The centenary of World War I offered a significant opportunity to reflect on the experience and legacy of one of the world’s most devastating conflicts. In Australia such reflection was, on the whole, disappointingly one-dimensional: a four-year nationalistic and sanitised ‘memory orgy’ (to use Joan Beaumont’s wonderful phrase). It did, however, galvanise historians to produce important ne ... (read more)
Kate Ariotti
Kate Ariotti is a Lecturer in History and member of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle. She is author of Captive Anzacs: Australian POWs of the Ottomans During the First World War (2018) and co-editor of Australians and the First World War: Local-Global Connections and Contexts (2017). Later this year she will commence an ARC DECRA Fellowship on the history of the war corpse in twentieth century Australia.