The History of the University Unit

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
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