21 events Coming up
17 May 2012
Hermannsburg, 1929: Turning Aboriginal 'Primitives' into Modern Psychological Subjects
In 1929, the Lutheran mission at Hermannsburg (Ntaria), central Australia, became an extraordinary investigatory site, attracting an array of leading psychologists wishing to define the 'primitive' mentality of the Arrernte, who became perhaps the...
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Free Public Lecture20 Jun 2012
Text and Culture: Preserving Tangible and Intangible Persian Cultural Heritage
The Persian manuscript tradition has continued for centuries through the great authors Firdausi, Omar Khayyam, 'Attar, Maulana Jalal alDin Rumi, Sa'di, Hafiz and Jami. These writings of universal themes transcend time and place and through this en...
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Free Public Lecture19 Jul 2012
Michelangelo and 'masculine love'
In this lecture Michael Rocke brings greater understanding of Michelangelo and, what some of his contemporaries called, 'l’amore masculino'. He will look at aspects of the artist's life, art, and relationships in the context of the distinctive mal...
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Free Public Lecture
Pre-Roman Sicily: at the Crossroads of Indigenous and Settler Civilizations
For some two millennia, the strategically located island of Sicily harboured a unique and yet often ignored civilization. This lecture, delivered by one of the world's leading specialists, will provide a fascinating perspective on Sicily's thrivin...
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Free Public Lecture28 Aug 2012
Landscape, Ancient Monuments and Memory in Early Modern Britain
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the landscape of the British Isles was littered with mysterious remnants of the prehistoric past: stone circles, chambered tombs, and standing stones. This lecture explores the evolution of early modern ...
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Free Public Lecture30 Aug 2012
Changing the Narrative: Repertory as Evidence in Theatre History
2012 Marion Adams Memorial Lecture Historians of early modern English drama, like historians generally, wrestle with issues of evidence. On no subject is everything known, and even on subjects with fulsome records there are inevitably options in ...
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Free Public Lecture01 Sep 2012
Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse
This symposium will explore the different ways that communities and individuals understood disaster and mass death in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the impact of human emotions in shaping these understandings. Conference Speakers: Dagmar Eich...
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Symposium05 Sep 2012
Why Did Early Greeks Build Temples?
Temples are nowadays taken for granted as essential features of Greek sanctuaries. Yet following the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces, the nature and function of buildings at cult sites varied greatly and many sanctuaries were entirely open air....
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Free Public Lecture20 Sep 2012
The Legacies of Bernard Smith
“The Legacies of Bernard Smith” A Collaborative International Symposium Thursday, 20 & Friday 21,September 2012 I The Australian Institute of Art History, University of Melbourne Friday, 9 & Saturday, 10 November 2012 I Power Institute, Univers...
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Symposium15 Oct 2012
Terrorism and Government: Between History and Criminology
The decade since 9/11 has been the preeminent age of terrorism. Or has it? This lecture considers the history of terrorism as an object of government and asks whether contemporary criminology has been able to describe or analyse adequately the att...
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Free Public Lecture25 Oct 2012
The science of conserving Gija art
This lecture will offer a unique insight into the art and science of Indigenous cultural materials conservation and the culture of the Gija people. In March 2011, floods destroyed the Warmun Community and seriously damaged the significant Warmun ...
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Free Public Lecture19 Nov 2012
Machiavelli the Wimp: Mocking One’s Emotions and Self-Presentation in the Renaissance
A poem, written by Machiavelli, when he was 56 with the help of his young mistress, the noted Florentine singer Barbara Salutati, suggests that we might rethink the mythic Machiavellian Machiavelli. The poem was designed to be sung between the act...
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Free Public Lecture28 Nov 2012
Walking Tour of the Parkville Campus and Ormond College
Dr James Waghorne will lead an architectural historical tour of the University of Melbourne, exploring the way in which the University’s architectural features reflect shifts in its history over 160 years. The tour divides into four distinct perio...
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Other05 Dec 2012
The Redemptive Power of the Face: Beatrice (Portinari) to Bérénice (Bejo)
Mainstream criticism of “The Artist” credits its success but denies its substance. The extraordinary popularity and emotional impact of this film on the viewer comes not only from style and technique, but from the charismatic force and the redeemi...
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Free Public Lecture
Faces of Emotion: Medieval to Postmodern
What’s in a face? And how do faces communicate emotion? The Mona Lisa captivates us again and again, not only for what her smile communicates, but also for what it leaves unspoken and unreadable. Faces can express emotions, or withhold them, just...
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Conference12 Dec 2012
Walking Tour of the Parkville Campus
Dr James Waghorne will lead an architectural historical tour of the University of Melbourne, exploring the way in which the University’s architectural features reflect shifts in its history over 160 years. The tour divides into four distinct perio...
07 Feb 2013
Broken Pastoral and the English Folk
This presentation examines the revived interest in folk culture in lateVictorian and Edwardian Britain, exploring the relationships between ethnography, musicology and the study of historical arts and crafts. It places within this matrix the work...
19 Feb 2013
The Power of Luxury: Art and Culture at the Italian Courts in Machiavelli’s Lifetime
This symposium argues that the real Renaissance took place in the realms of politics, fashion and the refinement of everyday living, rather than in the commissioning of paintings by Botticelli and Bellini. Hear about the sugar sculptures made by B...
07 Mar 2013
Tiffin Talk: The Great Indian Phone Book
The Australia India Institute presents a series of lunchtime seminars called 'Tiffin Talks'. Tiffin Talks air a wide range of views on India with lively discussions over lunch. All Tiffin Talks are available as podcasts. A light lunch is provided ...
14 Mar 2013
Tiffin Talk: The Jewel in the Crown
Jewellery has been a powerful symbol of the West's fascination for India. And today, India continues as the world's largest jewellery market. The wedding season is known to affect the world's gold prices. But as well as entrenching class and caste...
23 May 2013
Thinking with Rome: Space, Place and Emotion in the Making of the First World Religion
What happened to Rome and the idea of Rome in the age of the CounterReformation and of the missions to America and the Indies? Even as Roman Catholicism was ‘going global’ to an unprecedented extent, that preeminent symbol of its claims to univers...