We bring you multidisciplinary seminars, workshops and symposia - often including presentations by visiting international scholars and/or public commentators - to spark conversation, debate and ideas around critical questions in the Humanities and Social Sciences. This is our ongoing commitment to world-leading research.
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Public lecture
Thu 27 November 2025
5.30pm - 7.30pm AEDT
Melbourne campus
Speaker: Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick
TicketsFree workshop
Wed 12 November 2025
11.00am - 1.00pm
Melbourne campus
Chair: Professor James Chandler (University of Chicago)
RegisterFree public lecture
Tue 11 November 2025
11.00am - 12.30pm
Melbourne campus
Speaker: Professor James Chandler (University of Chicago)
RegisterFree one-day Symposium in Environmental Humanities
Friday 31 October 2025
9.15am - 5.00pm AEDT
Melbourne campus
Speakers: Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University, Belgium), Jordi Serrano-Munoz (Ghent University, Belgium), Killian Quigley (IHSS, Australian Catholic University), Kathleen Birrell (La Trobe University)
Chair: Professor Debjani Ganguly
RegisterPublic lecture
Thu 30 October 2025
5.30pm - 7.30pm AEDT
Speakers: Professor Paul Giles and Gideon Haigh
TicketsFree workshop for PhD students
Mon 20 October 2025
2.00pm - 5.00pm AEDT
Speakers: Dr Chet van Duzer (University of Rochester)
Convenors: Dr Kristie Flannery, Dr Killian Quigley, Professor Susan Broomhall
Register"The future of decline": A study of fading US hegemony
Tue 21 May 2024
9.30am-2pm AEST
Introduction: Professor Peter Holbrook
Respondent: Professor Kate Fullagar