The Monash University Prato Centre, and the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne, are seeking to appoint a two-year Postdoctoral Fellow.
Through his multi-disciplinary practice, Damiano Bertoli challenges ideas of authorship, influence, and the inscribed flow of art-historical time, often bringing together artworks, historical events and cultural material to examine their form and language by means of recontextualisation.
We invite Monash Alumni to join us on an exclusive tour of Prato and surrounds.
Our hosts – Cecilia Hewlett, Director of the Monash Prato Centre, and Peter Howard, Director of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, have put together a rich itinerary for you.
Here’s a taster of what you will enjoy:
On 24 April the Monash Prato Centre hosted the first in a series of three enrichment seminars for students attending the Monash Law Prato Program.
Mediterraneo Downtown is a new and innovative festival dedicated to contemporary Mediterranean culture, created and organized by the Regione Toscana, Comune di Prato and COSPE a non profit association which collaborates with Libera, Legambiente and
The 8th edition of our annual Open Day held on Thursday 19 April was a resounding success thanks to the participation of hundreds of students and local visitors who visited the Centre from 5pm into the late evening.
This year’s Prato Campus Week finishes off with the legendary Prato Campus Run on Friday 20 April at 7.30pm. Monash students are invited to join students from the Universities of PIN (University of Florence) and New Haven to participate in a non-competitive 5km run (or walk, as preferred!) through the historic streets of the centre of Prato.
The three month program – which consists of 16 units distributed across three blocks of study – will officially commence on 9 April with a general induction and welcome reception.
On 19 April the Monash University Prato Centre in Via Pugliesi will once again open its doors to welcome not only the local community and students of Prato, but also to overseas students visiting from Australia, America, France, Israel and Canada.
Now in its 8th year, Open Day provides a unique opportunity for Monash students to interact with students from the neighbouring Universities of New Haven and PIN (University of Florence) and is an integral part of the annual Prato Campus Week.
Any new visitor to Prato must include the Textile Museum in their site-seeing to do list and now there's a further incentive. Over twenty spectacular costumes 'fit for a queen' are the subject of the museum's latest temporary exhibition Marie Antoinette: The Oscar-winning costumes of a Queen, which runs from 11 February to 27 May 2018. Director Sophia Coppola won an Oscar for the film in 2007, while world-renowned costume designer Milena Canonero, was the creator of these extraordinary garments made in Italy at a specialised cinematographic and theatrical production wor
