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By Iain Mccalman
THE ANNUAL HISTORY LECTURE HISTORY COUNCIL OF NEW SOUTH WALES Historical Re-enactments. Should we take them seriously? By Iain Mccalman Sydney, 2007 I’ve had the fifteen minutes of fame that Andy Warhol promised all moderns: it was in August 2001 aboard a replica of Captain James Cook’s converted coal barque, the Endeavour, while sailing in what he called ‘the insane labyrinth’ of the Great Barrier Reef. I was engaged in a BBC Television and Discovery Channel re-enactment of Cook’s voyage of exploration up the east coast of Australia in 1770.i My high point as a TV historian consisted of a rant at the ship’s First Officer for preventing us from drying our clothes on the rigging. It’s appeared on all three versions of the subsequent TV series called The Ship, even though they were edited in very different forms for British, American and Australian audiences. My hissy-fit was exactly the sort of material our hairy-chested director hoped to generate when he outlined his vision of a new genre of ‘extreme history’ that we would pioneer. New or not, the formula was simple: assorted representatives of the twenty-first century pit themselves against some of the extreme physical and mental challenges of the past in order to entertain mass audiences. The latter are moved to laughter, awe or pity at our modern-day sufferings and failures. Some participants are ejected or fall by the wayside, the remainder join hands at the end to trill about how tough but rewarding it was to live in the past. -
Judith Wright Australian Poet & Prophet (1915-2000)
Remembering Judith Wright Australian Poet & Prophet (1915-2000) Gerard Hall SM For over half a century the poetry of Judith Wright provided Australians with words to explore the spiritual dimension of their land, its people and history. In this she was no sentimentalist. In her poem, At Cooloobah (1955), she speaks for all European peoples who have inhabited Australia: "I'm a stranger come of a conquering people”. This sense of Australian alienation from the land and victimization of its first peoples is dominant throughout her writing and actions. Writing for the Tasmanian Wildnerness Calendar (1981) she states: "the love of the land we have invaded and the guilt of the invasion have become a part of me”. In her last public act, only weeks before her death, she led the reconciliation march in Canberra. Yes, Judith Wright was a political poet. She mixed words with deeds. She saw the poet as a public figure with responsibility for challenging negative social forces and inhumane attitudes that demean human life and the environment. She was an outspoken and passionate critic of nuclear power, environmental devastation, injustice towards Aboriginal peoples and the excessive materialism that she judged to be bleeding the Australian soul of spiritual power. In the sixties, Wright was among the first and foremost campaigners for the protection of the Great Barrier Reef. Equally, her voice was loud and clear in protest against sand-mining on Fraser Island. In the wake of environmental destruction of the rainforest, she co-founded the Queensland Wildlife Preservation Society. In the mid- seventies, Wright left her home at Mount Tamborine partly in protest against governmental collusion with big business and conservation- insensitive development. -
The Australian National University
CURRICULUM VITAE Iain Duncan MCCALMAN AO, FRHS, FASSA, FAHA 13 Pleasant Avenue Erskineville NSW 2043 [email protected] Current Appointment: Professorial Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, and Emeritus Professor at The Australian National University Academic Qualifications: 1970 BA (Hons) Australian National University 1975 MA Australian National University 1984 PhD Monash University Previous Appointments: April 2007-Dec 2013 Professorial Research Fellow, History Department, University of Sydney July 2003-April 2007 ARC Federation Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, ANU Aug 1995-June 2003 Professor and Director, Humanities Research Centre, ANU Jan-Sept 1998 Acting Director, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU Jan 1997-Jan 1998 Deputy Director and History Programme Convenor, Australian Research Council, Special Research Centre in Cross-Cultural Research, ANU Jan 1994-Jan 1995 Professor and Assoc. Director, Humanities Research Centre, ANU Jan 1993-Jan 1994 Senior Fellow, Division of Historical Studies, RSSS, ANU July 1992-Jan 1993 Reader in history, Faculty of Arts, ANU Jan 1990-July 1992 Senior Lecturer in history, Faculty of Arts, ANU Jan 1988-Jan 1990 Lecturer in history, Faculty of Arts, ANU June 1986-Dec 1987 Lecturer in communication, University of Canberra Jan 1985-June 1986 Research Fellow in history, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU Jan-Dec 1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in history, University of Melbourne Jan 1976-June 1980 Lecturer in Humanities, Riverina College of Advanced Education Jan 1974-Dec 1975 Senior Tutor in history, Monash University Jan-Dec 1973 Tutor in history, Macquarie University Grants, Endowments, and Fellowships: 2011-15 ARC Discovery Grant, ‘Redeeming the Great Barrier Reef. -
The Economic, Social and Icon Value of the Great Barrier Reef Acknowledgement
