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It is my pleasure to welcome you to the School of Culture and Communication on behalf of all staff in the School.

Professor Rachel Fensham
Professor Rachel Fensham
Head, School of Culture and Communication

Our School is a thriving research centre for critical thinking in the humanities. This agenda is led by world-leading scholars whose fields of research include literary and cultural studies, art history, cinema and performance, media and communication and Australian indigenous studies. The School is also host to a range of funded research concentrations, such as the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, the Australian Centre, the Centre for Advancing Journalism and the Research Unit in Public Cultures and the Transformative Technologies Research Unit. More broadly, our academics publish, speak and blog on topics as diverse as romanticism, poetry, Asian popular culture, digital media, climate change, network societies, gender and sexuality, racism, cosmopolitanism, and contemporary arts.

One of the largest Schools in the Faculty of Arts, we contribute exciting majors and subjects to the Bachelor of Arts, as well as offering unique Masters level courses that lead towards professional vocations in publishing, writing, museums and galleries, other arts and media institutions. Our extensive doctoral program includes coursework, as well as many opportunities to participate in reading groups, seminars, conferences and other events that augment the intellectual values of the School.

Our School considers the public life of the humanities an enduring tradition that enriches contemporary society, and we have many community and industry partnerships through which we engage with a wider audience. Explore the School website to discover more about our courses, research programs, graduate seminars, and cultural events.

Professor Rachel Fensham
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  • Art History and Art Curatorship

    In an increasingly image-based culture, including a rapidly expanding museum and gallery industry, techniques in visual literacy are essential for a variety of professions as well as for daily life.

  • Arts and Cultural Management

    This vocationally-orientated program delivers transferrable skills you can apply across a broad range of art form contexts including film, theatre, dance, music and the visual arts.

  • Australian Indigenous Studies

    An exciting interdisciplinary program that offers students an opportunity to learn about the history and cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

  • Creative Writing

    Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne offers students an exciting environment in which to develop essential skills in creative writing. Our academic staff are widely published writers and leading researchers.

  • English and Theatre Studies

    Recognised nationally and internationally for its innovative teaching, scholarship and research; in 2013, English Language and Literature at Melbourne was ranked 13 by the QS world university rankings.

  • Gender Studies (Interdisciplinary program)

    The Gender Studies program at The University of Melbourne offers students the potential to learn about issues such as sexual difference, gender equity, queer politics, and sexuality, from a variety of thought-provoking and provocative perspectives.

  • Media and Communications

    This dynamic program offers students a critical understanding of this fast changing area. Close links with media professionals enable students to develop the blend of conceptual and practical skills required for successful careers in media and other industries.

  • Publishing and Communication

    We equip students with globally-recognised skills to enable them to pursue a career in book, magazine, digital and web-based publishing, and professional communications.

  • Screen and Cultural Studies

    Offering studies across a range of screen media, analysing their histories, evolution and embedding in everyday life. The program encourages students to explore a variety of cultural texts, sites and practices from a range of interpretive angles.

  • School of Culture and Communication scholarships
  • Research strengths

    We conduct research into a wide range of cultural and social practices, cultural policy, and most forms of cultural production.

  • Research groups

    Research centres, institutes and units housed within or closely associated with the School. Including the Australian Centre and Research Unit in Public Cultures.

  • Research collaborators

    We have a wide range of research collaborators including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Victorian College of the Arts and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

  • Research journals

    A list of research journals.

  • Research publications

    View a complete list of all research publications by School of Culture and Communication staff, 2008 to present.

  • Postdoctoral schemes

    The School welcomes applications for the McKenzie Fellowships, Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) and the Melbourne Research Fellowships (Career Interruptions) Program.

  • Undergraduate

    Information for current undergraduate students. Including essay writing guides and citation styles, attendence and extensions.

  • Honours

    Information for current honours students. Including essay writing guides and citation styles, minor thesis due dates, and attendence.

  • Graduate coursework

    Information for current graduate coursework students. Including essay writing guides and citation styles, cover sheets, minor thesis due dates, attendence and internships.

  • Graduate research

    Information for prospective students and those currently enrolled in a PhD or Masters by Research program.

  • Scholarships and prizes

    The School of Culture and Communication offers a range of awards to provide scholars with opportunities for development and research.

  • School of Culture and Communication scholarships
  • The Undergraduate Awards 2017

    Who are the Undergraduate Awards (UA) for? UA is open to all penultimate and final year students, as well as 2016 graduates, of all disciplines.

    21 Nov 2016 News
  • Monday 28 November 2016 5:30pm - 7:00pm
    Animals in Live Performance: Species Blindness for Emotional Surrogates
    Free Public Lecture live performance;Performance Studies;Animal Studies;Emotions;
  • 29 November 2016 30 November 2016
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  • Thursday 1 December 2016 6:15pm - 7:15pm
    Shakespeare and Terrorism
    Free Public Lecture Terrorism;Shakespeare 400 Melbourne;shakespeare400;Shakespeare;
  • Ursula Hoff Fellowship 2016

    Applications now open until 25 November 2016.

    27 Oct 2016 News
  • Exciting news from Professor Kevin Brophy

    The Faces of MercyA performance of music, art and poetry spanning from Sydney to Rome is a contribution to the Year of Mercy from a group of Australian Catholic artists.

