dnicole
-
Remembering June Factor (1936–2024)
Dr June Factor AM was a distinguished social historian who pioneered the study of children’s folklore in Australia and played an active role in public life, including as president of the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties (now Liberty Victoria), Friends of the ABC and the Australian Jewish Democratic Society. June’s work was an important influence […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/10/29/remembering-june-factor-1936-2024
-
Computer ‘Reconstructions’ of Ancient Faces – How Reliable are They?
In recent times, the use of modern technology to reconstruct ancient faces has become increasingly popular. But can we rely on the accuracy of such reconstructions? Dr Konstantine Panegyres, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics & Archaeology, investigates in this article republished from The Conversation. When we read about the lives of people from the ancient […] -
Does History Have Lessons for the Future?
Roman Krznaric looks to the past to discover the rules for radical hope in his new book, History for Tomorrow. In his review of the book from The Conversation, Emeritus Professor Peter McPhee reflects on Krznaric’s work and on whether the past can provide answers to present and future questions. Answers to the question about the […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/09/09/does-history-have-lessons-for-the-future
-
Rabati Dig Report
In June 2024 the GAIA (Georgian-Australian Investigations in Archaeology) team, comprising staff and students from Classics & Archaeology, colleagues from the Georgian National Museum, and other experts and volunteers from around the globe, returned to Rabati in Georgia for the sixth year of excavations. In this report on the 2024 dig, Associate Professor Andrew Jamieson […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/08/27/rabati-dig-report
-
Preparing for the Ancient Olympics: Bull Wrestling, Meat-only Diets and Sex Bans
How did athletes in the Greek and Roman eras prepared in the hope of winning victory at the ancient Olympics. Some of these ways might be recognisable to modern athletes, while others could be very different. In his second article about the ancient Olympics, republished from The Conversation, Konstantine Panegyres, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics […] -
Shaping Australian Art & Identity: The Lindsays
Most Australians have heard of Norman Lindsay’s fantastical children’s book The Magic Pudding (1918). Norman was one of ten talented siblings, many of whom became internationally renowned artists and writers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Lindsays were one of most culturally influential middle-class families in Australian history. SHAPS PhD Candidates Cat […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/08/21/shaping-australian-art-identity-the-lindsays
-
Sweet Home, Chicago: The Democratic Convention 1968
In this new article, republished from The Conversation prior to the Chicago Democratic Convention on 19-22 August, Liam Byrne (Honorary in History), together with Emma Shortis, RMIT University, reflected on this event in the context of its past, particularly the “traumatic” one of 1968, held in the same city. Democratic Party delegates from across the […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/08/20/sweet-home-chicago-the-democratic-convention-1968
-
The Decameron: Medieval Lockdown Project or “Wine-Soaked Sex Romp”?
Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century masterpiece, now a Netflix series, shows the universality of human responses to a pandemic (along with some sex). SHAPS’s Catherine Kovesi (History) explores The Decameron in this article, first published on Pursuit. For anyone versed in medieval European history, the new Netflix adaptation of a 700-year-old story about a group of noble youths seems […] -
Nude Athletes and Fights to the Death: The Ancient Olympics
As the 2024 Olympics is well underway in Paris, Konstantine Panegyres, McKenzie Fellow in Classics & Archaeology, explores the Olympics’ ancient form, the games played, and the experiences of competitors and visitors during its existence over a period of a millennium. The first recorded victor at the Olympics was Coroebus of Elis. A cook by […] -
SHAPS Digest (July 2024)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications, projects and other news from across the School community.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/08/05/shaps-digest-july-2024
-
Animals in Times of War
Animals are sometimes forgotten in discussions of war but also suffer immensely during conflict. In this article, republished from The Conversation, inaugural Mykola Zerov Fellow in Ukrainian Studies Dr Iryna Skubii explores how animals, including pets, livestock and wild creatures, have been impacted during Russia’s war on Ukraine, as well as the positive roles they […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/07/29/animals-in-times-of-war
-
The Vestal Virgins: Women’s Power in Ancient Rome
In Ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins achieved power most women were denied – but at great cost. Lily Moore, SHAPS Classics & Archaeology PhD Candidate, explores the Roman priestesses and their access to power, in this article republished from The Conversation. You might have heard of a group of women in Ancient Rome known as the […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/07/24/the-vestal-virgins-womens-power-in-ancient-rome
