Welcome to the home page of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Melbourne. This is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental programme, offering a range of courses in these areas in a series of undergraduate majors, postgraduate coursework programmes and research degrees.
The undergraduate majors, the Graduate Certificate and Diploma and the Postgraduate Diploma allow you to combine subjects from different Schools in the Arts Faculty and selected subjects from the Faculties of Music and Architecture, Building and Planning.
If you are interested in undertaking a research degree (MA or PhD), please contact staff in the relevant Department.
There are many discussion groups, seminars and conferences in these fields: see the links under Seminars and Conferences on this page.
‘Place is a boundary outside the universe’: Eriugena on Locus
A paper by Peter Weeda for the Medieval Round Table at 6:00 on Monday 6 July in room G23, ground floor, John Medley East.
Justinian, Byzantium and the Transformation of the Roman Empire
A paper by Roger Scott for the Classical Association of Victoria at 6:00 on Wednesday 8 July in the Kaye Scott Room, Ormond College. All welcome.
A New Reading of the Cappella Interna and Guercino's Alterpiece Painting in the Rooms of S. Filippo Neri at the Church of S. Maria in Valicella, Rome
A paper by Glenys Adams for the European Visual Culture Seminar at 6:30 on Monday 13 July in room148, Elisabeth Murdoch Building.
The Medievalism of Nostalgia: Call for Papers
An ARC NEER conference at the University of Melbourne on 27-28 November. Call for papers now open.