Category: 2024
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Bronwyn Beech Jones
Bronwyn Beech Jones (PhD in History, 2024), Textual Worlds: Rethinking Self, Community, and Activism in Colonial-Era Sumatran Women’s Newspaper Archives This thesis examines how women and girls from the island of Sumatra articulated their experiences and conceived of their selves, communities, and aspirations in three Malay language women’s periodicals published between 1912 and 1929. By […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/07/11/bronwyn-beech-jones
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Artem Bourov
Artem Bourov (MA in Philosophy, 2024), Be a Body: From Experiential Self-Awareness to a Truly Bodily Self -
Henry Dobson
Henry Dobson (PhD in Philosophy, 2024), A Common Morality Approach for AI Ethicsblogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/05/14/henry-dobson-2
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Simon Farley
Simon Farley (PhD in History, 2024) “Alien Hordes”: A Cultural History of Non-Native Birds in Australia From 1788, settlers introduced a host of organisms to the Australian continent. They did so largely deliberately, with high hopes, and often viewed these species with immense fondness. Yet now many of these species are labelled ‘invasive’ and killed […] -
Laura Jocic
Laura Jocic (PhD in History, 2024) Dress in Australia: The Materiality of a Colonial Society in the Making -
Elizabeth Muldoon
Elizabeth Muldoon (PhD in History, 2024) Learning History with the Founding Foremothers of the Redfern Black Movementblogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/05/08/elizabeth-muldoon
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Eliza O’Donnell
Eliza O'Donnell (PhD in Cultural Materials Conservation, 2024), The Painting is Broken: Understanding Issues of Authenticity and Art Attribution in Contemporary Indonesiablogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2024/02/17/eliza-odonnell
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Ali Shammary
Ali Shammary (PhD in Philosophy), Absolute Poverty and Human Rights: An Examination of Factual and Normative Issues surrounding Absolute World Poverty In this thesis, I aim to explore factual and normative questions surrounding the problem of world poverty. I begin by asking the following questions: What is absolute poverty? What is the extent of absolute poverty? And […] -
James Field
James Field (PhD in Political Theory and Philosophy, 2024), Democratic Constitutions, Disobedient Citizens: Conflict and Culture in Habermas’ Political Theory This thesis reads Habermas’ political theory in light of his arguments about civil disobedience. I argue that the concept of civil disobedience stands in as a model of democratic conflictuality that is otherwise absent from […]
