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Historians Working for Justice at the Waitangi Tribunal
Five History graduates from the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies have ended up working for New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal Unit at the Ministry of Justice. The Waitangi Tribunal is one of the key institutions engaged in protecting Māori rights under the 1840 Waitangi Treaty. At a time when the ‘job-readiness’ of Arts graduates has […] -
Applied Proof Theory: Holding an International Workshop during the Pandemic
How do you hold an international workshop at a time when travel between continents is at a standstill and countries all over the world are in lockdown? Greg Restall, Professor in Philosophy, explains how this worked at the recent international workshop on Applied Proof Theory. -
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Internship
Grimwade Centre student Lisa Mansfield completed an internship at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Working alongside some of the world's leading time-based media conservators, Lisa was immersed in the fascinating and rapidly-evolving world of media art conservation. Here she talks to Isabella Walker about what she learned and observed over the course of her internship, and how her studies at the Grimwade prepared her for this experience.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/11/13/san-francisco-museum-of-modern-art-internship
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Rebuilding Life after Mass Violence: Lessons from the Chilean Truth Commission
History PhD candidate Amy Hodgson was recently awarded a prestigious Yale Fox International Fellowship. This graduate exchange scheme supports students who are committed to harnessing scholarly knowledge to respond to urgent global challenges. The Fellowship will support Amy’s research into the history of Chile’s post-dictatorship truth commissions. For her project, Amy has carried out a […] -
SHAPS Digest (October 2020)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications and projects, and other news from across the School community.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/11/06/shaps-digest-october-2020
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The Early History of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne
Not long before lockdown began, a display case documenting episodes from the history of the University’s Philosophy program was mounted on Level Four of the North Wing of the Arts West building at our Parkville campus. Since it will be some time before we can return to campus physically, we’ve decided to bring this display […] -
Meet the New History Society Office-Holders
The 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, and […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/10/23/meet-the-new-history-society-office-holders
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Introducing Dr Julia Hurst, Lecturer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Julia Hurst as Lecturer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History. Dr Hurst’s appointment will open up new opportunities for our students to take subjects in Indigenous history. To welcome Dr Hurst and to introduce her research to the School community, we invited Dr Henry Reese […] -
The 1970s and the Making of Modern Australia
The 2020 Ernest Scott Lecture was delivered by Professor Michelle Arrow (Macquarie University). In a rich and thought-provoking lecture, Professor Arrow explored the 1970s as the era when the ‘personal became political’. You can watch a recording of the lecture below; listen to an audio-recording via ABC Radio National; or read a transcript, published on […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/10/07/the-1970s-and-the-making-of-modern-australia
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SHAPS Digest (September 2020)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications and projects, and other news from across the School community.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/10/05/shaps-digest-september-2020
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Spotlight on Postgraduate Research in Classics
Read about some of the fascinating doctoral projects currently underway in Classics and Ancient History, courtesy of the Classics & Archaeology Postgraduate Society. The Society’s committee members gathered these profiles together as part of their August 2020 Classics Week initiative, designed to make up for the loss of the usual March 2020 Classics Week, which […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/09/25/spotlight-on-postgraduate-research-in-classics
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SHAPS Digest (August 2020)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications and projects, and other news from across the School community.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/09/11/shaps-digest-august-2020
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Students Chat about Philosophy
We are social creatures and the current lockdown isolation is hard on all of us – whether extrovert or introvert. So we thought you might enjoy meeting some of our wonderful students. Philosophy is currently one of the fastest growing majors in the Arts Faculty. These self-made mini videos will give you a glimpse of […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/08/28/students-chat-about-philosophy
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SHAPS Digest (July 2020)
