Spotlight: White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
Posted on 26 Jun 2020 under Politics and Current Affairs
White Tears/Brown Scars sheds light on a phenomenon that, prior to the book’s publication, was still largely unexplored in mainstream society: that when a conflict occurs between a white woman and a woman of colour, the former can lean into her race privilege and use it to subdue the other woman.
Q & A with Liam Byrne - Author of Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin
Posted on 19 Jun 2020 under Interviews
"Dark times, eventually, will pass. But hope endures."
Q & A with Christina Ho - Author of Aspiration and Anxiety
Posted on 9 Jun 2020 under Interviews
‘Tiger parents explained!’
World Environment Day: MUP's Recommended Reading
Posted on 3 Jun 2020
Learn more about climate change, conservation and sustainability, or simply garner a greater appreciation for nature with our list of recommendations for World Environment Day.
Q & A with Mark Moran - Editor of Too Close to Ignore
Posted on 11 May 2020 under Interviews
Mark Moran talks about fieldwork, travelling in dinghies and the chaos of writing.
Q & A with Sue Silberberg - Author of A Networked Community
Posted on 6 May 2020 under Interviews
A Networked Community: Jewish Melbourne in the Nineteenth Century by Sue Silberberg explores the cultural diversity the made up colonial Melbourne. It gives a new slant to Melbourne's development and connects Melbourne Jewry into wider historical themes and experiences such as space and place, urbanisation, imperial networks and diaspora. We spoke with Sue about what she's currently reading, why she wrote A Networked Community and the message she would like to leave with readers.
Mother's Day Gift Guide
Posted on 29 Apr 2020 under Gifts
Whether your mum is a history buff, art enthusiast, food and wine connoisseur or anything in between, we've got the perfect book for her this Mother's Day.
Steve Bracks in conversation with Bernard Collaery: Opening Remarks by the Hon Steve Bracks AO
Posted on 23 Apr 2020 under Politics and Current AffairsEvents
In this time of the corona virus it is difficult to focus on anything else. Our lives have been disrupted in so many ways. Yet the wheels of our ‘justice system’ and our intelligence agencies continue to turn. The lives of Bernard Collaery and the ASIS agent known only as Witness K, were dramatically disrupted in December 2013 when the home of Witness K, and Bernard’s law chambers, both in Canberra, were raided by ASIO and the Australian Federal Police.
Ghosts but not golf at the Abbotsford Convent
Posted on 21 Apr 2020 under Writing
From nunnery to eatery and cultural epicentre, Stuart Kells traces the vibrant history of the national treasure.
The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt: Launch Speech by Justin Clemens
Posted on 11 Mar 2020
The elegant and precise title says what this book does: 'The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt'. It spans the crucial period of British colonialism in Australia from Captain Cook until the late 19th century. It draws on a remarkable range of archival materials, from poems, journals, novels, scientific accounts, sketches, engravings, to paintings, both indigenous and European, and much much more.
An Excerpt of 'Other People's Houses' by Hilary McPhee
Posted on 17 Jan 2020
Forty-eight hours later, I was in Jordan.
Australia's Own National Security State: An excerpt of 'Secret' by Brian Toohey
Posted on 16 Jan 2020
The power of Australia’s national security establishment has grown enormously in recent years, as has its protective wall of secrecy.
Welcome to the Anthropocene: An Excerpt of 'Sunburnt Country' by Joëlle Gergis
Posted on 10 Jan 2020
As we nudge ever closer to the 1.5°C guardrail thought to keep the Earth’s climate stable, the past tells us that even very small changes really do make a difference.
MUP appoints new Senior Director of Marketing and Sales
Posted on 8 Jan 2020
Melbourne University Publishing has appointed Brian MacDonald as its new Senior Director of Marketing and Sales.
Hachette Australia and MUP announce that Hachette Australia has acquired the rights to the 'On Series'
Posted on 3 Oct 2019
Fiona Hazard, Group Publishing Director of Hachette Australia is delighted to announce that, effective 2nd January 2020, Hachette Australia has acquired the rights to Melbourne University Press’ popular ON SERIES.
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.
MUP announces new CEO Dr Nathan Hollier
Posted on 13 Jun 2019
Melbourne University Publishing has appointed seasoned university publisher Doctor Nathan Hollier as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Bill Shorten on #mymum Ann Shorten
Posted on 9 May 2019 under Politics and Current Affairs
In this extract from Bill Shorten’s For the Common Good: Reflections on Australia’s Future (MUP, 2016), he looks back on the emphasis on education and social justice in his childhood, inspired by his mother, Ann Shorten.
Revisiting Henderson launched by Dennis Glover
Posted on 8 Apr 2019
On Thursday 4 April, Dennis Glover launched this collection of essays that brings together leading social security researchers and policy analysts to reflect on past trends, the key changes that the system must adapt to and what this will involve.
A stack of new releases from MUP
Posted on 2 Apr 2019
Covering the banking royal commission, Cardinal George Pell’s conviction, the issues that matter in the upcoming Federal election, the digital revolution and more, these titles are, in true MUP fashion, setting the agenda in political, historical and current affairs. Along with landmark illustrated titles, the very best in Australian academic writing and a cheeky dictionary with a twist—these books are ready to leave their mark.
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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.