Tuesday, 24 April 2012
The recounting of atrocities of war will be the subject of a free public talk at UWA this week by Professor Joanna Bourke, Professor of History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College.Professor Bourke, a visiting Fred Alexander Fellow, will explore the changing ways in which stories of murderous violence in wartime have been told, reflecting on the terror and the trauma.
She will also examine the politics of wartime killing and atrocity within so-called progressive societies, unpicking the ways that "our" acts of spectacular cruelty have been narrated.
Finally, she will explore the problems of talking about the experience of administering state-legitimatised violence in the immediate aftermath of war.
The Fred Alexander Fellowship is dedicated to the memory of Professor Fred Alexander (1899-1996), the founding Head of the History Discipline (then Department) at The University of Western Australia.
WHAT: 2012 Fred Alexander Lecture: The Experience of Combat: Terror and Trauma
WHERE: Gentilli Lecture Theatre , Second Floor, Geography Building, UWA. (Parking: P18 and P19, entry via Fairway)
WHEN: 6pm, Thursday 26 April 2012
RSVP: Not required.
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Audrey Barton (UWA Institute of Advanced Studies) (+61 8) 6488 4797
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