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Public Memory Research Group
War and Memory Symposium
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August 12 - 13, 2005 at the Cobb & Co Museum Toowoomba
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Public Memory Research Group
War and Memory Symposium
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Program
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August 12 - 13, 2005 at the Cobb & Co Museum Toowoomba
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Friday 12 August |
9:15 – 9:30 WELCOME
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9:30 - 11:00
Session One |
Internal
Conflict and the Frontier
Chair: Richard Gehrmann |
| Libby Connors |
The 11th Regiment’s attack on the Turrbal at York’s Hollow, Brisbane and the Ideology of Law |
| Bryce Barker |
Frontier Conflict on the Central Queensland Coast: The Historical Record, Oral Traditions and the Politics of Denial |
| Julianne Stewart | Reporting the Gulf War |
11:00 – 11: 30 MORNING TEA
Launch of the Cobb & Co Museum World War 2 Display
by Mayor Cr Dianne Thorley and Professor Robert Dixon
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11:30 – 1:00 pm
Session Two |
World War One Chair: Laurie Johnson |
| Delyse Ryan |
‘A Sob Seemed to Shake the Community’: Memorialising ANZAC Day |
| Christopher Lee |
G.W. Lambert and Charles Bean: Self Fashioning the Artist as Soldier Citizen |
| Jayson Althofer |
'From the military school of life’: On the Use and Abuse of Nietzsche for War |
1:00- 2:00 LUNCH
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2:00 – 3:00 Session Three |
Keynote paper Chair: Amanda Laugesen |
| Robert Dixon | Spiritualism, Photography and the Great War
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3:00 – 3:15 AFTERNOON TEA
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3:30 – 5:00 Session Four |
World
War 2 Chair: Simon Ryan |
| Pat Buckridge | Just a Short Stay: the Unusual Life of Peter Austen |
| Rhod McNeil | A Musical Response to Buna, December 1942 - Horace Perkins’ Elegiac Symphony (1951) |
| Amanda Laugesen | Australian Soldiers Reading during World War 2 |
Saturday August 13
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9:00 – 10:30
Session Five |
Other
Conflicts Chair: Brian Musgrove |
| Brian Beasley | The Technologies of Modern Tragedy: Australian Responses to the Spanish Civil War |
| Janet McDonald | Masculinities and the Men who did not Serve |
| Laurie Johnson | Trauma Begets Theory: Notes on a Case Without History |
10:30 – 11:00 MORNING TEA
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11:00 – 12:00 Session Six |
World
War 2 Chair: Rod Wilson |
| Anna Hayes | Open Wounds: Memories of Japanese Occupation by Expatriate Chinese Women |
| Richard Gehrmann | Australian Jungle Warfare Advisers in India |
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
Vehicle Display by Military Jeep Club (Qld)
Cobb & Co Museum Carpark
Warbird Flyover by Aerotec Flying School
(Joyflights available at Toowoomba Airport all day Sunday 14th August)
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1:00 – 3:00 Session Seven |
Free Public Talks
Sponsored by the Milne Bay Military Museum
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| Amanda Laugesen | Diggerspeak: The Language of Australian Soldiers |
| Leonie Jones |
Veteran’s Memories of World War 2 |
| Errol Jorgensen M.M. | The Battle of Milne Bay |
3:00 CLOSE