The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions ( 1100-1800) presents: PUBLIC LECTURE SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT: WHY I AM WRITING A HISTORY OF HUMAN-ANIMAL EMOTIONS IN THE AGE OF THE AFRICAN SAFARI

SPEAKER: Professor Iain McCalman (The ) DATE: Monday 29 August 2016 TIME: 6.15pm VENUE: Webb Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Geography and Geology Building, The University of Western ENQUIRIES: Katrina Tap [email protected] Free Admission but booking is essential BOOKING: http://ow.ly/6GTl303a1HK

In this paper I outline why and how a small episode of Iain McCalman was born in Nyasaland in 1947, schooled in Zimbabwe elephant killing during Theodore Roosevelt’s 11-month and completed his higher education in Australia. He is a Fellow of African Safari of 1909–1910 led to my current book-in- three Academies and former President of the Australian Academy of progress on hunting and human-animal emotions. This the Humanities. He was Director of The Australian National book will tell the story of an eminent circle of African University’s Humanities Research Centre (1995-2002) and won the hunters and museum naturalists linked to Roosevelt and inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s prize at ANU for teaching excellence. He his safari. This circle of men and women, which included is a former Federation Fellow, and currently Research Professor in history at The University of Sydney and co-Director of the Sydney my Australian great uncle, Leslie Tarlton, the co-leader of Environment Institute. He was awarded an Officer of the Order of Roosevelt’s Safari, has left an enduring mark. They went Australia in 2007 for services to history and the humanities, and is on to found the modern African ‘sporting’ safari business Chair of the Advisory Board for the Australian Research Council and to fill the halls of the great American natural history Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100–1800). museums with dead African big game animals. I argue, however, that their success came at a great cost: to the His book, Darwin’s Armada (Penguin, 2009) won three prizes and was psychic well-being of the hunters and their children; to the basis of the TV series Darwin’s Brave New World. Other publications East ’s wildlife and peoples; and to the lives of a few include The Reef: A Passionate History (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, particular animals whom they came to know intimately, 2014), The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of including a vervet monkey, a baby gorilla and a small Reason (HarperCollins, 2003), Radical Underworld: Prophets, elephant cow. Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795–1840 (Cambridge University Press, 1988) and An Oxford Companion to The Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776–1832 (Oxford University Press, 1999). Image: Carl Ethan Akeley, Kermit, Tarleton, & I, 1909-1910. © Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library.