Dr James Waghorne one of the Chief Investigators on the Expert Nation project published an article for Remembrance Day, November 11 2017. Appearing in the University of Melbourne’s Pursuit publication the article reveals how research for this project has identified 156 additional names, which were absent from the original University of Melbourne’s War Memorial Book. One of the names added is Dr Mary De Garis, the second female […]
Symposium: World War 1, the Universities and the Professions
The symposium, World War One, Universities and the Professions, was held on 12 & 13 October 2017 at the University of Melbourne. Bringing together a group of academics, each examining a different profession. Presentations were grouped into five sessions: The Arts: Design, Music and Writing Teaching, Languages and the Law Medical Sciences Science and Technology Government, Accounting and Anthropology Themes explored included: the impact of World War I […]
Dentistry & the War
When war broke out in 1914, dentistry was still embroiled in bitter conflicts between interest groups with different understandings of the social status of the profession and the relationship of universities to it. But the wartime experience of solider dentists left them in no doubt about these questions. For dentistry, as for so many other branches of science, the war functioned as a ‘huge laboratory […]
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