Lectures, talks and seminars

Stout Seminar Room, 12 Waiteata Road, Kelburn

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Description

The interpretations that dominated New Zealand’s sense of the Great War over its course came under pronounced dispute through the interwar period. Accordingly, differing traditions developed, touting remarkably contrasting assessments of the war’s cause and conduct.

In part, this schism reflected dynamics at the heart of wartime cultural mobilisation (whereby enormous emotional resources and big ideas were invested in waging the war) as expectations of what the post-war world would bring collided with the realities of post-war life. This presentation explores the significance of the processes of cultural mobilisation and demobilisation, their implications within some post-war lives as well as for posterity’s sense of the Great War.


Speaker Bios

Dr Steven Loveridge has researched, lectured and written on numerous aspects of the First World War. His co-authored Centenary history volume on the New Zealand home front will be launched in November.


For more information contact: Deborah Levy

deborah.levy@vuw.ac.nz 04 463 5305