AAMH Events
The Australian Association is responsible for organising a number of events including public lectures, maritime history prizes, and supports conferences and other events devoted to maritime history.
Lost in the Labyrinth: Reenacting and Rethinking James Cook's Endeavour Voyage through the Great Barrier Reef.
Professor Iain McCalman, University of Sydney delivers the Australian Association for Maritime History Vaughan Evans Memorial Lecture for 2011
At the NWS lecture theatre, WA Museum – Museum, Victoria Quay, Fremantle.
TIME: 6 – 7.30pm 9 December 2011
COST:
$12 per person. Includes refreshments after the lecture
BOOKINGS: Essential on 9431 8455. Please RSVP by 5.00pm,
Wednesday 7 December
In 2001 Iain McCalman was among a group of volunteers in a BBC and Discovery Channel TV Reenactment of Captain Cook's voyage through the Reef on the Endeavour replica, under simulated eighteenth-century conditions.
For the most part he hated the experience, variously describing it as Big Brother at Sea and the Little Ship of Horrors. He was most noted for having instigated a one-man mutiny over the burning issue of laundry.
Recently, however, while writing his current book on the history of the Great Barrier Reef, he was struck how several of the incidents he had experienced personally at Cooktown in 2001 helped him to think afresh about the significance and meaning of Cook's stranding at and escape from Endeavour River in 1770.
Iain McCalman has written numerous books and articles, including Radical Underworld (2001), his acclaimed The Romantic Age: An Oxford Companion to British Culture (1999), and The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro (2003), which has been translated into twelve languages.
His latest book, Darwin’s Armada (Penguin, 2009) won the NSW Writers’ Fellowship Prize and the WA Premier’s Prize for non-fiction, and was also the inspiration for the TV series, Darwin’s Brave New World, aired on the ABC in November 2009.
SPECIAL EVENT: The VEM Lecture will be preceded by the announcement of the 2011 national maritime history book prizes (see ‘Prize Page’ for details).
The AAMH congratulates the Royal Australian Navy on its centenary
The AAMH has assisted in a modest way with the upcoming publication of a book to celebrate ‘100 Years of the Royal Australian Navy’
Recently Held Events & News
December 2009: New life member
Associate Professor Malcolm Tull has been honoured with a life membership of the Australian Association for Maritime History (AAMH). Malcolm is a Murdoch University academic and highly regarded expert on maritime economic history.
School of Business Dean Professor Malcolm Tull received the honorary life membership in recognition for his continuous service to the association.
Professor Tull is the AAMH current treasurer and has served as both secretary and president.
A Fellow of Murdoch’s Asia Research Centre since 1999, Professor Tull has extensive experience teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate units in economic theory, economic policy, and economic history.
In 2008, Malcolm was elected Vice-President of the International Maritime Economic History Association.
December 2009: Frank Broeze Book Prize
John Gascoigne’s Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds (published by Hambledon Continuum, London 2007) has won the fifth Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize, sponsored jointly by the Australian National Maritime Museum and the Australian Association for Maritime History.