International conference

1918 Year of Victory program

BAE Systems Theatre, Australian War Memorial

Thursday 27–Friday 28 November 2008

Speaker's biographies

Abstracts

Day 1

Thursday 27 November

From 7.30 am Registration in foyer of BAE Systems Theatre
8.45 am Opening by Hon Alan Griffin MP, Minister for Veterans' Affairs
9.00 am Keynote address: 1918: the road to victory
Professor Jay Winter (Yale University)
10.00 am Morning tea
Session 1 Turning defeat into victory, 1918
10.30 am

Stabbed in the front: the German defeat in the West, 1918, and the myth of the Armistice
Professor Robin Prior (University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy)
11.30 am Finest hour? The British Expeditionary Force’s operations on the Western Front in 1918
Professor Gary Sheffield (Department of War Studies, University of Birmingham)
12.30 pm Lunch
Session 2 The major powers at war, 1918
1.30 pm From victory to defeat: the German army in 1918
Dr Robert Foley (University of Liverpool)
2.15 pm A French victory, 1918
Dr Elizabeth Greenhalgh (University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy)
3.00 pm Afternoon tea
3.30 pm The cost of inexperience: Americans on the Western Front, 1918
Ms Meleah Ward (University of Adelaide)
4.15 pm Fighting to exhaustion: morale, discipline and combat effectiveness in the armies of 1918
Mr Ashley Ekins (Australian War Memorial)
5.00 pm Close of day one
Evening Opening of exhibition Over the front: the Great War in the air, ANZAC Hall (by invitation only)

 

Day 2

 

Friday 28 November

Session 3 Dominion armies and the advance to victory, 1918
9.00 am Maintaining the advance: Monash, battle procedure and the Australian Corps in 1918
Dr Peter Pedersen (Australian War Memorial)
9.45 am Bloody Bapaume: New Zealand soldiers battle for the town, August–September 1918
Associate Professor Glyn Harper (Massey University)
10.30 am Morning tea
11.00 am Bloody victory: the Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days campaign
Dr Tim Cook (Canadian War Museum)
Session 4 Other fronts: the war at sea and in the air, 1918
11.45 am Victory at sea, 1918
Dr David Stevens (Sea Power Centre) and Rear Admiral James Goldrick (Australian Defence Force)
12.30 pm Lunch
1.15 pm Victory in the air, 1918
Mr Peter Hart (Imperial War Museum)
Session 5 Panel discussion: who won the war and how?
2.00 pm International panel, chaired by Professor Jay Winter (Yale University)
3.00 pm Afternoon tea
Session 6 Armistice and aftermath
3.30 pm The peace settlement of 1919: prelude to the Second World War?
Professor Trevor Wilson (University of Adelaide)
4.15 pm The veterans’ voice
Dr Martin Crotty (University of Queensland)
5.00 pm Closing address by Professor Jay Winter (Yale University)
7.30 pm TBC Conference dinner, ANZAC Hall

After-dinner talk: Those magnificent men and the Great War
Mr Peter Burness (Australian War Memorial)

This conference has been convened by the Australian War Memorial.  The support of the Australian Government through the Department of Veterans’ Affairs is gratefully acknowledged.

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