| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 2nd October |
Seminar |
The Silchester Town Life Project: Profiling an Iron Age and Roman town |
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| 2nd October |
Seminar |
Jewish and Chinese Diasporas in Dialogue |
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| 3rd October |
Seminar |
Consumption, Collectivism and Conservatism: Food in the Mobilisation of Housewives in Interwar Southeastern Australia |
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| 7th October |
Seminar |
Greco-Syriac Poetic Interaction: Romanos' rhetoric and preaching |
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| 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 |
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| 9th October |
Seminar |
Playing with Gender, Sexuality and Sport: The History and Promise of the Gay Games |
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| 9th October |
Seminar |
Upland Archaeology in Ireland |
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| 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 |
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| 16th October |
Seminar |
The Bombing of German Cities in World War II: The Moral Issue |
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| 17th October |
Postgraduate workshop |
Life after the Thesis |
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| 21st October |
Seminar |
Discrimina ordinum: Roman theatres examined by the Australian survey team |
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| 22nd October |
Public lecture |
The Tenth Annual Margaret Manion Lecture: The Living Object |
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| 23rd October |
Seminar |
Trade Cards Daguerreotype, Telegraph and "Myspace": Oscar Wilde and the Use of Communication Technologies |
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| 24th October |
Seminar |
School of Historical Studies Research Day |
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| 26th October |
Public lecture |
In the Footsteps of Goliath: Excavating the Philistine City of Gath |
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| 30th October |
Seminar |
In the Abode of Clouds: Missionary Encounters in the Khasi Hills |
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| 31st October |
Postgraduate workshop |
Building a Publications Track Record |
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| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 2nd September |
Seminar |
The Survival of the Gracchan Land Commission and the Dandis Power of the Triumvirs |
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| 2nd September |
Seminar |
Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History: Knowledge in the Postcolony |
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| 3rd September |
Public lecture |
The games artists play: What art can tell us about sport, and vice versa |
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| 3rd September |
Seminar |
Widowhood and woman’s position in late-medieval society |
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| 3rd September |
Seminar |
Indigenizing Photography: Archives, Activism and New Visual Media in Contemporary Australia |
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| 4th September |
Seminar |
History, Agency and Efforts to Re-examine the 1965 Killings in Indonesia |
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| 9th September |
Seminar |
South of Ossetia: Archaeology in the borderlands of Caucasus |
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| 11th September |
Seminar |
A Rosicrucian in Terra Australis Incognita? |
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| 15th September |
Public lecture |
Bomb, Book & Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China |
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| 17th September |
Panel discussion |
Cultural difference in sport |
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| 17th September |
Seminar |
Mateship, Friendship, and National Identity |
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| 18th September |
Miegunyah lecture |
The First Terrorists: The French Revolution and the Origins of a Political Culture of Violence |
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| 18th September |
Seminar |
The Multiple Meanings of the Headscarf in France |
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| 18th September |
Public lecture and launch |
‘…no unimportant influence’: The Cultural Collections of the University of Melbourne |
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| 23rd September |
Seminar |
Shades of Eternity: The quest for fame in the Second Sophistic |
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| 25th September |
Seminar |
Al-Andalus in the Age of Enlightenment: Antigüedades árabes de España |
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| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 3rd August |
Public lecture |
Germany and the Rise of the Modern Jewish Doctor |
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| 5th August |
Public seminar |
Orientalism and the German Jews in the Age of Empire |
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| 5th August |
Lecture |
Lessons Learned: Awakening, Nurturing And Promoting “Respect” In Ethnographic Conservation |
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| 6th August |
Public lecture |
Born in a Red ‘n’ Black Jumper: My Rite of Passage |
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| 6th August |
Public lecture |
Conservation Training at Winterthur and the University of Delaware: An American Model |
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| 7th August |
Public lecture |
Unnatural Selection: Population Control and the Struggle to Remake Humanity |
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| 7th August |
Seminar |
Geisha Girls and GI Johns: Marketing Sex in the Aftermath of the Pacific War |
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| 11th August |
Seminar |
Jewish Solidarity and Big Business: How the Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews revitalised the economy of nineteenth-century France |
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| 12th August |
Seminar |
Much Better Than Our Fathers: Diomedes and Tydeus in the Iliad |
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| 14th August |
2008 Pratt Oration |
The People and the Book: The Invention of Printing and the Transformation of Jewish Culture |
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| 14th August |
Seminar |
The Bridge, The Door, Culture and the Economy |
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| 20th August |
Public lecture |
Agon/Eikon: Greek Athletics and Visual Experience |
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| 20th August |
Seminar |
Cosmopolitanism in Australian History |
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| 20th August |
Seminar |
Figuring the Gods in Ancient Greece: The relations of anthropomorphism and ‘aniconism’ |
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| 21st August |
Seminar |
“Jesus was in the Parlour”: Faith, Space and Gender in British Methodism, 1740-1840 |
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| 22nd August |
Work in Progress Day |
School of Historical Studies Fellows Group Work in Progress Day |
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| 26th August |
Seminar |
The Bullet and the Brush: Fighting to preserve the archaeological sites in ancient Mesopotamia |
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| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 7th - 10th July |
Conference |
Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference: 'Locating History' |
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| 7th - 10th July |
Conference |
Private and Public Lies: The Discourse of Despotism and Deceit in the Ancient World |
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| 8th July |
Public lecture |
Autochthonous Autocrats: The Tyranny of the Athenian Democracy |
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| 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 |
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| 15th July |
Conference |
150 Years of Australian Football |
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| 25th July |
Conference |
School of Historical Studies Research Day |
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| 28th July |
Public lecture |
History and Memory: China, Japan and the Pacific |
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| 31st July |
Seminar |
Imagining the Magdalen: From Renaissance Italy to Missionary New Zealand |
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| 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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