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:
Gender Studies Interdisciplinary Program
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- SHAPS Digest (May 2021)
- What was it Like to be a Child in the Roman Empire?
- Shan Windscript on Locating the New Socialist Countryside in Mao’s China
- Reflections on the Last Two Decades of Indigenous Histories
- The PolyMuse Project
- Leila Alhagh
- Introducing Dr Monique Webber, Teaching Specialist in Ancient World Studies
- Paul-Mikhail Podosky
- Thank You, June McBeth!
- SHAPS Digest (April 2021)
- Astronomy in World History
- Music, Physics, and Conservation: An Interview with Dr Gea Parikesit
- Control 2021
- Exploring the History of Piracy
- Reflecting on the Career and Work of Christopher Cordner
- SHAPS Digest (March 2021)
- The Life Stories of Gippsland Lakes Fishers
- Mediterranean Archaeologists Gather Online
- Gita Yoga: Interview with Dr Fay Woodhouse
- The Truth Behind A Pirate Legend
- Charlotte-Rose Millar on Urban Ghosts in Early Modern London
- Fifty Years of French Revolution: A Celebration of Peter McPhee
- Indigenous Culture Collections
- SHAPS Digest (February 2021)
- Is This the End of the ‘American Century’?
- Charles Coppel on Elias Godfrey Coppel CMG QC LLD on the Supreme Court of Victoria
- Episode 6 in the SHAPS Podcast Series: Professor Mike Arnold
- Welcome Dr Richard Lee, New Lecturer in Chinese History
- Vale, Josie Winther
- Introducing New Lecturer in Gender History, Dr Annabelle Baldwin
- Reflections on the VCA Digital Archive of Student Film
- Classics on YouTube: An Interview with John Henry
- Meet the 2021 Hansen PhD Scholar, Georgia Comte
- SHAPS Digest (January 2021)
- What Philosophy Can Tell Us About Sex and the Human Condition
- A Shipwreck and a Song: Isabel Hollingdale on Family History, Creativity and the Women of World War Two
- History Capstone 2020 Showcase
- Encounters, Agency, and Race in Oceania
- Stuart Macintyre in Conversation with History Honours Students
- Introducing MAARC: A New Network for Mediterranean Archaeologists in Australasia
- David Palmer on Korean Forced Laborers in Wartime Japan
- Scientist and Killer: A Split Life
- SHAPS Digest (December 2020)
- Empowering Communities through Shared Learning
- The Queen who Defied the Holy Roman Emperor
- Exploring the History of Antimatter
- Looking Back at the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic in Colonial Indonesia
- Documenting the History of Worco Crafts Co-operative
- Cataloguing the University’s School of Chemistry Collection
- World AIDS Day: Interview with History Graduate Timothy Krulic
- SHAPS Digest (November 2020)
- ‘Narratives & Power’: Melbourne Historical Journal Volume 47 Launch
- Historians Working for Justice at the Waitangi Tribunal
- ‘Donkey Work’ and the History of Labour
- Applied Proof Theory: Holding an International Workshop during the Pandemic
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Internship
- Rebuilding Life after Mass Violence: Lessons from the Chilean Truth Commission
- SHAPS Digest (October 2020)
- The Uncounted Death Toll of Coronavirus in Aged Care
- Feminism and the History of Democracy
- The Early History of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne
- Meet the New History Society Office-Holders
- Darius von Güttner on Bona Sforza, Queen of Poland
- On God and Science
- Introducing Dr Julia Hurst, Lecturer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History
- Federation Stars: The Meanings of Popular Astronomy in Australia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- The 1970s and the Making of Modern Australia
- SHAPS Digest (September 2020)
- The Sands of Time: Histories of the Medieval and Early Modern Hourglass
- Restoring and Conserving the Parish Church at Guiuan, Eastern Samar
- Spotlight on Postgraduate Research in Classics
- Reimagining Trust in Science
- Other Awful Years in History
- WFH as a Textile Conservator
- SHAPS Digest (August 2020)
- Welcome Dr Lieve Donnellan!
- Pirates or Partners?
- Exploring the History of Whales and Whaling
- Body-makers and Farthingale-makers in Seventeenth-century London
- From HPS to Saving Planet A
- Students Chat about Philosophy
- Documenting Margel Hinder’s Contribution to Australian Modern Art
- The Bishop with 150 Wives
- “Ffor Whalebones to it”: The Baleen Trade and Fashion in Sixteenth-century Europe
- Volcanic Winter and Pandemic Pandemonium
- Chris Bendle
- The Inaugural SHAPS Optimus Awards
- Meet the 2020 Hansen PhD Scholar Cat Gay
- Are There ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ Brains?
- SHAPS Digest (July 2020)
- Is This the Earliest Depiction of a Dodo in Art?
- Sport, Community and Everyday Life: World War One and COVID-19 Compared
- Celebrating Our Students’ Achievements
- How to Keep Minorities Out of Philosophy
- Hagia Sophia Reigns Serene
- What Today’s News Has in Common with Early Execution Ballads
- Confronting the History of Race and Empathy in the Classroom: A Conversation with Dr Sarah Walsh
- Remembering Ding Dyason: Bringing Humanities and Science Together
- Australia’s Earliest European-built Boat?
- SHAPS Digest (June 2020)