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27 May, 2015

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A Pencil in Every Knapsack: Digger Poetry of WWI

Date/Time: Friday, 1 May 2015 - Friday, 31 July 2015

Location: Rare Books & Special Collections, Level 1, Barr Smith Library

Cost: Free - All welcome

More information: Visit website

In the nine months of the campaign almost half a million Allied troops were deployed at Gallipoli, many of them decimated by death, disease and injury.

The Anzac legend, forged from the deeds of Australian soldiers at Gallipoli, signified for many the birth of Australian nationalism.

In the public imagination the idealised Anzac soldier was fearless, tough, inventive, loyal and gallant and a bit undisciplined, with a healthy disrespect for the British officer.

Tall and lean, a typical 'bushman' - the Anzac enjoyed a laugh, good company and a beer, but was modest and shy with women.

The Anzac legend was shaped largely by the literature of war, composed not only by war correspondents and poets at home but also on the battlefield.

Such was the extent of Anzac literature that it was held that every soldier had a poet's pencil in his knapsack.

Visit this exhibition of poetry which shaped the Anzac legend, composed on both the battlefield and the homefront and illustrated with contemporary sketches, cartoons and photographs. On display until 31 July during Library opening hours, Rare Books & Special Collections foyer, level 1, Barr Smith Library.

Contact: Ms Cheryl Hoskin, Email: cheryl.hoskin@adelaide.edu.au, Special Collections Librarian, Business: (08) 8313 5224


 

Executive Deans lecture series: Professor Theodore Jack Iwashyna, University of Michigan

Date/Time: Wednesday, 27 May 2015, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Location: Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre, Horace Lamb Building, University of Adelaide

Cost: Free

Lecture Title: How We Die Now & What Happens if We Don't: The New Story of Infectious Diseases in the Developed World

Theodore "Jack" Iwashyna, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan, where his clinical practice is as a medical intensivist. He is also part of the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research and the Center for Clinical Management Research at the Ann Arbor VA HSR&D Center of Excellence.

Contact: Mrs Kendall Marriott, Email: kendall.marriott@adelaide.edu.au, Website: http://health.adelaide.edu.au/research/conference, Events and Marketing Officer, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Business: 8313 0157