    27 Oct 2016 News
  • Encounters Mini-fest

    Final-year creative writing students 20 October 6pm-9pm Arts West (Building 148)

    11 Oct 2016 News
  • The great English Library book sale

    Thousands of books for sale at bargain prices!Sadly, the English Library is no more.Happily, we're hoping to find good homes for many of its books!

    06 Oct 2016 News
  • Call For Papers 2017 - The Dovetail Journal (ILCAM) Creative and Critical Practice

    The 2017, Call for Papers for The Dovetail Journal, Bangor University's peer-reviewed cross-disciplinary Arts and Humanities journal of creative and critical practice, is now open until December 31st 2016, and is on the theme of Language, Form and Emotion.

    26 Sep 2016 News
  • Transformative Technologies Research Unit designs game to help students navigate Arts West

    Lords of Misrule is a pervasive treasure hunt/adventure game designed by Pop Up Playground and presented by the Transformative Technologies Research Unit and the Faculty of Arts.

    19 Sep 2016 News
  • Gerry Higgins Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies, English and Theatre, Dr David McInnis, in the news

    19 Sep 2016 News
  • Congratulations to staff in the School of Culture and Communication

    Congratulations to Dr Amanda Johnson, Dr Eddie Paterson, Dr Stephanie Downes and Dr Thomas Bristow on their recent promotions.

    14 Sep 2016 News
  • Melbourne Writers Festival - The Australian Centre and Faculty of Arts Literary Awards 2016

    As part of the 2016 Melbourne Writers Festival, on Sunday 4 September a suite of literary awards was awarded to students and emerging and established writers in the fields of fiction, poetry and life writing, supported by the Australian Centre and Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne.

    14 Sep 2016 News
  • Richard Flanagan on Radio National

    Melbourne Writers Festival: Richard Flanagan

    12 Sep 2016 News
  • Excellent coverage of Dr Amanda Coles' research on Gender in the Canadian Film Industry

    The research was conducted in collaboration with Canadian Unions for Equality on Screen.

    12 Sep 2016 News
  • Congratulations to Professor Stephanie Trigg, who has recently been awarded the title of Redmond Ba...

    12 Sep 2016 News
  • Screening Melbourne: A Three-Day Symposium

    Screen media form the connective tissue of Melbourne's cultural life. This three-day symposium, organised by the cross-institutional Melbourne Screen Studies Group, will chart this vibrant activity through presentations, panel discussions, industry events, and screenings. We are inviting submissions for research papers, panels, and non-traditional research presentations for this exciting event.

    08 Sep 2016 News
  • Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry awarded to Dr Linda Weste

    Hearty congratulations to Creative Writing alumna Dr Linda Weste who took out the Australian Centre Faculty of Arts Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry on the weekend for her amazing verse novel Nothing Sacred (Arcadia 2015).

    08 Sep 2016 News
  • 2016 S. Ernest Sprott Fellow, Dr Marc Mierowsky

    On Wednesday 6 September the School of Culture and Communication welcomed the 2016 S. Ernest Sprott Fellow, Dr Marc Mierowsky, and heard about his research plans for the duration of the fellowship.

    08 Sep 2016 News
  • Asia-Australia: Transnational Connections symposium

    We're delighted to announce that registrations are now open for this year's Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium Asia-Australia: Transnational Connections to be held in Melbourne, 17-18 November 2016.

    08 Sep 2016 News
  • Graphic Narratives students showcase new comics

    It's that time of year again when our fourth-year Graphic Narratives students at the University of Melbourne will be showcasing the comics they have created during the year.

    06 Sep 2016 News
  • News from the Creative Writing program

    06 Sep 2016 News
  • Call for papers

    The Australian Centre is piloting a faculty wide research seminar series with the view to extending it to the wider university in the future.We are particularly interested in papers from academics in SHAPS, SOLL, Asia Institute, SSPS and SCC under the broad scope of Australian Studies.

    04 Aug 2016 News
  • Book launch and talk: Talking Contemporary Curating

    Friday 29 Jul 2016, 6-8pm The Ian Potter Museum of Art, 800 Swanston Street, University of Melbourne, Parkville.

    04 Aug 2016 News
  • New ways with old words: An exploration of the papers of Daisy Bates by Nick Thieberger

    The Australian Centre is delighted to present the first seminar in our pilot series.

    04 Aug 2016 News
  • "Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality and Transnationality"

    Professor Purnima Mankekar presented a talk to students and staff.

    02 Aug 2016 News
  • 'The Human Cost of Drones'

    On Wednesday 27 July the Screen and Cultural Studies Program and the Transformative Technologies Research Unit, presented 'The Human Cost of Drones'.

    01 Aug 2016 News
  • "On Sensitivity Arts, Science and Politics in the New Climatic Regime" now online

    Professor Bruno Latour's keynote lecture now available.

    01 Aug 2016 News
  • Call for papers: 2017 Australian Centre for Italian Studies conference

    Scontri e incontri: the dynamics of Italian transcultural exchanges. Monash Prato Centre (Italy), 4-7 July 2017. Call for Papers for the Panel: Crossing Points and Subversion.

    01 Aug 2016 News
  • Call for papers: Australian Studies

    The Australian Centre is piloting a faculty wide research seminar series with the view to extending it to the wider university in the future.

    01 Aug 2016 News
  • Jane Brown featured in the Basil Sellers Art Prize

    01 Aug 2016 News
  • Call for Papers: TEXT Special Issue: 'Writing Trauma'

    This special issue of TEXT seeks to explore 'Writing Trauma'. In recent years Trauma Studies has evolved into a major field of enquiry. 'Trauma' has the potential to coalesce creative, critical, theoretical, and methodological focusses on the relationship between literature and trauma.

