Early Modern Circle Seminar
Material Culture, Scottish Eighteenth-century Music, and its Transmission by both Enslaved and Free people
A seminar by Professor Dolly Mackinnon (University of Melbourne) at 6.15pm on Wednesday 19 August, venue TBC
Welcome
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.
Study Areas
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Undergraduate Study
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.
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Graduate Coursework
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.
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Graduate Research
Masters by Research and Doctor of Philosophy – Arts
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HPS Seminars
News and Events
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.
History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Repesentations of science in publications on Indigenous Australian astronomy
A seminar by Kevin Orrman-Rossiter (University of Melbourne) at 12pm on Wednesday 27 May, Babel, Room 305
Ancient Worlds Seminar
Horizontally (and Vertically) Inclined: On the Construction of Gospel Synopses
A seminar by Dr Robert Derrenbacker (University of Divinity) at 1pm on Monday 25 May, Arts West, Digital Lab (Room 213-215) and via Zoom
Medieval Round Table Seminar
Save the Outpassing of the Soul: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe on the deathbed
A seminar by Rose Albiston, University of Melbourne, Monday 1 June at 6.00 pm, John Medley Building 261E and via Zoom.
Medieval (Byzantine) Greek Reading Group
The group meets Wednesdays, 5.15-6.30pm via Zoom, currently reading Procopius’ Secret History. Contact Roger Scott for details.
Medieval Latin Reading Group
The group meets every second Thursday, 12.30-2pm via Zoom, reading Athanasius Kircher’s Neo-Latin autobiography Vita Admodum (1684). Contact John Weretka for details.
Middle English Reading Group
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.
Old French Reading Group
The Old French Reading Group will continue to meet online every second Monday at 5.00pm, continuing ‘Le Roman de Silence’.