A public lecture presented by His Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG and Associate Professor Frances Steel on 20 August from 4.00 - 5.00pm.
The 1919 Amritsar Massacre and the British Empire - Michael Kirby
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Wollongong Campus
McKinnon Dining Room, Building 67 Level 2
RSVP: online by Friday 9 August
This event is free to attend, please RSVP for catering purposes. Seats are limited.
Abstract: “On 13th April 1919, a British Brigadier-General named Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to fire on a crowd gathered in a place called Jallianwala Bagh, not far from the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India. According to the official estimate, 379 people were killed and more than a thousand injured. A hundred years after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, this lecture will reflect on its context and significance in the conflicted history of imperialism and, specifically, the British Empire.”
Justice Kirby will lecture on this topic with Associate Professor Frances Steel, a local expert on the history of the British Empire.
Photo credit: The streets of Amritsar during the riots that broke out after the massacre, 1919.