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SHAPS Digest (November 2020)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications and projects, and other news from across the School community.
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‘Narratives & Power’: Melbourne Historical Journal Volume 47 Launch
Melbourne Historical Journal (MHJ), our very own postgraduate History journal, launched its much-anticipated Volume 47 on 5 November 2020. Themed Narratives and Power, the 2019/2020 edition features a range of research articles, reviews, lectures, and interviews. Each asks different questions of ‘narratives and power’, exploring themes of justice, representation, heritage, memory and honour. This piece includes an edited version of …
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Historians Working for Justice at the Waitangi Tribunal
Five History graduates from the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies have ended up working for New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal Unit at the Ministry of Justice. The Waitangi Tribunal is one of the key institutions engaged in protecting Māori rights under the 1840 Waitangi Treaty. At a time when the 'job-readiness' of Arts graduates has increasingly been called into question, …
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‘Donkey Work’ and the History of Labour
Kathryn Smithies, Associate in History, recently published the book Introducing the Medieval Ass, on the cultural and socio-economic history of the donkey (previously known as the ass) in the Middle Ages and beyond. She also blogs about all things donkey at bloggingdonkeys.com. In this piece, she explores the history of the phrase “working like a donkey”, tracing the shift from animal …
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Applied Proof Theory: Holding an International Workshop during the Pandemic
How do you hold an international workshop at a time when travel between continents is at a standstill and countries all over the world are in lockdown? Greg Restall, Professor in Philosophy, explains how this worked at the recent international workshop on Applied Proof Theory.
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Internship
Grimwade Centre student Lisa Mansfield completed an internship at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Working alongside some of the world's leading time-based media conservators, Lisa was immersed in the fascinating and rapidly-evolving world of media art conservation. Here she talks to Isabella Walker about what she learned and observed over the course of her internship, and how …
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Rebuilding Life after Mass Violence: Lessons from the Chilean Truth Commission
History PhD candidate Amy Hodgson was recently awarded a prestigious Yale Fox International Fellowship. This graduate exchange scheme supports students who are committed to harnessing scholarly knowledge to respond to urgent global challenges. The Fellowship will support Amy’s research into the history of Chile’s post-dictatorship truth commissions. For her project, Amy has carried out a series of oral history interviews …
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SHAPS Digest (October 2020)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications and projects, and other news from across the School community.
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- 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
- “Born to Rule”: 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)
- Episode 5 in the SHAPS Podcast Series: Professor Peter McPhee
- Race, Change and Time in the USA
- Science Needs to Look Inward to Move Forward
- National Archaeology Week 2020 Goes Online
- A New Look at the History of Fascism
- Episode 4 in the SHAPS Podcast Series: Professor Nathan Rosenstein
- SHAPS in the Media (May 2020)
- Racial Justice, Memory & the Museum
- Andrew Black
- Stephen Campbell-Wright
- Rhys Cooper
- Rebekah Currer
- Kate Davison
- Spiridoula Demetriou
- Gretel Evans
- Michael Francis
- Ashleigh Green
- New Books by SHAPS Staff and Recent Graduates
- Daniel Hannington-Pinto
- Phoebe Kelloway
- Martin Kovacic
- Katherine Mannell
- Mary Proctor: A Forgotten Populariser of Astronomy
- Christopher Orrell
- Philip Patterson
- Fergus Dale Prien
- Belle Shapardon
- John Whitehouse
- Chinese-Australian Perspectives on the Pandemic: A Personal Reflection
- Graham Berry, Democratic Adventurer: An Interview with Professor Sean Scalmer
- Episode 3 in the SHAPS Podcast Series: Professor Margaret Cameron
- Lian Zhou
- The Greco-Roman and Chinese Ancient Worlds in Comparative Perspective
- Will COVID-19 End Globalisation?
- How Plague Helped Make Rome a Superpower
- Episode 2 in the SHAPS Podcast Series: Professor Mark Edele
- Meet Dr Sarah Bendall, McKenzie Fellow in History
- SHAPS in the News: A Digest of Recent Media Commentary by Our Staff & Students
- Professor Janet McCalman Opens Our New Podcast Series
- Gender Equity in the Workplace: An Interview with Professor Cordelia Fine
- Journal of the Plague Year: An Online Archive of COVID-19 Times
- Death in a Time of Corona
- Why I Study History and Philosophy of Science: A Student Reflection
- Associate Professor Howard Sankey Appointed to the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences
- Wave as Eigenzeit: A Meditation on Medial Time
- A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of COVID19
- Disaster & Change 2020
- Becoming a Transnational Scholar of Southeast Asia
- Announcing the 2019 Issue of Chariot Undergraduate History Journal
- Were These the Good Old Days? The 1919 Flu Pandemic in Australia