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Professor Bruce Scates

Professor, History and Australian Studies

BA(hons), PhD (Mon); DipEd (Melb)

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Biography

Bruce Scates is a graduate of Monash University and the University of Melbourne. He has taught Australian History and Australian Studies in universities across Australasia, including the University of New South Wales, Murdoch University and the University of Auckland. Professor Scates is the recipient of National, State and Faculty awards for excellence in teaching, sharing several of these achievements with his colleague, Professor Rae Frances.

Professor Scates has served on a number of state and national committees including reviews of the West Australian History syllabus, the NSW History Awards, the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, the Executive Committee of the History Council of NSW and the Australian Army History Unit. In 2005-6, he was a member of an expert panel convened to recover the bodies of men missing from the Great War and he is the author of a submission to the Senate Inquiry into controversial road works at Gallipoli. He has also led several historical tours of the battlefields and commemorative sites of the Great War, including the Premier of Victoria's 'Spirit of Anzac'.

His many public presentations include key-note addresses to conferences in Australia and abroad, funded participation to symposiums in Canada, the United States and the Netherlands, a host of papers to learned societies and the opening address to the National Conference of the History Teacher’s Association of Australia. In 2005, Professor Scates delivered the Tenth Annual History Lecture at Government House, Sydney, marking the 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli Landing; his work on Anzac Pilgrimage has also been broadcast on national radio and television in both Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.

In 2008 Professor Scates delivered the distinguished Sir Keith Sinclair address at the University of Auckland on Australia and New Zealand's shared experience of war. In 2009, he addressed major public forums in the Melbourne Town Hall and Federation Square on the contested meanings of commemoration.

Bruce Scates’ work on Indigenous Australia and the memory of the frontier received special commendation in the first report of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. He has organised a number of scholarly forums including (with A/Professor Melanie Oppenheimer) a Round Table discussion of the memory of the Great War at the International Congress of Historical Sciences, the Inaugural Monash Arts Public Lecture and the National Conversation Series convened by the National Centre for Australian Studies. In 2002, Professor Scates chaired the Young People’s History Forum at the State Library of NSW in association with the Ministry for the Arts and the History Council of NSW. The proceedings were published by the History Council and have informed moves towards a National History Syllabus. He also serves on the judging panel of the premier's Teacher Scholarships at the invitation of the Premier of NSW and on the judging panel of the CEW Bean prize for the best thesis on Australia's experience of war, at the invitation of the Chief of Army.

Bruce Scates is a prolific contributor to leading scholarly journals in Australia and overseas and the author of opinion columns in both the state and national press. Amongst his current projects are a history of Victoria’s Shrine of Remembrance (also to be published by Cambridge University Press), a study of pilgrimages to the traumascapes of World War Two and a history of the NSW Soldier Settlement Scheme. He is also engaged on an innovative biography of Dr Mary Booth, founder of the Anzac Fellowship of Women. In 1997, he was awarded a NSW History Fellowship in recognition of this work and his most recent project is an ‘Imagined History’ reconstructing the search for the missing across the killing fields of Gallipoli.

He is the author/co-author of five titles with Cambridge University Press, including Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War, A New Australia, and the recently republished Women and the Great War. The last of these won the coveted NSW Premier’s History Award in 1997. In 2009, Cambridge University Press published the History of the Shrine of Remembrance, marking the 75th anniversary of the Memorial’s dedication

Research Interests

Bruce Scates was appointed the Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies in 2008. His Ph.D. was awarded in the field of Australian history and he holds the Chair of History and Australian Studies at Monash University.

Professor Scates has been awarded a series of competitive research grants from a number of national agencies including:

• Three Discovery Grants from the Australian Research Council
• Four Australian Research Council Linkage Grants
• Two John Treloar Research Grants from the Australian War Memorial
• Two grants for historical research from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs
• Two Army History Unit grants

Areas of Supervision

His areas of expertise and supervision include:

• War and society
• Anzac and commemoration
• The cultural history of grief and mourning
• Labour history
• Environmental history
• Life stories and biography
• The cultural history of the book and communities of readers
• Trans Tasman relationships
• Australian history generally

Current Research Projects and Grants

Revisiting Australia’s War: international perspectives on heritage, memory an ANZAC pilgrimages to the cemeteries and battlefields of World War Two, Current ARC Discovery Project

ARC Summary of Topic

Since the death of the last Gallipoli veterans, the Anzac legend is increasingly associated with Australia’s involvement in WW2 and pilgrimages to its battlefields and cemeteries now extend across three generations of travellers. This study will ask who undertakes such journeys and why. It will be both an historical study, charting changes in the nature of commemoration from one world war to another, and an investigation of the experience of today’s travellers. Oral history, archival research and personal survey will offer new insights into the emotional world of loss and mourning and explore the intersection between personal and collective memory.

ARC Statement of National Benefit

War has assumed an iconographic status in Australia and for many the spirit of Anzac defines the values of the nation. A study of WW2 pilgrimage will help to explain how the Anzac legend has been revisited, reinvented and revitalised by successive generations. This project will retrieve the memory of war from those who suffered it, empower various communities of mourners and help to explain why the Anzac mythology continues to captivate a diverse cross section of Australian society. It will engage with and enrich the nation’s memory of war, offering a window into how Australians see themselves.

A Land Fit for Heroes? A social, cultural and environmental history of Soldier Settlement in New South Wales, 1916-1939, Current ARC Linkage Project

ARC Project Summary

Vast tracts of NSW were settled by returned soldiers in the aftermath of the Great War. This study will assess the origins, intentions, successes and failures of NSW’s soldier settlement scheme, linking it to comparable experiments across the dominions and the long quest to raise an industrious yeomanry on Australian soil. It will address emerging themes in imperial, transnational and environmental history and recover the largely forgotten experience of soldier settlers and their families as they battled to ‘make a go of it’ on the land. A timely study, based on recently released Land Settlement and Repatriation files, it will strive to make this history accessible to a wide and diverse audience. Outcomes will include a monograph, a PhD thesis, library guides, public lectures and a website directing researchers to archival holdings on all the state’s 9000 soldier settlers.

ARC Statement of National Benefit

The digger has an iconographic status in Australian society; in recent years thousands of families have charted the service record of relatives who served in the first AIF. This project will extend and enrich those histories, recovering the returned soldier as important a historical entity as the men (and women) who went to war. It will look at ways that our society has tried to recover from the trauma of war, examine our veterans’ return to Australia and their often difficult readjustment to civil society. Soldier settlers faced a new battle in ‘opening up’ the land.  Like many in regional NSW today they struggled against isolation, financial hardship and environmental degradation. This project will address pressing challenges facing regional Australia: evaluating the role of soldier settlement in populating remote districts and assess its long-term environmental impacts.

Publications

Books

• Scates, B (2009) A Place to Remember:: A History of the Shrine of Remembrance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009
• Scates, B. (2006) Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Scates, B. (2005), The Ghosts of Gallipoli: Walking the Anzac Battlefields, Sydney, History Council of New South Wales, 2005.
• Scates, B (ed), A Future for the Past: The State of Children’s History, Sydney, History Council of New South Wales, 2004.
• Scates, B. (1997) A New Australia: Citizenship, Radicalism and Labour’s First Republic, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• Scates, B. (50%) and Frances, R. (50%) (1997), Women and the Great War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• Frances, R. (50%) and Scates, B., (50%) (1994), Women at Work from the Gold Rushes to World War Two, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Frances, R. (50%) and Scates, B. (50%) (eds), (1991), Women, Work and the Labour Movement in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, (Special Issue of Labour History, November) Sydney, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 1991.
• Frances, R. (50%)and Scates, B. (50%)(eds), (1989), The Murdoch Ethos, Murdoch, Murdoch University, 1989.

Book Chapters

• Scates, B. C., 2010, A 'democratic rendezvous': the bookshops of radical Sydney, in Radical Sydney Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes, eds Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 89-96.
• Scates, B. C., 2010, Finding the missing of Fromelles: when soldiers return, in Anzac Legacies Australians and the Aftermath of War, eds Martin Crottty and Marina Larsson, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 212-232.
  
