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This winter the Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne offers VCE students an unparalleled opportunity to prepare for History: Revolutions, Australian History, Literature, Italian, French and Indonesian exams with scholars and teachers who are experts in their fields.

North Korea has achieved its goal of becoming a nuclear state, strengthening its position in talks with the South, says a University of Melbourne expert.

Professor Michael Belgrave from Massey University has been awarded the 2018 Ernest Scott Prize for Dancing with the King, which documents the rise and fall of the King Country, an independent state governed by the Māori King where settlers and the Crown entered at risk of their lives between 1864 and 1885.

While many claim Gallipoli formed Australia's nationhood, the University of Melbourne's Marilyn Lake argues we should look to our political history instead.

Professor Alexis Wright, a member of the Waanyi Nation and Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne has been awarded the 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker, the collective memoir of Aboriginal leader and visionary Tracker Tilmouth.

Middle East power play: Arab states grappling with a newly assertive Iran

The Commercial Travellers' Collection of photographs at the University of Melbourne Archives takes us back to the birth of the holiday road trip

The 2018 Ernest Scott Prize for History is awarded annually to the book judged to be the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand or to the history of colonisation published in the previous year.This prize is proudly supported by the History Program in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne.

Unforgiven: Japan through the eyes of Korea and China

The movie The Death of Stalin has been banned in Russia, revealing much about anxieties in the Kremlin, argues a University of Melbourne expert.

The Faculty of Arts and the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Melbourne have been named Australia’s number one for the arts and humanities, and the social sciences, as announced in the latest 2018 QS World University Rankings by Subject.

Community Volunteering - Global offers students the opportunity to participate in an international volunteering program. Students contribute directly to local communities by bringing their skills, creativity and initiative to projects run by local organisations.Bachelor of Arts student Marina Daley shared her reflections from her experience in India:

Alumna Danielle Kidd recently ran as a Labor candidate for Braddon in Tasmania.

The recent cases of Barnaby Joyce and Brett Guerin show something about the concept of 'office' today is deeply amiss, argues a University of Melbourne expert.

China's Belt and Road Initiative: Audacious global strategy or Sino overreach?

University of Melbourne PhD student researching how people with social anxiety feel, says we need to look beyond medicalising it to look also at social drivers.

How do Melbourne’s buildings and landscapes intersect with the history and identity of the city? The intensive subject Urban Legends: Melbourne provides students with the opportunity to conduct fieldwork on the role of space in the development of modern Australia and discover the city’s past.

North Korea's participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang offers a glimmer of hope for peace, argue University of Melbourne experts.

A much loved and esteemed member of the University of Melbourne and Newman College communities, Father Peter Steele SJ AM (22 August 1939 - 27 June 2012) inspired a new generation of poets.

Bridget Barker is the Diversity and Inclusion Manager at North Melbourne Football Club, who is currently studying the Master of Public Policy and Management at The University of Melbourne.

Conservators at the University of Melbourne have developed a new technique for preserving parchment, after rescuing a WW1 memorial book damaged by fire.

Playgrounds are becoming increasingly digitised with technologies like augmented reality apps, but a University of Melbourne says the shift could be positive.

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Myanmar, Sonia Lim is a Bachelor of Arts student at the University of Melbourne with a strong passion for social justice.

University of Melbourne philosopher Daniel Halliday argues it is time to tax old money to arrest the widening social inequality in Australia.

Master of Art Curatorship student Sofia Wang reflects on her internship at the NGV

Congratulations to scriptwriter and University of Melbourne Arts Alumnus Joe Brukner, who has received the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award 2017 at the International Emmy Awards Gala in New York City.

The award-winning Indigenous novelist Alexis Wright has been appointed as the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne.