The Department of History presents
2008 Keith Sinclair Lecture

Professor Bruce Scates (left)
Chair of History and Australian Studies at Monash University

Gallipoli and Beyond: Returning to the Battlefields of the Great War

Every year, thousands of Australians and New Zealanders make their way to Gallipoli and walk the battlefields of the Great War. What draws them to Anzac? And do they walk in the footsteps of earlier generations of pilgrims, those who made their journey to the killing fields to lay to rest the bodies of their loved ones? This paper will explore the changing and contested memory of the Great War across four generations of Gallipoli travellers. Based on a rich historical record and powerful oral testimony it will explore the many meanings of Anzac pilgrimage.

Professor Bruce Scates is the Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University. A former lecturer at The University of Auckland, he has published widely in the field of trans-Tasman history and his latest work, Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War (Cambridge
2006) pioneers new fields in the history of memory and emotion.

Thursday 16 October, 6.30pm
Business School Theatre OGGB4,
The University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ
Followed by refreshments



Sir Keith Sinclair KBE (December 5, 1922—June 20, 1993, whom this lecture honours, was both a poet and noted New Zealand historian. He was knighted for services to history in 1987.

His best-selling A History of New Zealand went through many editions and for many years was the only one volume history of New Zealand available.
I knew Keith Sinclair during my Penguin Books days, he was a charming and erudite man and always great fun to be with.