• Scates, B. (2009) ‘Manufacturing Memory at Gallipoli’:, in Michael Keren and Holger H. Herwig, (eds) War Memory and Popular Culture: Essays on Modes of Remembrance and Commemoration, Jefferson, McFarland, 2009, pp 57-75.
• Oppenheimer, M. & Scates, B., ‘Australians at War’, in Martin Lyons and Penny Russell, (eds) Australia’s History: Themes and Debates, Sydney, UNSW Press, 2005, pp 134-151.
• Scates, B. (2002) ‘The Case of Clarinna Stringer: Strategic Options and the Household Economy in Late Nineteenth Century Australia’, Rebellious Families: From Household Strategies to Collective Action, Oxford, Berghahn 2002, pp. 58-77.
• Scates, B. (2002) ‘Imagining Anzac: Children’s Responses to the Killing Fields of the Great War’, in James Marten (ed) Children and War: An Anthology, New York, New York University Press, 2002, pp. 50-63.
• Scates, B. (2001) ‘Radical Bookshops’ in Martyn Lyons and John Arnold (eds) A History of the Book in Australia: a National Culture in a Colonial Market, St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 2001, pp. 146-149.
• Scates, B. (2001) ‘Andrew Fisher: A Political Testament’, in Marian Simms (ed), 1901, St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 2001, pp. 81-95.
• Scates, B. ‘Unemployment’, in Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre (eds) The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 665-6.
• Frances, R., Scates, B. and McGrath, A., ‘Broken Silences? Aboriginal Workers and Labour Historians’, in T. Irving (ed.) Challenges to Labour History, Kensington, UNSW Press, 1994.
• Scates, B., “Knocking Out a Living”: Survival Strategies and Popular Protest in the 1890s Depression’, in S. Margary, S. Sheridan and S. Rowley (eds), Debutante Nation: Feminism Contests the 1890s, Sydney, George Allen and Unwin, 1993, pp. 47-64.
• Scates B., ‘Gender, Household and Community Politics: the Maritime Strike in Australia and New Zealand’, in J. Hagan and A. Wells (eds), The Maritime Strike: A Centennial Retrospective. Essays in Honour of E.C. Fry, Five Islands Press, Sydney, 1992.
• Frances, R. and Scates, B., ‘Editorial’, in Frances, R. and Scates, B. (eds), Women, Work and the Labour Movement in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, Sydney, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 1991, pp. vii-x.
• Scates, B., ‘William Arthur Trenwith: Trade Unionist and Politician’, in K. Ritchie (ed), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne, MUP, 1990.
• Frances, R. and Scates, B., ‘Editorial’ in Frances, R. and Scates, B. (eds), The Murdoch Ethos, Murdoch, Murdoch University, 1989, pp. 2-8.
• Frances, R. and Scates, B., ‘Unmasking the Monument: the Other Side of the Pioneer Myth’, in Frances, R. and Scates, B. (eds) The Murdoch Ethos, Murdoch, Murdoch University, 1989, pp. 221-245.
• Scates, B. and C. Fox, ‘The Beat of Weary Feet: Right to Work Movements in the 1890s and 1930s’, in V. Burgmann and J. Lee (eds), Staining the Wattle: A People’s History of Australia, Melbourne, McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1988, pp. 205-220.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Scates, B. C., 2009, ‘[It] ought to be as famous as the Statue of Liberty': The Forgotten History of Tasmania's Cenotaph - Australia's First State War Memorial, Tasmanian Historical Studies, vol 14, 2009, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, Tasmania, Australia, pp. 53-78.
  
