Steve Vizard: Nation, Memory, Myth
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Consummate multihyphenate Steve Vizard takes on the kernel of Australian identity in this original and gripping investigation of the ANZAC myth. Situating the Gallipoli mythology in the greater scheme of national myths, Vizard delivers fascinating insights into the potency and ambivalence of the stories we tell ourselves.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Steve Vizard is a prizewinning writer, broadcaster, lawyer and research professor at Monash University and University of Adelaide. He has written and edited books on topics ranging from Australia’s Constitutional Convention to Australia’s population challenge to his childrens book Here Comes Grandpa. Through his production company Artists Services which he co-founded with Andrew Knight, he helped create and produce numerous groundbreaking television shows, including Fast Forward, Big Girls Blouse, The Micallef Program and Seachange, and hosted his own Gold Logie-awarded TV show Tonight Live. He has written for theatre, including the operas Banquet of Secrets and The Space Between, and the musical Vigil. He has contributed to public debate as President of Screen Producers Association, National Gallery of Victoria, Major Events Corporation and The Vizard Foundation. He lives with his wife Sarah, five children and grandchildren in Melbourne. His latest book, Nation, Memory, Myth – Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary explores how myths creates meaning for nations, through a close reading of Gallipoli and Australian identity.
Michael Ondaatje is Head of the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, and Professor of History, at Griffith University. Michael is a prize-winning researcher and teacher and a regular commentator on American history and politics in the media. He is the author of Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America (University of Pennsylvania Press) and is currently writing a biography of Neville Bonner, the first Indigenous Australian elected to federal parliament (Melbourne University Press). Michael has been a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and was selected by the US Department of State for the International Visitor Leadership Program, the premier professional exchange program of the US government. He is also a recipient of the Max Crawford Medal – ‘Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the humanities’ – and a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Steve Vizard is a prizewinning writer, broadcaster, lawyer and research professor at Monash University and University of Adelaide. He has written and edited books on topics ranging from Australia’s Constitutional Convention to Australia’s population challenge to his childrens book Here Comes Grandpa. Through his production company Artists Services which he co-founded with Andrew Knight, he helped create and produce numerous groundbreaking television shows, including Fast Forward, Big Girls Blouse, The Micallef Program and Seachange, and hosted his own Gold Logie-awarded TV show Tonight Live. He has written for theatre, including the operas Banquet of Secrets and The Space Between, and the musical Vigil. He has contributed to public debate as President of Screen Producers Association, National Gallery of Victoria, Major Events Corporation and The Vizard Foundation. He lives with his wife Sarah, five children and grandchildren in Melbourne. His latest book, Nation, Memory, Myth – Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary explores how myths creates meaning for nations, through a close reading of Gallipoli and Australian identity.
Michael Ondaatje is Head of the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, and Professor of History, at Griffith University. Michael is a prize-winning researcher and teacher and a regular commentator on American history and politics in the media. He is the author of Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America (University of Pennsylvania Press) and is currently writing a biography of Neville Bonner, the first Indigenous Australian elected to federal parliament (Melbourne University Press). Michael has been a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and was selected by the US Department of State for the International Visitor Leadership Program, the premier professional exchange program of the US government. He is also a recipient of the Max Crawford Medal – ‘Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the humanities’ – and a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences.
