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Brooke Maggs to Appear at Write Around the Murray Festival

Brooke Maggs will appear at the Write Around The Murray Festival on 16 September. Brooke will present ‘Designing stories for games’  and will also be speaking on a panel called ‘Alternative Storytelling’....

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Welcome to Our New Member – Postgraduate Student Brooke Maggs

Please welcome our new member, postgraduate student Brooke Maggs.  Brooke’s thesis, titled ‘Writing the Storyteller: A model for artificially intelligent narrative systems in interactive media’, will produce a creative artifact...

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History Seminar Series, 13 September – Associate Professor Chris Waters

Associate Professor Chris Waters will present his paper, ‘A provocation based on the thesis contained in Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the...

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Welcome to Our New Member – Dr Richard Trembath

Please welcome our new member, Dr Richard Trembath, who joins us as an Associate member.  Dr Trembath has taught history at Victorian universities for many years.  He is the...

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Professor Phillip Deery – ‘A Short American Journey’

Professor Phillip Deery is Emeritus Professor of History at Victoria University, where he was Director of Research and Research Training in the College of Arts. He is an internationally recognised...

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Roy Hay’s New Article on The Footy Almanac – ‘Who Was the Adelaide Stag?’

Roy Hay‘s new article, ‘Almanac History: Who Was The Adelaide Stag?’, was published on The Footy Almanac on 31 August 2017.  Roy Hay is an Honorary Fellow at Deakin...

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Professor David McCooey & Associate Professor Maria Takolander Sign Contract with Routledge

Associate Professor Maria Takolander and Professor David McCooey recently signed a contract for the 2018 publication by Routledge of The Limits of Life Writing (recently published as a special issue of...

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History Seminar Series, 6 September – Dr Tiffany Shellam

Dr Tiffany Shellam will present her paper, titled ‘Ancestors’ Words: Noongar writing in WA Government Archives, 1860-1960s’, at this week’s History Seminar (Wednesday, 11am). Abstract: This paper will discuss preliminary...

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Professor David Lowe Awarded Australia-India Council Grant

Professor David Lowe has been awarded an Australia-India Council (AIC) Grant for a project led by Professor Lowe, with Dr Michele Lobo and Dr Liudmila Kirpitchenko. Australia-India Student Mobility: Experiences,...

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Welcome to Our New Member – Professor Phillip Deery

Welcome to our new member, Professor Phillip Deery.  Professor Deery is Emeritus Professor of History at Victoria University, where he was Director of Research and Research Training in the...

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Welcome to Our New Member – Postgraduate Student Clare Ribaux

Welcome to our new member, postgraduate student Clare Ribaux. Clare’s thesis, titled ‘The Golden Age of Northern Aboriginal Communities’, examines why Aboriginal communities in the north of Australia refer...

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Associate Professor Maria Takolander’s Poem ‘Guilfoyle’s Volcano’ Featured on Melbourne Trams

Associate Professor Maria Takolander‘s poetry will be featured on Melbourne trams as part of the New Shoots project, advertising both the Melbourne Writers’ Festival New Shoots event and the Royal...

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