Category: History

  1. Melanie Brand

    Melanie Brand [submitted as Melanie Davis] (PhD in History, 2023) ‘A Question of Trust: Secrecy and Intelligence Accountability in Cold War Australia’ Intelligence oversight and transparency have traditionally been conceptualised as a zero-sum equation in which decreases in secrecy were believed to come at the cost of intelligence agency efficacy. This thesis challenges that view. While […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/11/01/melanie-brand

  2. Meet Dr Oleg Beyda, Hansen Lecturer in Russian History

    In 2022, Dr Oleg Beyda was appointed Hansen Lecturer in Russian History. Dr Beyda’s research focuses on the post-revolutionary Russian diaspora, with a particular emphasis upon their experiences of the Second World War. History alumnus Noah Ellis sat down with Oleg to discuss his research and his approach to teaching. Your research focuses upon the […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/09/23/meet-dr-oleg-beyda-hansen-lecturer-in-russian-history

  3. Re-Building: Russia’s War on Ukraine, Part VI

    A video-recording of the sixth and final instalment in this series, featuring His Excellency Bruce Edwards, Professor Torbjörn Becker, Slava Balbek, Professor Natalia Kudriavtseva, and Emeritus Professor Marko Pavlyshyn, and Jurij Suchowerskij (November 2022).

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/08/24/re-building-russias-war-on-ukraine-part-vi

  4. Has Russia Contained the Prigozhin Threat?

    Its long history of managing violent mercenaries suggests so, as Professor Mark Edele explores in this article, republished from The Conversation. A month on since pundits declared the imminent start of a new Russian civil war, we’re still waiting. Moreover, we still know very little about what went on when Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/07/24/has-russia-contained-the-prigozhin-threat

  5. ‘Wokeness’ and White Conservatives in America

    Conservatives in the United States have launched an offensive against so-called wokeness as they head towards the 2024 Presidential Election. In this article, first published in the Conversation as, ‘Why ‘Wokeness’ has Become the Latest Battlefront for White Conservatives in America’, SHAPS Honorary Liam Byrne, together with Emma Shortis (SHAPS Graduate, RMIT) write about this […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/07/04/wokeness-and-white-conservatives-in-america

  6. Guaraní Labour and British Capitalism

    Dr Freg Stokes recently completed his PhD in History, focusing on the history of Indigenous resistance to colonisation in the Atlantic rainforest of South America from the early sixteenth century. In this video, originally produced for the Ka’a Body Exhibition at Paradise Row Gallery in London, he presents his findings on the role played by […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/06/26/guarani-labour-and-british-capitalism

  7. Introducing Dr Andonis Piperoglou

    In 2022 Dr Andonis Piperoglou was appointed the inaugural Hellenic Senior Lecturer in Global Diasporas. In this role Dr Piperoglou is teaching on topics related to migration, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism, as well as the global dynamics of Hellenic culture and diaspora. Andonis frequently engages with the wider public on the relevance of Hellenism’s pasts and […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/06/19/introducing-dr-andonis-piperoglou-hellenic-senior-lecturer-in-global-diasporas

  8. Reading the Nineteenth-Century Diaries of Girls Migrating to Australia

    In the nineteenth century, a large number of girls and young women (aged from under 15 to their early 20s) made the long journey to Australia from various locations around the globe published. Hansen PhD Scholarship holder, Cat Gay (History), explored the emotional histories of some of these journeys in this recently published article from […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/06/15/reading-the-nineteenth-century-diaries-of-girls-migrating-to-australia

  9. Tribute to Mark Raphael Baker

    The School community was saddened by the death in early May of distinguished historian Mark Raphael Baker, inaugural Lecturer in Jewish Studies in 1988 and former Director of the Jewish Studies Program. We re-publish here a tribute by his father-in-law, Raimond Gaita (Honorary Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Law School and Arts), originally published in The Conversation. […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/06/11/raimond-gaita-farewells-mark-raphael-baker

  10. Is NATO to Blame for the Russo-Ukrainian War?

    Mark Edele, SHAPS Hansen Professor in History and Deputy Dean, Faculty of Arts, explores this question in his review of Serhii Plokhy’s new book, The Russo-Ukrainian War (Allen Lane), republished here from The Conversation. A year after Russia’s all-out attack against its neighbour on 24 February 2022, volumes trying to explain the conflict to the […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2023/05/26/is-nato-to-blame-for-the-russo-ukrainian-war

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