Our Corner of the Somme. Australia at Villers-Bretonneux BOOK LAUNCH

Apr
12
Friday, April 12, 2019 at 05:30 PM

Location

Auditorium of the Shrine of Remembrance
Shrine of Remembrance
Melbourne, VIC 3001
Australia
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Event contact

Romain Fathi

0882015836

This book launch will be in conversation with Professor Alistair Thomson (Monash University) and will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

The book explores how the French remember ANZAC, and how Australia has remembered its Anzacs in France. Our Corner of the Somme. Australia at Villers-Bretonneux tells the fascinating century-long story of French-Australian relations through previously unexplored and untranslated French primary materials, and renews our understanding of Australian war commemoration.

The book documents Australians’ interactions with local French people and French institutions on the former Western Front through their commemoration of Australia’s participation in the First World War. These commemorations, sometimes large and political and sometimes personal and moving, hold a significant place in Australian history.

In this rigorous and richly detailed study, Dr. Romain Fathi revises our current understanding of the battlefields of France, and examines the assembly, projection and performance of Australia’s national identity overseas.

You can see the book's cover and look inside here

Please register for free at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/our-corner-of-the-somme-australia-at-villers-bretonneux-book-launch-tickets-57675104791

 

Romain Fathi (PhD) is Lecturer in Australian History at Flinders University and a chercheur associé at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris. He has taught and researched at Sciences Po in France, Yale in the United States, and the University of Queensland in Australia. His primary research interests focus on the First World War, war commemorations and Australian identity.

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