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News from the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne Australia

Archive for April, 2008

Monash Staff Share their 2020 Vision

Edwina Cornish

Edwina Cornish

Sixteen Monash University leaders will be among 1000 people attending the Australia 2020 Summit later this month.

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Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape

War memorial

Australia’s leading scholars of war and memory joined together for the launch of a new edition of Ken Inglis’ multi-award winning work.

  • Explore the meaning of Australia’s war memorials with:
  • Bill Gammage: author of The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War
  • Hank Nelson: author of Chased by the Sun: The Australians in Bomber Command and Prisoners of War: Australians Under Nippon
  • Kate Darian Smith: author of On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime 1939-1945
  • Bruce Scates: Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies, author of Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War
  • Katti Williams: doctoral research student.

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