Trudi Tate recently published The Listening Watch: Memories of Viet Nam – visit her webpage to find out more about the book.
The Listening Watch: Memories of Viet Nam
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ASH Colloquium
Tuesday 14 May
20.15 Meeting Room
Clare Hall
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Memorialising War:
How we remember, lest we forget
Trudi Tate
Fellow of Clare Hall, Affiliated
Lecturer, Faculty of English
Keir Reeves
Senior Monash Research Fellow, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University, Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall and McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Trudi Tate and Keir Reeves will engage in a conversation about their work on Australia’s involvement in foreign wars, and how this is remembered (or not) in the years which follow.
Trudi will talk about her recent book, The Listening Watch (2013), which is based on interviews with an Australian veteran who served in Viet Nam. Written in the spirit of W. G. Sebald it explores questions of listening and bearing witness to wars, and it meditates upon the effects of trauma on an individual and his family.
Keir will explore the concept of writing about war memories, history and travel to destinations associated with difficult heritage. He wrote about these themes in the co-edited Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with Difficult Heritage (2009) and the co-authored Anzac Journeys: Walking the Battlefields of the Second World War (forthcoming 2013).
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