Author Talk | ‘World War Noir’ with Michael Duffy and Nick Hordern, 5 June
Join authors Michael Duffy and Nick Hordern on June 5 at Paddington Library for a talk about their recently published book ‘World War Noir: Sydney’s unpatriotic war’ (NewSouth). This talk will delve into the raw and broad-ranging history that confounds expectations, revealing a grittier truth of “patriotic” Australia during WWI.
Symposium | Dead Central: Emotions, Memory, and Place, 17 June
This collaborative workshop accompanies the State Library’s exhibition Dead Central, and considers the emotional, embodied and creative ways we experience the past. Co-sponsored by the Macquarie University node of the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions, the Centre for Applied History, Macquarie University, and the State Library of New South Wales.