Category: History

  1. UniMelb History Society

    Since its establishment in 2017, the History Society has been tirelessly dedicated to upholding its central mission of promoting the study of history at the University of Melbourne, and creating an inclusive and welcoming community for students who have an interest in history. To this end, we run a number of educational and social events. […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/01/21/unimelb-history-society

  2. Melbourne History Workshop

    Melbourne History Workshop is a studio-based research collaboratory in the History Program at the University of Melbourne under the direction of Professor Andrew May. It taps the pooled expertise of staff, research higher degree students and affiliates in order to provide innovative and rigorously-applied historical research, postgraduate training, industry collaboration and community-facing projects. The Workshop’s […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/01/14/melbourne-history-workshop

  3. Australian Historical Studies

    Australian Historical Studies is the oldest historical journal in Australia. It was first published in 1940 in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne. The journal deals with all aspects of the Australian past in all its forms – heritage and conservation, archaeology, visual display in museums and galleries, oral history, family history […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/01/10/australian-historical-studies

  4. Chariot

    Chariot is an undergraduate history journal at the University of Melbourne, created by and for students. The journal provides a space for students to engage with history in their own way, publishing online and in print. Online submissions are always open. We consider essays, commentaries, reviews, and creative pieces (including short fiction, poetry and visual art) […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/01/09/chariot

  5. Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    The Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (JSPPS) is a bi-annual interdisciplinary journal that was launched in 2015 as a companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andreas Umland). Like the book series, the journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for new original research on […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/01/06/journal-of-soviet-and-post-soviet-politics-and-society

  6. Melbourne Historical Journal

    Published since 1961, the Melbourne Historical Journal (MHJ) is a refereed journal that aims to promote and publish new work by postgraduate and early career researchers. MHJ is usually published once a year. We also publish the occasional MHJ Research Series. The 2019 theme, Narratives and Power, was chosen to turn attention towards the ethical […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/01/05/melbourne-historical-journal

  7. Lynn Abrams on Narrating the Female Self in the Feminist Age

    The 2017 Kathleen Fitzpatrick History Lecture, delivered by Professor Lynn Abrams (University of Glasgow). Life story telling has become a central plank of our confessional age as well as a key methodology of modern histories whether via the written autobiography, the oral history, or the self telling made possible by new forms of media. In […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2017/01/02/feminographies-narrating-the-female-self-in-the-feminist-age

  8. Melissa Afentoulis

    ‘Migration from Limnos to Australia: Re-discovering Identity, Belonging and “Home”‘ (PhD in History, 2019). This doctoral dissertation is a case study of migrants coming to Australia in the period 1950s–1970s, from Limnos (otherwise known as Lemnos), an Aegean island of Greece. The thesis explores intergenerational migration experiences by interrogating emerging themes that arise in the […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/08/melissa-afentoulis

  9. Rustam Alexander

    ‘Homosexuality in the USSR, 1956–82’ (PhD in History, 2018). This thesis investigates the history of debates on homosexuality in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev. Drawing on a range of hitherto unexplored archival and other sources I demonstrate that there was a lively discussion on the subject among various Soviet experts during this period. […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/07/rustam-alexander

  10. 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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