Australian Studies Copenhagen, Distinguished Visiting Chair, 2011
The Centre for Australian Studies at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for a Visiting Professorship in 2011. The Distinguished Visiting Chair in Australian Studies was founded in 2006, with the generous financial assistance of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment, and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). The appointment is for the European autumn semester of each year (five months from September to January), and the position is next available from 1 September 2011. The post comes with a travel, accommodation and subsistence allowance worth up to AUD 25,000. Office and computer facilities will also be provided by the University.
For further information about the position click here
2011 Tokyo University Australian Studies Professor
The Centre for Pacific and American Studies (CPAS) at the University of Tokyo hosts an annual Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at their Komaba Campus, Tokyo. Associate Professor Baden Offord has been appointed to the position for 2010-11, and will take up the Visiting Professorship in October. Associate Professor Offord is a leading scholar in the study of human rights and cultural studies, and is co-director of the Centre for Peace and Social Justice at Southern Cross University. To see the full press release Click here
The International Australian Studies Association (InASA), the peak global Australian Studies organisation, manages the selection process on behalf of the Australia-Japan Foundation. Applications for the 2011-12 Professorship will open later this year.
Australians Abroad Conference
An interdisciplinary conference
University of Queensland, 10-11 February 2011
Hosted by the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, UQ
Keynote speaker: Emeritus Professor Ros Pesman, author of Duty Free: Australian Women Abroad and co-editor of Australians in Italy: Contemporary lives and impressions and The Oxford book of Australian travel writing.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
If myths of national identity have focused on travel to Australia (‘discovery’, invasion/settlement, transportation, migration), it is worth noting that travel from Australia has been a significant phenomenon for just as long. From Yolngu people accompanying Macassan fisherman to the islands of Indonesia, from those First Fleeters who made the return journey ‘home’ to Europe, to today’s travellers, tourists and expatriates, residents of Australia have left its shores for a multitude of destinations and reasons and in very different roles. Descendants of migrants and refugees, soldiers, nurses, artists, authors, brides, chaperones, utopians, sportspeople, students, teachers, backpackers, cruise-ship travellers, journalists, IT professionals: some have sought to rejoin family, others to escape it; some have sought renown, others have been head-hunted.
We invite papers that explore the conference theme from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including: auto/biography, travel writing, history, language learning, intercultural communication, sociology, tourism, literary/cultural studies.
Possible topics might include:
· analyses of fiction, memoirs, letters, diaries, interviews relating to travel by Australians
· patterns of travel/writing, configurations of gender and desire at different times, in different places
· Aboriginal travel to various destinations and its purposes
· the search for Utopia and its construction by Australians
· contemporary discourses displacing the ‘cultural cringe’ of the 1960s as the motivation for travel
· reflections on Australia from an overseas vantage point
· Australian experiences in non-English speaking territory, language-learning memoirs, the relation between language and cultural identity
· the extent to which belonging is sought in the destination culture, accommodation to local cultures
· representations of particular cultures by Australians
· New Zealand travel/expatriate experiences (this might form a panel broadening the conference theme to Australasians Abroad)
Abstracts of 250 words or panel proposals (3 x 20 minute papers on a common theme with an abstract for each) with full contact details should be sent by 31 August 2010 to Dr Juliana de Nooy at:
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Other keynote speakers will be confirmed shortly. Conference registration will open in October 2010 and will include earlybird registration fees. Participation by postgraduate students is particularly welcome.
Further details will be posted, as they become available, on the conference website: http://www.slccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=134821&pid=70702
Found in Translation: Textual Explorations of Australia and the World
An international conference to be held at the Monash Prato Centre (near
Florence)
20-25 September 2010 hosted by the National Centre for Australian
Studies, in association with the School of Languages, Cultures and
Linguistics, Monash University.
Far from being considered as a linguistic activity only, translation isincreasingly seen as bridging, and sometimes broadening, gaps between different cultures. There is widespread recognition that translation modifies, or preserves, the perception of the other. Hence, translating as an activity and translation as the result of this activity are inseparable from the concept of culture.
Locating Australian literature and culture in the global context connotes reconfiguring Australia’s relationship with other literatures and cultures. The unique conditions of Australia, including the indigenous cultural traditions, the colonial experience, and the experiences of multiple migrations into and out of the country, illustrate the need for a global viewpoint in approaching Australian literature, culture and identities, particularly with regard to a
European setting that itself appears increasingly multicultural.
This conference aims to consider and assess the socio-cultural value of translation not only as an interlinguistic process but also as intersemiotic activity across cultures and languages and also historically.
Full Details about the conference are available here
Challenging Politics: New Critical Voices
The "Challenging Politics: New Critical Voices" Emerging Scholars Conference will be held at the University of Queensland, St Lucia on 10-11 of June 2010.
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together early career researchers who are interested in power and politics, but are engaging with perspectives, knowledges and concerns that may fall outside the preoccupations of conventional political science.
The conference Keynote Speaker will be Professor Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney). There will also be two Roundtable Discussion Panels, where emerging scholars will have the opportunity to interact with more established voices to discuss the joys and frustrations of doing work that seeks to challenge structures and practices of domination from within universities that often reflect, propagate and profit from these processes.
ABSTRACTS are due - 26 March 2010. Extensions available, by arrangement
Keith Cameron Chair in Australian History
The Keith Cameron Chair in Australian History has just been advertised at University College Dublin (UCD). The Keith Cameron Chair is
held for one calendar year, and currently two appointments are open: one for the calendar year 2011 and one for 2012. Details can be found at http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies/ Go to "Job Vacancies for External Candidates" and then search in "History and Archives".
