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  1. Classics on YouTube: An Interview with John Henry

    In 2018, current MA candidate in Classics John Henry created his own YouTube channel, Foxwede History, where he delivers mini-lectures on myth, literature and history through his alter ego, Dr Eldon Foxwede. Beautifully produced and presented with humour and creativity, his videos have drawn an audience from many different countries. We spoke with John about […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/02/09/classics-on-youtube-an-interview-with-john-henry

  2. Meet the 2021 Hansen PhD Scholar, Georgia Comte

    Since 2016, an annual Hansen PhD scholarship in History has been awarded to support an outstanding researcher with a commitment to promoting History to the wider community. This year’s Hansen PhD scholar is Georgia Comte, who will be investigating gender and sexuality in late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century French art. Georgia embarks on this project […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/02/05/meet-the-2021-hansen-phd-scholar-georgia-comte

  3. SHAPS Digest (January 2021)

    A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications and projects, and other news from across the School community.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/02/02/shaps-digest-january-2021

  4. What Philosophy Can Tell Us About Sex and the Human Condition

    Dr Damon Young is an associate in Philosophy, and the author of several acclaimed nonfiction books, including Philosophy in the Garden (MUP 2012) and The Art of Reading (MUP 2016). His most recent book is On Getting Off: Sex and Philosophy (Scribe 2020) which looks more closely at this most intimate (but often disparaged) part of […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/01/29/philosophers-on-sex

  5. Darius von Güttner on Bona Sforza and Polish Foreign Policy (1518–1548)

    A video recording of Darius von Güttner's presentation to the SHAPS Fellows & Associates Seminar (January 2021).

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/01/27/darius-von-guttner-on-bona-sforza-and-polish-foreign-policy-1518-48

  6. A Shipwreck and a Song: Isabel Hollingdale on Family History, Creativity and the Women of World War Two

    In the third-year History capstone subject, students are encouraged to experiment with presenting historical research in creative formats. One student in the 2020 cohort, Isabel Hollingdale, an accomplished musician and singer-songwriter, wrote and recorded a song. In the latest of the Forum podcast series, Henry Reese spoke with Isabel about her work, which brings together […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/01/25/a-shipwreck-and-a-song-isabel-hollingdale-on-family-history-creativity-and-the-women-of-world-war-two

  7. History Capstone 2020 Showcase

    Making History is the capstone subject for our History majors — for many of our students this is their last academic unit of History. The subject gives students an opportunity to focus on History in the world as well as History in the academy. We always end the semester with a Closing Conference as an […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/01/22/history-capstone-2020-showcase

  8. Encounters, Agency, and Race in Oceania

    A video-recording of the 2020 Greg Dening Memorial Lecture, delivered by Professor Bronwen Douglas.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/01/15/encounters-agency-and-race-in-oceania

  9. Stuart Macintyre in Conversation with History Honours Students

    As part of the Honours subject The Writing of Australian History (HIST90023), students have the unique opportunity to meet with distinguished historian Professor Emeritus Stuart Macintyre and to engage him in conversation about his work and about Australian historiography more broadly. We share below a videorecording and transcript of one of these sessions, from April […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/01/12/stuart-macintyre-in-conversation-with-history-honours-students

  10. David Palmer on Korean Forced Laborers in Wartime Japan

    During World War II, Imperial Japan relied on hundreds of thousands of Koreans for its economy. Authorities transported almost 800,000 Koreans from their homeland by force from 1939 to 1945 in the largest migration of non-Japanese into Japan in the country’s history. SHAPS Associate in History Dr David Palmer presented his research on this topic to the SHAPS Fellows & Associates seminar in October 2020.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2021/01/07/searching-for-mass-graves-of-korean-forced-laborers-from-wartime-japan

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