Early Modern Circle Seminar
Echoes of Women in Early Colonial Brazil
A seminar by Dr Jessica O’Leary (Monash University) at 6.15pm on Wednesday 21 October, Room 553, Arts West, North Wing
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.
2026 W.H. Allen Memorial Lecture
Who’s Afraid of the Dark? The Night-time World of Late Antiquity
A public lecture by Dr Sarah Gador-Whyte (Australian Catholic University) at 6.30pm on Monday 19 October, Forum Lecture Theatre (Level 1 North Wing), Arts West
Wright Lecture in Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Shadows in the Cave: Seeing as knowing in the history of art
A public lecture by Eckart Frahm (Yale) at 4pm on Tuesday 27 October, Forum Theatre, Arts West Building. Register here: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/kRAnCzvOL5hm8pAgPi4f7js9C_Am?domain=events.humanitix.com
English and Theatre Studies Seminar
Acts of Oblivion: Aphra Behn and the Legacy of the Civil Wars
A seminar by Marc Mierowsky (University of Melbourne) at 1.15pm on Wednesday 21 October, 4th Floor Linkway, John Medley Building
Ancient Worlds Seminar
Unearthing Rabati: The 2026 Discoveries and Assessing a Decade of Melbourne-Georgian Collaboration in Near Eastern Archaeology
A seminar by Claudia Sagona and Andrew Jamieson (University of Melbourne) at 1pm on Monday 19 October, Arts Hall, Room 222 Old Arts
Medieval Round Table Seminar
"As many years’ indulgence as the number of blades of grass that grow between Easter and Pentecost": Indulgence inflation and early modern Netherlandish art
A seminar by Cameron Hurst (University of Melbourne), Monday 9 November at 6.00 pm, Room 261, John Medley Building East Tower 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 Folcard of St-Bertin’s Vita Æduuardi (c. 1066). 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’.