September new releases
Posted on 1 Sep 2020 under News
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
Posted on 4 Aug 2020 under News
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.
Coming Soon: The Most Beautiful Job in the World by Giulia Mensitieri
Posted on 24 Jul 2020 under News
Exposing the reality of fashion's glitz and glamour.
Q & A with Gillian Triggs - Author of Speaking Up
Posted on 23 Jul 2020 under Interviews
As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs advocated for the disempowered, the disenfranchised, the marginalised. She withstood relentless political pressure and media scrutiny as she defended the defenceless for five tumultuous years. How did this aspiring ballet dancer, dignified daughter of a tank commander and eminent law academic respond when appreciative passengers on a full airplane departing Canberra greeted her with a round of applause?
Q & A with Andrew Fowler - Author of The Most Dangerous Man in the World
Posted on 17 Jul 2020 under Interviews
"As a journalist I’ve long understood the importance of holding truth to power"
Spotlight: Sunburnt Country by Joëlle Gergis
Posted on 10 Jul 2020 under Writing
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.
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.
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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.