Sydney Ideas: Enduring Legacies

Sydney Ideas: Enduring Legacies

Principal speaker

Professor Stephen Garton

Sydney Ideas: Enduring Legacies

Co-presented with Griffith Review <https://griffithreview.com/> and the Beyond 1914 — The University of Sydney and the Great War <http://beyond1914.sydney.edu.au/> Project

In a year that marks the centenary of the battle of Gallipoli and the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II, Sydney Ideas presents a panel of contributors to Griffith Review edition 48 Enduring Legacies. Exploring the consequences of Australia's involvement in war with a critical and inquiring eye, and shifting the focus away from battles and commemorations, they shine new light on the legacy, and long shadow, of the great wars of the twentieth century.

Panellists:

Dr Jeannine Baker, a historian from Macquarie University, explores the role of Australian women war correspondents of WWII, the challenges they faced, and how their reportage compares with contemporary conflict journalism.

Tom Bamforth, author of Deep Field: dispatches from the frontlines of aid relief, shares the chance discovery of an old biscuit tin containing family letters written between the Western Front and the vanished agricultural world of the Victorian hamlet of Pomborneit during WWI.

James Brown, former Australian Army officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and author of ANZAC’s Long Shadow: the cost of our national obsession will reflect on the material and psychological costs of ‘our obsession with Anzac’

Professor Stephen Garton, Provost and Deputy Chancellor at the University of Sydney and author of The Cost of War, examines the psychological legacy for returned soldiers.

Associate Professor Julia Horne, University Historian at the University of Sydney and co-director, Beyond 1914 examines the legacy of university women and the Great War.

Professor Tim Rowse from the University of Western Sydney focuses on Indigenous people whose lives were affected, without any of them leaving Australia, by the wider transformations of Australian society after war.

Dr Tamson Peitsch (panel chair), is the author of Empires of Scholars and an ARC DECRA Fellow in School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney.

Copies of Griffith Review 48 Enduring Legacies (RRP $27.99) will be available for sale at the event


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