All future events hosted by Faculty of Arts
Friday20Apr2018
Wednesday2May2018
Thursday3May2018
Monday7May2018
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
From Living Behind a Milkbar to UNESCO
Free Public LecturePeter Mousaferiadis, Founder and CEO of Cultural Infusion, will share the story of his business, a local cultural company that has developed global connections and achieved international recognition. Mousaferiadis will discuss his origins from ...
PresentersMr Peter Mousaferiadis
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Monday14May2018
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Experience like a Local: Developing the World’s First Artificial Intelligence Guide for Museums
Free Public Lecture享受如同本地人一般的体验: 世界首款博物馆人工智能导游系统 This presentation will be delivered in Chinese with synchronous translation in English. Robin Hao will share the story of MagicPi, Melbournebased creative tech startup that employs new technologies in linguistic art...
PresentersMr Robin Hao
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Thursday17May2018
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Christos Tsiolkas on Patrick White
Free Public LectureWriters on Writers series Join author and Bachelor of Arts alumnus Christos Tsiolkas in conversation with Professor Denise Varney, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, as part of the Writers on Writers series. Writers on Writers is a series of six short...
PresentersMr Christos Tsiolkas - 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Artist Management and Arts Leadership Book Launch
LaunchDr Guy Morrow and Associate Professor Josephine Caust are teaming up to launch their new books. Guy Morrow's book Artist Management: Agility in the Creative and Cultural Industries (Routledge) makes a major contribution to our understanding of th...
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Monday21May2018
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Cross-Culture Empathy is Still a Long Way to Come
Free Public LectureThink about Germany. What comes first to mind? How about Romania or Japan? Do you think that what you know about these countries reflects the reality? In early postcommunist Romania, art, and particularly music, was the first thing people encount...
Presenters Iulian Stefanica - 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Worlds in Disarray: Prehistory and the Present
Free Public LectureInaugural Professorial Lecture This lecture examines the relationship between social and technological acceleration, class conflict, natural disaster and systems collapse in the ancient Mediterranean and modern western society through an examinat...
PresentersProfessor Louise A Hitchcock
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Thursday24May2018
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Introducing the Scientific Controversy: Does the Earth Move?
Training/WorkshopThe Galileo Affair short course – Session 1 We begin the course with an introduction to the scientific controversy at the heart of the Galileo Affair. What were the arguments and evidence in favour of the traditional view that the sun revolved ar...
Presenters Kristian Camilleri
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday30May2018
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
From the Catholic Church to President Trump - Investigative Reporting vs. the Excesses of Power
Free Public LectureThe 2018 AN Smith Lecture in Journalism, presented by Walter Robinson, EditoratLarge of the Boston Globe and leader of the Spotlight Team's investigations into abuse in the Catholic Church. For decades, American cardinals and bishops and their p...
Presenters Walter Robinson
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Thursday31May2018
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Galileo and the Catholic Church: The Interpretation of Scripture
Training/WorkshopThe Galileo Affair short course – Session 2 This week, we turn our gaze to the problem of the interpretation of scripture in the context of the CounterReformation. What was the Catholic Church’s official position on Copernicanism, and how did Gal...
Presenters Kristian Camilleri
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday6Jun2018
- 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Where to Begin: Writing a History of Australian Art
CancelledFree Public LectureHistories of Australian art generally begin with natural history drawings by artists on Cook’s brief visit to a few sites on the eastern coastline of Australia during 1770 and/or the first decade of the penal colony of NSW, and not the much more i...
PresentersProfessor Ian McLean
- 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Thursday7Jun2018
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Science, Culture and Politics: Renaissance Italy and the Thirty Years' War
Training/WorkshopThe Galileo Affair short course – Session 3 This week, we widen our perspective to encompass the wider social, political and cultural context of the Galileo affair. In doing so, we gain a deeper understanding of how the affair was shaped by Galil...
Presenters Kristian Camilleri
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Thursday14Jun2018
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
The Uses and Abuses of History: What Have we Learned from the Galileo Affair?
Training/WorkshopThe Galileo Affair short course – Session 4 In the final session, we examine how various historical accounts of the Galileo affair have been used throughout by history in the service of various agendas. Here we reflect on what this complex and fa...
Presenters Kristian Camilleri
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Tuesday26Jun2018
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
From the Beginning: The History of Pompeii and the Eruption of Vesuvius
Training/WorkshopUnearthing Pompeii Short Course – Session 1 The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 has preserved not only buildings, including their wall paintings and mosaics, but also items of everyday life that disappeared long ago from most of the Roman cities ex...
PresentersProfessor Emeritus Frank Sear
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Thursday28Jun2018
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Architecture after Rome
Free Public LectureMuch mystery still surrounds the architecture of the Dark Ages, when supposedly barbarian tribes imposed themselves on Europe, and the early Medieval period that followed. But it is clear that enough of the traditions of Rome survived in pockets, ...
PresentersProfessor Miles Lewis
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Tuesday3Jul2018
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Public Life: Trade, Politics and Religion in Pompeii
Training/WorkshopUnearthing Pompeii Short Course – Session 2 The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 has preserved not only buildings, including their wall paintings and mosaics, but also items of everyday life that disappeared long ago from most of the Roman cities ex...
PresentersProfessor Emeritus Frank Sear
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Tuesday10Jul2018
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Private Spaces: Pompeiian Houses, Villas and Gardens
Training/WorkshopUnearthing Pompeii Short Course – Session 3 The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 has preserved not only buildings, including their wall paintings and mosaics, but also items of everyday life that disappeared long ago from most of the Roman cities ex...
PresentersProfessor Emeritus Frank Sear
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Tuesday17Jul2018
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Recreation and Entertainment in Pompeii
Training/WorkshopUnearthing Pompeii Short Course – Session 4 The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 has preserved not only buildings, including their wall paintings and mosaics, but also items of everyday life that disappeared long ago from most of the Roman cities ex...
PresentersProfessor Emeritus Frank Sear
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Tuesday24Jul2018
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Pompeian Art
Training/WorkshopUnearthing Pompeii Short Course – Session 5 The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 has preserved not only buildings, including their wall paintings and mosaics, but also items of everyday life that disappeared long ago from most of the Roman cities ex...
PresentersProfessor Emeritus Frank Sear
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Tuesday31Jul2018
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Pompeii: Destruction and Rediscovery
Training/WorkshopUnearthing Pompeii Short Course – Session 6 The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 has preserved not only buildings, including their wall paintings and mosaics, but also items of everyday life that disappeared long ago from most of the Roman cities ex...
PresentersProfessor Emeritus Frank Sear
- 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Thursday16Aug2018
- 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Let Me Stop Here: A Classical Journey into the 21st Century
Free Public LectureProfessor Parkin, the inaugural Elizabeth and James Tatoulis Chair in Classics at the University of Melbourne, makes a case for why classics matters in the 21st century and why it will continue to be vital in the future, both in Melbourne and arou...
PresentersProfessor Tim Parkin
- 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm