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SHAPS Digest (January 2022)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications, projects and other news from across the School community.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/02/07/shaps-digest-january-2022
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Mynas Matter: Towards a Cultural History of ‘Invasive’ Species in Australia
History PhD candidate Simon Farley is investigating settler Australian attitudes towards non-native wildlife from the 1820s to the present. In this article, they reflect on the historical entanglement of ‘invasive’ species with the politics of immigration and indigeneity. How is a myna like Pauline Hanson? No, it’s not a riddle. It is a question a […] -
Maternal Metamorphosis: How Mothering Has Changed in Australia Since the Second World War
How has motherhood and mothering changed in Australia over the last 75 years? Interviews with more than 60 Australian women in a recent research project demonstrate their distinctive experiences over three broad generational eras, ranging from the postwar period to the era of second-wave feminism in the 1970s and 1980s to the parenting of the […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/01/28/maternal-metamorphosis
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Defining Political Terrorism
Emeritus Professor Tony Coady’s latest book, The Meaning of Terrorism (Oxford University Press, 2021), explores competing ways of thinking about political terrorism and its consequences. In this interview with Associate Professor Dan Halliday, Tony Coady explains how and why he came to write the book, and introduces the ongoing philosophical debates over how to define […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/01/17/the-meaning-of-terrorism
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We Need to Rethink How We Manage Deathcare
Australia’s deathcare system is already showing cracks, but the pressures will only worsen, especially as the baby boomer generation takes us into ‘peak death’. A team of scholars from the University’s DeathTech research team, including SHAPS’s Mike Arnold, explore the topic in this article recently published on Pursuit Death is a phenomenon like no other. […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/01/15/we-need-to-rethink-how-we-manage-deathcare
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Performances on the World Stage
A video-recording of the 2021 Greg Dening Memorial Lecture, delivered by Dr Jenny Bulstrode.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/01/10/performances-on-the-world-stage
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Paintings Conservation Fellowship at Harvard Art Museums
After completing a Masters of Cultural Materials Conservation at the University of Melbourne, Ruby Awburn spent two years in the United States as the Richard I Shader Fellow in Paintings Conservation at the Straus Centre for Conservation and Technical Studies at Harvard Art Museums. Ruby recently returned to Australia to take up a new role […] -
The UniMelb History Society in 2021
The UniMelb History Society is a student-led club for people who are studying or interested in history. Headed by a committee of passionate history buffs, our aims include promoting the study of history; providing a social network for fellow history buffs on campus and beyond; and running history-themed events such as trivia nights, film screenings, […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/12/29/the-unimelb-history-society-in-2021
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Return to Vietnam: Mapping American and Australian Veterans’ Journeys
Between 1981 and 2016, thousands of American and Australian veterans returned to Vietnam on journeys of reconciliation, healing and remembrance. Their stories became the focus of Mia Martin Hobbs’s PhD dissertation, a transnational, comparative oral history project tracing their return journeys. In this article, Mia discusses her research, investigating why these veterans returned and what […] -
An Interview with Professor Howard Sankey
The School of Historical and Philosophical Studies is this year pleased to announce Howard Sankey’s promotion to full Professor. Since his arrival at the University of Melbourne in 1992, Howard’s research has remained at the forefront of epistemology and philosophy of science, his teaching engaging and reflective of his clear and ongoing enthusiasm. Howard’s interests […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/12/13/an-interview-with-professor-howard-sankey
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