiness Ancient and Modern"
  • Prof Martin Veltman (1999 Nobel Prize winner physics): "Journey into the Sub-Atomic World"
  • Bart van Oort (Pianist): Forte piano recital, works of Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart
  • F Springer (Author): "Journey with F Springer"


Overview of Exhibitions and joint activities in recent years

  • "The Rembrandt Connection": exhibition of Dutch/Australian artists in the Malthouse
  • Bonegilla Exhibition "Where Waters Meet"- at the "Old Treasury Building"
  • "The Other Dutch, preserving the disappearing", exhibition with the "Tempo Doeloe Society".
  • "The Second Landing": exhibition of Dutch migrant artists in the National Gallery of Victoria.
  • Showing of Dutch film "The Discovery of Heaven"
  • Showing of Dutch film "Soldaat van Oranje"
  • Showing of Oscar winning Dutch film "Karakter"

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