Events

We invite you to our Burnley Campus Discovery Day. This year celebrates our 135th Anniversary of continuous horticultural education and we invite you to come for a day showcasing the Burnley campus, research, education sustainability and the gardens.

From research and garden tours, artist talks, plant sales, activities and refreshments - there’s something for all.

Learn about research in horticulture, urban greening, waterways and ecology.

Chat to our academics to learn more about study options at Burnley and ask your gardening questions.

Highlights include:

• Tours of the green roof, Woody Meadow, field station and gardens

• Plant Sale and Friends of Burnley Gardens membership and book sale

• Country Women’s Association refreshments

• Exhibitions of Burnley Gardens Open Art Studio and Archives

• ‘Ask me anything’ garden advice

Journalist Cheng Lei and the University of Melbourne’s Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies Anthony J Spires explore the domestic and global tensions shaping China’s future.

China’s growing influence is reshaping the global landscape, with far-reaching implications for economics, technology and international relations. As alliances shift and tensions evolve, understanding China’s ambitions – and how its people and the world are responding – has never been more vital.

Join journalist Cheng Lei (A Memoir of Freedom) and the University of Melbourne’s Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies Anthony J Spires (Everyday Democracy) for a timely conversation about China’s place in the world today. Drawing on Cheng’s experiences reporting from inside the country and Spires’ research into Chinese politics and society, they will explore the forces shaping the nation’s domestic and global trajectory.

For this inaugural event in our new Scholarship to Society series, Cheng and Spires examine questions of power, democracy and influence – and what a new world order might mean for Australia. With host Associate Professor Louisa Lim, Deputy Director at the Centre for Advancing Journalism.

Presented in partnership with The Wheeler Centre and the Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne.