A summary of DASSH’s submission to ARC’s review of DP and LP programs is in Campus Morning Mail. Thanks to NOADD community for input and help! campusmorningmail.com.au/?post_type=new…

I am honoured to be serving as Chair of ACIS. I look forward to working for and with the Australasian Italian Studies community. A big thank you to Catherine Kovesi and Elisabetta Ferrari for their extraordinary work, and to all new, current, and outgoing management committee members.

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility (TDoV) and for #UniMelb, it's an opportunity to celebrate the important contributions made by transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people at the Uni & reaffirm our commitment to ensure that everyone can feel welcome, valued & respected here.

The DASSH Universities Accord submission shows that the way to equity and better participation is through support for the arts, social sciences and humanities disciplines and their students. Read here: dassh.edu.au/submissions/ Jason Clare MP Nick Bisley

DASSH members join us in Melbourne in two weeks! Help cement our Uni Accord recommendations with practical suggestions to bring about change. Networking and a workshop led by NOADD Indigenous Group Leader Associate Professor Sandra Phillips eventbrite.com.au/e/dassh-member… Nick Bisley

'Italian Excellence. Illustrations for Italo Calvino’ A new exhibition by the IIC Melbourne together with, the Italian Studies Program and Archives and Special Collections at The University of Melbourne. Where: Baillieu Library (first and third floor) until 30th of Nov #ItalianUnimelb Faculty of Arts

Big thanks to @RachaelBrown42, simine vazire, Fiona Fidler, and Jason Chin for their insights into #peerreview at the panel organised by Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities as part of #ssw2023 yesterday, 4/9/2023

#ItalianUnimelb Faculty of Arts Sep 15, Italian Studies Seminar: Battista Guarini’s letters events.unimelb.edu.au/languages-and-…

Congratulations to Dr Miles Pattenden and Dr Lio Basilone for being awarded respectively the ACIS Established Scholar Publication Prize and the Jo-Anne Duggan Prize. Please see details here: acis.org.au/awarded-two-ac…. 👏

ACU historian wins prestigious publication prize acu.edu.au/about-acu/news…

This spot on. Evidence consistently shows Arts graduates have higher than average grad salaries, career satisfaction and are good citizens to boot. Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities has been making this case for some time, pleased to hav others remind us of the facts theage.com.au/national/an-ar…

I’m delighted to share today the extraordinarily powerful poem that Vaxine Beneba Clarke wrote for, and delivered at, our Faculty of Arts graduation on Tuesday: arts.unimelb.edu.au/make-something…. I’m so proud that we have a Poet in Residence as distinguished as Vaxine Beneba Clarke!

As a #UniversityofKent alumnus, I am shocked to learn that the University is considering slashing such successful Humanities programs. Please sign this Petition change.org/p/save-arts-hu…

Congratulations to our Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature, Professor Tony Birch, who has been awarded The Age 2024 Fiction Book of the Year, for his new novel Women & Children 🌟 Read more → unimelb.me/3UQYmDC

Congratulations to Professor Robyn Sloggett who has been awarded an ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship for the five-year program ‘Safe Keeping: Effecting solutions for risk to remote Indigenous heritage’. Read more → unimelb.me/3wl7sz8

a very moving and inspiring opening of the 12th Biennial ACIS conference, Ngunnawal country. Thanks to Ngunnawal Elder Wally Bell for the generous rite of passage.

grazie @FrancescoRicat3 for the wonderful programme and for the warm, generous, and committed introduction

#acis2024 - Chiara Beccalossi's keynote on how medico-sexual knowledge spread from Italy to Southern Europe and Latin America starting from Pende's biotypology's institute (1926)

Fight the Closure of Languages at the University of Wollongong chng.it/PQYdvskr2R

Summer School in Translation Studies: “Authenticity, Adaptability, and AI: Balancing Trust in Translation and Intercultural Communication” 9–13 June 2025 Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Treviso Fee: 300 euros (includes coffee breaks and lunches). Apply by 10th May 2025