Art History postgraduate student associations
About Dis/course
Dis/course, the School of Culture and Communication Graduate Student Association, is an independently run collective which provides fair and equitable representation for all graduate students within the school. Formerly known as the School of Culture and Communication Postgraduate Association (SCCPA), Dis/course receives funding from both the University of Melbourne Graduate student Association (UMPA) and from the school itself. From this support, Dis/course works to build a spirit of collegiality among graduate students and address concerns facing both research and coursework students. These include running a variety of social events; acting as the graduate student voice in the formation of policy within both the school and the university; running a weekly seminar series that provides graduate students an opportunity to present their work to peers in a safe and friendly environment; and directing the students’ questions and concerns to appropriate channels and forums in an attempt to improve their academic and social experiences.
Dis/course automatically offers free membership to every graduate student from any discipline within the school including the following: Art History, Australian Indigenous Studies, Creative Arts, Creative Writing, Cultural Management, Cultural Studies, English, Media and Communications, Publishing and Communications, Screen (Cinema) Studies, and Theatre Studies. All graduate students are welcome and encouraged to attend meetings, raise issues regarding any aspect of candidature, offer suggestions and organise activities. Elections for the association take place at the beginning of each year at the annual general meeting, and all graduate students in the school are strongly encouraged to be involved.
Join the Dis/course:
Dis/course circulates regular emails with information regarding these activities and more. For more information, please contact a Dis/course officer.
Dis/course Executive, Committee, and Representation
Executive Officers
President – Amy Espeseth
Vice-President – Aaron Mannion
Secretary – Jocelyn Hargrave
Treasurer – Claire Henry
Committee Members
Caroline Wallace
Emily Royal
Lynn Thomson
Rachael Kendrick
Sara Taylor
Committee Representatives
Graduate Studies – Aaron Mannion
Research and Research Training – Amy Espeseth
School Committee – Jocelyn Hargrave and Lynn Thomson
Research Students Reference Group – Amy Espeseth
Dis/course Regular Meetings
Dis/course holds its regular meetings on the second Thursday of each month, 5-6pm, at Animal Orchestra, 163 Grattan Street, Carlton. Depending on weather, the committee meets either outside or inside the venue. All graduate students in the School of Culture and Communication are welcome to attend.
Dis/course Regular Meeting Schedule for Semester 1 and 2, 2008
Location: Animal Orchestra, 163 Grattan Street, Carlton.
Date/Time: Second Thursday of the month, 5-6pm.
Thursday 8 May
Thursday 12 June
Thursday 10 July
Thursday 14 August
Thursday 11 September
Thursday 9 October
Thursday 13November
Thursday 11 December
For additional information, please contact Dis/course President, Amy Espeseth; to submit an agenda item, please contact Disc/course Secretary, Jocelyn Hargrave.
Dis/course Buddy System
The Dis/course Buddy System is an orientation initiative that introduces new graduate students to current students working with the same supervisor or within a similar field. Run by the Research Administrator in conjunction with Dis/course, the aim is to welcome new graduate students to the school, the university and—in some cases—the city or country!
If you would like to be involved, either to be welcomed or as a welcomer, please email the Research Administrator or download this pdf.
Graduate students who have may have missed orientation, started mid-semester or would like to get to know the school better are also invited to download the Buddy System pdf, find an appropriate buddy and make contact themselves.
Project Officer: Aaron Mannion. Please contact Aaron for further details.
Dis/course Skills Bank
Project Officer: Aaron Mannion
Please contact Aaron for further details.
In 2007, Dis/course implemented an online Skills Bank. The Skills Bank is a means of connecting graduate students experiencing difficulties with academic issues with those who can help. As every graduate student has many skills to offer, the potential of this project is enormous. All School of Culture and Communication graduate students are welcome to suggest, provide, and access information and skills. Skills Bank aims to be a site that can provide solutions to common graduate student obstacles whilst encouraging an interactive community. For more information regarding the Dis/course Skills Bank, download this pdf.
Dis/course Graduate Student Peer Group Support
Dis/course Graduate Student Peer Support Group
Project Officer: Sara Taylor
Please contact Sara for further details.
The Dis/course Graduate Student Peer Support Group is an initiative by graduate students for graduate students to provide a forum to discuss anxieties, concerns or ideas regarding their time at the University of Melbourne in a non-threatening environment.
Are you a research or coursework student feeling overwhelmed and anxious? Struggling to keep it together in the wake of your fifth rejection of an ethics application? Wondering what happened to your life since you embarked on graduate study? Feeling isolated, lonely, stressed, or having a crisis of confidence? Or do you just want to meet other graduate students from the School of Culture and Communication and listen to their experiences? Come along to the Dis/course Graduate Student Peer Support Group for a warm, relaxed and confidential environment in which you can air your concerns and give and receive much needed support!
The dates and times for the 2008 series of the Graduate Student Peer Support Group are as follows:
Graduate Student Peer Support Group Schedule for Semester 1 and 2, 2008
Location: Animal Orchestra, 163 Grattan Street, Carlton.
Date/Time: First Monday of the month, 5-6pm.
Monday 5 May
Monday 2 June
Monday 7 July
Monday 4 August
Monday 1 September
Monday 6 October
Monday 3 November
Dis/course Women (un)Interrupted
Project Officer: Amy Espeseth
Please contact Amy for further details.
“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.”
~Andrea Dworkin
Are you teetering on the edge, feeling ready to fall at any moment? Grappling with Irigaray? Trying to plan a family according to semester dates? Feeling alone in an ivory tower of displacement? Or perhaps you would just love a glass of wine and a bit of feminist banter?
Whoever you are, we warmly welcome you to come and meet other graduate students and academics for casual drinks and to share your experiences of graduate student life within the School of Culture and Communication. Children are welcome.
