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Violence on display, 1917-1930

Start Date	Friday, 16 August 2013, 10:00 am
End Date	Friday, 16 August 2013, 11:30 am
Description	Seminar: 'Violence on display, 1917-1930' Dr Jennifer Wellington Yale University This paper compares the ways in which the First World War was exhibited in Britain, Canada and Australia, during the war itself and in the interwar years. In particular, I examine the ways in which war exhibitions in all three countries acted both as propaganda and as recruitment tools during the war, and as sites where community groups searched for an 'authentic' connection to the experience of war. Governments used this search to create new mythologies of nation and empire. For Canada and Australia, creating exhibitions stressing the significance of their role in the war was a means of asserting what officials felt was the Dominions' new status as equal partners in the imperial project. In order to illuminate these processes, this paper will examine specific exhibitions mounted by British, Canadian and Australian officials between 1918 and 1930. Cultural Collections at Auchmuty Library (ground floor, through AIC), followed by morning tea. Hosted by Faculty Education and Arts The Centre for the History of Violence
Location	Cultural Collections, Auchmuty Library
Contact	Philip.Dwyer@newcastle.edu.au
RSVP	2013-08-15