Category: News
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“International House, Melbourne”, 1954: A film for the future
Although not welcoming students until 1957, International House was causing excitement amongst the University of Melbourne’s benefactors and student population throughout the 1950s. The International House Fair, a yearly fundraising extravaganza in May, featured prominently in the student newspaper Farrago, with students and the wider community assisting with performances, donations, and market stalls. Along with […] -
Ian Clunies Ross Wing
International House’s first accommodation building, now known as the Ian Clunies Ross Wing, had its beginnings when a group of University of Melbourne students and members of the broader community began discussing ways to ease some of the housing problems faced by the city’s international students. You can read more about the path to Clunies […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2023/04/05/ian-clunies-ross-wing
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Fifty Years of Women at International House
‘Fifty Years of Women at International House’ is a project aimed at preserving and promoting the archival collection at International House (IH), focussing specifically on holdings relating to women. Supported by the Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah Fund at the University of Melbourne, the project is timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the […]
