News and Events
Your access to exclusive events and public lectures hosted by the Faculty of Arts
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VCE Literature Teachers Professional Development CourseTraining/Workshop teacher;VCE;professional development;literature;
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VCE Winter School 2018
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.
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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.
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Wednesday 6:30pm - 7:30pmFeminist Ecologies: Changing Environments in the AnthropoceneLaunch feminist ecologies;Ecofeminism;environmental change;activism;anthropocene;performance;economics;Politics;arts;
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Thursday 7:15pm - 8:45pmBuilding Democratic Participation in a Connected but Disillusioned WorldFree Public Lecture purpose;andrea carson;henry timms;jeremy heimans;movement;participation;crowd;Disruption;power;Politics;democracy;
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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.
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Monday 12:30pm - 2:00pmCity of Melbourne Lord Mayoral Election Youth ForumFree Public Lecture Election Watch;elections;Politics;melbourne;Public Policy;
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Monday 1:00pm - 2:15pmMasters of the universe? The policy influence of management consultantsSeminar/Forum consultants;Public Policy;
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Monday 6:30pm - 7:30pmFrom Living Behind a Milkbar to UNESCOFree Public Lecture Cultural Infusion;Cultural Entrepreunership;School of Culture and Communication;Faculty of Arts;
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While many claim Gallipoli formed Australia's nationhood, the University of Melbourne's Marilyn Lake argues we should look to our political history instead.
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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.
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Monday 6:30pm - 7:30pmExperience like a Local: Developing the World’s First Artificial Intelligence Guide for MuseumsFree Public Lecture Tech start ups;artificial intelligence;School of Culture and Communication;Faculty of Arts;
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Thursday 6:00pm - 7:00pmChristos Tsiolkas on Patrick WhiteFree Public Lecture writers on writers;
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Thursday 6:00pm - 8:00pmArtist Management and Arts Leadership Book LaunchLaunch Creative Industries;Cultural Industries;Arts Leadership;Artist Management;School of Culture and Communication;Faculty of Arts;
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Middle East power play: Arab states grappling with a newly assertive Iran
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Monday 6:30pm - 7:30pmCross-Culture Empathy is Still a Long Way to ComeFree Public Lecture Cultural start ups;School of Culture and Communication;Faculty of Arts;
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Monday 7:00pm - 8:00pmWorlds in Disarray: Prehistory and the PresentFree Public Lecture GLOBALISATION;Piracy;Ancient Mediterranean;Classics & Archaeology;populism;School of Historical and Philosophical Studies;Faculty of Arts;
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Monday 7:30pm - 8:30pmCulture Now: Nice to Connect with YouPerformance Art Curatorship Program;Arts and Cultural Management Program;School of Culture and Communication;Faculty of Arts;
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Wednesday 6:00pm - 7:30pmLook at the Lake: New poems by Professor Kevin BrophyLaunch Professor Kevin Brophy;Aboriginal Community of Mulan;Creative Writing;School of Culture and Communication;Faculty of Arts;Poetry;
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Thursday 6:15pm - 8:30pmIntroducing the Scientific Controversy: Does the Earth Move?Training/Workshop Short Course;Faculty of Arts;Short Course: The Galileo Affair;
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The Commercial Travellers' Collection of photographs at the University of Melbourne Archives takes us back to the birth of the holiday road trip
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2018 Ernest Scott Prize shortlist announced
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.
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Unforgiven: Japan through the eyes of Korea and China
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Wednesday 6:00pm - 7:00pmThe Genius of Australian Indigenous LanguagesFree Public Lecture Faculty of Arts;arts;linguistics;language;Indigenous;Culture;
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Wednesday 6:30pm - 7:30pmFrom the Catholic Church to President Trump - Investigative Reporting vs. the Excesses of PowerFree Public Lecture AN Smith Lecture;Boston Globe;Walter Robinson;Journalism;
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Thursday 6:15pm - 8:30pmGalileo and the Catholic Church: The Interpretation of ScriptureTraining/Workshop Short Course: The Galileo Affair;Short Course;Faculty of Arts;
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The movie The Death of Stalin has been banned in Russia, revealing much about anxieties in the Kremlin, argues a University of Melbourne expert.
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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.
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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:
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Wednesday 6:45pm - 7:45pmWhere to Begin: Writing a History of Australian ArtFree Public Lecture Faculty of Arts;Ian McLean;Hugh Ramsay Chair;Australian Art History;
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Thursday 6:15pm - 8:30pmScience, Culture and Politics: Renaissance Italy and the Thirty Years' WarTraining/Workshop Short Course: The Galileo Affair;Short Course;Faculty of Arts;
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Thursday 6:15pm - 8:30pmThe Uses and Abuses of History: What Have we Learned from the Galileo Affair?Training/Workshop Short Course: The Galileo Affair;Short Course;Faculty of Arts;
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Alumna Danielle Kidd recently ran as a Labor candidate for Braddon in Tasmania.
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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.
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China's Belt and Road Initiative: Audacious global strategy or Sino overreach?
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Tuesday 6:15pm - 8:30pmFrom the Beginning: The History of Pompeii and the Eruption of VesuviusTraining/Workshop arts masterclasses;arts masterclass;pompeii;whats on;UoM;Course;Events;university of melbourne;Short Course;arts;
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Thursday 6:30pm - 7:30pmArchitecture after RomeFree Public Lecture Faculty of ABP;Faculty of Arts;
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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.
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Tuesday 6:15pm - 8:30pmPublic Life: Trade, Politics and Religion in PompeiiTraining/Workshop old arts;arts masterclasses;pompeii;whats on;UoM;Events;university of melbourne;arts;
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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.
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Tuesday 6:15pm - 8:30pmPrivate Spaces: Pompeiian Houses, Villas and GardensTraining/Workshop old arts;arts masterclasses;pompeii;whats on;UoM;Events;university of melbourne;arts;
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North Korea's participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang offers a glimmer of hope for peace, argue University of Melbourne experts.
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Tuesday 6:15pm - 8:30pmRecreation and Entertainment in PompeiiTraining/Workshop old arts;arts masterclasses;pompeii;whats on;UoM;Events;university of melbourne;arts;
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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.
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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.
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Tuesday 6:15pm - 8:30pmPompeian ArtTraining/Workshop old arts;arts masterclasses;pompeii;whats on;UoM;Events;university of melbourne;arts;
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Tuesday 6:15pm - 8:30pmPompeii: Destruction and RediscoveryTraining/Workshop old arts;arts masterclasses;pompeii;whats on;UoM;Events;university of melbourne;arts;
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Conservators at the University of Melbourne have developed a new technique for preserving parchment, after rescuing a WW1 memorial book damaged by fire.
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Playgrounds are becoming increasingly digitised with technologies like augmented reality apps, but a University of Melbourne says the shift could be positive.
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Thursday 6:45pm - 7:45pmLet Me Stop Here: A Classical Journey into the 21st CenturyFree Public Lecture Classical Language;Tim Parkin;ancient history;Classics;School of Historical and Philosophical Studies;Faculty of Arts;
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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.
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University of Melbourne philosopher Daniel Halliday argues it is time to tax old money to arrest the widening social inequality in Australia.
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Master of Art Curatorship student Sofia Wang reflects on her internship at the NGV
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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.
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The award-winning Indigenous novelist Alexis Wright has been appointed as the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne.
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