    28 Jul 2016 News
  • "Brunswick" launch of UNUSUAL WORK No. 20

    28 Jul 2016 News
  • English and Theatre Studies seminars Semester 2, 2016

    28 Jul 2016 News
  • Passions: Healthy or Unhealthy?

    Tuesday, July 19, 2016 10:00 - 13:00

    19 Jul 2016 News
  • 'After Shakespeare' exhibition opens at the Noel Shaw Gallery, Baillieu Library

    Dates: 15 July 2016 - 15 January 2017Location: Noel Shaw Gallery, Baillieu Library, The University of Melbourne

    15 Jul 2016 News
  • On Sensitivity: Arts, Science and Politics in the New Climatic Regime

    Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 17:30 - 19:15 Location: Public Lecture Theatre (122), Old Arts

    05 Jul 2016 News
  • Sessionals required for Australian Indigenous Studies subjects Semester 2, 2016

    Sessional coordinator, sessional co-coordinator and tutors are required for Australian Indigenous Studies subjects Semester 2, 2016. Applications close July 6, 2016

    29 Jun 2016 News
  • Reading Group: Knowing Animals Reading Group

    Monday, June 27, 2016 17:30 - 18:30

    27 Jun 2016 News
  • Feasting on Hannibal Conference call for papers deadline extended until 30 June 2016

    Date: 29-30 November 2016. Hosted by Screen and Cultural Studies and the School Of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, The University Of Melbourne. We invite you to submit abstract proposals for an interdisciplinary conference...

    22 Jun 2016 News
  • Seminar: Various presenters - Visualisation and Digitisation - alternative approaches to traditional...

    Tuesday, June 21, 2016 13:00 - 14:30

    21 Jun 2016 News
  • 'The Emotional Life of Objects' exhibition featured on the Histories of Emotion website

    This posting on the Histories of Emotion website showcases the work of Penelope Lee, the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE) Education and Outreach Officer at The University of Melbourne, and Kate Richards, a curatorship student, who curated the exhibition.

    16 Jun 2016 News
  • 'Roze a Wail': Whales, Whaling and Dreaming conference

    Date: 29-30 September 2016. Australian Indigenous Studies Program, The University of Melbourne. The 'Roze a Wail' conference is grounded in Indigenous peoples' connection with whales through ritual, song and story; and post-contact, their involvement in the whaling industry and the impact of whaling on their lives and culture.

    14 Jun 2016 News
  • Science and Truth: the legacy of the Cahiers pour l'Analyse

    Friday, June 10, 2016 11:00 - 13:00

    10 Jun 2016 News
  • 1966 and All That

    Wednesday, June 8, 2016 8:45 - 17:00

    08 Jun 2016 News
  • AT3 - Arts Thesis in Three Minutes

    Tuesday, June 7, 2016 16:30 - 18:30

    07 Jun 2016 News
  • Technologies/Histories Symposium

    Date: Thursday, June 2, 2016 10:00 - 17:30 Location: G21 (Theatre 1), Alan Gilbert , Grattan Street

    02 Jun 2016 News
  • Technologies/Histories Symposium

    Thursday, June 2, 2016 10:00 - 17:00

    02 Jun 2016 News
  • Art, Ethics and Indigeneity

    Wednesday, June 1, 2016 9:00 - 17:30

    01 Jun 2016 News
  • Marie Darrieussecq: In Conversation

    Wednesday, May 25, 2016 18:30 - 19:30

    25 May 2016 News
  • Call for papers - Re-Imagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility

    Dates: 7-9 December 2016. Addressing the urgent and compelling need to re-imagine Australia as inclusive, conscious of its landscape and contexts, locale, history, myths and memory, amnesia, politics, cultures and futures.

    23 May 2016 News
  • Talks and performances: Scorsese In Focus at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)

    27th May 2016

    18 May 2016 News
  • Kate Challis RAKA Award 2016 and Peter Blazey Fellowship 2017 open for applications

    The Australian Centre is pleased to announce the following awards are open for applications

    18 May 2016 News
  • Congratulations ARC Linkage Project awardees!

    The Faculty of Arts Research Team is delighted to announce that five of the Faculty's 2016 Linkage Project applications have been funded by the ARC. You can view the full selection report on the ARC's Linkage Programme Outcomes website.

    18 May 2016 News
  • English and Theatre Studies seminar Dr Matthew McGuire - Another Irish Antigone: Gendering Justice i...

    Wednesday, May 18, 2016 16:30 - 17:30

    18 May 2016 News
  • Submissions open for the 'Above Water' anthology

    The University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU) Media and Creative Arts departments are excited to open submissions for the Above Water anthology. The anthology showcases written and visual art from University of Melbourne students.

    11 May 2016 News
  • 2016 Woodward Medals nominations now open

    Nominations close Tuesday 14 June, 2016

    11 May 2016 News
  • RUPC seminar with Associate Professor Seth Giddings - Mind, Media and Materiality in the Playable Ci...

    Wednesday, May 11, 2016 14:00 - 16:00

    11 May 2016 News
  • Festival: the Past Matters Festival 2016

    Friday, May 6, 2016 19:00 - 19:00

    06 May 2016 News
  • Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowships 2017

    Nominations are now open for the 2017 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowships Program.

