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Melbourne University Publishing will be closed from Wednesday 20 December for the holiday season. We'll be back in the office on Monday 8 January.

Melbourne University Publishing would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support throughout the year, and we wish you and your families a memorable and enjoyable break and a very happy New Year.
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- MUP authors shortlisted for the Victorian Community History Awards
A Networked Community, The Convent and The Invention of Melbourne have all been shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Community History Awards.
- September new releases
Welcome to spring! Coming up this September, we look forward to publishing a new biography from the Miegunyah Press and the spring issue of Meanjin. Richard Broinowski’s Under the Rainbow chronicles the life of E.W. Cole, a colourful and much loved figure of 19th century Melbourne, while the latest Meanjin brings us a collection of fine writing from the pandemic.
- MUP acquires 'The Truth of the Palace Letters' by Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston
Melbourne University Publishing is proud to announce the acquisition of a new title from Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston: The Truth of the Palace Letters: Deceit Ambush and Dismissal in 1975. This will be released in November this year.
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Spotlight: Sunburnt Country by Joëlle Gergis
Posted on 10 Jul 2020
In this month’s issue of The Monthly, author and climate scientist Joëlle Gergis draws on a recent study led by the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology to warn that ‘we may witness planetary collapse far sooner than once thought’. As she has been for many years, Dr. Gergis urges Australians to confront the reality of climate catastrophe and the threat that it poses to our planet and our lives.
MUP authors shortlisted for the Victorian Community History Awards
Posted on 23 Sep 2020
A Networked Community, The Convent and The Invention of Melbourne have all been shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Community History Awards.
Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond Transforming Education in Art, Architecture and Design
Posted on 20 Jun 2019
Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education in Art, Architecture and Design presents an extraordinary new Australasian cultural history. It is a migrant and refugee story: from 1930, the arrival of so many emigre, internee and refugee educators helped to transform art, architecture and design in Australia and New Zealand. Fift een thematic essays and twenty individual case studies bring to light a tremendous amount of new archival material in order to show how these innovative educators, exiled from Nazism, introduced Bauhaus ideas and models to a new world. As their Bauhaus model spanned art, architecture and design, the book provides a unique cross-disciplinary, emigre history of art education in Australia and New Zealand. It off ers a remarkable and little known chapter in the wider Bauhaus venture, which has multiple legacies and continues to inform our conceptions of progressive education, creativity and the role of art and design in the wider community.