Following a sold-out season at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival, we're delighted to welcome Julian O'Shea for the opening session of National Science Week at the Royal Society of Victoria.

Geography Victoria, in partnership with the Royal Society of Victoria invites you to an afternoon of laughter, curiosity and fascinating stories about maps.

Join Julian as he goes beyond Melbourne to share hilarious true stories about maps, mapping mistakes and the surprising quirks of geography. Discover how the Victorian and South Australian border ended up in the wrong place, why one Australian petrol station has its own time zone, how St Kilda owes its name to a spelling mistake, who invented audible pedestrian crossings and so much more!

Julian’s work has seen him named the Professional Engineer of the Year (Vic), Young Australian of the Year (SA), a Fulbright scholar, a Westpac Social Change Fellow and a Sir Weary Dunlop Fellow at Asialink. He is a regular media commentator on road safety and transport topics appearing on The Project, ABC Melbourne Radio, 3AW, ABC News Breakfast and more.

Whether you're eight or eighty, this entertaining event will have you laughing out loud and viewing maps and geography in a whole new light.

An Inspiring Victoria event - part of National Science Week and supported by the Royal Society of Victoria.

Please note, the venue is a historical building and has stair-only access, and a flight of stairs to the theatre and amenities.