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Bali Art & Heritage Conservation Internship Program #BAHCIP
In mid-2021 a group of alumni of the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation co-organised the Bali Art & Heritage Conservation Internship Program (#BAHCIP). Developed by Saiful Bakhri, Masters of Cultural Conservation 2018 and winner of a Rising Star Alumni Award in 2020, together with Gadis Fitriana Putri, Lia Sumichan and Laila Nurul Fitrani, the program included an immersive, in-country …
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The 2021 International Summer School in Transnational History, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Since 2018, the Universitas Gadjah Mada has hosted an annual International Summer School in Transnational History, bringing together students from across Southeast Asia to live and study together in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In 2018 and 2019 SHAPS was able to send small groups of students, together with Associate Professor Katharine McGregor, to participate in person in this wonderful program. Following the …
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Submarines and Vaccines: France’s 2022 Presidential Elections
Why do the French elections matter to Australia? More now due to new challenges to France’s commitment alongside Australia in the fraught geo-politics of the Indo-Pacific. Peter McPhee explores the 2022 election campaign in this article republished from Pursuit Will the next President of France be Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen or another of the candidates who will contest the first round …
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SHAPS Digest (September 2021)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications, projects and other news from across the School community.
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The Symbolism of Australia’s Southern Cross
Australia’s Southern Cross has been used on flags and coats of arms since the early colonial period but, despite its endurance, it’s a very difficult emblem for many Australians. Dr Martin Bush, Research Fellow in SHAPS, researches the cultural history of astronomy in colonial- and Federation-era Australia. He tells us more in this article, republished from Pursuit. “People often draw Southern …
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Unpacking the History of Quantum Mechanics
Senior Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Science Dr Kristian Camilleri is currently completing work on a book which challenges the standard understanding of the history of quantum mechanics. The book manuscript is provisionally titled Quantum Mechanics and Its Discontents: The Making of An Orthodoxy. In this interview, Kristian sat down with current HPS PhD candidate Samara Greenwood to discuss …
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An Interview with Associate Professor Catherine Kovesi
Catherine Kovesi researches discourses surrounding luxury and consumption in early modern Italy; Florentine and Venetian family history; and Australian religious history. She is Chair of the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies and in recent years has worked with the Australian Council for the Arts at the Venice Biennale Arte. To celebrate Catherine’s promotion to Associate Professor, we invited her to …
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Discovering the ‘Mess and Stink’ of Romeo Lane
A video recording of Professor Janet McCalman's presentation to the SHAPS Fellows & Associates Seminar (July 2021).
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- Bali Art & Heritage Conservation Internship Program #BAHCIP
- 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
- Discovering the ‘Mess and Stink’ of Romeo Lane
- SHAPS Digest (August 2021)
- Equality and Fairness: Vaccines Against this Pandemic of Mistrust
- Why Study Ancient Languages? An Interview with Dr Edward Jeremiah and Dr Andrew Turner
- Confronting Racism in the Sciences: A Resource Set for Scholars
- New Media Conservation Fellowship
- SHAPS Digest (July 2021)
- Welcome Dr Julia Bowes, New Hansen Lecturer in US History
- A Historical View on Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne
- Peter Yule on Vietnam Veterans and the Victorian Bar
- Editing the Adams Family Papers: An Interview with Sara Martin
- Beyond ‘Statue Shaming’: Grappling with Australia’s Legacies of Slavery
- SHAPS Digest (June 2021)
- Control & the Imagery of Power: The Case of Emperor Augustus
- Stalin in the Summer of 1941: A Drama in Three Acts
- The PolyMuse Project: Part II
- SHAPS Digest (May 2021)
- What was it Like to be a Child in the Roman Empire?
- Reflections on the Last Two Decades of Indigenous Histories
- The PolyMuse Project
- Leila Alhagh
- Introducing Dr Monique Webber, Teaching Specialist in Ancient World Studies
- Trent Duan
- Jen McFarland
- 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
- Paul Siemers
- Antonia Smyth
- 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
- Darius von Güttner on Bona Sforza and Polish Foreign Policy (1518–1548)
- 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