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Image: View upon the Napean [Nepean] River, at the Cow Pastures, New South Wales (detail), 1825. Joseph Lycett, from Views in Australia, or, New South Wales & Van Diemen’s Land delineated. London: J. Souter, 1825. State Library Victoria.

A collection of audio and video recordings of SHAPS research presentations, including the SHAPS Forum podcast.

Our School Life page brings together information on all the different opportunities for getting involved in the SHAPS community: seminar series, clubs and societies, reading groups, journals, and other features of School life.

Browse through profiles of recent SHAPS graduates and learn about the diverse research being done in the School. Featured below are some of our most recent graduates. Scroll down further and click through the links to view our graduates (by year) who completed their PhD or Masters from 2018 onwards.

Each year, the School of Historical & Philosophical Studies explores a special theme, through a series of public facing events, articles, and podcasts.

Forum is co-created by staff and postgraduate students from across the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies (SHAPS) at the University of Melbourne.

Forum aims to provide a digital home for SHAPS public-facing research and other activities, featuring news and commentary on the research and teaching happenings across the School.

It offers our students an opportunity to enrich their experience by participating in the life of the School more fully, building relationships with academic staff and fellow students, and taking part in public conversations about our work. Forum also offers a platform for showcasing the best work produced by our students, at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Forum is an initiative of the SHAPS Engagement Committee. The SHAPS Engagement Chair, Julie Fedor, and Discipline reps — Martin Bush (HPS), Matthew Champion (History), Dan Halliday (Philosophy), Frederik Vervaet (Classics & Archaeology), and Sadra Zekrgoo (Grimwade) — oversee the site and provide mentoring and support to the Forum team.

The SHAPS Engagement committee also includes a postgrad representative (in 2022 Thea Gardiner, representing the History Postgraduate Association), Gerhard Wiesenfeldt (HPS, in his capacity as a member of the Arts Faculty’s International Committee) and the SHAPS Events Coordinator, Leanne Hunt.

The SHAPS Engagement committee’s brief is to advance the University of Melbourne’s three key Engagement commitments: public value; engaged students; and engaged research. Forum is designed to further all three of these aims.

Forum is generously supported by SHAPS.

If you would like to contribute content or to feature your project on Forum, email Julie Fedor.

All other enquiries regarding SHAPS should be directed to the SHAPS website. Information on the different programs within SHAPS can be found through the links below:

Classics & Archaeology

Conservation

Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Program

History

History & Philosophy of Science

Philosophy

The Program in Jewish Culture & Society

The postgraduates and early career researchers from the SHAPS Engagement Team create and curate content for Forum, including writing articles, interviewing our guests, and updating the site.

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Image: View upon the Napean [Nepean] River, at the Cow Pastures, New South Wales (detail), 1825. Joseph Lycett, from Views in Australia, or, New South Wales & Van Diemen’s Land delineated. London: J. Souter, 1825. State Library Victoria.

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