This presentation investigates the sometimes-fraught intersection of history and heritage. In doing so it engages with recent discussions and debates about commemoration of war and the process of history making. It will also discuss the role of heritage in influencing popular memories of war in the present day. This presentation stems from comparative research into conflict and remembrance (including the United Kingdom, Singapore, Western Flanders, mainland South East Asia and the Pacific War). The discussion begins from the premise that Commonwealth war heritage and memory in the early twenty-first century is best understood within the context of forthcoming centenary of the Great Wa
Dr Keir Reeves is a cultural historian based at Monash University in Australia where he is a Senior Monash Research Fellow at the National Centre for Australian Studies in the
School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies. In 2013 he is a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge and is also a Visiting Researcher in the McDonald Institute for
Archaeological Research where he is working with the Cambridge Heritage Research
Group. Keir co-edited (contributing) Places of Pain and Shame Dealing with ‘difficult
heritage’ (Routledge, 2009) with Bill Logan and more recently has contributed to the Bruce Scates led Anzac Journeys: Walking the Battlefields of the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming August 2013)
All welcome from inside and outside the University. For further information contact Lucy Noakes l.noakes@brighton.ac.uk telephone 01273 643311 or visit http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/mnh