EXTRACT: Julieanne Lamond Interviews Amanda Lohrey
Posted on 18 Aug 2022 under Arts and LiteratureInterviews
Tasmania’s Parliament House is a graceful Georgian sandstone building facing the Hobart waterfront. It is here, on the steps of the parliament, that Amanda Lohrey suggested we meet for the interview, so that I could see at firsthand the docks and backstreets of the waterfront that constituted the setting of her first novel, The Morality of Gentlemen. Lohrey has a frank, straightforward manner and a penetrating gaze. There is a steadiness about her, as though others can flap about all they like and she’ll wait until they have finished. She has a remarkable voice, deep and sonorous, which holds a calm authority but is very ready to register a wry humour.
Andrew Quilty Book Tour
Posted on 2 Aug 2022 under Politics and Current Affairs
Andrew Quilty, author of August in Kabul will be appearing live at several events across Australia.
Q & A with Leah Lui-Chivizhe—Author of Masked Histories
Posted on 1 Aug 2022 under Miegunyah PressArts and Literature
Read our Q & A with author of Masked Histories Leah Lui-Chivizhe.
Graeme Davison's speech launching The Work of History edited by Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski
Posted on 28 Jul 2022
In the months since his death, we have only become more conscious of the immense gap Stuart Macintyre leaves in our intellectual and civic life. So it’s with a mixture of sadness and deep admiration that we celebrate the publication of this tribute from his friends.
Q & A with David Walker and Li Yao—Authors of Happy Together
Posted on 30 Jun 2022 under Arts and Literature
Read our Q & A with authors of Happy Together David Walker and Li Yao. Uncover what sparked their relationship, what aspects of their culture and identity they hope to convey to readers and what has been the highlight of writing Happy Together.
Q & A with Nathan Hobby—Author of The Red Witch
Posted on 20 May 2022 under Arts and Literature
Read our Q & A with author of The Red Witch Nathan Hobby. Find out the surprising memories he uncovered while sifting through Katharine Susannah Prichard's letters, the images of Katharine he hopes to leave with readers and what has been the highlight for him during the writing process.
Read Janet McCalman's chapter from WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Posted on 13 May 2022 under Politics and Current Affairs
When this pandemic crisis ends, things will be very bad for those with weak, corrupt and incompetent governments. For those with good governments, critical moral decisions will be required: do we reinvest and rebuild positively, or do we inflict austerity to pay down the debt quickly?
Read Anthony Albanese's chapter from WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Posted on 13 May 2022 under Politics and Current Affairs
COVID-19 emerged while Australians were trying to recover from the worst bushfire season experienced in recent memory. Now, as we’ve begun to come to terms with the impact of this crisis, the nation’s gaze has turned towards recovery. In doing so, we ask ourselves what will Australia look like on the other side?
Frank Bongiorno's speech launching Phillip Deery's Spies and Sparrows
Posted on 28 Mar 2022
We’re privileged to have Phillip Deery’s Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War for several reasons. In the first place, it’s the work of Australia’s leading cold war historian. Phillip’s knowledge of the primary sources, of the historical scholarship, of the key personalities, living and dead, is incomparable. His own contribution to our understanding of Australia’s cold war has been formidable: through a vast body of published scholarship, through memorable performances at conferences, through his teaching and supervision, and, increasingly in recent years, through his book reviewing in the weekend papers and his voice on the airwaves.
Q & A with Isobelle Barrett Meyering—Author of Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution 1969–1979
Posted on 14 Mar 2022
Read our Q & A with author of <i>Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution</i> Isobelle Barrett Meyering. Find out the reason behind the child rights revolution and what they were fighting for, the unbelievable discovery uncovered through her research and what messages she hopes to leave with her readers.
Q & A with Phillip Deery—Author of Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War
Posted on 14 Feb 2022
Read our Q & A with author of <i>Spies and Sparrows</i> Phillip Deery. Find out the surprising stories he uncovered while researching his real-life espionage thriller, the messages he hopes to convey to readers and what has been the highlight for him during the writing process.
Meet the Vandemonians
Posted on 1 Nov 2021 under Miegunyah Press
Before you uncover the Vandemonian’s fates, and the lives they lived and loved ones they valued; glimpse the most renown of Vandemonians to understand why Janet McCalman felt the need to discover their stories and individual places within Victoria’s convict history.
MUP to release 'August in Kabul: America’s Last Days in Afghanistan' by award-winning photojournalist Andrew Quilty
Posted on 22 Oct 2021 under Politics and Current Affairs
Andrew Quilty was one of a handful of Western journalists present in Kabul as the city fell. This is his account of what happened in the chaotic final days of America's capitulation to the Taliban.
MUP Presents New Series on Colonial Australian Culture
Posted on 18 Oct 2021
MUP will release two books each year in a Colonial Australian Culture series. The series will be a library of innovative, accessible, scholarly work on colonialism in Australia.
MUP Series to Present New Perspectives on South Asia
Posted on 9 Sep 2021
Melbourne University Press (MUP) has signed the first title in a new South Asia book publishing series: Farmers’ Strike, by Namita Waikar.
Spotlight: Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate
Posted on 23 Aug 2021 under Academic
Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate, by Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe was published 16 June 2021. This book is an authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production.
MUP at Sydney Writers' Festival 2021
Posted on 23 Apr 2021 under Politics and Current AffairsArts and Literature
Sydney Writers' Festival has returned to Carriageworks for 2021 and we are very pleased to have three Melbourne University Publishing authors showcasing their expertise and literary talents this week.
Spotlight: Where the Water Ends by Zoe Holman
Posted on 16 Apr 2021 under Politics and Current Affairs
Where the Water Ends: Seeking Refuge in Fortress Europe, an expansive account of the refugee crisis and the people at its heart, was published 2 March. Zoe Holman's unflinching gaze in Where the Water Ends lights up the dark side of immigration policy in Europe by tracing the stories of immigrants and their treatment at the hands of Greek and European Union authorities.
Stuart Kells' Speech from the launch of ARGYLE: THE IMPOSSIBLE STORY OF AUSTRALIAN DIAMONDS
Posted on 24 Mar 2021 under Writing
Read Stuart Kell's inspired speech from the launch of his latest book ARGYLE. The transcript provides a snippet of why Stuart decided to write about the Argyle mine, how the diamond mine changed the industry forever and shaped the lives of workers and their families.
Q & A with Noah Riseman and Shirleene Robinson - Authors of Pride in Defence
Posted on 17 Dec 2020 under Interviews
Read a Q & A with Noah Riseman and Shirleene Robinson, authors of Pride in Defence. They talk about why they wrote the book, the highlights of their research and writing process and what they are currently reading.
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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.