| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 1st May |
Brownbag seminar |
Poppaedius Silo: Dux et auctor of the social war |
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| 6th May |
Ancient World Seminar |
The Timaeus: Plato's prose hymn to the cosmos |
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| 8th May |
Brownbag seminar |
'At the Point he always wished for': William Blackstone as judge |
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| 13th May |
Ancient World Seminar |
The Case of the Missing Sense of Humour: The historian Livy |
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| 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 |
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| 15th May |
Brownbag seminar |
For Love of Mankind: Women Philanthropists in Australian History |
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| 20th May |
Ancient World Seminar |
Fire Next Time: The plan of Zeus in Euripides’ Helen |
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| 22nd May |
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Lecture |
New Explorations in Imperial History |
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| 22th May |
Brownbag seminar |
Witchcraft and European History: Changing perspectives over thirty years |
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| 27th May |
Ancient World Seminar |
The Big Nowhere: A mistress of animals in the Throne Room in Knossos? |
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| 28th May |
Seminar |
Branding and Belonging: Globalised Goods and National Identity |
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| 29th May |
Brownbag seminar |
Weapons of Mass Communication: The censorship and surveillance of Australian reporters during war |
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| 30th May |
Seminar |
Abraham Lincoln, Colonization, and the Rights of Black Americans |
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| 31st May - 4th June |
Conference |
Paphlagonia and Pontus in Antiquity and the Early Byzantine Period |
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| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 1st April |
Public lecture |
Muhammad and the Jews |
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| 1st April |
Ancient World Seminar |
Opium for the Masses: Psychoactive consumption in the Bronze Age East Mediterranean |
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| 2nd April |
Public lecture |
Cultural Forensics: Trade Secrets in Art Authentication |
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| 2nd April |
Seminar |
Keys to the South - Thinking Beyond the Southern Hemisphere |
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| 3rd April |
Brownbag seminar |
Convict Culture and the Land: The Van Diemen’s Land experience 1803-1823 |
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| 3rd April |
Public lecture |
Feeling the pain: empathy in Greek tragedy |
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| 8th April |
Ancient World Seminar |
The Pella Bronze Age Temple Precinct: A conspectus of recent work (1997-2007) |
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| 8th April |
Irish Studies Seminar |
Ethnic Contribution Histories and the 'Double Colonization' Thesis: What's so special about the Irish? |
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| 9th April |
Exhibition |
Australian Archaeologists at Pella (Jordan) Exhibition Opening |
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| 9th April |
Public lecture |
On the immorality of Bernard Schlink’s The Reader |
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| 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 |
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| 15th April |
Ancient World Seminar |
Who Named Me?’: Identity and status in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus |
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| 16th April |
Public lecture |
The City as Encyclopedia: Lessons from Melbourne’s urban past |
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| 16th April |
Seminar |
A parallel universe? Supporters and opponents of refugees and internees in Australia during Word War II |
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| 17th April |
Brownbag seminar |
'Pistols! Treason! Murder!: A Multimedia Assassination |
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| 22nd April |
Ancient World Seminar |
Industry in Classical Athens: A microeconomic approach |
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| 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 |
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| 29th April |
Ancient World Seminar |
‘Liposkenia’: Staging comic evasions |
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| 29th April |
Irish Studies Seminar |
Jonathan Swift and his Publisher John Harding: A Question of Money? |
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| 30th April |
Public lecture |
The Water Dreamers of Australia |
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| 30th April |
Public lecture and dinner |
Major Issues in Roman Legal History: Varro, Augustus, and the Spolia Opima |
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| 30th April |
Seminar |
Sheilas, wogs and metrosexuals: masculinity, ethnicity and Australian soccer in the postmodern marketplace |
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| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 6th March |
Brownbag seminar |
Eisenhower and the Red Menace |
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| 7th March |
Exhibition opening |
Trailblazers: Migrant Women Activists |
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| 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 |
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| 14th March |
Public lecture |
The New Middle East: Visions, Reality, Prospects |
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| 18th March |
Irish Studies Seminar |
Irish Poets and Islam from the Union to the Famine, 1801-45 |
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| 19th March |
Public lecture |
The Earliest Temples on Earth: New Perspectives on Life in the Neolithic |
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| 19th March |
Seminar |
Layers of Meaning: Towards a World Heritage Listing of the Central Victorian Gold Fields |
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| 20th March |
Brownbag seminar |
An Inch of Rain and What it Means: Landscapes of the northern plains of Victoria 1836-1930 |
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| 25th - 29th March |
Conference |
12th International Aegean Conference: 'Dais: The Aegean Feast' |
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| 25th March |
Public lecture |
From feasting to the social archaeology of eating and drinking |
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