Teaching World War I in the age of opinion

Questions for museums and galleries

Date: Tuesday 17 February 2015
Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm (Afternoon tea and networking from 5:00pm for a 5:30pm start)
Venue: Education Centre, Shrine of Remembrance, Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne
Cost: $10 MA members/$15 non-members
Bookings essential via: www.mavic.asn.au/events

One hundred years ago school students had little opportunity or encouragement to look critically at Australia’s involvement in global conflict. In this event, ENVi’s first on the 2015 theme Belief, voice, opinions and facts, we reflect on the World War I centenary at a time when students are required to form and voice their own opinions on just about everything.

We invite experts from three cultural institutions to discuss their current and upcoming World War I exhibitions. This event also provides an opportunity to see the new Education Centre and Galleries of Remembrance at the Shrine of Remembrance.

Speakers:

• Susie May and Rebecca Hicks, NGV, Follow the Flag: Australian Artists at War 1914-1915 (24 April – 16 Aug, 2015)
•  Deb Tout-Smith, Museum Victoria, World War I: Love and Sorrow
•  Jean McAuslan, Shrine of Remembrance, Australia Will Be There: Victorians in the First World War (1914-19)