-
HPS Podcast: Martin Bush on Images and Science
How does science move from the lab into the public sphere? What is the role of the public arena in the creation and distribution of knowledge? And how do we use imagery to augment our creation and circulation of scientific knowledge? Dr Martin Bush (History & Philosophy of Science) discusses these questions in this episode […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/07/22/hps-podcast-martin-bush-on-images-and-science
-
Bronwyn Beech Jones
Bronwyn Beech Jones (PhD in History, 2024), Textual Worlds: Rethinking Self, Community, and Activism in Colonial-Era Sumatran Women's Newspaper Archivesblogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/07/11/bronwyn-beech-jones
-
Emporium
Emporium is a research hub based at the University of Melbourne, dedicated to the long and rich histories of consumption, production, and consumer practices across time and space. It is premised on the understanding that all economic activity is culturally embedded. The hub is focused around four core research areas: Luxury, Advertising, Food, and Textiles. All […] -
Greek & Latin Reading Groups
The Ancient Greek and Latin reading groups, convened by Dr Edward Jeremiah, are held in-person on Tuesdays person at the Parkville campus from 12–1 pm (Greek) and 1–2pm (Latin), in the Classics Reading Room 511, Level 5 Arts West (west wing) In Semester One 2024, the texts being read are: Latin: Moreschini’s Teubner edition of Boethius’s On […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/07/05/greek-latin-reading-groups
-
Melbourne History Workshop
Melbourne History Workshop is a studio-based research collaboratory in the History Program at the University of Melbourne under the direction of Professor Andrew May. It taps the pooled expertise of staff, research higher degree students and affiliates in order to provide innovative and rigorously-applied historical research, postgraduate training, industry collaboration and community-facing projects. The Workshop’s […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/07/05/melbourne-history-workshop
-
Can Keir Starmer’s Future Vision Return UK Labour to Power?
In anticipation of the UK general election on Thursday July 5, SHAPS Honorary Liam Byrne considered Keir Starmer’s vision for the future and compared it to that of Tony Blair’s campaign nearly 30 years previously in this article, republished from The Conversation. When British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the UK general election outside 10 […] -
RIPSS Reading Circle
The RIPSS Reading Circle is a space for graduate students and early career scholars to critically discuss new and innovative scholarship on Soviet, Central and East European, Baltic, Caucasian and Central Asian history with a focus on decolonising methodologies and non-Russian experiences of the Soviet era. It also provides a forum for presenting and receiving […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/07/04/ripss-reading-circle
-
Love in the Ancient World
Did people in Ancient Rome and Greece love the same way we do? Perhaps even more hopelessly. Konstantine Panegyres, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in SHAPS, explores ancient love stories in this article, republished from The Conversation. Sometime around 100 AD, the Roman lawyer and aristocrat Pliny sent a letter to his third wife, Calpurnia – who was […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/07/01/love-in-the-ancient-world
-
HPS Podcast: Samara Greenwood on Social Change and Science
Samara Greenwood is currently undertaking a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science (HPS), in which she investigates the various ways in which changes in society can impact science. In this episode of The HPS Podcast, Samara discusses some of the controversies of drawing connections between social and political contexts and scientific change, including links between second wave feminism and […] -
SHAPS Digest (May 2024)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications, projects and other news from across the School community.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/06/14/shaps-digest-may-2024
-
Revisiting Normandy: D-Day At Eighty
6 June 2024 marked the 80th anniversary of the Allied D-Day landings at Normandy. In this article History PhD candidate Felicity Hodgson shares some of her work on American women war correspondents who covered this and other campaigns of the Second World War. Through an examination of their newspaper reportage, Felicity shows how their insightful […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/06/11/revisiting-normandy-d-day-at-eighty
-
Staying Fit in the Ancient World
Many people today worry about how to find time to keep fit and healthy in the midst of their busy lives. Believe it or not, but this was also a problem in ancient times. So, how did ancient people deal with it? In this article republished from the Conversation, SHAPS McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, Konstantine Panegyres, […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/06/06/staying-fit-in-the-ancient-world
-
1968 was an Inflection Point for the US. Is Another Coming in 2024?