• Scates, B. (2008), ‘’Memorialising Gallipoli: Manufacturing Memory at Anzac, Public History Review, vol 15, 2008.
• Scates, B. (2007), ‘The First Casualty in War: A Reply to McKenna and Ward’s ‘Gallipoli Pilgrimage and Sentimental Nationalism’’, Australian Historical Studies, no 130. November 2007, pp. 362-371.
• Scates, B. (2006), ‘Soldiers’ Journeys: Returning to the Battlefields of the Great War’, Journal of the Australian War Memorial, no 40. 2006, (in press: accepted January 2006).
• Scates, B. (2004), ‘Walking With History: Children, Pilgrimage and War’s Restless Memory’, Australian Cultural History, no. 22, 2004, pp. 33-43.
• Scates, B. (2003), ‘The Price of War: Labour Historians Confront Military History’, Labour History, No. 84, May 2003, pp. 133- 43.
• Scates, B. (2002), ‘In Gallipoli’s Shadow: Pilgrimage, Memory, Mourning and the Great War’, Australian Historical Studies, No. 118, April 2002, pp. 1-24.
• Scates, B. (2002), ‘My Brilliant Career and Radicalism’, Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 20, no. 4, October 2002, pp. 370-379.
• Scates, B. (2001), ‘The Forgotten Sock Knitter: Voluntary Work, Emotional Labour, Bereavement and the Great War’, Labour History, 81, November, pp. 29-51.
• B. Scates, (1997), ‘Mobilising Manhood: Gender and the Great Strike of 1890 in Australia and New Zealand’, Gender and History (Cambridge, Mass.), vol. 9, no. 2, August, pp. 285-310.
• B. Scates, (1997), ‘Challenging the Pioneer Myth in Australia’, Australian Studies, (London), no. 11, April, pp. 52-62.
• B. Scates, (1999), ‘“Knowledge is Power”: Radical literary culture and the experience of reading’, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 21, no. 21, pp.26-47.
• B. Scates, (1997), ‘“We are not ... [A]boriginal ... we are Australian: William Lane, Racism and the Construction of Aboriginality’, Labour History, no. 72, May, pp. 35-49.
• B. Scates, (1994), ‘Remaking Our History’, Labour History, no. 67, November, 1994.
• Frances, R. (50%) and Scates, B. (50%), (1993) ‘Is labour history dead?’ Australian Historical Studies,no. 100, April, pp. 470-482.
• Scates, B., (1991), ‘Gender, Household and Community Politics: the 1890 Maritime Strike in Australia and New Zealand’, Labour History, No.61, November, pp.70-87.
• Scates, B.,(1991), ‘Socialism and Manhood: a Rejoinder’, Labour History, No. 60, May, pp.121-4.
• Scates, B., (1990), ‘Socialism and Feminism, the Case of William Lane: A Reply to Marilyn Lake’, in Labour History, No.59, November, pp.72-94.
• Scates, B., (1990), ‘A Struggle for Survival: Unemployment and the Unemployed Agitation in Late Nineteenth Century Melbourne’, Australian Historical Studies, No.94, April, pp.41-63.
• Frances, R. and Scates, B., (1989) ‘Honouring the Aboriginal Dead’, Arena, No.86, Autumn, pp.32-51.
• Scates, B., (1989), ‘A Monument to Murder: Celebrating the Conquest of Aboriginal Australia’,Studies in Western Australian History, Vol.10, April, pp.21-31.
• Scates, B., (1986), ‘Millennium or Pandemonium: Radicalism in the Labour Movement, Sydney 1887-1898’, Labour History, No.50, May, pp.72-94. (This was a special commemorative issue of the journal devoted to the ‘new social history’.)
• Scates, B., (1984), ‘“Wobblers”: Single Taxers in the Labour Movement, Melbourne, 1889-1899’, Historical Studies, No.83, October, pp.174-196.
• Frances, R. (33%), M.Roper (33%) and Scates, B. (33%), (1984) ’What Rough Beast? A Review Article’, Journal of Australian Studies, No. 15, November, pp. 72-79.

Other Articles

• Scates, B. (2006) ‘Return to Gallipoli’, in Wartime,(official magazine of the Australian War Memorial), July, pp. 8-12.
• Scates, B. (2004), ‘Young Australians at Gallipoli’, Teaching History, December, 2004, pp. 32- 38.
• Scates, B. (2002) ‘Journeys into History’, in E.Q. Australia, Autumn, 2002.
• Scates, B. (2001) ‘A Testament of Youth: Journeys to Gallipoli’, in Show Cause, no. 6, October, pp. 6-13.
• Scates, B. (1999) ‘Australian Pilgrimages to Great War Cemeteries’, Journal of the Office of Australian War Graves, 1998-9, pp. 65-68.
• Scates, B. (1999) ‘“From a brown land far away”: Australian pilgrimages to the cemeteries of the Great War’, in Locality, November, 1999, pp. 6-13.
• Scates, B. (1999) ‘War, Memory and Commemoration’, Locality, November 1999, pp. 3-5.
• Scates, B. (1983) ‘Utopians’, Royal Historical Society of Victoria Journal, Vol.54, No.4 (December 1983), pp.19-26.

Presentations

Invited Papers to Academic Seminars

• Funded participant in the International Symposium on the Popularisation of War Memory, University of Calgary, Canada, November 2006.
• Funded participant and keynote speaker at the Launch of the Cultures of Conflict Research Group, School of Communications, University of South Australia, September 2006.
• Scates, B (2006), ‘Remembering and Forgetting the Great War’, Seminar on War and Memory, Department of History and the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney. This paper was an invited response to distinguished visiting scholar, Professor Martin Evans, University of Portsmouth, UK.  
• Scates, B. (2005), ‘Communicating History’, a paper on the teaching of history to the Teaching and Learning Foundation, ADFA, Canberra, (joint presentation with  Rae Frances).
• Scates, B. (2002) ‘Commemoration and Historical Sensibility’, Australians and the Past symposium, funded by the Australian Research Council, UTS, Sydney.
• Scates, B. (1998) A New Australia: New Themes for Labour History: Address to the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney.
• Scates, B. (1996) ‘When we read we gaze at the stars’: Radical Literary Culture in the 1890s, School of History Seminar, University of New South Wales.
• Scates, B. and Lyons, M. (1996) ‘Teaching History’, School of History Seminar, University of New South Wales.
• Scates, B. (1996) ‘Australian Women and the Great War’, Australian War Memorial History Series, Canberra.
• Scates, B. (1994) ‘The Politics of Gender: Reassessing Nineteenth Century Labour History’, Murdoch University Seminar.
• Scates, B. (1992) ‘A Rebel Song: Republican Culture in the 1890s’, Culture Workshop Seminar, State Library of New South Wales.
• Frances, R. and Scates, R. (1992), ‘Monumental Errors: the teaching and practice of history on the West Australian frontier’, Department of History Staff/postgraduate seminar, UNSW.
• Scates, B. (1983), ‘Radicalism and the Labour Movement in Late Nineteenth-Century Sydney’, Work in progress paper, History Department, Monash University.
• Scates, B. (1982) ‘Ideology from Abroad. The Labour Movement in Nineteenth-Century Australia’, work in progress paper, History Department, Monash University.
• Scates, B. (1981) ‘The Making of a Radical’, work in progress paper, History Department, Monash University.

