A guest speaker is invited to lead the Visiting Fellows Dinner conversation each month. We're honoured to have hosted the following remarkable speakers:

June 2025

Sofia Mariani (University of Bologna (Italy))

Political participation in the digital era: is an inclusive approach possible?

April 2025

Professor Lachlan Blackhall (Australian National University)

October 2024

Dr Zena Assaad (Australian National University)

Exploring the safety implications of human-machine teaming (HMT) operations

August 2024

Dr Ana Cordova (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Mexico))

Addressing Societal Challenges through Nature-based Solutions

June 2024

Professor Sharon Crozier-De Rosa (University of Wollongong)

“It’s Time”: Temporalities of International Women’s Year 1975

March 2024

Dr Kiera Ladner (University of Manitoba)

The Voice failed, the queen is dead & her sovereignty remains intact on Indigenous lands: Restor(y)ing Narratives and Imagining Transformative Possibilities

October 2023

Dr Aditya Balasubramanian (Australian National University)

Australia, India, and the Eucalyptus Imbroglio

July 2023

Dr Alice Garner (University of Melbourne)

Listening to the archives, reading with the ears: on researching for an audio documentary

June 2023

Dr James Dunk (University of Sydney)

Planetary Health and Ecological Distress

March 2023

Dr Erin O'Brien (Queensland University of Technology)

Power, repression, and the push and pull dynamics of market-based political activism

October 2022

Dr Rhonda Evans (The University of Texas at Austin)

Agenda-Setting and the Australian Human Rights Commission

August 2022

Dr Kate Fitch (Monash University)

Wine, Women and PR

April 2022

Professor Mark Kenny (Australian National University)

The upcoming federal election & 2022-23 AuSI Fellowships launch

February 2022

Jess Hill 

The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia

November 2019

Professor Martin Hewitt (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)

Justifying the carbon cost of academic travel

October 2019

Professor Mark Kenny (Australian National University)

Failure loop: how voters are inviting their own neglect

September 2019

Dr Gabrielle Carey (University of Technology Sydney)

Psychosis and recovery

August 2019

Professor Alison Dundes Renteln (University of Southern California)

Law in a multicultural world

July 2019

Prof Beate Neumeier (University of Cologne)

Migration throughout History

June 2019

Dr Mari Kondo (University of New South Wales)

Achieving Health Ageing

May 2019

Associate Professor Danielle Way (Western University, Canada)

How our eco systems respond to climate change

April 2019

Professor Eliot Moss (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

How to make machine learning safe and fair

March 2019

Professor Valerie Hudson (Texas A&M University)

The value of expertise in the public domain

February 2019

Professor Mike Calford (Australian National University)

What attributes make for a good academic culture?