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Plaster reproduction of part of a base of a Pentelic marble funerary kouros with the ‘dog versus cat’ wall frieze, Greece, Athens, Kerameikos,
late 6th century BCE, The University of Melbourne Art Collection. The original resides in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
Professional Development Course:
Ancient History Teachers
Thursdays 9 March–6 April, 6–8.15pm
This professional development course for ancient history teachers closely relates to VCE Units 1 to 4 of
the Ancient History Study Design. In the first session John Whitehouse from the Melbourne Graduate
School of Education will give a pedagogical overview of teaching ancient history. Each week eminent
scholars from the Faculty of Arts will present key areas of study including Ancient Mesopotamia,
Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, exploring and developing historical
skills, historical thinking and highlight a selection of appropriate primary source materials and historical
interpretations. Before the commencement of the program there will be an online forum (Learning
Management System) to enable registered participants to access sample scholarly articles and support
material. These resources, plus the lecture, will form the basis for discussions.
Professional Certificates of participation will be offered upon completion of the course for use in relation
to VIT procedures.
John Whitehouse
John Whitehouse is Lecturer in History/Humanities in the
Melbourne Graduate School of Education. A Fellow of the
Australian College of Educators, he is the recipient of the
Barbara Falk Award for Teaching Excellence (The University
of Melbourne) and a national Award for Teaching Excellence
(Australian Learning and Teaching Council). His research interests
include discipline-based pedagogy in history, curriculum studies
and historiography. He is international consulting editor for
Learning and Teaching. His work appears in leading publications
such as Educational Practice and Theory and Springer’s
International Handbook of Research on Teachers and Teaching.
Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, is one of the most
historically significant and archaeologically rich regions in the world. Mesopotamia gave the
world some of its most enduring cultural traditions: urbanisation, astronomy, mathematics,
irrigation, agricultural developments, animal husbandry, and writing all came from the land
between two rivers. The surviving texts and inscriptions, combined with the abundant
artefacts recovered from decades of excavation, provide a wealth of material enabling
historians and archaeologists to reconstruct Mesopotamia’s past. In this presentation key
developments and resources associated with the Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and
Assyrian empires will be discussed.
Dr Andrew Jamieson
Dr Andrew Jamieson, Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern
Archaeology at the University of Melbourne, has worked on
excavations in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Australia. In 2014 he
was invited to represent Australia on an international committee,
for Safeguarding and Protection of Syrian Heritage. He has more
than 80 publications to his credit, is the recipient of numerous
research grants, presented many keynote or invited lectures,
serves on the editorial board of the academic journal Ancient
Near Eastern Studies, and curated 22 exhibitions at the Ian Potter
Museum of Art. In 2015 Andrew won the prestigious Barbara
Falk Award for Teaching Excellence.
Ancient Egypt
The Ancient Egypt module will introduce teachers to the key social, economic and political
features of Egyptian society from the beginning of the dynastic period (2920 BCE) to the
conquest by Alexander (332 BCE). Topics covered include the physical environment of Egypt;
the rise and fall of the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms; the First, Second and Third Intermediate
Periods; the significance of the king, and the nature of power and authority; the use of art,
architecture and texts as propaganda supporting royal power; the layout and meaning of the
temple complex at Karnak; and the intermittent loss of Egyptian independence during the Late
Period, with Alexander’s conquest marking the final end of native Egyptian rule.
Dr Brent Davis
After receiving his undergraduate degree in Linguistics from Stanford
University, Dr Brent Davis completed his PhD in 2011 at the University
of Melbourne, where he now teaches Ancient Egyptian. With a
background in both archaeology and linguistics, his interests include
not only the cultures of the ancient eastern Mediterranean, but their
languages as well. His recent works include an influential monograph
on Minoan Stone Vessels with Linear A Inscriptions (Peeters 2014),
as well as numerous articles and chapters on ancient cultures and
scripts, and on archaeological theory.
Quartzite fragment inscribed with hieroglyphs, Egypt, Late period, c. 665–332 BCE, The University of Melbourne Art Collection, Flinders
Petrie Collection
Ancient China
Were the literate, urbanised and militarised Chinese societies which emerged in the Yellow river
valley in the second millennium BCE different from the other literate, urbanised and militarised
societies of ancient Eurasia? In what ways did the evolution of Chinese society up to the point
when a unified imperial order emerged under the Qin dynasty in the 3rd century BCE parallel or
differ from other processes of political, economic and cultural change occurring in Eurasia in the
same era? When unified empire was established by the Qin and maintained by the Han how did
its trajectory resemble or contrast with that of other Eurasian imperial states? This session will
focus on the relationship between technologies of government, religious ideas and ideologies
and concepts of social morality in early Chinese societies and their relationship to writing,
violence and the natural environment.
