Episodes
Sarah Midford (Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University) on the legacy of the Gallipoli campaign, and the fine line between commemoration and celebration.
Gallipoli and the Great War is a fully online subject at La Trobe University. You can enrol or find out more at: www.latrobe.edu.au/gallipoli
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Published 05/24/15
Sarah Midford (Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University) on the legacy of the Gallipoli campaign, and the fine line between commemoration and celebration.
Gallipoli and the Great War is a fully online subject at La Trobe University. You can enrol or find out more at: www.latrobe.edu.au/gallipoli
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Published 05/20/15
Professor Robin Prior (History, Flinders University) on the Gallipoli campaign, Australia’s contribution on the battlefield, and the growth of myth.
Gallipoli and the Great War is a fully online subject at La Trobe University. You can enrol or find out more at: www.latrobe.edu.au/gallipoli
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Published 05/05/15
Dr Michelle Negus-Cleary (Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University) on life on the Gallipoli battlefield and the conditions the soldiers were living with, such as poor food and supplies, illness and traumatic stress.
Gallipoli and the Great War is a fully online subject at La Trobe University. You can enrol or find out more at: www.latrobe.edu.au/gallipoli
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Published 04/16/15
Dr Bart Ziino (History, Deakin University) on the concept of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and how they represent the fallen of World War I who never returned.
Gallipoli and the Great War is a fully online subject at La Trobe University. You can enrol or find out more at: www.latrobe.edu.au/gallipoli
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Published 03/31/15
Dr Janet Butler (History, La Trobe University) talks about the Australian women who went to the frontlines in World War I and supported their men in their time of need.
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Published 03/16/15
Dr Clare Wright (History, La Trobe University) talks about the anti-conscription movement, the public response to war and the driving force of Vida Goldstein.
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Published 03/10/15
Assoc Professor Adrian Jones (History, La Trobe University) on the Ottoman defence to the Gallipoli campaign, the fall of their empire, and the rise of Turkey.
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Published 02/26/15
Dr Bart Ziino (History, Deakin University) on grief and how Australians coped with the loss of soldiers, and how the growth of monuments changed the landscape.
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Published 02/24/15
Sarah Midford (Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University) on the ANZAC book, written by soldiers in the trenches and edited by Charles Bean, and how it shaped the ANZAC myth.
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Published 02/19/15
Dr Janet Butler (History, La Trobe University) on the strong and unique bonds of friendship that develop between soldiers in a war situation.
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Published 02/16/15
Erdem Koç (Journalism, La Trobe University) on the Turkish perspective of the Gallipoli campaign and the ANZAC legacy.
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Published 02/13/15
Dr Jessie Birkett Rees (Archaeology, La Trobe University) on archaeological studies of the battlefield on the Gallipoli peninsula, and the challenges of working in such an environment.
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Published 02/13/15
Dr Janet Butler (History, La Trobe University) on the Imperial Camel Corp, and the Australian soldiers who faced the revolt of pro-Turkish Senussi tribesmen in Egypt's Western Desert.
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Published 02/13/15
Professor Christopher Mackie (Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University) on the history of the Gallipoli peninsula and its historical context prior to World War I.
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Published 02/13/15
Since the first Australian soldiers landed on the beach at Gallipoli in April 1915 they have been likened to ancient Greek warrior heroes. However, the Trojan hero is simply one aspect of the multi-faceted Australian Anzac archetypal hero whose construction is equally informed by ancient Greek democratic ideals. This paper will briefly examine C.E.W. Bean’s use of the ancient Greek past in the commemoration of the Anzac soldier before focussing on allusions to Homeric heroes in Peter Weir’s...
Published 05/28/14
Dr Charles Fahey (History, La Trobe University) on Melbourne during the first World War - a city rocked by industrial action, protests, and strikes.
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Published 04/17/14
Dr Jillian Garvey has begun a major Indigenous archaeology project in northwest Victoria.
The project could find evidence of human occupation dating back 40,000 years. It is the first Indigenous archaeology project to be funded by the Australian Research Council in the area.
Dr Garvey’s research focuses on Neds Corner Station and the adjoining Murray-Sunset National Park, an area that has already yielded evidence of 15,000 years of human occupation.
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Published 03/31/14
Dr Charles Fahey (History, La Trobe University) on the challenges of the gold fields in Australia, and how a miner could make his fortune - something that few ever achieved.
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Published 02/21/14
Dr Clare Wright (Honorary Research Associate, History Program, La Trobe University) on her new book, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, which tells the story of the thousands of women on the Australian goldfields. How they arrived there, why they came and how they sustained themselves make for fascinating reading in their own right. But it is in the rebellion itself that the unbiddable women of Ballarat come into their own.
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Published 11/08/13
Dr Gillian Shepherd (Director, Trendall Research Centre) and Dr Ian McPhee (former Director, Trendall Research Centre) talk about Arthur Dale Trendall's life, legendary research and legacy bequeathed to La Trobe University.
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Published 12/21/12
Dr Gillian Shepherd and Dr Ian McPhee present a profile of Arthur Dale (A.D.) Trendall, legendary figure and one of the foremost historians of Greek art of the 20th century.
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Published 12/11/12
Dr Jennifer Hamilton-McKenzie (History, La Trobe University) on an early example of environmentalism in Australia in the 1970s.
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Published 11/22/12
Dr Clare Wright (History, La Trobe University) challenges the myth of the Australian pub as a male domain by documenting the leading role of women in the hotel industry from colonial times to the present.
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Published 11/16/12
The Hon Tim Fischer (former deputy prime-minister) on the forward thinking and legacy of Australia's ninth governor-general, Sir Isaac Isaacs.
Delivered as part of the 10th Kerferd Oration in 2012.
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Published 10/10/12