Welcome to Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Melbourne.
This is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental programme, offering a range of courses in these areas in a series of undergraduate majors, graduate coursework programmes and research degrees. Some courses allow you to combine subjects from different Schools in the Faculty of Arts and selected subjects from the Faculties of Music and Architecture, Building and Planning.
If you are interested in undertaking a research degree (MA or PhD), please contact staff in the relevant School.
The Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Studies program allows students to shape their subject choices according to an historical period as well as an academic discipline.
The graduate program in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an inter-departmental program jointly offered by several Schools of the Faculty of Arts, each respected for its outstanding scholarship and particular strengths in this area of study.
Masters by Research and Doctor of Philosophy – Arts
There are many discussion groups, seminars and conferences in these fields.
Our Facebook page is now retired. For updates you can either bookmark this page, or join the mailing lists for reading groups and seminars via the links below.
A public lecture by Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford) at 5.30pm on Wednesday 30 September, G06 Theatre, Elizabeth Murdoch Building. Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/2026-academy-lecture
A seminar by Samara Greenwood (University of Melbourne) at 12pm on Wednesday 16 September, Arts West North Wing, Room 156
A seminar by Blake Wassell (Trinity College Theological School) at 1pm on Monday 14 September, Digital Lab, Room 213-215, Arts West and via Zoom
A seminar by Dr Volodymyr Mezentsev (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies) at 6.15pm on Wednesday 16 September, Room 553, Arts West Building, North Wing
A seminar by Jess Macjen (University of Melbourne), Monday 5 October at 6.00 pm, Room 261, John Medley Building East Tower and via Zoom
The group meets Wednesdays, 5.15-6.30pm via Zoom, currently reading Procopius’ Secret History. Contact Roger Scott for details.
The group meets every second Thursday, 12.30-2pm via Zoom, reading Folcard of St-Bertin’s Vita Æduuardi (c. 1066). Contact John Weretka for details.
The Middle English Reading Group meets online via Zoom at 11:00 every second Monday, reading the Stanzaic Morte Arthur, a fourteenth-century translation from a French prose romance, about Lancelot and Guinevere, and the dissolution of the Round Table.
The Old French Reading Group will continue to meet online every second Monday at 5.00pm, continuing ‘Le Roman de Silence’.