At what price? The economic, social and icon value of the Great Barrier Reef Acknowledgement Deloitte Access Economics acknowledges and thanks the Great Barrier Reef Foundation for commissioning the report with support from the National Australia Bank and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. In particular, we would like to thank the report’s Steering Committee for their guidance: Andrew Fyffe Prof. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg Finance Officer Director of the Global Change Institute Great Barrier Reef Foundation and Professor of Marine Science The University of Queensland Anna Marsden Managing Director Prof. Robert Costanza Great Barrier Reef Foundation Professor and Chair in Public Policy Australian National University James Bentley Manager Natural Value, Corporate Responsibility Dr Russell Reichelt National Australia Bank Limited Chairman and Chief Executive Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Keith Tuffley Director Stephen Fitzgerald Great Barrier Reef Foundation Director Great Barrier Reef Foundation Dr Margaret Gooch Manager, Social and Economic Sciences Stephen Roberts Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Director Great Barrier Reef Foundation Thank you to Associate Professor Henrietta Marrie from the Office of Indigenous Engagement at CQUniversity Cairns for her significant contribution and assistance in articulating the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander value of the Great Barrier Reef. Thank you to Ipsos Public Affairs Australia for their assistance in conducting the primary research for this study. We would also like -
Sea Time: Tales, Temporalities, and Anthropocene Oceans
Sea Time: Tales, Temporalities, and Anthropocene Oceans Image by Le gray, 'Brig on the Water' from the MET DAY ONE: Public Talk Tuesday 12 June 2018 | 5.00 – 6.30PM Venue New Law School LT 104 Eastern Ave | University of Sydney DAY TWO: Workshop Wednesday 13 June 2018 | 9.00 – 5.00PM Cullen Room, Holme Building Science Road | University of Sydney CONVENORS: CHAIR Professor Iain Duncan McCalman AO, FRHistS, FASSA, FAHA, FRNSW, was born in Nyasaland (Malawi), Africa, was schooled in Zimbabwe, and earned his BA, MA and PhD in Canberra and Melbourne, Australia. He was awarded the Inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Prize for Teaching Excellence at the Australian National University in 1994, and was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2007 for services to history and the humanities. He is a Fellow of four Learned Academies and is a former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He was Director of the Humanities Research Centre, ANU, from 1995-2002. Iain has written numerous books, including The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason (Harper Collins, New York, 2003), which was translated into twelve languages and Darwin’s Armada: how four voyagers to Australasia won the battle for evolution and changed the world, which was published in separate editions in the USA, UK and Australia, won three book prizes, and was the basis of a TV Series (ABC, Canada, Germany, NZ ) and an exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum. Iain, a former Federation Fellow, is currently a Research Professor in history at the University of Sydney and co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute. -
Judith Wright: Voice of the Aboriginals
Judith Wright: Voice of the Aboriginals Anita Sharma Associate Professor Government College Theog, Shimla (H.P). Abstract: Judith Wright has empathetically taken up the cause of the aborigines in her poetry. As a voice of the aboriginals, she wrote about the violence of long-term colonialism plaguing the land of Australia. She went forth and struck like a warrior at the mightiest white egos, reminding them of the atrocities committed in the continent. It was the struggle of the aboriginal people that inspired her to write. She celebrated aboriginal survival in the face of adversity, lamented prejudice and oppression, and offered an optimistic view of the potential for interracial harmony in the country. She was committed to fight for the land and the aboriginal people, and used her writing as a weapon on behalf of the aborigines. She gave a message to the world about what was happening in her land and thus with her writings opened a new, hitherto undefined area in Australian poetry. Her poems offer an insight into the face and soul of the country. She gave voice to those Aboriginal people who had suffered and died from oppression and dispossession without being heard across the land. Wright is the first white Australian poet to publically name and explore the experiences of the indigenous people. Her work is provocative and emotional. Keywords: Aborigines, Silence and voice, Usurpation, and Oppression Poetry is one of the principal arts of life, the most universal which has the ability to connect reason and emotion, relate us to and the country and society in which we live. -
JOHN SHAW NEILSON and TIW FLORAL Mefaphor