Come along to Animal Orchestra, 163 Grattan Street, Carlton, for some women's talk from 5 to around 7 pm on the last Monday of each month. Depending on weather, the Women (un)Interrupted either monopolise a table outside Animal Orchestra or meet upstairs in the lovely sitting room.
Get out the diaries; in 2008, these events will be held as follows:
Women (un)Interrupted Schedule for Semester 1 and 2, 2008
Location: Animal Orchestra, 163 Grattan Street, Carlton.
Date/Time: Last Monday of the month, 5-7pm.
Monday 26 May
Monday 30 June
Monday 28 July
Monday 25 August
Monday 29 September
Monday 27 October
Monday 24 November
Dis/course Research Seminar Series
Project Officer: Rachael Kendrick
Please contact Rachael for further details or to offer a paper for the program.
Graduate students organise their own seminar series in addition to the school’s seminar series. The seminar series welcomes all graduate students in the School of Culture and Communication. Details are circulated by email and posted on this website; you are strongly encouraged to attend, offer a paper, and take advantage of this opportunity to meet other graduate students. Drinks are provided.
In addition, during the semester the various disciplines within the school hold weekly staff research seminars, in which local and guest speakers read a research paper, followed by discussion. Graduate students are strongly encouraged to attend and are welcome to offer papers or suggest visiting speakers. Details of the programs will be circulated by email and posted on the website.
Dis/course Research Seminar Series Schedule for Semester 1 and 2, 2008
Location: Multifunction Room, Graduate Centre; (except 16 May to be held in Gryphon Gallery, Graduate Centre).
Date/Time: Fridays 4-5pm.
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
7 March |
Aaron Mannion |
‘Intimate Knowledge: The Lyric Bridge’ |
14 March |
Chris Leong |
'Turning Japanese: World Literature in the Global Age’ |
21 March |
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Good Friday |
Mid-semester break: Friday 21 March - Sunday 30 March |
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4 April |
Jay Daniel Thompson |
‘My own sweet time: rewriting ‘Australia for the White Man’’ |
11 April |
Patricia Di Risio |
‘De-Gendering the cinematic gaze’ |
18 April |
Amy Espeseth |
To be advised |
25 April |
Ricci-Jane Adams |
‘Seeing Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways: Magical Realism in Australian Theatre’ |
2 May |
Michelle Aung Thin |
‘Degenerate bodies, makeshift places: spatial inflection in representations of Anglo-Burmese women’ |
9 May |
Angelina Mirabito |
‘Collage: The Appropriation of a Fragile Mind’ |
16 May |
Karolina Trapp |
‘R.S. Thomas’s Imagining the Bible: when narrative meets lyrical’ |
23 May |
Callum Scott |
‘Transgressive Performativity: dramaturgical representation of crime in Australian film’ |
30 May |
Benjamin Goldsworthy |
To be advised |
Dis/course - Other Concerns or Opportunities
Dis/course, the School of Culture and Communication Graduate Student Association, organises events for graduate students in the school as well as providing representation on university and school committees. We aim to foster a collegial experience for all graduate students in the school by hosting seminars, supporting other school groups and consortia, and by providing graduate students with a chance to socialise in various settings.
If you have questions or concerns about your studies or academic processes at the University of Melbourne, we are happy to offer advice where possible, direct you to appropriate people when necessary, and represent your views to the university through our representative positions on committees. If you have an idea for an academic, social or combined event, feel free to contact us so we can help you get it off the ground.
Dis/course - UMPA Affiliation
Dis/course is proud to be affiliated with the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association (UMPA), the representative body for graduate students at the University of Melbourne. UMPA is your voice on committees and a great provider of community and social activities for the more than 13,000 graduate students at this university. If you want to stay connected and know what's going on, read your copy of Postgraduate Review, sent to every graduate student twice annually, or subscribe to UMPA news, the weekly e-bulletin.
UMPA also provides the only independent advocates on campus specifically for graduate students, so if you run into any trouble in your degree, contact UMPA on 8344 8657 or drop by the Graduate Centre. UMPA manages a range of graduate-only study spaces, lockers, computer labs, meeting rooms and carrels in the Graduate Centre as well, available for all of the university's graduate students.
UMPA provides valuable services directly to graduate students:
- Traffic (a refereed interdisciplinary postgraduate journal);
- student advice and advocacy;
- funding for student groups and activities;
- Publishing Centre & Print Room (through the Graduate Centre);
- 24-hour computer labs;
- meeting rooms, study carrels and lockers;
- assistance with thesis writing (Thesis Writing Guide);
- student groups.
Contact details for UMPA can be found on their website.
University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association (UMPA)
The University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association Inc. (UMPA) is the representative body for graduate students at the University of Melbourne.
UMPA is your voice on committees and a great provider of community and social activities for the more than 13 000 graduate students at this university. If you want to stay connected and know what's going on, read your copy of Postgraduate Review, sent to every graduate student twice annually, or subscribe to UMPA news, the weekly e-bulletin.
UMPA also provides the only independent advocates on campus specifically for graduate students, so if you run into any trouble in your degree, give UMPA a call on 8344 8657 or drop by the Graduate Centre for advice. UMPA manages a range of graduate-only study spaces, lockers, computer labs, meeting rooms and carrels in the Grad Centre as well, available for all of the University's graduate students.
It provides valuable services directly to graduate students:
- Traffic (a refereed interdisciplinary postgraduate journal)
- student advice and advocacy
- funding for student groups and activities
- Publishing Centre & Print Room (through the Graduate Centre)
- 24-hour computer labs
- meeting rooms, study carrels and lockers
- assistance with thesis writing (Thesis Writing Guide)
- student groups
Contact details for UMPA can be found on their website at: www.umpa.unimelb.edu.au