Keynote Speakers 2021 (coming soon)
Keynote Speakers 2019
The Late Professor Pier M. Larson
(for obituary see the following link: https://www.rememberyours.com/pier)
Johns Hopkins University
Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences,
Department of History.
Keynote address: The Ken Macpherson Memorial Lecture
(for obituary see the following link: https://www.rememberyours.com/pier)
Johns Hopkins University
Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences,
Department of History.
Keynote address: The Ken Macpherson Memorial Lecture
In memory of Ken Macpherson, who was President of the Australian Association for Maritime History (AAMH), we were delighted to invite Professor Pier Larson from Johns Hopkins University, to deliver a keynote address.
The late Professor Pier Larson was an historian of Africa, specialising in east and southern Africa, France’s African and Indian Ocean empires, and slavery and the slave trades. Professor Larson’s research was concerned with the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Madagascar and the western Indian Ocean islands.
Professor Larson authored several works based on his research, including Ocean of Letters (Cambridge University Press, 2009), a study of imperialism, language, and creolization in the largest African diaspora of the Indian Ocean in the early modern period. He was also currently working on two book projects concerning a history of literacy and power in highland Madagascar between c. 1820 and 1860, and another focused on the collective biography of a mixed-race family of free origins based in île de France/Mauritius.
The late Professor Pier Larson was an historian of Africa, specialising in east and southern Africa, France’s African and Indian Ocean empires, and slavery and the slave trades. Professor Larson’s research was concerned with the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Madagascar and the western Indian Ocean islands.
Professor Larson authored several works based on his research, including Ocean of Letters (Cambridge University Press, 2009), a study of imperialism, language, and creolization in the largest African diaspora of the Indian Ocean in the early modern period. He was also currently working on two book projects concerning a history of literacy and power in highland Madagascar between c. 1820 and 1860, and another focused on the collective biography of a mixed-race family of free origins based in île de France/Mauritius.
Professor Malcolm Tull
President of International Maritime History Association
Professor of Economics, School of Business and Governance, Murdoch University
President of International Maritime History Association
Professor of Economics, School of Business and Governance, Murdoch University
Malcolm Tull is Emeritus Professor in the School of Business at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. His main research fields are maritime economics, maritime economic history and fisheries socio-economics. Malcolm’s publications include A Community Enterprise: the History of the Port of Fremantle, 1897 to 1997 (1997), Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience (2008), co-edited with James Reveley, and Historical Perspectives on Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific (2014), co-edited with Joseph Christensen. He was joint editor of the International Journal of Maritime History from 2000-2008. Malcolm is currently President of the International Maritime History Association and is a life member of the Australian Association for Maritime History.