Public Lectures

Invited Addresses to Community & Student History Bodies

• Scates, B. (2006) ‘Remembering Fromelles: Australians on the Western Front’, Public Address on the Anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles, 19 July 2006, The Shrine, Melbourne.
• Scates, B. (2006) ‘Remembering the Somme: Annual History Lecture to the Military History Association of NSW to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, Randwick Barracks, Sydney.
• Scates, B. (2006) Lectures to the students and staff of North Mackay State High School. I also officially launched the School’s commemorative tour of First and Second World War cemeteries, at a public lecture in Mackay, Queensland.  
• Scates, B. (2006) ‘Remembering and Forgetting the Great War: Reflections on Anzac Day’, contribution to Public Forum on the Eve of Anzac Day organised at the Australian National University Canberra. Other speakers included Humphrey McQueen, Frank Cain and Sarah Gregson.
• Scates, B. (2005) ‘The Ghosts of Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War’, Tenth Annual History Lecture, public address at Government House, Sydney to mark the 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli Landing.
• Scates, B. (2005) ‘From Thesis to Book: reconceptualising postgraduate work for publication’, address to the UNSW Arts Postgraduates and Staff.
• Scates, B. (2004), ‘Walking Flanders Fields: A Journey into Memory’, public address at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
• Scates, B. (2002), ‘Healing and Remembering: The Indigenous History Fellowship’, Address to the Bi-annual Award of the NSW Indigenous History Fellowship, Mitchell Library, Sydney.
• Scates, B. (2002), ‘Remembering Remembrance Day: The Origins of the Armistice Day Commemoration’, Paper presented to the City of Sydney Historical Association, Sydney.
• Scates, B. (2002), ‘War Stories: Family History and the Memory of the Great War’, Paper presented to the Australian Genealogical Society, Sydney.
• Scates, B. (2002), ‘Walking with History’, Paper presented to Staff and Students of North Mackay High School, Queensland.
• Scates, B. (2001), Delivered the opening address to the Forum on Children’s History convened by the History Council of NSW and funded by the Ministry of Arts, Mitchell Library, Sydney.
• Scates, B. (2000) Delivered an address entitled ‘Reconciliation: the Part Historians Can Play’ to the History Students Association, UNSW.
• Scates, B. (2000) Delivered the opening address for History Week at the invitation of the History Council of NSW and the City of Sydney Historical Association.
• Scates, B. (2000), ‘Beyond Botany Bay: Australia at Federation’, address for the Mayor and Council of the City of Botany, hosted by the Botany Historical Society.
• Scates, B. (1999) ‘Remembering War’: Address to the Lions Club of NSW.
• Scates, B. (1998) Annual History Lecture, UNSW Open Day.
• Scates, B. (1996) Addressed first-year students on ‘Experiencing History at UNSW’, Orientation Program.
• Scates, B. (1995) ‘The Shearers’ Republic’, invited and funded address for Historic Houses Trust, Sydney.
• Scates, B. (1993) ‘White Lies: Aboriginal Land, European Colonisation and the Pioneer Myth’, Lecture to History Students’ Association UNSW. (This lecture examined the historical significance of the Mabo High Court ruling).
• Scates, B. (1993) Speaker in ‘The Great Debate: Which History is Best?’ History Students’ Association, UNSW. I agued the case for Australian History against Professor John Ingleson and Hamish Graham.
• Scates, B. (1991) ‘Utopian Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century’, Address to the Postgraduate and Staff Reading Party, University of Auckland.
• Scates, B. (1988) ‘Putting the Past into Practice: History at Murdoch’, Address to the Melville Historical Society, WA.
• Scates, B. (1987) ‘History on the Air: New Ways of Communicating the Past’, Address to the Friends of the Battye Library, Perth, WA.
• Scates, B. (1982) ‘Utopianism and the Culture of the Labour Movement’, Address to the Young Historians Series hosted by Royal Historical Society of Victoria., Victoria.

