About
Forum is co-created by staff and postgraduate students from across the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies (SHAPS) at the University of Melbourne.
Forum aims to provide a digital home for SHAPS public-facing research and other activities, featuring news and commentary on the research and teaching happenings across the School.
It offers our students an opportunity to enrich their experience by participating in the life of the School more fully, building relationships with academic staff and fellow students, and taking part in public conversations about our work. Forum also offers a platform for showcasing the best work produced by our students, at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Forum is an initiative of the SHAPS Engagement Committee. The SHAPS Engagement Chair, Julie Fedor, and Discipline reps — Dan Halliday (Philosophy), Catherine Kovesi (History) (in Semester 1/2021: David Goodman (History)), Robert Lazarus Lane (Grimwade Centre), Fallon Mody (HPS), and Gijs Tol (Classics & Archaeology) — oversee the site and provide mentoring and support to the Forum team.
The SHAPS Engagement committee also includes a postgrad representative (in 2021: Henry Dobson, representing the Philosophy Postgraduate Group), and the SHAPS Events Coordinator, Leanne Hunt.
The SHAPS Engagement committee’s brief is to advance the University of Melbourne’s three key Engagement commitments: public value; engaged students; and engaged research. Forum is designed to further all three of these aims.
Forum is generously supported by SHAPS.
If you would like to contribute content or to feature your project on Forum, email Julie Fedor.
All other enquiries regarding SHAPS should be directed to the SHAPS website. Information on the different programs within SHAPS can be found through the links below:
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- History: Russia’s War on Ukraine, Part II
- An Interview with Associate Professor Laura Schroeter
- SHAPS Digest (May 2022)
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- Nicole Davis: Forum Content Manager
- Why Wait? Treaty and the Federal Election
- Becky Clifton
- Henry Dobson
- Ash Finn
- Resistance: Russia’s War on Ukraine, Part I
- Samara Greenwood
- Christianity, Colonisation and the Challenge of Māori History
- Anton Donohoe-Marques
- Elena Heran
- MAARC 2022 Conference Report
- Thomas Keep
- Nayree Mardirian
- Henry Reese
- Samantha Rogers
- SHAPS Digest (April 2022)
- Sophie Lewincamp
- Carl Joseph Sciglitano
- David Liknaitzky
- Jonathan Tehusijarana
- Larissa Tittl
- Hidden Women of History: ‘The Buzzwinker’ Ellen Miles, Child Convict, Goldfields Pickpocket and Vagrant
- Carley Tonoli
- Sam Watts
- An Interview with Dr Darrin Durant
- Miniature Qur’ans and Travelling Manuscripts
- Scroll: A Journal by Student Conservators
- SHAPS Digest (March 2022)
- Five Must-Read Books about Russia and Ukraine: Our Expert Picks
- Inches Apart: Railways & Federation
- MUCLASS in 2021
- Stuart Macintyre’s History of the Communist Party of Australia
- An Interview with Associate Professor François Schroeter
- SHAPS Digest (February 2022)
- Solidarity with Ukraine
- ‘National Security’ and Australian Identity
- Elizabeth Tunstall
- Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
- Jimmy Yan
- Safe Sex – Roman Style
- Richard Young
- Exploring the History of Indian Philosophy
- SHAPS Digest (January 2022)
- Mynas Matter: Towards a Cultural History of ‘Invasive’ Species in Australia
- Maternal Metamorphosis: How Mothering Has Changed in Australia Since the Second World War
- How to Pursue a Career in Archaeology
- Defining Political Terrorism
- We Need to Rethink How We Manage Deathcare
- Performances on the World Stage
- Paintings Conservation Fellowship at Harvard Art Museums
- The UniMelb History Society in 2021
- SHAPS Digest (November–December 2021)
- Return to Vietnam: Mapping American and Australian Veterans’ Journeys
- An Interview with Professor Howard Sankey
- Book Conservation in the Twenty-First Century
- Vale Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021): A History Warrior Who Worked for a Better Australia
- Women & the Plague: The 1919 Spanish Influenza Pandemic in Melbourne
- Student History Journal Chariot in 2021
- Against Erasure
- An Interview with Hansen Associate Professor Jenny Spinks
- Leila Alhagh
- Paul-George Arnaud
- Celebrating Our Students’ Achievements
- Trent Duan
- Timo Eckhardt
- John Henry
- Stephen Jakubowicz
- Introduction to Textile Conservation
- Themistocles Kritikakos
- Country, Culture and Conflict on Australia’s Early Colonial Frontiers
- Jen McFarland
- Sakinah Munday
- Jessie Matheson
- Ainslee Meredith
- Melbourne University Philosophy Society 2020–2021
- Josipa Mickova
- Joseph Parro
- SHAPS Digest (October 2021)
- Paul-Mikhail Podosky
- Alisha Rajaratnam
- Greg Dening (1931–2008)
- Susan Reidy
- Donna Merwick Dening (1932–2021)
- Bengi Selvi-Lamb
- Paul Siemers
- Antonia Smyth
- Bali Art & Heritage Conservation Internship Program #BAHCIP
- Blake Peter Stove
- William Tuckwell
- The 2021 International Summer School in Transnational History, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- Submarines and Vaccines: France’s 2022 Presidential Elections
- SHAPS Digest (September 2021)
- The Symbolism of Australia’s Southern Cross
- Unpacking the History of Quantum Mechanics
- An Interview with Associate Professor Catherine Kovesi