Noel Macalnsh JOHN SHAW NEILSON AND TIW FLORAL MEfAPHOR The femme fatale was a fascinating figure of art in Victorian times. Mario Praz, in his well-known book, The Romantic Agony, has described her manifestations in several European literatures, including English. In Australia too, "Ia belle dame sans merci," the beautiful woman, imperious, fascinating and cruel, appears in various forms in the poetry of Christopher Brennan, Kenneth Slessor, A.D. Hope and others. Norman Lindsay has painted her image. The femme fatale is a striking creation, threatening pain, castration, delusion and death, but also suggesting the possibility of ecstatic union. She is of both heaven and hell, is sought among the stars and in the underworld, is Lilith, Persephone, Circe, a Siren or heartless cocette; she promises immor- tality or obsession and ruin. Nevertheless, the femme fatale is not the only distinctive projec- tion of femininity to be found in Australian poetry. Inherently less striking, but complementary in its displacement from everyday reality is the figure of the fragile girl, the delicate child-woman, a tender and transient flower, a beautiful ideal doomed to wither before the crude demands of life. John Shaw Neilson is the supreme representative of this figure in Australian poetry. In Neilson, the femme fragile, as she will be called here, rather than the femme enfant, is typically presented as a girl, who "innocent/in the whistling Spring," will not survive into Summer. She is "the tenderest of pale girls." 1 She grows ill and must die. The theme was popular in Neilson's time. Edgar Allen Poe wrote that "The death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world." 2 If, for "beautiful woman," we substitute "young girl" or occasionally "young boy," this statement becomes quite applicable to Neilson also. -
Reflections of Australia in Judith Wright's Poetic Imagination: the Power of Ambivalence in the Gateway
CHUGOKUGAKUEN J. 2003 Vol. 2, pp. 33-39 CHUGOKUGAKUEN Copyright© 2003 by Chugokugakuen Journal Original Article http://www.cjc.ac.jp/ Reflections of Australia in Judith Wright's Poetic Imagination: The Power of Ambivalence in The Gateway Sachiko Hashiuchi Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Contemporary Life Science, Chugokugakuen University, Okayama 701-0197, Japan In 1953, Judith Wright (1915-2000), one of the greatest Australian poets, published her third anthology, The Gateway, in which she developed her own poetic perspective on Australia. The poems collected in this work create several kinds of images about a gateway symbolizing the moment and place that every existence changes. The poet constructs a tense panorama of many scenes; the austere drought and flood in Australia, the death of the creatures and human beings, some legends and myth about death and rebirth, and human spiritual resurrection through love. The influence of European poets is seen in the way she incorporates metaphysical devices in her poems, the use of which creates both ambivalent feelings and ambiguous attitudes towards contrastive themes and ideas. Death-in-life versus life-in-death taking place in the Australian wilderness makes her insight deeper, and terror versus relief in our human feelings pervades in the poems' lines. The difficult adventures and toilsome colonization by immigrants left their offspring fruits of their harvest contrasts with the lives of aboriginals who were sacrificed by the whites' colonization but who can still recount the legends that have continued to provide power enough to survive. These patterns of life echo throughout Judith Wright's poetry. -
The Poetry of John Shaw Neilson
'CITY OF SIGHS': THE POETRY OF JOHN SHAW NEILSON LAUR.IE CLANCY read through the body ofNeilson's poetry-and to read the autobiography and correspondence on top of that - and then to tum to criticism of it is, in my own case at any rate, enormously irritating. The problem begins as early as H. M. lloGreen in his pioneering History of Australian Literature. In the ten pages that he devotes to Neilson's work in the first volume of that book (two less than Hugh McCrae receives), he says, among other things, 'Neilson is in fact a mystic, perhaps the most notable of all Australia's mystic poets: that he is not a mystic merely, that he did not call himself a mystic, and that he may very likely have known nothing about mysticism is nothing to the point' (483). Neilson, as it were, has mysticism thrust upon him. He goes on, 'The range ofNeilson 's verse is narrow. He wrote three kinds ofpoem', we are told (486), the purely lyrical, the ballad-like, and the satirical. Green strongly implies that it was necessary for A. G. Stephens to help knock the poems into shape and he goes on to say, 'and, since on the one hand he lacks the balladists' matter, and on the other hand his contemplation is mainly emotional, for as a rule he does not so much think as perceive and feel, his verses are apt quickly to run thin ...he cannot develop a theme or a thought or an emotion' (488). Green was writing many years ago, of course, but it is interesting that in the revised edition of his book his widow, the late Dorothy Green, sees it unnecessary to add very much to this judgment: ' Witnesses o[Sp ring, consisting ofpreviously unpublished poems of Neilson's, does not add much to one's assessment of his achievement, though it contains several interesting poems' (491). -
Suggested Reading
