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 — Martin Bush (HPS), Matthew Champion (History), Dan Halliday (Philosophy), Frederik Vervaet (Classics & Archaeology), and Sadra Zekrgoo (Grimwade) — oversee the site and provide mentoring and support to the Forum team.
The SHAPS Engagement committee also includes a postgrad representative (in 2022 Thea Gardiner, representing the History Postgraduate Association), Gerhard Wiesenfeldt (HPS, in his capacity as a member of the Arts Faculty’s International Committee) 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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- Birds in Roman Life and Myth
- SHAPS Digest (August 2023)
- Re-Building: Russia’s War on Ukraine, Part VI
- On Biography and the History of Medicine
- SHAPS Digest (July 2023)
- Robyn Cooper
- Beauty, Wine and Death in the Ancient World
- Celebrating Twenty Years of the Grimwade Centre
- Reflecting on the Nature of Science
- Has Russia Contained the Prigozhin Threat?
- We Need Good Policy to Back Working Dads
- Working Fathers Introduction
- Working Fathers – Episode 1
- Working Fathers – Episode 2
- Working Fathers – Episode 3
- Working Fathers – Episode 4
- Working Fathers – Episode 5
- ‘Wokeness’ and White Conservatives in America
- SHAPS Digest (June 2023)
- Guaraní Labour and British Capitalism
- Introducing Dr Andonis Piperoglou
- Reading the Nineteenth-Century Diaries of Girls Migrating to Australia
- Tribute to Mark Raphael Baker
- Policing Women’s Drinking in Ancient Rome
- SHAPS Digest (May 2023)
- The HPS Podcast is Here!
- Is NATO to Blame for the Russo-Ukrainian War?
- “Habits of Civilised Life”
- Happy Ancient Roman Mother’s Day
- SHAPS Research Celebration
- SHAPS Digest (April 2023)
- Conserving Performance: An Interview with Louise Lawson
- Nicole Davis
- First Nations People Have Made a Plea for ‘Truth-Telling’
- Revisiting Frazer’s Golden Bough
- The D-Notice System and the Question of Trust
- All Rivers Lead to Rome
- SHAPS Digest (March 2023)
- Jewish Antifascism in Post-World War II Australia
- Review of Lucy Frost’s Convict Orphans
- Leonard D’Cruz
- Poetry: Russia’s War on Ukraine, Part V
- SHAPS Digest (February 2023)
- New Perspectives on Filipino Textile Weaving
- Lessons from the History of Tobacco Advertising Reform
- Elena Heran
- Assessing Joe Biden’s Place in History
- Essentialising ‘Russia’ won’t end the war against Ukraine
- SHAPS Digest (January 2023)
- Alastair James
- Caroline James-Garrod
- Tonia Sellers
- Diana Tay
- Morgan Weaving
- Neville Yeomans
- A Global History of Feminism? Perspectives from across the Pacific World
- Imperial Russia in Australia & the Pacific
- SHAPS Digest (December 2022)
- A Settlement for the Ages at Rabati, Southwest Georgia
- Gough Whitlam’s Legacy: Lessons for Labor Today
- The (Call-)Ins and (Call-)Outs of Norm-Enacting Speech
- SHAPS Digest (November 2022)
- Introducing Dr Matthew Champion
- Conserving the World’s Oldest Processional Dragon
- Review of Frank Bongiorno’s Political History of Australia
- Solidarity: Russia’s War on Ukraine, Part IV
- SHAPS Digest (October 2022)
- Think you know your Ancient History?
- Dr Donald Edward Kennedy (1928–2021)
- Failed Decolonisation: Russia, Ukraine and Vladimir Putin
- Introducing 2022 Hansen Scholar in History Ines Jahudka
- The Reckoning of Gillard’s Misogyny Speech
- An Interview with Associate Professor James Chong-Gossard
- SHAPS Digest (September 2022)
- Imagining a Different Internet
- The Technical Study of Bernini’s Bronzes
- Cuckoldry in Early Modern England
- Understanding the Experiences of Early Career Researchers
- SHAPS Digest (August 2022)
- Propaganda: Russia’s War on Ukraine, Part III
- Introducing Dr Tristan Grøtvedt Haze
- The SHAPS Hellenic Ball
- Remembering Stuart Macintyre
- SHAPS Digest (July 2022)
- Working for Cultural Change in the Defence and Security Sector
- Nat Cutter
- The Undoing of Roe v. Wade
- SHAPS Digest (June 2022)
- Yackandandah Museum Fire Project
- History: Russia’s War on Ukraine, Part II
- An Interview with Associate Professor Laura Schroeter
- SHAPS Digest (May 2022)
- Domestic Violence and the Law in Ancient Rome
- Nicole Davis: Forum Content Manager
- Why Wait? Treaty and the Federal Election
- Becky Clifton
- Carmelina Contarino
- Madeline Davies
- Henry Dobson
- Ash Finn