Among the global protest movements of 1968, in the United States multiple events represented an inflection point in the country’s history. These included the assassinations of Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F Kennedy, mass protests in support of the Civil Rights Movement and against the Vietnam War, and a Presidential election. In this […] -
Artem Bourov
Artem Bourov (MA in Philosophy, 2024), Be a Body: From Experiential Self-Awareness to a Truly Bodily Self -
Henry Dobson
Henry Dobson (PhD in Philosophy, 2024), A Common Morality Approach for AI Ethicsblogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/05/14/henry-dobson-2
-
Why is Cancer Called Cancer? We Need to Go Back to Greco-Roman Times for the Answer
Dr Konstantine Panegyres is a SHAPS McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, whose work explores the histories of health in antiquity. In this article, republished from The Conversation, he delves into the ancient history of representations of cancer and the origins of our word for the disease. One of the earliest descriptions of someone with cancer comes from […] -
Simon Farley
Simon Farley (PhD in History, 2024), "Alien Hordes": A Cultural History of Non-Native Birds in Australia -
James Field
James Field (PhD in Political Theory and Philosophy, 2024), Democratic Constitutions, Disobedient Citizens: Conflict and Culture in Habermas’ Political Theory -
Amy Hodgson
Amy Hodgson (PhD in History, 2024), The Cost of Truth-Telling: An Oral History of Staff and Testifiers' Experiences of Chile's Truth Commissions -
Laura Jocic
Laura Jocic (PhD in History, 2024) Dress in Australia: The Materiality of a Colonial Society in the Making -
Aloysius Landrigan
Aloysius Landrigan (PhD in History, 2024), May Day 1890–1914: Internationalism and Unity across the Labour Movement and Working Classes of Britain, Australia and the United States of Americablogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/05/09/aloysius-landrigan
-
Elizabeth Muldoon
Elizabeth Muldoon (PhD in History, 2024) Learning History with the Founding Foremothers of the Redfern Black Movementblogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/05/08/elizabeth-muldoon
-
SHAPS Digest (April 2024)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications, projects and other news from across the School community.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/05/07/shaps-digest-april-2024
-
Ancient Languages Boom!
Undergraduate enrolments in ancient languages are soaring at the University of Melbourne, with the number of students signing up for beginners’ level Ancient Greek, Ancient Egyptian, and Latin undergoing a dramatic rise in 2023 and 2024. Ancient World Studies PhD student Noah Wellington reflects on the reasons behind this. Scholars have studied the ancient world […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/04/26/ancient-languages-boom
-
“Too Many Aboriginal Babies”: Australia’s Secret History of Aboriginal Population Control in the 1960s
In this article republished from The Conversation, SHAPS’s Dr Julia Hurst, together with Dr Laura Rademaker (Australian National University) and Professor Jakelin Troy, (University of Sydney), discuss eugenics policy directed at the reproductive rights of First Nations Australians in the second half of the twentieth century, a period often celebrated as a time of increasing […] -
Meet Hansen PhD Scholar Seth McKellar
The Hansen Trust, established to advance the study of History at University of Melbourne, includes an annual PhD scholarship to the doctoral program in History in SHAPS. In 2023 the scholarship was awarded to Seth McKellar, who is investigating the history of transness and gender deviance. Tell us about your PhD project My research lies at the intersection […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/04/03/meet-hansen-phd-scholar-seth-mckellar
-
What Remains of a Performance When the Curtain Goes Down?
