Professor Bruce Scates will join a panel of leading historians - Ken Inglis,
Joan Beaumont and Katti Williams - to debate the past, present and future of the
Shrine of Remembrance.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the dedication
of the Shrine of Remembrance. Raised in the midst of
the Great Depression, the subject of bitter public
debate and a personal crusade for Sir John Monash,
the Shrine is the largest state memorial Australia built
and probably the most controversial.
Join Professor Bruce Scates, Director of the National
Centre for Australian Studies, as he charts the Shrine’s
history from the first fatalities of the Gallipoli Landing to
the ‘Memory Wars’ of the present day. The author of
the Cambridge history of the Shrine, Professor Scates
will bring the building to life though powerful personal
stories, archival intrigues and a stunning visual archive.
A panel of leading historians will explore the memorial’s
fascinating symbolism, explain how it came to
command the landscape of Melbourne and consider
the changing nature of our traumatic memories of war.
A place of pilgrimage and a tourist destination, a centre
for education and a vibrant heritage site, a forum for
dissent and itself a battlefield, this is the story of one of
the world’s most impressive and most controversial
memorials.
A Place to Remember: The History of the Shrine of
Remembrance will be launched by the Governor of
Victoria, Professor David de Kretser, AC and is
published by Cambridge University Press. |
