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December 2008

Date Event Title Further information
3rd - 5th December Conference Reorienting Whiteness Read more
8th December International Symposium The Globalisation of Advertising in Asia: The Impact on Media Read more
8th December Public lecture Drinking, Desire, and the Friends of Dionysos Read more
9th December Seminar Villas and Christianity in Late Antiquity: New observations on an old problem Read more
11th December Conference The Greg Dening Inaugural Conference Read more
11th December Public lecture The Greg Dening Inaugural Lecture: History and the Creative Imagination Read more

November 2008

Date Event Title Further information
5th November Seminar Literary After-Life: Stages in the reception of the Terence text Read more
6th November Seminar Postgraduate work in progress day Read more
6th & 7th November Colloquium Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation student research presentations Read more
7th November Postgraduate workshop Australian Postdoctoral Fellowships Read more
7th November Seminar Cultural Capital Markets: A Tentative Global Geography, 10th to 21st Centuries Read more
11th November Seminar The Discoveries of Russian Expeditions in the North-Western Crimea Read more
20th November Seminar The Carolingian Knight Guillaume d’Orange Read more
26th - 28th November Conference Identity and Its Discontents Read more

October 2008

Date Event Title Further information
2nd October Seminar The Silchester Town Life Project: Profiling an Iron Age and Roman town Read more
2nd October Seminar Jewish and Chinese Diasporas in Dialogue Read more
3rd October Seminar Consumption, Collectivism and Conservatism: Food in the Mobilisation of Housewives in Interwar Southeastern Australia Read more
7th October Seminar Greco-Syriac Poetic Interaction: Romanos' rhetoric and preaching Read more
8th October Seminar More than Tea and Scones: How cross-racial collaboration in the Country Women’s Association of New South Wales in the 1950s and 60s challenges constructions of the rural past Read more
9th October Seminar Playing with Gender, Sexuality and Sport: The History and Promise of the Gay Games Read more
9th October Seminar Upland Archaeology in Ireland Read more
9th - 10th October Symposium The 11th AICCM Paintings Conservation Symposium
Looking both ways: Connecting the future to the past
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14th October Seminar City of the Chorasmii? Recent investigations into the art and architecture of the late Iron Age site of Kazakly-yatkan, Uzbekistan Read more
16th October Seminar The Bombing of German Cities in World War II: The Moral Issue Read more
17th October Postgraduate workshop Life after the Thesis Read more
21st October Seminar Discrimina ordinum: Roman theatres examined by the Australian survey team Read more
22nd October Public lecture The Tenth Annual Margaret Manion Lecture: The Living Object Read more
23rd October Seminar Trade Cards Daguerreotype, Telegraph and "Myspace": Oscar Wilde and the Use of Communication Technologies Read more
24th October Seminar School of Historical Studies Research Day Read more
26th October Public lecture In the Footsteps of Goliath: Excavating the Philistine City of Gath Read more
30th October Seminar In the Abode of Clouds: Missionary Encounters in the Khasi Hills Read more
31st October Postgraduate workshop Building a Publications Track Record Read more

September 2008

Date Event Title Further information
2nd September Seminar The Survival of the Gracchan Land Commission and the Dandis Power of the Triumvirs Read more
2nd September Seminar Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History: Knowledge in the Postcolony Read more
3rd September Public lecture The games artists play: What art can tell us about sport, and vice versa Read more
3rd September Seminar Widowhood and woman’s position in late-medieval society Read more
3rd September Seminar Indigenizing Photography: Archives, Activism and New Visual Media in Contemporary Australia Read more
4th September Seminar History, Agency and Efforts to Re-examine the 1965 Killings in Indonesia Read more
9th September Seminar South of Ossetia: Archaeology in the borderlands of Caucasus Read more
11th September Seminar A Rosicrucian in Terra Australis Incognita? Read more
15th September Public lecture Bomb, Book & Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China Read more
17th September Panel discussion Cultural difference in sport Read more
17th September Seminar Mateship, Friendship, and National Identity Read more
18th September Miegunyah lecture The First Terrorists: The French Revolution and the Origins of a Political Culture of Violence Read more
18th September Seminar The Multiple Meanings of the Headscarf in France Read more
18th September Public lecture and launch ‘…no unimportant influence’: The Cultural Collections of the University of Melbourne Read more
23rd September Seminar Shades of Eternity: The quest for fame in the Second Sophistic Read more
25th September Seminar Al-Andalus in the Age of Enlightenment: Antigüedades árabes de España Read more

August 2008

Date Event Title Further information
3rd August Public lecture Germany and the Rise of the Modern Jewish Doctor Read more
5th August Public seminar Orientalism and the German Jews in the Age of Empire Read more
5th August Lecture Lessons Learned: Awakening, Nurturing And Promoting “Respect” In Ethnographic Conservation Read more
6th August Public lecture Born in a Red ‘n’ Black Jumper: My Rite of Passage Read more
6th August Public lecture Conservation Training at Winterthur and the University of Delaware: An American Model Read more
7th August Public lecture Unnatural Selection: Population Control and the Struggle to Remake Humanity Read more
7th August Seminar Geisha Girls and GI Johns: Marketing Sex in the Aftermath of the Pacific War Read more
11th August Seminar Jewish Solidarity and Big Business: How the Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews revitalised the economy of nineteenth-century France Read more
12th August Seminar Much Better Than Our Fathers: Diomedes and Tydeus in the Iliad Read more
14th August 2008 Pratt Oration The People and the Book: The Invention of Printing and the Transformation of Jewish Culture Read more
14th August Seminar The Bridge, The Door, Culture and the Economy Read more
20th August Public lecture Agon/Eikon: Greek Athletics and Visual Experience Read more
20th August Seminar Cosmopolitanism in Australian History Read more
20th August Seminar Figuring the Gods in Ancient Greece: The relations of anthropomorphism and ‘aniconism’ Read more
21st August Seminar “Jesus was in the Parlour”: Faith, Space and Gender in British Methodism, 1740-1840 Read more
22nd August Work in Progress Day School of Historical Studies Fellows Group Work in Progress Day Read more
26th August Seminar The Bullet and the Brush: Fighting to preserve the archaeological sites in ancient Mesopotamia Read more

July 2008

Date Event Title Further information
7th - 10th July Conference Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference: 'Locating History' Read more
7th - 10th July Conference Private and Public Lies: The Discourse of Despotism and Deceit in the Ancient World Read more
8th July Public lecture Autochthonous Autocrats: The Tyranny of the Athenian Democracy Read more
9th July Public lecture Lies, Deception and Economy with the Truth:
Augustus and the Establishment of the Principate
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10th July Book launch Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s - 1940s Read more
15th July Conference 150 Years of Australian Football Read more
25th July Conference School of Historical Studies Research Day Read more
28th July Public lecture History and Memory: China, Japan and the Pacific Read more
31st July Seminar Imagining the Magdalen: From Renaissance Italy to Missionary New Zealand Read more

June 2008

Date Event Title Further information
23rd June Book launch Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England Read more
27th June Public lecture Israel’s Foreign Policy Throughout the Years Read more

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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