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Welcome Dr Julia Bowes, New Hansen Lecturer in US History
Dr Julia Bowes joined SHAPS as Hansen Lecturer in US History on 1 July 2021 and will be teaching HIST20071 American History: 1945 to Now in Semester 2/2021. Originally from Sydney, Julia completed her PhD at Rutgers University in 2018 and her doctoral thesis, Invading the Home: Children, State Power, and the Gendered Origins of Modern Conservatism, 1865–1933, was awarded the 2019 …
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A Historical View on Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne
Since retiring from a distinguished career in physiotherapy, Professor Joan McMeeken AM has devoted much time to researching the history of physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne – the first university to teach it in Australia. While formal studies began in 1906, the university only formed a dedicated School of Physiotherapy in 1991 after energetic campaigning by students and practitioners. …
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Editing the Adams Family Papers: An Interview with Sara Martin
After completing her PhD in History at the University of Melbourne, Sara Martin went on to pursue a career in Public History and is currently Editor in Chief of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston. In a conversation with History PhD candidate Jonathan Tehusijarana, Sara shared her reflections on the importance of Public History, and her …
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Beyond ‘Statue Shaming’: Grappling with Australia’s Legacies of Slavery
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains distressing images and names and/or images of people who have passed away. As countries around the globe struggle to come to terms with the legacies of their imperial and colonial pasts, much debate about truth-telling focuses on how we remember individuals. The statues and street names honouring the achievements of …
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SHAPS Digest (June 2021)
A monthly roundup of media commentary, publications and projects, and other news from across the School community.
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Control & the Imagery of Power: The Case of Emperor Augustus
Episode 1 in the 2021 SHAPS 'Control' Podcast Series: Dr Roslynne Bell (Classics & Archaeology).
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Stalin in the Summer of 1941: A Drama in Three Acts
A video recording of a special lecture by Professor Mark Edele to mark the 80th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.
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The PolyMuse Project: Part II
PolyMuse is one of the major research projects underway at the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation. The primary goal of the project is to develop methods for conserving plastics (polymers) in collections across museums, galleries, and archives. Of particular concern are the five most volatile plastics, cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate, PVC, polyurethane, and rubber, which are collective known as …
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- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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