Presentations and Lectures

Here you will find a compilation of slides and written notes from lectures and presentations on a variety of subjects.

• ‘A Convenient Cloak for Cruelty?’: Mutinies and Conspiracies on Early Australian Convict Transports. Gary L. Sturgess. A lecture to the 7th International Congress of Maritime History. Perth, Western Australia. 27 February 2016

• ‘The Necessity of Due Diligence’: Lessons from Australian Convict Contracting. Gary L. Sturgess, George Argyrous and Sara Rahman. A lecture to historians and public servants organised by the Australia and New Zealand School of Government, Sydney, NSW. 26 February 2016

• Where Deep Water Washes the Rock: New Evidence on Phillip's Landing Place. Gary L. Sturgess and Michael Flynn. A lecture at the Royal Australian Historical Society, Sydney, NSW. 4 February 2015.

• A Small Sandy Beach: Recent Evidence about Phillip's Landing Place. Gary L. Sturgess and Michael Flynn. A lecture at the Rocks Discovery Museum, Sydney, NSW. 28 August 2014.

• Distant and Dangerous: Early Convict Transportation. Gary L. Sturgess. Lecture to State Archives Authority of NSW, Kingswood, NSW. 30 August 2013

• Managing a Global Enterprise in the late 18th Century: Anthony Calvert of the Crescent, London. Gary L. Sturgess and Ken Cozens. Lecture to the Greenwich Maritime Institute, London. 10 October 2012.

Presentations

Lectures

• A Few Small Ships: Botany Baymen in China, 1788-1801. Gary L. Sturgess. A lecture to a conference, 'Private Merchants of the China Trade, 1700-1842', Department of History, Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China. 16 November 2013

• ‘Camp and Fleet: Relations between Ship and Shore in Sydney Cove, 1788’. Gary L. Sturgess. A lecture to a conference, 'Sea Stories: Maritime Landscapes, Culture and Histories', University of Sydney. 12 June 2013