    04 May 2016 News
  • Congratulations to the six recipients in the SCC of a 2016 Melbourne Engagement Grant

    102 applications were received in total this year and it was a very competitive selection process to award over $300,000 to 24 projects in the University.

    04 May 2016 News
  • 2016 Mildura Writers Festival

    The Mildura Writers Festival is a well-established and popular festival that takes pride in the caliber of talent it attracts and the atmosphere of conviviality it presents during the provincial Victorian winter.

    04 May 2016 News
  • English and Theatre Studies seminar: Assistant Professor Veronica Alfano (TU Delft)

    Wednesday, May 4, 2016 16:30 - 17:30

    04 May 2016 News
  • Marco Polo’s Tomatoes, or on Cross-Cultural Exchange in Early European Art

    Wednesday, May 4, 2016 18:45 - 19:45

    04 May 2016 News
  • Film screening: Australian premiere of 'Girl From God's Country'

    Wednesday, May 4, 2016 18:30 - 20:30

    04 May 2016 News
  • The Emotional Life of Objects

    Wednesday, May 4, 2016 17:30 - 20:00

    04 May 2016 News
  • Launch: Fiona Richardson MP, Domestic Violence Victoria and the Centre for Advancing Journalism - 'E...

    Monday, May 2, 2016 10:30 - 12:00

    02 May 2016 News
  • Melbourne Screen Studies Group seminar: various presentations

    Friday, April 29, 2016 15:00 - 17:00

    29 Apr 2016 News
  • Seven Sonnets and A Song: A Conversation with Paul Kelly & Richard Flanagan

    Thursday, April 28, 2016 19:00 - 20:00

    27 Apr 2016 News
  • Going Down Swinging is accepting submissions for their print journal until April 29, 2016

    Going Down Swinging is calling far and wide for submissions to our next print production, due for release mid 2016.

    26 Apr 2016 News
  • Former colleague Tony Birch receives trifecta of prestigious appreciations

    It's great to hear the news that one of our former colleagues, Tony Birch (Bruce McGuinness Research Fellow, Moondani Balluk Academic Unit, Victoria University), has received a recent trifecta of prestigious appreciations for his latest novel,Ghost River.

    26 Apr 2016 News
  • Children's Voices in Contemporary Australia symposium call for papers extended

    This one-day public symposium to be held at The Dax Centre on September 9, 2016 explores the status of children's voices and their ability to tell their own stories in contemporary Australia. Call for papers extended until April 26, 2016.

    26 Apr 2016 News
  • Seminar: Dr Denis Muller - Disaster, Media and Ethics: The role and challenges of journalism post-di...

    Wednesday, April 27, 2016 12:15 - 13:15

    26 Apr 2016 News
  • Australian Heritage Week 2016 creative writing, history and research programs

    A program run by the City of Boroondara for Australian Heritage Week 2016 may be of interest to students in creative writing or for those with an interest in history and research.

    20 Apr 2016 News
  • SCC alumnae receive highly commended in 2015 FAW Anne Elder Award

    Congratulations to Linda Weste and Shari Kocher, creative writing alumnae of the School of Culture and Communication whose respective first books of poetry, Nothing Sacred (Australian Scholarly Publishing) and The Non-Sequitur of Snow (Puncher and Wattmann) received Highly Commended in the 2015 FAW Anne Elder Award.

    20 Apr 2016 News
  • Book Launch: Boone Shepard by Gabrielle Bergmoser

    Tuesday, April 26, 2016 18:30 - 19:30

    20 Apr 2016 News
  • English and Theatre Studies seminar: Professor Laurie Beth Clark - Selfies at Sites of Atrocity

    Wednesday, April 20, 2016 16:30 - 17:30

    16 Apr 2016 News
  • Dr David McInnis: "We’ve found a Shakespeare folio but a swag of original plays are still missing" a...

    Almost 400 years ago, on 23 April 1616, William Shakespeare died. Perhaps the looming anniversary is what prompted a search through the library of Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, where a valuable copy of the 'First Folio' (1623) has recently been discovered.

    12 Apr 2016 News
  • Applications close 17 April 2016 for the $20,000 Redmond Barry Fellowship

    The 2016 Fellowship will be awarded to scholars and writers to facilitate research and the production of works of literature that utilise the superb collections of the State Library of Victoria and The University of Melbourne.

    05 Apr 2016 News
  • The SUPERNOVA POP CULTURE EXPO is hosting the Imagineer's Playground Program

    Saturday, April 16, 2016 0:00 - 0:00

    30 Mar 2016 News
  • Conversation: Jan Bauer (author of graphic novel 'The Salty River') will be in conversation with nov...

    Wednesday, March 30, 2016 18:00 - 20:00

    24 Mar 2016 News
  • Article by Dr David McInnis on 'Why Shakespeare Still Matters' has appeared in Pursuit

    Shakespeare would be amused at how famous he is in 2016. Before anything else, he was a businessman: an actor, a shareholder in his company, as well as a playwright whose priority was to sell tickets. Half of his plays weren't even published during his lifetime.

    21 Mar 2016 News
  • Call for papers - Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits 1700-1914

    Date: September 8-11, 2016. The University of Melbourne and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. This interdisciplinary conference will be the first gathering of international and Australian scholars to focus on portraits.

    21 Mar 2016 News
  • Knowing Animals Reading Group: Fiona Probyn Rapsey - Dingoes and dog-whistling: a cultural politics ...