SUGGESTED READING SOUTH PACIFIC We are pleased to bring you reading materials to support your onboard experience and complement your moments ashore. The Smithsonian Collection by Smithsonian Journeys is an engaging enrichment program led by a wide range of experts who are eager to share their first-hand knowledge and expertise. As part of the program, Smithsonian Journeys and our Smithsonian Journeys Experts are pleased to share the below reading lists. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED HISTORY, CULTURE & EXPLORATION These 5 items are available as a set for $89 including shipping, 15% Robert Hughes. The Fatal Shore. Vintage Books, 1988. In this off the retail price (Item EXAUS164). Any additional books ordered celebrated social history, both scholarly and entertaining, will be shipped free of charge. See page 4 for ordering details. Hughes traces the fate of those who were transported to the penal colonies of Australia between 1787 and 1868. It’s an engaging popular account, drawn from the experiences Bill Bryson. In a Sunburned Country. Broadway Books, 2001. of the colonists themselves. (PAPER, 752 Pp., $21.95, The intrepid, ever-resourceful Bryson revels in Australia’s Item AUS04) eccentric characters, dangerous flora and fauna and other oddities in this wildly funny, effortlessly informative Keith Sinclair (Editor). The Oxford Illustrated History of New travelogue. (PAPER, 335 Pp., $16.99, Item AUS83) Zealand. Oxford University Press, 1998. An illustrated history of New Zealand up through the 1990s. (PAPER, 408 Pp., $65.00, Item NZL40) Eyewitness Guides. Eyewitness Guide Australia. DK Publishing, 2016. Featuring hundreds of innovative maps, color photographs and choice recommendations for Iain McCalman. -
The Australian Dictionary of Biography’S Genealogy
1. ‘Insufficiently Engineered’: A Dictionary Designed to Stand the Test of Time? Melanie Nolan The Australian Dictionary of Biography’s genealogy In May 1962 Sir Keith Hancock, Professor of History and Director of the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), appeared before the ANU Council to put the case for funding the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB). The ADB Editorial Board had appointed Douglas Pike as general editor of the dictionary in January 1962 but there was no provision in Hancock’s budget for the position. Boldly, Hancock went to the council to convince it to cover Pike’s appointment. He hoped to also convince council members to release funds for the appointment of research staff.1 Hancock began by discussing the ADB’s ‘prehistory’: how the idea for an Australian dictionary had ‘been in the minds of historians in various parts of Australia for ten years or more’; how Laurie Fitzhardinge had started a National Register (later called the Biographical Register) in the history department in 1954; how a conference of Australian historians, held at The Australian National University (ANU) in 1957, gave their general support for the dictionary project and how, after wide consultation, an editorial board, headed by Hancock, had met for the first time in 1960.2 1 W. K. Hancock, ‘The Australian Dictionary of Biography’ (12 April 1962), Minutes, ANU Council meeting (11 May 1962), 567/1962, box 1, series 245, ANU Archives [hereinafter ANUA], p. 3 [reprinted here as Document 1]. Separately, Hancock also had to request the council to make Pike’s a professorial appointment, which then had to be subject to an electoral committee process: Minutes, ANU Council meeting (30 April 1962), 639/1962, box 1, series 245, ANUA. -
SEI Magazine
Issue The2, 2019Great Barrier Reef Collection ___ SEI magazine Sydney Environment Institute Magazine The Great Barrier Reef Collection 10 Stars in the Sand: Climate Change 20 Saving Turtles and Respecting 25 Great Barrier Reef Stories: & The Great Barrier Reef Culture…It’s Complicated Let’s Talk About Coral Sex Sydney Environment Institute 1 TheFrom Greatthe Magazine Barrier Editor Reef Collection In the edition ___ ___ Since the Sydney Environment Institute was established in 2013, 04 The Return of the Repressed: 19 Public lecture: Coral Bleaching 34 Bleach-hot Reality: The Great The First Reef War and its in the Great Barrier Reef with Barrier Reef of your childhood the Institute has worked to foster a multidisciplinary network of Significance Today screening of ‘Chasing Coral’ is gone, what are you going to researchers, activists and community leaders who are working to Iain McCalman, Ana Vila Concejo, do about it? explore environmental problems faced by the Great Barrier Reef Sydney Environment Institute Geocoastal Research Group Jodie Pall, (GBR), including: loss of place and cultural heritage; biodiversity Sydney Environment Institute 09 Reef and Rainforest: Mission 20 Saving Turtles and Respecting loss; depletion oceanic resources; and declining health of coral Beach Conference & Project Culture… It’s Complicated 37 Film Screening: Global Warming and marine environments. Iain McCalman, Leah Lui-Chivizhe, and the Mass Bleaching of Corals SEI Co-Director University of Sydney Terry Hughes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies Over the past five years, SEI’s GBR research What follows is a collection of selected 10 Stars in the Sand: Climate 25 Great Barrier Reef Stories: projects, blog posts and public facing events articles on the GBR which were originally Change, the Great Barrier Reef Let’s Talk About Coral Sex have communicated that the GBR is in published on the SEI’s website.