Seminar Archive
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 16 July 2008 | Dr Valda McRae | Writing Chemistry @ Melbourne |
| 17 June 2008 | Associate Professor Geoff Burrows | Life in the Melbourne Accounting Department |
| 4 March 2008 | Ben Thomas | Joe Burke's Legacy: the History of Art History in Melbourne. |
| 24 October 2007 | Dr Ross Jones | Humanity's Mirror: Teaching Anatomy at the University of Melbourne in the Nineteenth Century. |
| 10 October 2007 | Dr June Senyard | Black and Blue: Football at the University of Melbourne. |
| 20 June 2007 | Heather Sheard | Dr Vera Scantlebury Brown (1889–1946): Doctor, War Surgeon, Director of Infant Welfare, Mother. |
| 29 November 2006 |
Associate-Professor John Stanley Martin | Martin Howy Irving - Professor, Headmaster, Public Servant: To commemorate the Sesquicentenary of the arrival of Professor Irving in Melbourne. |
| 25 October 2006 |
Dr Cecily Close | The history of the University Archives. |
| 2 August 2006 | Dr Val Tarrant | Professor John Stewart Turner and the School of Botany |
| 12 April 2006 | Professor John Langford AM, MUABG President, Joan Kenny and Christina McCallum | Ambling, Rambling and Scrambling: Capturing the history of the Melbourne University and Alumni Bushwalking Group 1975–2005 |
| 26 October 2005 | Professor R. J. W. Selleck | David Orme Masson, Professor of Chemistry 1886-1923 |
| 16 September 2005 | Lauren Rickards | Redeeming the wildness of nature: civilization, collegiate culture and agricultural education at the University of Melbourne |
31 May 2005 |
Dr Jeffrey John Turnbull |
The Architecture of Newman College: its functional and aesthetic program 1915-1918 |
| 3 November 2004 | Associate Professor Stephen Wheatcroft | The Rise of the Centre and the Fall of the Union: An attempt at a visual portrait of the Centre for Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Melbourne, 1987-1992 |
| 13 October 2004 | Dr Carolyn Rasmussen | Learning to lead: Student activists at the University of Melbourne 1950-80 |
| 16 June 2004 | Dr Juliet Flesch | The University's Forgotten People: Researching the History of Melbourne University's Department of Property and Buildings |
| 17 May 2004 | Associate Professor Angela O’Brien | The History of MUD: Student Theatre at the University of Melbourne |
| 29 October 2003 | Keir Reeves | The University of Melbourne Digital Images Project |
| 2 September 2003 | Dr Michael Crozier | Australian Political Studies and the University of Melbourne |
| 18 June 2003 | Professor Ross Humphreys | Victor Trikojus: Interesting Times in World War Two and After |
| 30 April 2003 | Robyn Sloggett | Academic Pursuits and the Commodification of Indigenous Culture: Examining the Leonhard Adam Collection |
| 23 October 2002 | Dr John Gonzalez | Alexander Sutherland and the University of Melbourne |
| 25 September 2002 | Dr Linden Gillbank | The School of Botany at the University of Melbourne |
| 22 May 2002 | Dr John Martin | Augustus Lodewyckx: Scholar and Teacher |
| 20 March 2002 | Dr Barbara Falk | A Figure in the Foreground 1918–1990: A. G. (Bon) Austin MGBA, MeD, Soldier, Historian, Educationalist |
| 18 October 2001 | Dr Renate Howe | A University within a University: The Australian Student Christian Union Movement at the University of Melbourne |
| 23 August 2001 | Dr Nicholas Brown | ‘The Natural Inheritor’: R. I. Downing and a Melbourne Tradition of Social Advocacy |
| 24 May 2001 | Dr Graham Willett | From Kamp to Queer: The Gay and Lesbian History of the University |
| 22 March 2001 | Dr Carolyn Rasmussen and Dr Doug McCann | Sir Frederick McCoy, Professor of Natural History at the University of Melbourne 1854-1899: His Contribution to Science and the National Museum of Victoria |
| 18 October 2000 | Professor Pat Grimshaw and Jane Carey | Women Historians and Women’s History: Margaret Kiddle, Kathleen Fitzpatrick and the Melbourne History School, 1938-1963Professor Pat Grimshaw and Jane Care |
| 20 September 2000 | Dr Janice Stockigt | Jiri Tancibudek. A Czeck Musician in Post World War Australia |
| 28 June 2000 | Mr George Tibbits | The Architecture Polemic: Sites and building designs for Architecture in the University |
| 19 April 2000 | Dr John Ryan | A History of the Science Education Degree at the University of Melbourne |
| 20 October 1999 | Associate Professor Peter Thorne | A History of Computer Science at the University of Melbourne, 1947-1964 |
| 18 August 1999 | Dr June Senyard | Behind the Team Photo: Sport at Melbourne University |
| 30 June 1999 | Professor Emeritus Ross Humphreys | Samuel Wadham and the Governance of the University of Melbourne |
| 21 April 1999 | Dr Suzanne Robinson | The Correspondence of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall |
| 21 October 1998 | Dr Janet McCalman | Writing the Women’s: The History of a University Teaching Hospital |
| 19 August 1998 | Ed Muirhead | Who needs History? Who needs Physics? An amateur historian contemplates the School of Physics |
| 3 June 1998 | Associate Professor Angela O’Brien & Kim Hanna | What’s on at the Union: 60 Years of Theatre, 1938-1998 |
| 15 April 1998 | Dr James Robertson | Australian College of Dentistry - Extractions |
| 22 October 1997 | Professor John Poynter | Alexander Leeper and the University of Melbourne |
| 18 June 1997 | Associate Professor Don Garden | Theodore Fink and the University of Melbourne |
| 26 March 1997 | Associate Professor Ron Ridley | Raymond Priestly's First Year |
| 30 October 1996 | Professor Dick Selleck | A Hard Act To Follow? The University of Melbourne’s Act of Incorporation (1853) |
| 14 August, 1996 | Anne Neale | Reconstructing the University Grounds: Edward La Trobe Bateman and the Melbourne University Grounds, 1855-75 |
| 12 June 1996 | Amaya Alvarez | Writing about Women in Science: Melbourne University, 1890s - 1920s |
| 13 March 1996 | Jane Carey | ‘Barriers Unknown’: Margaret Blackwood’s Life in Science |
| 25 October 1995 | George Tibbits | Master Plans for the University: An Historical Overview |