    Monday, March 21, 2016 17:30 - 18:30

    21 Mar 2016 News
  • Victorian Literature Reading Group

    Thursday, March 24, 2016 17:30 - 18:30

    21 Mar 2016 News
  • Research Unit in Public Cultures seminar: 'From National to Transpacific Memoryscapes: The Experimen...

    Thursday, March 17, 2016 14:00 –16:00

    17 Mar 2016 News
  • The Hugh Williamson Research Fellowships for using Archives collections. Two fellowships of $15,000 ...

    Funded Research Fellowships

    16 Mar 2016 News
  • 2016 is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death: Shakespeare400

    2016 is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, and the University is gearing up for the year-long celebrations, which include performances, public talks, masterclasses, an exhibition, a symposium, and film screenings, amongst other things...

    16 Mar 2016 News
  • Masterclass with Kathryn Temple: Writing for Grown-Ups: Managing Complex Writing Projects

    Wednesday, March 16, 2016 11:00 - 12:30

    16 Mar 2016 News
  • Seminar: Kate Ryan - 'Psychotherapy for Normal People'

    Wednesday, March 16, 2016 13:00 - 14:00

    16 Mar 2016 News
  • English and Theatre Studies seminar: Associate Professor Kathryn Temple - What do we do when we "do"...

    Wednesday, March 16, 2016 16:30 - 17:30

    16 Mar 2016 News
  • Objects of Conversion/Objects of Emotion

    Tuesday, March 15, 2016 10:00 - 12:00

    15 Mar 2016 News
  • Alpha and Omega, or The Boundary of Our Orient

    Monday, March 14, 2016 17:45 - 19:15

    14 Mar 2016 News
  • The World of Conversion and the Conversion of the World: Shakespeare and China

    Monday, March 14, 2016 16:15 - 18:00

    14 Mar 2016 News
  • Reviews have been published for Dr Linda Weste's book 'Nothing Sacred'

    Reviews have been published for Dr Linda Weste's book Nothing Sacred in the journals TEXT and Cordite review, as well as in the mainstream press.

    10 Mar 2016 News
  • The Zero Moment of History: Pier Paolo Pasolini

    Thursday, March 10, 2016 18:30 - 19:45

    10 Mar 2016 News
  • Myth and Emotion in Early Modern Europe

    Thursday, March 10, 2016 9:00 -  17:00

    10 Mar 2016 News
  • The Pleasures of Allegory: Rethinking ‘Susanna and the Elders’

    Wednesday, March 9, 2016 17:30 - 18:45

    09 Mar 2016 News
  • English and Theatre Studies seminar: Associate Professor Michael Peterson

    Wednesday, March 9, 2016 16:30 - 17:30

    09 Mar 2016 News
  • Poet Michael Farrell's PhD/book cited by the ABC in political news story

    Poet Michael Farrell's PhD/book is cited in Tim Dunlop's political piece, "The great unsettlement that is dogging Turnbull," on The Drum website. Read more...

    07 Mar 2016 News
  • Apply now for a National Library of Australia Fellowship applications close 2 May 2016

    An opportunity from the National Library of Australia for researchers hoping to make use of the Library's collections. There are four general Fellowships on offer, with two further positions available in Australian Literature and Japan Studies.

    07 Mar 2016 News
  • Seminar and Q&A: A special lunchtime event with Peter Zilahy - Literature and Dictatorship

    Monday, March 7, 2016 13:00 - 14:00

    07 Mar 2016 News
  • The Question of Nineteenth Century Mimesis: Precinema and the Literary Imagination

    Wednesday, March 2, 2016 18:30 - 19:30

    02 Mar 2016 News
  • English and Theatre Studies seminar: Professor Rustom Bharucha - Jhadu Katha: Enactments of the Broo...

    Wednesday, March 2, 2016 16:30 - 17:30

    02 Mar 2016 News
  • Arts in Florence overseas intensive expressions of interest now open

    Expressions of interest are now open for the Arts in Florence intensive.Expression of interest close on 13 May 2016.

    29 Feb 2016 News
  • Film screening: Night Parrots

    Monday, February 29, 2016 18:00 - 20:30

    29 Feb 2016 News
  • Panel discussion: Dominik Safari and Dr Amanda Coles - Emerging Jazz Festival: Cultural Policy and t...

    Friday, February 26, 2016 15:00 - 16:00

    26 Feb 2016 News
  • Magazine launch of 'Unusual Work' No.19

    Friday, February 26, 2016 19:30 - 22:00

    26 Feb 2016 News
  • New theatre and performance studies reading group

    Thursday, February 25, 2016 15:30 - 17:00

    25 Feb 2016 News
  • Call for Papers: Children's Voices in Contemporary Australia - Interdisciplinary Study Day

    Date: September 9, 2016. Presented by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and The University of Melbourne with the support of The Dax Centre.

    24 Feb 2016 News
  • Article on sexism in screenplays written by Dr Radha O'Meara appears on The Conversation

    An article written by Dr Radha O'Meara, Lecturer in Screenwriting and Coordinator: Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing, on sexism in screenplays for a general audience has appear on The Conversation website.

    24 Feb 2016 News
  • ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions lunchtime seminar: 'Farcical Politics: Fielding...

