Iain McCalman, 'Shooting An Elephant: Why I am Writing a History of Human-Animal Emotions'

Iain McCalman is a Research Professor in History at The University of Sydney, co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and an Advisory Board Member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. In this lecture, delivered at The University of Western Australia on 29 August 2016, Professor McCalman outlines why and how a small episode of elephant killing during Theodore Roosevelt’s eleven-month African Safari of 1909–1910 led to his current book-in-progress on hunting and human-animal emotions.