Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne

Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne The Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, teaching you how to think (not what to think) since 1855. Thinking about studying with us? Current student?

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27/05/2026

Conservation or Cluedo... or both? 🕵️‍♀️

From tracing hidden histories to uncovering the stories held in objects, conservation can feel like solving a mystery across time.

Researchers and master’s students from our Robert Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation share what they love most about the field, from working with communities to discovering new clues through materials, culture and heritage.

26/05/2026

Mental load expert and author of Drained, Professor Leah Ruppanner, explains how doomscrolling on social media actively depletes your mental load and shares ways you can reclaim it:

💵 Get clear on your mental load 'spend'
🧠 Conduct an audit on your mental load
😌 Align your mental load spending on something you want

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26/05/2026

A UniMelb outreach program is bringing contemporary spoken word poetry into regional Victorian classrooms, giving students new ways to express themselves through performance and creative writing.

Wondering Poet, an initiative of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, is a free program designed to expand access to creative learning in rural and regional communities, where opportunities to engage with contemporary poetry can be limited.

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Your dentist would approve of these ancient jars containing human teeth 🦷Since 2016, an Australian-Lao research team, in...
25/05/2026

Your dentist would approve of these ancient jars containing human teeth 🦷

Since 2016, an Australian-Lao research team, including our academics from the Robert Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation, the Faculty of Science at Melbourne, The Australian National University and the Laos Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, has been excavating burial sites at the Plain of Jars in Laos.

Among the discoveries are human teeth, burial artefacts and evidence suggesting the giant stone jars may have played a crucial role in ancient funerary practices.

Now, the newly restored artefacts have returned home, where they feature in a new museum exhibition in Laos.

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When debate about the NDIS focuses on cost, who gets left out?Dr Jennifer Frean and Associate Professor Sue Olney explai...
22/05/2026

When debate about the NDIS focuses on cost, who gets left out?

Dr Jennifer Frean and Associate Professor Sue Olney explain how deficit-based stereotypes of people with disability are shaping workplace exclusion, limiting opportunity and costing the economy far more than budget figures alone can show.

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21/05/2026

This is your last chance to have your say in shaping the future of the arts and culture sector 📣

If you work in the arts, there are just four days left before public consultation closes for the next five-year iteration of ‘Revive’, Australia’s National Cultural Policy. Dr Kim Goodwin and Dr Fann Goh explain what the policy actually is and why supporting Australian storytellers matters more than ever.

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18/05/2026

Restored and repaired with care, these items have now returned home ❤️

Our team of researchers from the Robert Cripps Institute and students studying a Master of Cultural Material Conservation have reached a major milestone in their restoration of hundreds of deities and collection items damaged in the 2024 See Yup Temple fire.

Now, two years later, many of these objects have been repaired and returned to their home at Australia’s oldest continuously operating Chinese temple.

So what's next? Our researchers recently received Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project funding to continue supporting the reconstruction of the Temple's ritual collections and conservation of Asian Australian heritage and living cultural practices.

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Behind the 'groundbreaking' wardrobes and witty one-liners that could end a career, The Devil Wears Prada 2 has a lot to...
15/05/2026

Behind the 'groundbreaking' wardrobes and witty one-liners that could end a career, The Devil Wears Prada 2 has a lot to say about the state of the publishing industry today 👠

Publishing experts Dr Alexandra Dane and Dr Claire Parnell from cut through the couture to find out how closely The Devil Wears Prada 2 reflects reality.

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Please join us in congratulating Charlotte Macdonald for winning the 2026 Ernest Scott Prize 🎉The Ernest Scott Prize for...
13/05/2026

Please join us in congratulating Charlotte Macdonald for winning the 2026 Ernest Scott Prize 🎉

The Ernest Scott Prize for History is awarded annually to a book judged to be the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand or the history of colonisation.

This year, Charlotte Macdonald was recognised for her book, Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire.

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Internationally recognised political scientist and award-winning journalist, Professor Andrea Carson, has been appointed...
07/05/2026

Internationally recognised political scientist and award-winning journalist, Professor Andrea Carson, has been appointed the new Director of The University of Melbourne’s Centre for Advancing Journalism 👏

Along with 15 years of newsroom experience, Professor Carson is a leading scholar on the rise of misinformation in media and politics and looking forward to leading the Centre at a time of significant change in media.

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