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Stuart Macintyre’s History of the Communist Party of Australia
“The crimson thread of communism runs through the work of the great, lamented Australian historian, Stuart Macintyre“, late Emeritus Professor in SHAPS. His colleague Professor Sean Scalmer reviews Stuart Macintyre’s last book, The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning (Allen & Unwin, 2022), in this recent article, republished from The Conversation. […] -
Dang Nguyen (Nguyễn Hồng Hải Đăng)
Dang Nguyen (Nguyễn Hồng Hải Đăng in her native Vietnamese) (PhD, History & Philosophy of Science), ‘Tracing Non-Biomedical Therapeutic Knowledge: Social-Network Lives in Action’ This thesis investigates the performance of non-biomedical therapeutic knowledge as situated knowledge on the internet. Non-biomedical therapeutic knowledge is defined as medical knowledge that exists in separation, but not isolation from, […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/03/14/dang-nguyen-2
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An Interview with Associate Professor François Schroeter
SHAPS congratulates François Schroeter from Philosophy on his recent promotion to Associate Professor. Originally from Switzerland, where he completed his PhD at the University of Fribourg, François joined the University of Melbourne in 2003. His academic work spans both Continental philosophy and Western analytic philosophy, with special interests in metaethics, moral psychology, Kantian ethics, and […] -
‘National Security’ and Australian Identity
Dr Mia Martin Hobbs examines the history of the phrase 'national security' and its use in Australian public life.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/03/04/national-security
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Freg J Stokes
Freg James Stokes (PhD in History, 2022). ‘The Hummingbird’s Atlas: Mapping Guaraní Resistance in the Atlantic Rainforest during the Emergence of Capitalism (1500–1768)’. This thesis maps the resistance of Guaraní peoples to colonisation in the Atlantic Rainforest of South America during the emergence of capitalism, from 1500 to 1768. As such, it addresses a […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/03/01/fregmonto-stokes
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Elizabeth Tunstall
Elizabeth Tunstall (PhD in History, 2022) ‘The Elizabethan Succession Question and Competing Understandings of Monarchy, 1558–1603‘ Queen Elizabeth I ruled England for almost 45 years (1558–1603) and, throughout her reign, the succession was a prominent source of debate and anxiety. This thesis surveys the Elizabethan succession question for the entirety of her reign, instead of […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/02/28/elizabeth-tunstall
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Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
Dr Charlotte-Rose Millar is a cultural historian specialising in supernatural belief and popular print in early modern England. In 2021 she co-ordinated the second-year History subject Witch-hunting in European Societies (HIST20080). Recent graduate Jen McFarland sat down with Charlotte to talk about her research. What first drew you to witchcraft as an area of research? […] -
Sam Watts
Sam Watts (PhD in History, 2022) ‘No Masters But Ourselves: Black Reconstruction in the Deep South City’ The destruction of slavery brought about dramatic opportunities and challenges for formerly enslaved Black Southerners, many of whom migrated to Southern cities in search of safety and freedom following the Civil War. During Reconstruction, the Deep South city […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/02/25/sam-watts-phd-abstract
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J. Yan
J. H. Yan (PhD in History, 2022) ‘Contentious Routes: Ireland Questions, Radical Political Articulations and Settler Ambivalence in (White) Australia, c1909–23′ This thesis is a transnational history of the ‘Ireland Question’ in the imperial and ethico-political imaginary of radical and labour movements in (‘White’) Australia during the ‘Irish revolutionary period’, broadly conceived. It traces the […] -
Richard Young
Richard Young (PhD in History, 2022) ‘Dragging History Through the Gutters: War Comic Books, Civic Duty & American Popular Memory, 1952–1993′ The Cold War era (1945–1991) coincided with both the emergence and height of war comic books in the United States. Despite significant social, political, and comic industry shifts during this period, war comics remained […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/02/15/richard-young
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