Join us for a day of fascinating talks as leading art historians and curators speak to their favourite objects in the University of Melbourne's cultural collections.

The University is home to more than 15 museums and galleries, and over 30 individual cultural collections. There are thousands of extraordinary artworks and objects. Some are well known iconic works by historical and contemporary artists, and others are unknown treasures, ranging from an ancient Egyptian funerary mask to 19th-century Japanese prints.

The Australian Institute of Art History and the Potter Museum of Art have partnered for an initiative exploring University Collections. Nine curators and academics from a diverse range of disciplines were invited to choose a collection object for research and creative work. Nine Objects is the outcome of their work, a study day and celebration sharing what they have created or uncovered – with the nine objects on special display for the event.

Free entry. Please note that capacity is limited and bookings are essential.

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Schedule of speakers and their objects:

9:30am – Introduction

10am – Becky Clifton, Teaching Specialist (Assistant Lecturer), Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne

Funerary mask of a woman, 30 BCE—600 CE. University of Melbourne Art Collection. Gift of David and Marion Adams, 2009.

10:30am – Dr Sally Foster, Curator Prints and Drawings, Bailleu Library, University of Melbourne

Lucas van Leyden, The temptation of Christ, 1518. Gift of Dr J. Orde Poynton, 1959, Prints and Drawings Collection, Archives and Special Collections.

11am – Jane Brown, Manager Visual Cultures Resource Centre, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

‘Memo to Miss Welsford dated 8 August 1946 with gravure by Braun after Carlo Crivelli’ (Madonna and Child) ca. 1480, University of Melbourne, Visual Cultures Resource Centre, Courtauld Collection.

11:30am – Shanysa McConville, Associate Curator, Art Museums and Indigenous collections, University of Melbourne

Judith Pugkarta Inkamala, Bush Medicine 2017. Medical History Museum, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne.

12pm to 12:30pm – Group discussion and Q&A with morning speakers

1:45pm – Introduction to afternoon talks

2pm – Dr Lisa Dethridge, Honorary University Fellow, School of Media and Communication, RMIT

Goat Skull rendered by Rita Hardiman, Pedestal 3D of collection objects .

2:30pm – Dr Miguel Guete, Social art historian and lecturer in Art History and Curatorship, University of Melbourne

Francisco de Goya, Las resultas. [The consequences.], (1814-1815), published after 1892, plate 72 from Los Desastres de la Guerra [The Disasters of War] series,3rd edition of 7. Purchased 1982, Prints and Drawings Collection, Archives and Special Collections.

3pm – Jenny Hall, Teaching Associate,  School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne

Toyohara Kunichika, Stories of Good and Evil Women, 1881. Purchased through the Geoffrey Garlick Memorial Fund, 2021, Rare East Asian Collection, Archives and Special Collections.

3:30pm – Amanda Haskard, Curator-Indigenous, MUMA

Dhambit Munungurr, Welcoming the Refugees / Scott Morrison and the Treasurer, 2021. The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Purchased through the Margaret Cooper Bequest Fund, 2021.

4pm to 4:30pm – Group discussion and Q&A with afternoon speakers