Category: News
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Essentialising ‘Russia’ won’t end the war against Ukraine
In this article, republished from the Conversation, SHAPS Hansen Professor in History and Deputy Dean, Mark Edele, reviews Keir Giles's Russia’s War on Everybody and the long historical context of Russia's war on Ukraine. -
SHAPS Digest (January 2023)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications, projects and other news from across the School community.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/02/08/shaps-digest-january-2023
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A Global History of Feminism? Perspectives from across the Pacific World
A video-recording of a roundtable held in October 2022. -
Imperial Russia in Australia & the Pacific
A video-recording of the 2022 Greg Dening Memorial Lecture, delivered by Dr Hilary Howes.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/01/20/2022-greg-dening-memorial-lecture
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SHAPS Digest (December 2022)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications, projects and other news from across the School community.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/01/06/shaps-digest-december-2022
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A Settlement for the Ages at Rabati, Southwest Georgia
The Rabati project is part of the long-running GAIA (Georgian-Australian Investigations in Archaeology) initiative, founded by Tony and Claudia Sagona of the University of Melbourne with collaborators from the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi. In June and July 2022, GAIA conducted its fourth season of excavations at Rabati in the historically important and visually stunning […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/12/19/a-settlement-for-the-ages-at-rabati-southwest-georgia
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Gough Whitlam’s Legacy: Lessons for Labor Today
On 2 December 1972, after 23 years in opposition, Gough Whitlam led the Labor party back to government. What followed was three tumultuous years of crisis and transformation, after which Australia would never be the same again. In our own era, when many have lost faith in the ability of the parliamentary system to deliver […] -
The (Call-)Ins and (Call-)Outs of Norm-Enacting Speech
In 2020 Kelly Herbison was the recipient of a Hastie Scholarship, awarded annually to the highest achieving students in Honours Philosophy. In this article, Kelly shares some of the findings from her Honours thesis project, which used the philosophy of language and social norms to examine the practices of ‘calling-out’ and ‘calling-in’ as methods for […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/12/12/call-ins-and-call-outs
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SHAPS Digest (November 2022)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications, projects and other news from across the School community.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/12/05/shaps-digest-november-2022
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Introducing Dr Matthew Champion
Dr Matthew Champion, appointed to a Senior Lectureship in History in 2022, is a historian of medieval and early modern Europe, with a particular focus on the experience of time and temporality during periods of intense change. In this interview for the SHAPS Forum podcast, Dr Henry Reese talks with Matthew about his research, including […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2022/11/28/introducing-dr-matthew-champion
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