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Birds in Roman Life and Myth
Dr Ashleigh Green recently published her first book, Birds in Roman Life and Myth. In 2020, her PhD thesis in Ancient World Studies passed examination without corrections. She went on to hold a La Trobe Society Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria in 2022 and is now a Teaching Associate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. She …
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SHAPS Digest (August 2023)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications, projects and other news from across the School community.
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Re-Building: Russia’s War on Ukraine, Part VI
A video-recording of the sixth and final instalment in this series, featuring His Excellency Bruce Edwards, Professor Torbjörn Becker, Slava Balbek, Professor Natalia Kudriavtseva, and Emeritus Professor Marko Pavlyshyn, and Jurij Suchowerskij (November 2022).
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On Biography and the History of Medicine
Dr Fallon Mody in conversation with PhD candidate Samara Greenwood, for the HPS Podcast.
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SHAPS Digest (July 2023)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications, projects and other news from across the School community.
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Beauty, Wine and Death in the Ancient World
Picture a woman gazing at her face in a small mirror of highly polished brass. She has never seen her whole body – no mirror is that large in the Greek and Roman worlds. She whitens her face with powdered chalk and reddens her cheeks with a dye made from the madder plant. Her fingers dip into a round dish decorated …
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Celebrating Twenty Years of the Grimwade Centre
The year 2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation. In June, to mark this milestone, the Grimwade Centre hosted a special Family and Friends Event. In collaboration with Student Conservators at Melbourne (SC@M), the Centre transformed its multi-purpose lab into an event space. Staff, students, and their nearest and dearest, came …
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Reflecting on the Nature of Science
Dr Kristian Camilleri (HPS) in conversation with PhD candidate Samara Greenwood, for the HPS Podcast.
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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