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In 2025, we were delighted to welcome Dr Eliza O’Donnell, newly appointed Mary Lugton Postdoctoral Fellow. With a background in paintings conservation and experience working with Indonesian artists and cultural collections in tropical climates, she brings a wealth of knowledge in relation to understanding issues of art attribution and cross-cultural research and practice. Eliza O’Donnell […]

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The Classics and Archaeology program is delighted to announce the new Wright Lecture Series in Ancient Near Eastern Studies. The program has received a generous donation from Dr JJ Kim Wright (University of Melbourne alumnus) to support an annual visit and lecture by an international scholar. The programme will begin in November 2025, with Dr […]

This year we welcomed to the History and Philosophy of Science Program new graduate student, Kathryn Laurentis, who joins us with more than twenty-five years of industry experience as a chemical engineer and applied mathematician. Her research will draw on her experience in industry as well as STEM advocacy to explore the hidden history of […]

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In 2024 Dr James Keating was appointed to the position of Assistant Lecturer in History. A gender and cultural historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australia and New Zealand, Dr Keating specialises in the history of feminism. His first book, Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880–1914, was published by Manchester University Press in […]

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Linear B, a script that was used during the Bronze Age for writing in Mycenean Greek, was the subject of an interactive workshop organized by PhD candidate Emily Tour last year. Led jointly by Dr Anna Judson from Durham University (online) and Emily Tour (on site), the workshop offered participants the opportunity to experiment with […]

This year, we were delighted to welcome Dr Cristian Larroulet Philippi as the inaugural RW Seddon Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science program. With a background in economics and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, Dr Larroulet Philippi was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Gonville […]

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The SBS Ukrainian program recently broadcast a recording of a conversation between Professor Mark Edele (Hansen Chair in History) and Emeritus Professor Marko Pavlyshyn (Monash University) to mark the launch of Marko Pavlyshyn’s new book, Ukrainian Literature: A Wartime Guide for Anglophone Readers as part of Mark Edele’s ‘Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History’ series, […]

We were thrilled last year to welcome Dr Caroline Kyi as a new Assistant Lecturer in Cultural Materials Conservation. Dr Kyi completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne, focusing on biodeterioration in cultural heritage. With over 20 years of experience as a wall paintings conservator and conservation scientist, she has worked extensively both locally […]

Some recipes date back to ancient Rome: French toast, foie gras … and braised flamingo. What else is in the ancient Roman cookbook De Re Coquinaria? PhD candidate Christopher D Parkinson discusses his work on culinary practices, daily diet, and food culture in the ancient world, for the Conversation. Feature image: A bread stall from a […]

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As the Yoorrook Walk for Truth travels through western Victoria, Prof. Zoë Laidlaw, Dr James Waghorne and Mark Stern reflect on the colonial pastoralists from that area who dispossessed Indigenous people while enriching our university.

For 100 years, we have marvelled at planetariums. In this article, originally published by the Conversation, Dr Martin Bush (Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science) and Dr Tanya Hill (Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria Research Institute) present a brief history of how humans brought the […]