    Wednesday, February 24, 2016 12:30 - 14:00

    24 Feb 2016 News
  • New Perspectives on Italian and Australian Art History

    Friday, February 19, 2016 9:45 - 16:30

    19 Feb 2016 News
  • Changing the National Gallery of Australia: re-thinking the installations

    Friday, February 19, 2016 18:15 - 19:30

    19 Feb 2016 News
  • RHD talk: Professor Monica Whitty - Superidentity: Is identity consistent across physical and cyber ...

    Thursday, February 18, 2016 15:30 - 17:00

    18 Feb 2016 News
  • Seminar: Professor Monica Whitty - Loved and Lost: The Online Dating Romance Scam

    Wednesday, February 17, 2016 12:30 - 13:30

    17 Feb 2016 News
  • The Faculty of Arts is pleased to offer a staff peer-mentoring program in 2016

    DetailsGroup based peer-mentoring is a proven way of sharing knowledge, finding support structures, improving networks, supporting organizational diversity, and promoting professional development.

    11 Feb 2016 News
  • Applications are now open for the Macgeorge visiting speaker/performer awards

    08 Feb 2016 News
  • Profile on School research outputs from the University of Queensland Museum of Art

    Lyndell Brown/Charles Green and Jon Cattapan are senior Australian artists who have established international profiles.

    08 Feb 2016 News
  • Melbourne Engagement Grants (MEGs) program

    In its second year, the Melbourne Engagement Grants (MEGs) provides staff with seed funding for projects that further the University's engagement priorities, with a particular emphasis on projects that reflect the role of engagement as an integral element of the academic mission.

    08 Feb 2016 News
  • Call for papers for a forthcoming conference for the centenary of the Easter 1916 Irish Rising

    Call for papers for a forthcoming conference for the centenary of the Easter 1916 Irish Rising from our colleagues in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. Professor Gillian Russell is involved in this.

    08 Feb 2016 News
  • Myth and Emotion in Early Modern Europe call for papers for the one day symposium "Myth and Emotion ...

    Abstracts of no more than 200 words, and a short biography, should be emailed by 12 February 2016 to both email Gordon Raeburn and email Katherine Heavey.

    03 Feb 2016 News
  • School of Culture and Communication Incubator Research Scheme - Seed Funding Grants call for applica...

    The School of Culture and Communication offers seed funding to support the work of interdisciplinary incubator research teams.

    22 Jan 2016 News
  • Kate Challis RAKA Award 2015, Peter Blazey Fellowship 2016 and Dinny O'Hearn Fellowship 2016 open fo...

    The following awards are now open for applications

    22 Jan 2016 News
  • David Raskin co-partnered lecture "Hiroshi Sugimoto's Inhuman Photographs”

    Approximately 100 people attended the recent David Raskin co-partnered lecture "Hiroshi Sugimoto's Inhuman Photographs". Presented by the School of Culture and Communication, in partnership with Gertrude Contemporary and Discipline Journal, this lecture was a great success.

    22 Jan 2016 News
  • Sessional tutors Semester 2, 2015

    Sessional tutors for Semester 2, 2015. Please see the standarised position description. All applications are completed online.

    22 Jan 2016 News
  • Congratulations to our 2015 Australian Research Council Linkage Project awardees

    Congratulations to our 2015 Australian Research Council Linkage Project awardees Professor Angela Ndalianis, Associate Professor Meg Simons, Associate Professor Audrey Yue, Dr Wendy Haslem, Dr Elizabeth MacFarlane, Dr Denis Muller, and members of their teams.

    22 Jan 2016 News
  • More information on the successful Bowie Symposium at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (AC...

    Further to the successful Bowie Symposium at ACMI on 17 and 18 July 2015.

    22 Jan 2016 News
  • Back to the Future Day has arrived!

    October 21, 2015. The day when Marty McFly and "Doc" Emmett Brown landed in their tricked-out DeLorean time machine; bursting through clouds high above the futuristic town of Hill Valley and narrowly avoiding obliteration by a flying taxi.

    22 Jan 2016 News
  • 'Imagined Futures: Back to the Future Tribute' community program

    Please note the amazing work Professor Angela Ndalianis has been doing in relation to the Community program 'Imagined Futures: Back to the Future Tribute' with Dr Denny Oetomo from Engineering.

    22 Jan 2016 News
  • Professor Emeritus Christopher Wallace-Crabbe has won the Melbourne Prize for Literature

    Delightful news!Professor Emeritus Christopher Wallace-Crabbe has won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. The award, which is worth $60,000, is in "recognition of his outstanding contribution to Australian literature and cultural and intellectual life" and is for a body of work that consists of more than 30 books.

    22 Jan 2016 News
  • URGENT NOTICE: Change to The Aftermath-Reflections on Terror and Performance lecture Thursday 3 Dece...

    Due to unforeseen circumstances, Professor Bharucha is unable to present the lecture in person.

    22 Jan 2016 News
  • Sessional tutors required for Semester 1, 2016 - applications close 4th January 2016

    Sessional tutors are required for numerous subjects in Semester 1, 2016.Applications close Monday 4th January 2016.

    22 Jan 2016 News
  • 'Fallen Angels: the children left behind by Australian sex tourists' story wins Dr Margaret Simons W...

    The Centre for Advancing Journalism Director Dr Margaret Simons won a Walkley Award, Australia's highest journalistic honour.

    22 Jan 2016 News
  • Research Unit in Public Cultures announces two new publications

    The Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) is happy to announce two new publications, now available online.

    22 Jan 2016 News
  • Professor Jaynie Anderson awarded Star of Italy Knighthood

    Professor Jaynie Anderson has become one of the few art historians in the world to receive the prestigious Ufficiale dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy) award.