The Keith Cameron Chair was initially endowed in 1985, and recent holders of the position have been Brian de Garis (Murdoch), Nicholas Brown (ANU), Hilary Carey (Newcastle NSW) and Stuart Ward (Copenhagen). The current Professor is Katie Holmes (La Trobe). Some background information can be found on the UCD Australian Studies Centre website: http://www.ucd.ie/historyarchives/austud.htm (This is in the process of being updated at the moment, as we move to a new contents management system.)
Double Vision: Biennial Australian Studies Conference
The 2010 International Australian Studies Association Conference will take place on 25-26 November 2010 at the University of Sydney.
DOUBLE VISION is an interdisciplinary conference, that will bring together scholars from across the humanities and social sciences whose research focuses on Australia to discuss the ideas, theories, themes and methodologies that animate their work. It is this breadth of perspectives that we believe will be part of the excitement of the conference.
EXTENDED DEADLINE for Abstracts MONDAY 19th AUGUST.
The conference page can be accessed via the webpage menu.
CFP - Republic of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia
A Symposium hosted by Australian Literature at the University of Sydney,
Thursday 13 - Friday 14th January 2011.
This symposium explores a variety of collective relationships among writers, readers and texts with an emphasis on processes of literary sociability that elide or exceed the "imagined community" of the nation.
The Call for Papers is available here.
Visiting Professorship in Australian Studies 2010-2011
Applications are now open for the position of Visiting Professor at Tokyo University. This senior position will be based in the Centre for Pacific and American Studies (CPAS), part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of The University of Tokyo, and located at the Komaba Campus in inner Tokyo.
The University of Tokyo, one of the most prestigious tertiary institutions in Japan, has a long-standing commitment to the study of Australia and has for many years hosted Australian academics. The University, with assistance from the Australia-Japan Foundation, created the Annual Visiting Professorship in Australian Studies in 1999, and offers this Visiting Professorship to one Australian scholar per year. Applicants must be Australian citizens.
The job commences in early October 2010 and is for 10 months.
Closing date for applications: 19 March 2010.
Full Details of the Position and the Selection Criteria are available here (File will download as a .doc)
InASA Membership and Journal of Australian Studies 2010
The first issue of the Journal of Australian Studies (JAS) will be ready in a few weeks. So make sure your InASA membership is up to date in order to receive this great issue 'hot off the presses'.
There are many benefits that come from being a member of InASA, but one of the best is that it is the cheapest way of subscribing to JAS.
The 2010 InASA membership and JAS subscription form is available to download from here.
To renew your subscription please fill in the form and return it to the InASA Treasurer Jacqueline Wilson. Relevant details are provided on the form.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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Humanities in Australia Today
The Australian Academy of the Humanities has been awarded a grant by the Australian Research Council to look into how the academic humanities are faring in Australia at the moment.
The Humanities in Australia Today (HAT) project aims to form a clear picture of how the humanities are going now, and where we are heading. A brief online survey is being conducted to find out more about the present challenges for humanities research and teaching, the characteristics of the humanities workforce, and how and where the humanities have contracted and expanded across the university sector. This knowledge will help present a better case for support and advancement of the humanities.
The Australian Academy of the Humanities would really appreciate your participation: it will just take a few minutes of your time. Please click on the following link to go to the survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=fBuWdeexvAU40IqnHen4PA_3d_3d
CFP, Reading Across the Pacific, Symposium, Uni Syd Jan 2010
On 14-15 January 2010, Australian Literature at the University of Sydney in association with the American Association for Australian Literary Studies (AAALS) and the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) will host a symposium on Reading Across the Pacific: Australian-United States Intellectual Histories.
Plenary speakers:
Lawrence Buell (Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University)
Paul Giles (Challis Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney (from 2010)
The United States-Australia cultural relationship has often simply been assumed rather than theorized or empirically grounded. This symposium will examine the concrete interaction of the two nations, shifting the emphasis from the broad cultural patterns often compared to the specific networks, interactions, and crossings that have characterized Australian literature in the US, American literature in Australia, and the many mediations and adjacencies that have accompanied this interaction. This entails shifting the characteristic perspective from two monadic nations facing each another across the Pacific to understanding the Pacific as a thread across which the two cultures have read each other, and focusing away from matters of direct literary influence to a broader range of responses, provocations, and dialogues.
CFP, Patrick White; Modernist Impact / Critical Futures, Uni London, 23-25 June 2010
Institute of English Studies, University of London
Call for papers
This international conference will forge new perspectives on the work of Patrick White, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. Invited speakers from around the world will explore White’s impact in Australia, America, Britain, Europe, and Asia and speculate on critical futures for White and for literary modernism.
Proposals for papers are sought showcasing new research on all aspects of White’s life and writing with conclusions directed towards the future of White studies. Relevant papers on international modernism will also be considered. Email abstract and short bio to
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Forum, Exploding Media Myths, Paramatta, ECU, 20-21 Nov 2008
Exploding Media Myths: Misrepresenting Australia? will be held 20-21 November 2008 at The Sebel Parramatta, 350 Church Street, Parramatta, NSW 2150
This forum will bring together those who create the stories, those who make policy, those who manage public opinion and those who have been affected by media reporting, in a public debate about the power of the media and its impact.
In each session the forum will present a major media issue and discuss the nature of the coverage and its potential effects. Participants will be working in small groups addressing a selection of topics.
This event is being organised by Edith Cowan University, Mt Lawley, Western Australia. Further information is available from the forum website.
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