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Chronicle of Meetings since 1994

9.8.94 Dr Bruce Donaldson The Unveiling of the Australian Coast by Dutch Explorers
19.10.94 Jan Stracke The Kröller Muller Museum
24.11.94 Dr Kirby Talley The Dutch Delta Plan, a nation mobilises for conservation, past, present and future
15.2.95 Prof Alan Rodger Sustainable urban development
9.5.95 David van Iterson Between prohibition and legislation, the perennial discussion on drug control and strategy
13.6.95 Peter Horton What is the role of SBS
8.8.95 Dr Ursula Hoff English Travellers in Holland of the Golden Age
12.9.95 Akky van Ogtrop Prints and the Print Market
17.11.95 Lustrum Party 30 Years Erasmus
13.2.96 Drs Henk Bak Dutch Landscape
2.4.96 Dr Poedijono The Characters of Javanese Wajang Kulit
22.5.96 Jan Stracke The Language of COBRA
26.6.96 Prof Wim Blauw Dutch Mirror on the Dutch
6.8.96 Justus Veeneklaas Philips - Making things better
8.10.96 Jan Bylstra Surfing the Internet
26.11.96 Prof Margaret Mannion Recent Perspectives on Dutch Franco Flemish Painting in the 15th Century
11.2.97 Kurt Albrecht 19th Century Gold and Silversmiths in Australia
22.4.97 Prof Desmond Cahill Racism and Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Australian Society
10.6.97 Helga Hill and the Early Music Consort Music and Instruments of the Renaissance period
12.8.97 Juliette Flesh Melbourne University Library Collections
14.10.97 Jan Brokken (Dutch author) Readings from the Rainbird - A central African Journey
10.2.98 Dr Frank Heckes Rembrandt's Life and Art
7.4.98 Dianne Gabb For Faith and Ideology
2.6.98 Maria Zijlstra An Australian Discovers Europe
21.7.98 Rosalind Price, John and Agnes Nieuwenhuizen Two Way Traffic
8.9.98 Nel ten Wolde & Piet Noest Discuss their painting techniques
13.10.98 Drs Renny van Heuven - van Nes Three Queens in one Century 1898-1998
24.11.98 Annette Welkamp Life and Death under the Pharaohs
16.2.99 Marco Van Pagee (conductor Geminiani Orchestra) Import, Export, A Music Perspective
30.3.99 F Springer (Dutch author) Journey with F Springer
8 .6.99 Jason Walker Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
27 .7.99 Irina Reitsema St Petersburg and Holland - The Connection
7.9.99 Bart van Oort Piano recital, works of Haydn, Fodor and Mozart
9.11.99 Dolf Slijkhuis Penny Farthing Jazz Band
15.2.00 Jonah Jones & Lucinda McKnight Anne Frank - a history for today; Melbourne exhibition
11.4.00 James Aylward W van Otterloo Award, bassoon, flute & piano recital
20.6.00 Rob van Driesum The Life and Work of a Guidebook Writer - Lonely Planet
2.8.00 Felicity Druce The Art of Violet Teague 1872- 1951
3.10.00 Bart van Oort Forte piano recital, works of Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart
24.11.00 Laury Benson National Gallery redevelopment - Dutch/ Flemish rooms
6.3.01 Prof Merle Ricklefs The Dutch in the Indies
22.4.01 Prof Martin Veltman (received Nobel Prize for Physics in 1999) Journey into the Sub-Atomic World
24.6.01 The Penny Farthing Jazz Band Christmas in June
4.9.01 Jaap Roskam Sailing the Last East Indiaman - Batavia
13.11.01 Dr Gary Ekkel "Voices of Rembrandt" by the "Schola Cantorum of Melbourne" choir
27.2.02 Megan Billing and Vivien Brooke W van Otterloo Award, oboe & piano recital
23.4.02 Jannie Schoenmaker Ton Schulten's Life and Art
11.6.02 Peggie Hertog Laughter is the best medicine
10.9.02 Prof David Runia Happiness Ancient and Modern
12.11.02 Brigitte Vroombout The Presentation - Dutch Art in the Stedelijk Museum- A Sovereign Selection
18.2.03 Prof Merle Ricklefs Creating Indonesia? The Dutch in the Indies 1800-1930
7.5.03 Annette van Ham The Aboriginal Art Museum in the Netherlands
8.7.03 Rolf de Heer The Old Man Who Read Love Stories - Film night with the director, ACMI Fed Square
16.9.03 Hans Nieuwland In memory of the 50th anniversary of the first climb of the Mount Everest by Sir Edmond Hillary
18.11.03 Dr Frank Heckes Velazquez and Goya:  Master Painters at the Spanish Court
10.2.04 Prof Ad Borsboom "The clan of the Wild Honey" - Aborigines in Arnhem Land
25.2.04 Adriaan van Dis (Dutch author) "An evening with Adriaan van Dis", Melbourne Town Hall
27.4.04 Evan Williams & Richard Mason W van Otterloo Award, French Horn & Clarinet recital
24.5.04 Tim Krabbé (Dutch author) "An evening with Tim Krabbé ", SBS Building Fed Square
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 (Dutch author) An evening with Fleur Bourgonje
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 (Dutch 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 Coté 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 Prof Mark Bovens Beyond Pillarization: Changes and Continuity in Dutch politics
20.9.06 Prof Ronald de Leeuw, Director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Forward with Cuypers: The Renovation of the Rijksmuseum
31.10.06 Kees Brusse (actor) answering questions after film screening Film "Dokter Pulder zaait papavers" with Kees Brusse in the Elsternwick Classic Cinema. There was financial support for this 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 Prof 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 Ariëlla 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 Prof 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
27.04.10 Willem van Otterloo Scholarship Awarded to clarinetist Aviva Endean at the VCA School of Music
26.08.10 Movie night The other Final
14.10.10 Movie night Twin Sisters
26.10.10 Iet Fuijkschot Prinjesdag
26.05.11 Kader Abdolah (Dutch-Iranian author) An evening with Kader Abdolah
4.03.12 Bob Kaper History of the Dutch Swing College Band
27.03.12 Movie night Screening of the film Tirza in the ACMI cinemas (with financial support from the Royal Netherlands Embassy)
30.04.12 H.E. Patrick Renault Ambassador of Belgium. "How the Belgians see the Dutch"
02.07.12 Catwalk for Dutch Innovation TEDxBinnenhof in Melbourne, joint event with the Dutch Embassy in Canberra and the NCCA. Video of presentations held in the Hague on 25 June 2012
30.09.12 Movie afternoon Screening of the film Sonny Boy in the Abel Tasman Club (DVD provided by the Dutch Embassy in Canberra)
18.11.12 Prof Ian Edwards From Monastery Floors to Kitchen Walls, the Evolution of the Iconic Dutch Tiles

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