Conferences

• Scates, B. (2006) ‘Seeking Simpson: Young People’s Journeys to the Killing Fields of ANZAC’, Bi Annual Conference of the History Teacher’s Association of NSW, Sydney.
• Scates, B. (2006) ‘Soldier’s Journeys: Returning to the Battlefields of the Great War’, National conference on War and Memory organised by the Australian War Memorial and Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.
• Scates, B. (2005) ‘Broken Journeys: Pilgrimages to the Cemeteries of the Great War, 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Sydney.
• Scates, B. (2004) ‘Memory and History’, funded keynote address to the Bi Annual Conference of the History Teacher’s Association of Australia, Melbourne.
• Scates, B. (2004) ‘Journeys of the Heart: Australian Pilgrimages to the Cemeteries of the Great War’, European Australian Studies Association Conference, Aveiro, Portugal.
• Scates, B. & Oppenheimer, M. (2004) ‘Rewriting the History of Australians at War’, Regional conference of the Australian Historical Association, Newcastle
• Scates, B. (2004) ‘Ethics and History: Writing the History of Bereavement though Insane Asylum Records’, Regional conference of the Australian Historical Association, Newcastle.
• Scates, B. (2004) ‘Belonging to the Past: Remembering War in Australia’, Bi annual conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Australia, Delhi.
• Scates, B. (2003) ‘Gender and Labour: Australia and Britain’, International Labour History Conference, Manchester UK. (comparative study in collaboration with Karen Hunt of the University of York and Rae Frances, UNSW).
• Scates, B. (2002) ‘Teaching History’, National Conference for the Advancement of University Teaching, Canberra.
• Scates, B. (2002) ‘Gallipoli’s Shadow: Pilgrimage and the Memory of the Great War in Australia’, Bi Annual Conference of the Australian Historical Association, Brisbane.
• Scates, B. (2000) ‘Australia’s Gallipoli’, funded keynote address to commemorate the international conference to marking the 85th Anniversary of the Gallipoli Landing, Turkey, University of Çannakule and the Australian War Memorial.
• Scates, B. (1999) ‘Following the ‘Fallen’: Australian Pilgrimages to the Cemeteries of the Great War’, Commemorations Conference convened by the Dept of Veterans’ Affairs, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
• Scates, B. (1999) ‘Journeys of the Heart: Pilgrimage and Battlefield Tourism’, Travel and Travellers Conference, State Library of NSW.
• Scates, B. (1997) ‘The Social Economy: Crisis management in the Late Nineteenth Century’, funded keynote address to the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, November.
• Scates, B. (1997) ‘Teaching the History of Australians at War’, History Teachers of Victoria State Conference, Melbourne.
• Scates, B. (1995) ‘Work Never Done: Australian Nurses and the Great War’, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History National Conference, Adelaide.
• Scates, B. (1993) ‘Images of Gender, forum on Gender and Feminist History’, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History National Conference, Newcastle.
• Scates, B. (1993) ‘Making Men, Redefining Women’, New Zealand Historical Association Conference, Dunedin.
• Scates, B. (1991) ‘The Federation that Failed, Australia and New Zealand’, funded key note address, Stout Centre for Research into New Zealand History, Wellington.
• Scates, B. (1991) ‘Gender, Household and Community Politics’, New Zealand Historical Association, Christchurch.
• Scates, B. (1991) ‘Understanding the Domestic Economy’, Australian Historical Association Conference, Brisbane.
• Scates, B. (1988) ‘Unemployment in Nineteenth-century Australia’, Australian Historical Association Conference, Sydney.
• Scates, B. (1984) ‘Respectable Folly: Middle Class Reformers and the Labour Movement’, Australian Historical Association Conference, Melbourne.

Media

I believe historians have a responsibility to engage with a wider public audience. My work has featured on radio and in the press since the mid 1980s and contributed to national debates on a wide range of issues. I believe my success as a public intellectual is a willingness to address a broad and diverse constituency, from the readers of Womens’ Weekly and the Herald Sun to ABC listeners.

Public interest in my most recent work is evidenced by:

• Historical commentary for ABC Television, (Compass Program) April 2006.
• Appearance ABC Regional Television, (launching the North Mackay High School Commemorative Tour).
• Guest on numerous ABC radio programs discussing my latest book, Return to Gallipoli, including the Margaret Throsby Program, Late Night Live, Hindsight and Perspectives Programs. These were all broadcast nationally and overseas.
• Guest on commercial radio stations, including major broadcaster, 2GB.
• Lead (half page) articles in the Age, Australian,and Sydney Morning Herald discussing the significance of Anzac Day, April 2006.
• Leading opinion column in the Sydney Morning Heraldon the significance of the Battle of the Somme.

Reviews

I have reviewed over 40 titles in journals as diverse as: American Historical Review, Australian Historical Studies, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Australian Journal of Political Science, International History Review, Journal of Australian Studies, Journal of Industrial Relations, Labour History, Le Mouvement Sociale, Locality, Studies In Western Australian History and the Victorian Historical Journal.