Lewis Mayo
Lewis Mayo was born and educated in New Zealand. He studied Southeast Asian and Chinese
history and the history of late antique and medieval Europe at the University of Auckland, before
going on to Peking University to study medieval Chinese history. He continued his studies of
Chinese medieval history at the University of Hawaii focusing on the legal and social history
of the Song dynasty, while also studying Qing and Han dynasty history, Buddhism, Southeast
Asian and Islamic History. His PhD, done at the ANU, was a political history of birds in the oasis
of Dunhuang in the Chinese-Inner Asian borderlands between the 9th and 11th centuries. In
recent years, his work on medieval Chinese and Inner Eurasian history has been supplemented
by work on Pacific and Asian history, with a particular focus on creole and settler cultures and
the problem of feudalism. Ancient Greece
This session will firstly broadly discuss the socio-political and economic features of Archaic
Greece (from ca. 800 BC-479 BC). This will include coverage of the development of Athens and
Sparta, and the establishment of tyrannies, oligarchies and democracies throughout Greece. The
institution of slavery and the impact of Persia on Greece will also receive coverage. This will then
be followed by discussion of the Classical Period of Greek history up to 454 BC: the growth of
the Athenian controlled Delian league; the causes and impact of the subsequent Peloponnesian
War; and the development of historiography which has affected our understanding of Greek
History (Herodotus and Thucydides).
Dr. Hyun Jin Kim
Dr. Hyun Jin Kim is Senior Lecturer in Classics in the discipline of
Classics and Archaeology, SHAPS, University of Melbourne. He took
his D Phil in Classical Languages and Literature from the University of
Oxford, UK. His areas of specialization include Greek historiography;
Greek and Roman ethnography; Greeks and Barbarians; Greece and
China comparative studies; and Late Antiquity. He is the author of:
Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China (Duckworth,
2009) and The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe (Cambridge
University Press, 2013).
Ancient Rome
The Ancient Rome module will introduce teachers with the key socio-economic and political
features of the Roman polity from the so-called regal period down to the establishment of the
Augustan monarchy (ca. 700 to 23 BCE). After surveying Rome’s early development and core social
institutions, we will take a look at the economic and political developments in the Middle Republic
(ca. 300 to 133 BCE), focusing on such major issues as land tenure, colonization, and the gargantuan
and historic struggle with Carthage. Attention will then turn to the volatile final century of republican
Rome and how the traditional balance of power was destroyed by a combination of pressing if
unresolved social problems and spiralling rivalries between the great aristocratic dynasts of the era.
Associate Professor Frederik J. Vervaet
Associate Professor Frederik J. Vervaet received his PhD from Ghent
University and is an expert in Roman socio-institutional history. Before
coming to Melbourne in 2007 he was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley
and Wolfson College, Oxford. Amongst his work are co-edited volumes
on Despotism and Deceit in the Greco-Roman World (Brill 2010) and the
Roman Republican Triumph (Quasar 2014) as well as a ground-breaking
and widely acclaimed monograph on The High Command in the Roman
Republic (Stuttgart 2014 – termed “magisterial” in volume 2016 of the
Classical Review).
Dr Gijs W. Tol
Dr Gijs W. Tol obtained his PhD from the University of Groningen (The
Netherlands) in 2012. Before coming to Melbourne he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and Lecturer in the Netherlands and Italy (La Sapienza
University, Rome). He specializes in the archaeology and material culture
of Roman Italy and currently co-directs two international field projects in
modern-day Lazio and Tuscany respectively. His most recent publications
include ‘An integrated approach to the study of local production an exchange
in the lower Pontine Plain’ (Journal of Roman Archaeology 29, 2016) and a
co-edited volume entitled, Rural communities in a globalizing economy: new
perspectives on the economic integration of Roman Italy (Brill, 2017).
Bronze drinking bowl in the form
of a Silenus mask, Roman, 2nd to
4th century CE, The University of
Melbourne Art Collection, David and
Marion Adams Collection
Four terracotta figurines, SyroHittite, second millennium BCE, c.
2000–1000 BCE, The University of
Melbourne Art Collection, Keith and
Zara Joseph Collection, Gift of Peter
Joseph, Marilyn Sharpe, and Susan
Rubenstein, in honour of their parents
Keith and Zara Joseph 2009
Cost:
Includes light refreshments
Individual session: Series pass: $60
$250
Thursday 9 March:
UNIT 1
Introductory pedagogical talk by John Whitehouse
Ancient Mesopotamia: Dr Andrew Jamieson Thursday 16 March:
UNITS 2–4
Ancient Egypt: Dr Brent Davis
Thursday 23 March:
UNIT 2
Ancient China: Dr Lewis Mayo
Thursday 30 March:
UNITS 3 & 4
Ancient Greece: Dr Hyun Jin Kim
Thursday 6 April:
UNITS 3 & 4
Ancient Rome: Associate Professor Frederik Vervaet and Dr Gijs Tol
Venue:
The University of Melbourne, Parkville
Registrations:
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/engage/extended-and-community-learning-programs/vce-programs-and-kits
Inquiries:
Caterina Sciacca,
Community Education Manager
p: 03 8344 3996
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