Archives are an incomplete but important record of dance and theatre, and the history and artistry of University of Melbourne students is being revisited through these ‘remains’. Arabella Frahn-Starkie, student in the Masters of Cultural Conservation, explores these questions in this new article, republished from Pursuit. My journey to working with archives has been an […] -
We’ve Taken Smoking From ‘Normal’ to ‘Uncommon’ and We can do the Same with Vaping
Thomas Kehoe (Honorary, History; Cancer Council, Victoria), together with Carolyn Holbrook (Deakin) recently wrote on the history of anti-smoking campaigns in Australia, the effects of those campaigns on smoking rates, and how we can learn from these when it comes to quickly increasing vaping rates, in this article republished from The Conversation. Vaping is a […] -
Introducing Dr Kate Lynch, Lecturer in Philosophy of Science
We are excited to announce the appointment of Dr Kate E Lynch as Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science (HPS). Dr Lynch is a philosopher of science and a biologist, whose work brings together philosophical analysis and empirical investigation. She is also a talented science communicator with a keen interest in engaging the […] -
How Ancient Romans Kept Cool in Summer
A trip to the coast, a dip in the pool, and a snow-chilled drink. With our recent heatwaves in early 2024, Classics & Archaeology PhD Candidate Lily Moore was inspired to think about how the Romans managed to beat the heat and keep their cool during hot ancient summers. Lily ponders the question in this recent article, […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/03/21/how-ancient-romans-kept-cool-in-summer
-
Carmelina Contarino
Carmelina Contarino is an Honours student in the History & Philosophy of Science program. Her thesis explores scientific methodology through understanding researcher’s perceptions of exploratory research. Carmelina is interested in how perception of exploratory modes forms part of the research cycle, its impact on epistemic iteration and the self-correcting nature of science. Carmelina is also […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/03/18/carmelina-contarino
-
Madeline Davies
Madeline (she/her) is communications professional and emerging conservator currently completing the Master of Cultural Materials Conservation at the Grimwade Centre. In 2019 she completed a BA at Monash University with a double major in Media and Communications, and Film and Screen Studies, and in 2021 completed the Executive Master of Arts at the University of […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/03/17/madeline-davies
-
Philosophy Students Compete in Tertiary Ethics Olympiad
In October 2023 two teams of students from the University of Melbourne participated in the inaugural Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE) Tertiary Ethics Olympiad. These ethics athletes or ‘eth-letes’, as they are known in the competition, went up against universities from across Australasia. They were supported by coach Dr Alex Cain (Teaching Associate, Philosophy), […] -
Rachelle Madden
Rachelle Madden is an undergraduate student studying History and Philosophy of Science. With 30 years of experience in advertising and marketing, Rachelle recently returned to university to pursue her love of all things science through the HPS Program.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/03/04/rachelle-madden
-
SHAPS Digest (February 2024)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications, projects and other news from across the School community.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/03/04/shaps-digest-february-2024
-
Leo Palmer
Leo Palmer is graduate researcher in the field of Classics. His current thesis examines fifth-century Athenian democracy in its social, political and religious context, and makes the case for a complex, gradual evolution of Greek democracy, rather than viewing it as a product of revolution. Leo’s Honours thesis investigated the social functions and origins of […] -
Ancestral Ties to the Kabayan ‘Fire’ Mummies is Driving Research to Save Them
An unexpected family link to the Philippines’ Kabayan mummies inspired research into environmental changes in the mountain caves that house them. Grimwade Centre students Fen Reyes, Sarah Soltis, and Camille Calanno explore their research on the mummies and their conservation in this article, republished from Pursuit. Tucked away in rock shelters in the secluded northern […] -
Noah Wellington
Noah Wellington is a PhD candidate in Classics & Archaeology. His current research focuses on a tradition of women’s subversive discourse in ancient Greek literature from the Archaic through Hellenistic periods. Noah’s Honours thesis explored liminal gender identities in Athenian male youth and their repercussion on Athenian literature and politics and was a winner of […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/02/28/noah-wellington
Number of posts found: 447