A monthly round-up of media commentary, publications and projects, and other news from across the School community.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/08/10/shaps-digest-july-2020
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Celebrating Our Students’ Achievements
Each year we see our students achieve remarkable feats, and this year – despite being unusual due to a global pandemic that leaves us working and studying from home – is no different. Whether it is a highly successful grade in a particular subject or an excellent performance in thesis-work, students in the School of […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/07/27/celebrating-our-students-achievements
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SHAPS Digest (June 2020)
A monthly round-up of media commentary, publications and projects, and other news from across the School community.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/07/09/shaps-digest-june-2020
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Andrew Black
Andrew Black, ‘The Victorian Farmers’ Union, Country, and National Party, 1916-2000: Survival, Adaptation, and Evolution‘ (PhD in History, 2020) This thesis undertakes a detailed analysis of the Country-National Party in Victorian state politics from its formation as the Victorian Farmers’ Union during the First World War through to the defeat of the Kennett Liberal-National Coalition […] -
Rebekah Currer
Rebekah Currer, ‘Dissent, Discussion and Dissemination: The Strategies of the Kensington Society in the mid-Victorian Women’s Movement’ (PhD in History, 2020) This thesis investigates the strategic communication of mid-nineteenth century British feminism through the activism and networking of the Kensington Society (1850–1890). Collectively and individually, the 68 members of Britain’s first female-only discussion society practised […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/07/rebekah-currer
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New Books by SHAPS Staff and Recent Graduates
The publication of a new book is an occasion that should rightly be celebrated with colleagues and friends. Since we can’t gather in person to launch these new books by SHAPS scholars, we share their details here. We congratulate in particular Liam Byrne, Julie Patricia Johnson, and Sue Silberberg, three recent PhDs who have just […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/05/new-books-by-shaps-staff-and-recent-graduates
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Episode 3 in the SHAPS Podcast Series: Professor Margaret Cameron
This episode of our podcast, Disaster & Change, is intended to help us think through our current situation during the global coronavirus pandemic. The focus is on understanding the phenomenon of change or, more specifically, how we understand the causes of change. This is a philosophical discussion, although it has been prepared in a way […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/05/21/disaster-change-3
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Gender Equity in the Workplace: An Interview with Professor Cordelia Fine
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Cordelia Fine, is well-known for her research into science, sex and gender. While her earlier research involved critiquing the science of sex differences, lately she has turned to issues of gender equality in the workplace. This research led to her recent invitation to join former Prime Minister Julia […] -
All Roads Lead to Rome: The Thérèse and Ronald Ridley Scholarship
In 2019, Thérèse and Ron Ridley established a scholarship to enable a PhD student in the Classics and Archaeology program at the University of Melbourne to travel to the British School at Rome. Larissa Tittl spoke with Ron Ridley, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, about the new scholarship and the […] -
Philosophy on the Small Screen
In 2019, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Dan Halliday teamed up with Snodger Media and the ABC to make a documentary series on practical ethics. The result was a series called Ethics Matters, which was integrated into high school curricula in Victoria and New South Wales. He speaks here with Carley Tonoli about his experience in […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/12/05/philosophy-on-the-small-screen
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Meet the new Head of School, Professor Margaret Cameron
In the midst of her relocation from Canada to commence her appointment as the new Head of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies (SHAPS), Professor Margaret Cameron took some time out to chat to SHAPS Forum’s Carley Tonoli about her love of philosophy, her academic career, and her excitement about heading up the SHAPS […] -
Russian History Returns to Melbourne
From second semester 2019, undergraduates at the University of Melbourne will be able to study Soviet history, with the launch of the second-year subject ‘Red Empire: The Soviet Union and After’. This brand-new subject is part of the History program’s curriculum revamp, led by Hansen Chair Professor Mark Edele. It also marks a revitalisation of […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/06/11/russian-history-returns-to-melbourne
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Hussam Alganahi
‘The Relationship between Law Enforcement and Power in Islam’ (PhD in History, 2019) The rationale behind this study is the turmoil that has taken place in the Middle East and North Africa as a result of the terrorist acts that have occurred in the region since the late 1990s. The practices of contemporary extremist groups, […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/07/hussam-alganahi