    07 Jan 2016 News
  • RUPC Seminar with Associate Professor Nathaniel Tkacz - The Performance Platform: Governing through ...

    Friday, December 18, 2015 15:00 - 17:00

    18 Dec 2015 News
  • Bridging Art, Science and Free Technology: Creative Citizen Participation in Indonesia’s New Democra...

    Tuesday, December 8, 2015 18:00 - 19:30

    08 Dec 2015 News
  • Alumni Symposium: Four Decades of Theatre Studies 1975 - 2015

    Saturday, December 5, 2015 10:30 - 16:30

    05 Dec 2015 News
  • The Aftermath: Reflections on Terror and Performance

    Thursday, December 3, 2015 14:15 - 15:45

    03 Dec 2015 News
  • Eight Centre for Advancing Journalism students have received honours in the 2015 Ossie Awards

    Named after Osmar S. White, the Ossie Awards are organised by the Journalism Education and Research Association. They recognise exemplary journalism undertaken by journalism students in Australia.

    02 Dec 2015 News
  • Hong Kong Liminal: Minor Culture as Method

    Tuesday, December 1, 2015 9:15 - 10:30

    01 Dec 2015 News
  • Animal Activists and Law Breaking

    Monday, November 30, 2015 17:30 - 19:00

    30 Nov 2015 News
  • Professor Ien Ang - 'Can Australia’s Engagement with Asia be Smart?' RUPC workshop

    Monday, November 30, 2015 14:30 - 17:00

    30 Nov 2015 News
  • Congratulations to the Centre for Advancing Journalism's Simon Mann

    Congratulations to the Centre for Advancing Journalism's Simon Mann, who has won the University's inaugural engagement award in the Engaged Teaching category for his work on The Citizen.

    30 Nov 2015 News
  • Alumni news from Creative Writing

    Anders Villani completed his honours in 2012 but wanted to advise the following news

    30 Nov 2015 News
  • Research Unit in Public Cultures seminar: Assoc. Professor Mark Davis - The anti-public sphere

    Wednesday, November 25, 2015 14:00 - 16:00

    25 Nov 2015 News
  • Warning: Being positive is not for the faint hearted! Lea Waters

    Professor Lea Waters is the Director of the Centre for Positive Psychology, Melbourne Graduate School of Education. She explores how with small, positive, steps we can make a huge impact on our wellbeing.

    24 Nov 2015 News
  • Live reading and discussion event: Tom Hart and Leela Corman

    Thursday, November 19, 2015 18:30 - 20:30

    19 Nov 2015 News
  • The Social Life of Academia: A Higher Education Symposium

    Friday, November 13, 2015 10:00 - 17:00

    13 Nov 2015 News
  • Professor Angela Ndalianis giving keynote address

    Professor Angela Ndalianis is giving a keynote in Melbourne for a conference in December: "Science Fiction and the Reality of HCI: Inspirations, Achievements or a Mismatch"

    13 Nov 2015 News
  • Audio recording of the Professor Manning Clark Centenary lecture entitled "The Lesser Cousin of Hist...

    The audio recording of the Professor Manning Clark Centenary lecture entitled "The Lesser Cousin of History?" from 5 November by Rohan Wilson is now available.

    10 Nov 2015 News
  • Lecturer in Art History Dr Miya Tokumitsu is speaking at The New School University Center, New York ...

    All Giving and No Taking: Love Inspiration and Ideology at Work A Conversation with Raka Ray, Miya Tokumitsu and Linta Varghese

    03 Nov 2015 News
  • Melbourne Engagement Excellence Awards

    The University of Melbourne places a strong emphasis on engagement as an integral element of the institution's academic mission. The Melbourne Engagement Excellence Awards recognise the achievements of staff in advancing the University's engagement priorities.

    02 Nov 2015 News
  • Media coverage received for the 'Imagined Futures' event with Denny Oetomo and Angela Ndalianis

    Overall, combining traditional media and online, coverage was Australia-wide and in New Zealand. This coverage would have reached an estimated 17,199,497 people.

    26 Oct 2015 News
  • Article by Andrew Fuhrmann published in the latest RealTime Arts Magazine

    Every drone has a human operator. Even self-directed drones on autopilot rely on the human behind the software to give them purpose. Someone is always calling the shots. And it's this necessary human element which is at issue in A Drone Opera, an exciting high-tech, high-art spectacle created by director Matthew Sleeth and composer Susan Frykberg.

    19 Oct 2015 News
  • Great news for an honours graduate!

    Scribe acquired ANZ rights in two works by the very talented Laura Elizabeth Woollett: a short-story collection, The Love of a Bad Man, and a novel, Beautiful Revolutionary. Scribe acquired the rights from Victoria Marini at Gelfman Schneider/ICM Partners..

    15 Oct 2015 News
  • Exhibition by Dr Amanda Johnson

    Dr Amanda Johnson is having an exhibition soon and everyone's welcome to come for a drink and some cheese (and some art!).

    12 Oct 2015 News
  • Congratulations to Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Barbara Creed

    On behalf of the School I would like to congratulate Professor Barbara Creed on becoming one of the ten newly established Redmond Barry Distinguished Professors of the University.

    09 Oct 2015 News
  • Dr Grant Caldwell is currently on Study Leave in China

    Dr Grant Caldwell is currently on Study Leave in China.

