Jayne Persian: Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia

Fri 31 May 2024

Jayne Persian + Anthony Cooper

slq The Studio

Regular Program

1050

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

The unbelievable forgotten history of exiled fascists resettled in Australia after World War II, Jayne Persian’s fascinating book explores the impact of these characters on the trajectory of postwar politics – a phenomenon well documented in other parts of the world but with which Australia has barely begun to reckon.

#Artists

Jayne Persian

Jayne Persian is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Southern Queensland. She is the author of Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia (Routledge, 2023) and Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians (NewSouth, 2017) — shortlisted for the Australian Historical Association's WK Hancock Prize, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Prize for Australian History, and the Queensland Literary Awards USQ History Book Award 2018 — and co-editor of Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia (Routledge, 2022).

Anthony Cooper

Author of best-selling Darwin Spitfires (NewSouth 2011 and 2022) and Dispatch from Berlin, 1943 (NewSouth 2023), Dr. Anthony Cooper is a retired Brisbane school teacher. He has so far released seven books on aspects of Australian and Allied military history, published both in Australia and the UK, including HMAS Bataan, 1952, (NewSouth 2010), 'Kokoda Air Strikes' (NewSouth 2014), 'RAAF bombers over Germany, 1941-42' (Rosenberg, 2016), 'Paddy Finucane and the legend of the Kenley Wing' (Fonthill 2016), and 'Sub Hunters' (Fonthill 2020).