Category: Sound & Vision

  1. Episode 4 in the SHAPS Podcast Series: Professor Nathan Rosenstein

    The catastrophic defeat Hannibal inflicted on Rome at Cannae in 216 BCE forced the Republic to drastically change how it would fight the Second Punic War. A strategy of direct military confrontation had to be abandoned in favour of a war of attrition. This strategic shift necessitated a series of additional changes in how Rome […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/15/disaster-change-4

  2. SHAPS in the Media (May 2020)

    This month’s digest of SHAPS research in the media offers a rich selection across a range of topics and genres, from podcasts on Bronze Age pandemics, and on the relationship between logic and belief; online conversations about the ethics of conducting sustainable research, and about cinematic representations of Stalinism; radio interviews on new books in […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/12/shaps-in-the-media-may-2020

  3. Graham Berry, Democratic Adventurer: An Interview with Professor Sean Scalmer

    Sean Scalmer, Professor of History in SHAPS, has just published a new book on the nineteenth-century Australian political figure, Premier of Victoria, Graham Berry. Democratic Adventurer: Graham Berry and the Making of Australian Politics tells the story of Berry’s ‘remarkable rise from linen-draper and grocer to adored popular leader’, and his role in shaping Australian […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/05/26/graham-berry-democratic-adventurer-an-interview-with-professor-sean-scalmer

  4. Episode 3 in the SHAPS Podcast Series: Professor Margaret Cameron

    This episode of our podcast, Disaster & Change, is intended to help us think through our current situation during the global coronavirus pandemic. The focus is on understanding the phenomenon of change or, more specifically, how we understand the causes of change. This is a philosophical discussion, although it has been prepared in a way […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/05/21/disaster-change-3

  5. Episode 2 in the SHAPS Podcast Series: Professor Mark Edele

    Does an unplanned and large-scale calamity – a war, say, or a global economic crisis – lead to lasting social, cultural, and political change? This podcast explores this question with regard to the Soviet Union and World War II. The calamity of the war had a devastating impact on Soviet society, on the Soviet economy, […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/05/11/disaster-change-2

  6. SHAPS in the News: A Digest of Recent Media Commentary by Our Staff & Students

    The need for expert knowledge and analysis has been brought into sharp relief as we struggle to understand and respond to the COVID-19 emergency. In this digest, we bring together samples of commentary produced by SHAPS staff and students, and media coverage of our research, in recent months.  Melbourne History Workshop’s (led by Professor Andrew […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/05/04/shaps-in-the-news

  7. Professor Janet McCalman Opens Our New Podcast Series

    We are excited to announce the launch of the SHAPS Podcast Series, with this inaugural episode, presented by Professor Janet McCalman, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the Melbourne School of Population Health, and introduced by Professor Margaret Cameron, Head of SHAPS. Since 2015, our annual themed public lecture series has been a flagship event on […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/05/01/disaster-and-change-1

  8. Listening Across Boundaries: The Greg Dening Memorial Lecture 2019

    Emeritus Professor Greg Dening (1931–2008) occupies an important place in the history of the History program at the University of Melbourne. As Tom Griffiths put it: “Greg was not only a wonderful historian but also a gifted teacher, and he believed that immersion scholarship could be transformative — of oneself, and also of the world […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/02/25/greg-dening-lecture-2019

  9. Brian Nosek on the Open Science Movement

    A lecture delivered by Brian Nosek as part of the 2019 SHAPS ‘Walls’ Public Lecture Series, on 4 April 2019. Publish or perish – a scientific career is based on getting published in peer reviewed academic journals. But this pressure increases the risk for scientists to employ flexible analytic and selective reporting practices. The Open […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/04/04/walls-can-fall-the-open-science-movement

  10. Animating SHAPS Research: Collaboration with VCA Animation Students

    Reunion (2018) is a short animation by VCA Animation students Jackson Cook and Jenn Tran, in collaboration with History PhD candidate Anh Nguyen.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/02/16/reunion-2018-history-vca-collaboration-project

  11. 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

  12. Marguerite Johnson on Love Magic in the Ancient Mediterranean

    A lecture delivered by cultural historian Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle) for the 2017 SHAPS ‘Love’ Public Lecture Series. It was a well-kept secret among historians during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that the practice of magic was widespread in the ancient Mediterranean. Historians wanted to keep the activity secret because it did […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2017/01/01/under-your-spell

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