    05 Oct 2015 News
  • Congratulations to Linda Weste, alumna and tutor of Creative Writing in the School of Culture and Co...

    Congratulations to Linda Weste, alumna and tutor of Creative Writing in the School of Culture and Communication, whose novel written in free verse poems, Nothing Sacred, is being published by Arcadia September 2015.

    24 Sep 2015 News
  • QS world university rankings for 2015 are now available

    The QS world university rankings for 2015 are now available. The University of Melbourne is ranked 42: several other Go8 Australian universities are a little further down the bottom end of the top 50.

    23 Sep 2015 News
  • Call for applications for two Ursula Hoff Fellowships

    Please pass this information on to anyone you feel may be interested in applying. Applications will close on 7 October.

    17 Sep 2015 News
  • 2016 Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize is now open for applications

    The 2016 Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize is now open for applications. The prize is to be awarded to a poet writing in Ireland to visit Australia.

    17 Sep 2015 News
  • notJack Writers' Prize now open

    The notJack Writers' Prize recognises the significance of place for Australian writers. Accordingly, the theme of the prize is 'writing from place'.

    14 Sep 2015 News
  • Congratulations to the following staff of the School who have been awarded Melbourne Engagement Gran...

    Congratulations to the following staff of the School who have been awarded Melbourne Engagement Grants 2015.

    07 Sep 2015 News
  • Australian Centre and Faculty of Arts Literary Awards winners announced

    Australian Centre and Faculty of Arts Literary Awards took place on Saturday 22 August in The Cube at ACMI as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival.

    24 Aug 2015 News
  • Professor Jeanette Hoorn's MOOC 'Sexing the Canvas - Art and Gender' starts

    Professor Jeanette Hoorn's Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) 'Sexing the Canvas - Art and Gender' starts on October 26th 2015. Join now!

    12 Aug 2015 News
  • 2015 New News conference program

    The School of Culture and Communication is delighted to announce that the 2015 New News conference program has gone live. Held in partnership between the Centre for Advancing Journalism and the Wheeler Centre, New News is a 3 day public conference devoted to discussing the present, and future, of journalism in Australia.

    29 Jul 2015 News
  • Bowie Symposium at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) huge success!

    The Bowie Symposium on 17 and 18 July at ACMI was a huge success and received much publicity.

    21 Jul 2015 News
  • Recent PhD graduate, Dotti Simmons' novel 'Living Like a Kelly' is to be published soon

    Recent PhD graduate, Dotti Simmons' novel Living Like a Kelly is to be published soon by Australian Scholarly Publishing.

    13 Jul 2015 News
  • Announcing pioneering research into media coverage of violence against women

    A team of researchers led by the Centre for Advancing Journalism has secured $106,000 in funding to investigate how media coverage influences community attitudes to violence against women.

    08 Jul 2015 News
  • Professor Brian McHale's interview: "Postmodernism: What is it good for?"

    Professor Brian McHale's interview with Lynne Haultain.

    07 Jul 2015 News
  • Congratulations to student Emily Laidlaw

    Congratulations to Emily Laidlaw, one of the School's Creative Writing Honours students from last year (2014)

    26 Jun 2015 News
  • Dr Radha O’Meara speaking at the Wheeler Centre

    Dr Radha O'Meara, Lecturer in Screenwriting; Coordinator: Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing, School of Culture and Communication will be speaking on the panel How Cats Won The Internet at the Wheeler Centre.

    01 Jun 2015 News
  • Walkley Nomination for student Derrick Krusche

    Master of Journalism student Derrick Krusche has been nominated in the student category of the Walkley Young Journalist of the Year awards.

    28 May 2015 News
  • Jim Middleton appointed Vice-Chancellor's Fellow

    Veteran journalist Jim Middleton has joined the Centre for Advancing Journalism as a Vice-Chancellor's Fellow.

    19 May 2015 News
  • Dr Amanda Johnson wins 2015 Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Prize for Poetry

    1st Prize: Amanda Frances Johnson - The Book of Interdictions

    12 May 2015 News
  • University of Melbourne academic joins Nobel Prize winners on International Panel on Social Progress

    University of Melbourne Associate Professor of Media and Communications Ingrid Volkmer has been appointed to the prestigious International Panel on Social Progress.

    06 May 2015 News
  • Beyond Access: the creative case for inclusive arts practice

    In 2014, in partnership with The University of Melbourne, and with funding from the Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation, Arts Access Victoria undertook Beyond Access, a research project exploring the strengths artists with disability can bring to the creative process.

    30 Apr 2015 News
  • Citizen Newsroom Awards: winners announced

    The winners of the 2014 Citizen Newsroom Awards were announced at a ceremony on Friday April 17th 2015.

    27 Apr 2015 News
  • School of Culture and Communication Alumnae Emily Bitto wins the 2015 Stella Prize

    We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2015 Stella Prize is Emily Bitto for The Strays.

    21 Apr 2015 News
  • Master of Journalism student Bec Zajac awarded Journalist of the Year

    Current Master of Journalism student Bec Zajac was awarded Journalist of the Year and Best Online Story at the Diageo Women's Empowerment Journalism Awards in Hong Kong recently.

    19 Mar 2015 News
  • Lunch with a Professor semester 1, 2015

    Are you a second and third year undergraduate student? Come and have lunch with a Professor in the School of Culture and Communication who will talk about their academic career, what it means to them, and the directions their research is now taking.

    03 Mar 2015 News

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