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Elena Balcaite
‘Lives of Sports Fans: Meaning in the Face of Inconsequence’ (PhD, 2019). Spectator sport may seem inconsequential to everyday life, yet ordinary people expend intense emotional energy and devote vast amounts of time and money following (and cheering for) their favourites. Emotional whirlwinds and the inevitable suffering that the fluctuating fortunes of sports teams and […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/07/elena-balcaite
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Ken Barelli
‘The Voice of Methodism: Temperance Policy in Victoria, Australia 1902–1977’ (MA in History, 2018). This thesis seeks to examine the influence of the Methodist Church in Victoria, Australia, on public policy in the twentieth century using the issue of Temperance as a case study. Methodists had a tradition of social activism dating back to their […] -
Najwa Belkziz
‘The Politics of Memory and Transitional Justice in Morocco’ (PhD in History, 2018). This thesis investigated four decades of human rights abuses in Morocco and the transitional justice mechanisms implemented by the governing regime between 1990 and 2015 to reckon with this violent legacy. My critical discourse analysis of the official and opposition narratives about […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/06/najwa-belkziz
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Rebecca Clifton
‘Art and Identity in the Age of Akhenaten’ (PhD in Classics & Archaeology, 2019). In this thesis, I investigate expressions of identity in the art of the Amarna Period, focusing on two main areas: firstly, artistic representations of the royal family and the Aten and, secondly, artistic representations of Amarna’s elite within their tombs. I […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/05/rebecca-clifton
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Brigid Evans
‘Integration or Separation? Educational Justice Requirements for the Disabled’ (MA in Philosophy, 2018). In academic political philosophy, there is currently much enthusiasm surrounding the development of integration as a requirement of social justice. The application of integration to educational policy already exists but has centred on overcoming racial and/or economic segregation. Integration as a moral […] -
Nicholas Evans
‘A Revolution in Just War Theory? Expanding the Laws and Ethics of War to Cover Revolutionary Conflict’ (PhD in Philosophy, 2018). Can just war theory be extended to cover revolutionary conflict and other forms of intrastate war? In short, it can be. Yet how this might be achieved is contingent on one’s commitment to particular […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/04/nicholas-evans
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Sarah Green
‘Childhood, War and Memory: Experiences of Bosnian Child Refugees in Australia‘ (PhD in History, 2019). This thesis explores the impact of war and displacement on children who moved to Australia during and after the 1992–1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It takes as its starting point the knowledge that the Bosnian war – like all […] -
Mohammad Mahdi Sadrforati
Mohammad Mahdi Sadrforati, ‘Conceptual Change: Rationality, Progress and Communication’ (PhD in Philosophy, 2019) Conceptual change in science first became a hot topic five decades ago, when questions were raised about rationality and progress through scientific change. The first and most well-known approach to explaining conceptual change was to explain the rationality and progress of science […] -
Ariel Kruger
‘A Principled Reason to Prefer Causal Explanation in the Sciences’ (PhD in Philosophy, 2018). Not all scientific explanations are causal; some are non-causal. Can we find any reason to prefer one over the other? If the explanations are competing to explain the same phenomenon and adjudicating between them cannot be done on empirical grounds, I […] -
Molly Mckew
Molly Mckew, ‘Remembering the Counterculture: Melbourne’s Inner-Urban Alternative Communities of the 1960s and 1970s’ (PhD in History, 2019) In the 1960s and 1970s, a counterculture emerged in Melbourne’s inner-urban suburbs, part of progressive cultural and political shifts that were occurring in Western democracies worldwide. This counterculture sought to enact political and social change through experimenting […] -
Alexander McPhee-Browne
‘Evangelists for Freedom: Libertarian Populism and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Conservatism, 1930–1950′ (MA in History, 2018). This thesis examines the history of rightwing anti-statist thought in twentieth-century America from 1930 to 1950, focusing on the works of an array of intellectuals, politicians and activists who forged a distinct synthesis of classical American individualism with […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/01/alexander-mcphee-browne
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Mahmoud Mohammed
‘Changes in the Chemical Composition of Archaeological Wood Caused by Exposure to Different Environments and Its Relation with the Other Properties’ (PhD in cultural materials & conservation, 2018). This thesis aims to characterise the deterioration mechanisms of dry cultural heritage wood by applying a multi-analytical technique that is comparable to that used for waterlogged archaeological […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/01/mahmoud-mohammed
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David Mouritz
