Faculty of Arts School of Historical Studies

Event archive - 2008

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May 2008

Date Event Title Further information
1st May Brownbag seminar Poppaedius Silo: Dux et auctor of the social war Read more
6th May Ancient World Seminar The Timaeus: Plato's prose hymn to the cosmos Read more
8th May Brownbag seminar 'At the Point he always wished for': William Blackstone as judge Read more
13th May Ancient World Seminar The Case of the Missing Sense of Humour: The historian Livy Read more
14th May Seminar Heavers Cleavers and Achievers: 150 years of rowing at the university: The story of the Melbourne University Boat Club and its members Read more
15th May Brownbag seminar For Love of Mankind: Women Philanthropists in Australian History Read more
20th May Ancient World Seminar Fire Next Time: The plan of Zeus in Euripides’ Helen Read more
22nd May Kathleen Fitzpatrick Lecture New Explorations in Imperial History Read more
22th May Brownbag seminar Witchcraft and European History: Changing perspectives over thirty years Read more
27th May Ancient World Seminar The Big Nowhere: A mistress of animals in the Throne Room in Knossos? Read more
28th May Seminar Branding and Belonging: Globalised Goods and National Identity Read more
29th May Brownbag seminar Weapons of Mass Communication: The censorship and surveillance of Australian reporters during war Read more
30th May Seminar Abraham Lincoln, Colonization, and the Rights of Black Americans Read more
31st May - 4th June Conference Paphlagonia and Pontus in Antiquity and the Early Byzantine Period Read more

April 2008

Date Event Title Further information
1st April Public lecture Muhammad and the Jews Read more
1st April Ancient World Seminar Opium for the Masses: Psychoactive consumption in the Bronze Age East Mediterranean Read more
2nd April Public lecture Cultural Forensics: Trade Secrets in Art Authentication Read more
2nd April Seminar Keys to the South - Thinking Beyond the Southern Hemisphere Read more
3rd April Brownbag seminar Convict Culture and the Land: The Van Diemen’s Land experience 1803-1823 Read more
3rd April Public lecture Feeling the pain: empathy in Greek tragedy Read more
8th April Ancient World Seminar The Pella Bronze Age Temple Precinct: A conspectus of recent work (1997-2007) Read more
8th April Irish Studies Seminar Ethnic Contribution Histories and the 'Double Colonization' Thesis: What's so special about the Irish? Read more
9th April Exhibition Australian Archaeologists at Pella (Jordan) Exhibition Opening Read more
9th April Public lecture On the immorality of Bernard Schlink’s The Reader Read more
9th April Public lecture The annual H. W. Allen Memorial Lecture:
Erotes on the Euphrates: Redecorating the wall of a Hellenistic house in North Syria
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10th April Brownbag seminar “Now we ask, not for protection, but for education”: Aboriginal assimilation, education and citizenship in 1930s Australia Read more
15th April Ancient World Seminar Who Named Me?’: Identity and status in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus Read more
16th April Public lecture The City as Encyclopedia: Lessons from Melbourne’s urban past Read more
16th April Seminar A parallel universe? Supporters and opponents of refugees and internees in Australia during Word War II Read more
17th April Brownbag seminar 'Pistols! Treason! Murder!: A Multimedia Assassination Read more
22nd April Ancient World Seminar Industry in Classical Athens: A microeconomic approach Read more
24th April Brownbag seminar “Each time I'm reminded of it, I feel as though I need therapy”: Footy tragedies and the question of catharsis Read more
29th April Ancient World Seminar ‘Liposkenia’: Staging comic evasions Read more
29th April Irish Studies Seminar Jonathan Swift and his Publisher John Harding: A Question of Money? Read more
30th April Public lecture The Water Dreamers of Australia Read more
30th April Public lecture and dinner Major Issues in Roman Legal History: Varro, Augustus, and the Spolia Opima Read more
30th April Seminar Sheilas, wogs and metrosexuals: masculinity, ethnicity and Australian soccer in the postmodern marketplace Read more

March 2008

Date Event Title Further information
6th March Brownbag seminar Eisenhower and the Red Menace Read more
7th March Exhibition opening Trailblazers: Migrant Women Activists Read more
13th March Public lecture Tradition in Preventive Conservation:
The Case of Southeast Asian Innovation and Participation in Practice
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13th March Brownbag seminar Covered Writing: The Wesley Brothers’ Personal Memoirs Read more
14th March Public lecture The New Middle East: Visions, Reality, Prospects Read more
18th March Irish Studies Seminar Irish Poets and Islam from the Union to the Famine, 1801-45 Read more
19th March Public lecture The Earliest Temples on Earth: New Perspectives on Life in the Neolithic Read more
19th March Seminar Layers of Meaning: Towards a World Heritage Listing of the Central Victorian Gold Fields Read more
20th March Brownbag seminar An Inch of Rain and What it Means: Landscapes of the northern plains of Victoria 1836-1930 Read more
25th - 29th March Conference 12th International Aegean Conference: 'Dais: The Aegean Feast' Read more
25th March Public lecture From feasting to the social archaeology of eating and drinking Read more

February 2008

Date Event Title Further information
8th February Symposium 1968: Forty Years On Read more
18th February Free public lecture New times, new spaces and new technologies:
Questions of globalisation, regionalization and periodisation
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22nd February 2008 Macgeorge lecture Paul Montford and Bertram Mackennal:
Making sculpture in 1920s Melbourne
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26th February Postgraduate event School Induction and Welcome for new research students Read more
28th February Workshop Heritage Tourism and Sustainable Development in Laos Read more
28th February Student welcome Honours Welcome Session Read more

January 2008

Date Event Title Further information
28th January - 21st February Free seminar Beginners' Classical Syriac Read more
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