Sugden Society ANZAC Seminar
ANZAC Seminar
Thursday 1 May 2025
11.30am Seminar in the Queen’s College Junior Common Room
followed by 12.30pm lunch
Please RSVP by Monday 28 April with any dietary requirements.
No onsite parking:
Uber, taxi, trams recommended.
Dr Katti Williams will share the story of the architects behind the Shrine, Philip Hudson and James Wardrop, and how their military service impacted their thinking for the memorial. She will also review other finalist entries. This will include previously unpublished pictorial material.
Runner-up William Lucas’s design
Philip Powell has long researched the war histories and graves of Queen’s College and Wesley College students and will share some of his remarkable discoveries.
About Dr Katti Williams
PhD, Wyvern 1994
Katti Williams is a Postdoctoral Research fellow in Australian architectural history, in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. Her PhD thesis, completed in 2017 at the University of Melbourne, comprised the first sustained academic study of the Australian early twentieth-century architect William Lucas, with a specific focus on his unbuilt designs for First World War memorials. Her research is a nexus between art, architectural, military, and cultural histories.
Her major research interests include the design and interpretation of commemorative architecture, manifestations and transformations of classical precedent, soldier architects, unbuilt competitive designs, and rich architectural biography.
About Philip Powell
B.Com (Hons)
Philip Powell attended Wesley College Melbourne and the University of Melbourne. While focused on a career in finance, in 2011, he commenced researching the military service and stories of former Wesley College students in World Wars I and II. Many of these were also Queen’s College residents. He has also visited many of the battlefields, CWGC cemeteries and memorials.
He has documented their military service and is currently completing a book on the service of Old Wesley Collegians in WWII. He has given numerous presentations including at the Shrine of Remembrance and the AWM in Canberra.
Philip also served on the Wesley College Council for 10 years and was made a Fellow of the College in 2022.