‘East Greek Pottery and Graeco-Anatolian Mercenaries in the Southern Levant in Iron Age IIC (ca. 600 BCE)’ (PhD in Ancient World Studies, 2018). This thesis questions the current scholarly consensus that East Greek mercenaries were responsible for the late seventh-century BCE East Greek pottery found in the Southern Levant. It is argued that it is […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/10/30/david-mouritz
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Anh Nguyen
‘Vietnamese Child Migrants in Australia and the Historical Use of Facebook in Digital Diaspora‘ (PhD in History, 2019) Vietnamese have been a part of Australia’s migrant community since 1975. After more than forty years since the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnamese child migrants, including refugees and adoptees, have grown up with the education and […] -
Emily Noake
‘Identifying, Characterising and Mapping the Deterioration of Cellulose Nitrate in Museum Collections: An Archaeological Adhesive Case Study’ (PhD in Cultural Materials Conservation, 2018). Introduced in the 1870s, cellulose nitrate (CN) has been widely used as a plastic, in film, coatings and adhesives. Research has shown CN to be an inherently unstable material, subject to rapid, […] -
Marcia Nugent
‘Botanic Motifs of the Bronze Age Cycladic Islands: Identity, Belief, Ritual and Trade’ (PhD in Classics & Archaeology, 2019). This thesis argues the motifs with which we surround ourselves signify something – about us, our identities, our values and our understanding of the world. Frequently and infrequently represented motifs tell us something about the culture […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/10/30/marcia-nugent
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Konstantine Panegyres
‘Problems in Greek Textual Criticism’ (MA in Classics & Archaeology, 2019). The thesis is written in the form of a traditional dissertation on textual criticism, namely with various isolated notes on select philological problems found in a wide number of ancient authors, from the Classical to the Byzantine period. Supervisor: Dr Hyun Jin Kim […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/10/29/konstantine-panegyres
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Bethany Phillips-Peddlesden
‘Prime Ministers: Gender and Power in Australian Political History, 1902–1975‘ (PhD in History, 2019). This thesis offers an historical examination of the relationship between gender, political authority and prime ministers in Australia from Federation to 1975. By analysing contestations of political legitimacy through embodied styles of manhood and the languages of gender, I aim to […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/10/28/bethany-phillips-peddlesden
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Sarah Schmidt
‘Boundaries between Individual and Communal Authorship of Aboriginal Art in Context of Clifford Possum’s Tjapaltjarri’s Art and the Case of R v O’Loughlin (2001) (PhD in Art History and Indigenous Studies, 2019). This research concerns the oeuvre of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri in the context of art fraud. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was an Anmatyerr man (c1932–2002). […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/10/26/sarah-schmidt
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Weiyan Sun
‘Culture, Civilization, and Christianity: “Anti-Mission” in Lord Salisbury’s Policy towards India’ (PhD in History, 2019). This research aims to explore the internal tensions of British imperialism by revealing the conflicts over the meanings and values of British civilising mission in India. It expounds the seemingly inconsistent and controversial policy of Lord Salisbury towards India, with […] -
Eva van der Brugge
‘The Use of Argument Mapping in Improving Critical Thinking’ (PhD in Philosophy, 2018). Critical thinking is not defined clearly enough to guide teachers in practice. Even within the broad definitional categories that can be discerned, individual definitions are rarely specific enough to allow for clear educational or assessment frameworks. Purpose-built critical thinking tests mostly fail […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/10/23/eva-van-der-brugge
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Sharyn Volk
“Ancient Egyptian and Nubian Funerary Figurines: Classification and Meaning” (PhD in Classics & Archaeology, 2019). Ancient Egyptian and Nubian funerary figurines are variously described as shabtis, shawabti(y)s and us(c)hebtis. A relationship has been established between the lexicon and the time of their manufacture and deposit. Shabti is first attested in the 13th dynasty and is […] -
Roland Wettenhall
‘The Influence of the Friendly Society Movement in Victoria, 1835–1920’ (PhD in History, 2019). Entrepreneurial individuals who migrated seeking adventure, wealth and opportunity initially stimulated friendly societies in Victoria. As seen through the development of friendly societies in Victoria, this thesis examines the migration of an English nineteenth-century culture of self-help. Friendly societies may be […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/10/23/roland-wettenhall
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George Wood
‘The Feeling of Metaphor’ (MA in Philosophy, 2019). There is a tendency in analytic philosophy of language to separate a metaphor’s affective powers, often identified with its ability to make us ‘see’ things in new ways, from a conception of its meaning. This is the case in the non-cognitivist denial that there is such a […]
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