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InASA Conference Programme, Abstracts and Map
The InASA Conference 2008, New Voices, New Visions: Challenging Australian identities and legacies, will be held from 26-28 November 2008, at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
Please refer to the following attachments for further information:
Dr Keith Moore Humanities Program, QUT - Carseldine Campus Beams Road, CARSELDINE Queensland.
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Call for Applications, Visiting Professor in Australian Studies 2009 - 2010, Closes 1 Dec 2008
The Visiting Professorship in Australian Studies was created in 1999 by the Centre for Pacific and American Studies, The University of Tokyo, to promote a deeper understanding of Australia and its regional engagement. The Australia – Japan Foundation supports activities associated with the position.
Applications are invited from highly qualified Australians with a significant academic achievement, including those who have moved to academia from the senior levels of government or community. The Visiting Professor is required to teach three courses at introductory and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate levels; to present conference papers; to conduct research and participate in other activities. Opportunities are available to contribute to Australian Studies programs elsewhere in Japan.
The appointment is usually for a twelve month period, and commences no later than 1 October 2009. The Visiting Professor is expected to spend most of his/her time in Tokyo engaged in research and, during semester, in teaching. All teaching is conducted in English. An attractive salary package is available.
Applications close on 1 December 2008.
The selection process will be managed by the International Australian Studies Association (InASA). See
For any further information contact:
Professor Kate Darian-Smith
Vice President InASA
phone: + 61 3 8344 7232
email:
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CFP Extended, New Voices, New Visions, InASA Conference 2008, 26-28 Nov 2008
The InASA Conference 2008, New Voices, New Visions: Challenging Australian identities and legacies, will be held from 26-28 November 2008, at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
The extended deadline for abstracts is 10 October 2008.
Sponsored by the Humanities Program, Queensland University of Technology, this interdisciplinary conference will explore the ways in which ideas, representations, narratives of Australia, Australians and Australian experiences have been challenged in the new millennium.
This can include:
Popular cultures: Australia in literature, film, television, art and music
Attitudes to the environment
Changing political cultures
Reconsiderations of citizenship and identity
Australia in the region
Making and remaking borders
Constructions and challenges to the national past
Myths and memories
Racial power and privilege
Indigenous sovereignties
Social Exclusion and Human Rights
Materialism and consumerism
Knowledge, Power and Privilege
Education and Schooling
Globalization and diaspora
National, regional local perspectives of Australia
Cultures of everyday life
Bodies, space and place: outback, country towns, cities.
Culture and technology
We are especially interested in including the work of emerging scholars, and work that is being undertaken in new fields of contemporary interest.
Dr Keith Moore Humanities Program, QUT - Carseldine Campus Beams Road, CARSELDINE Queensland.
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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.
CFP, Change, Conflict and Convergence, ASAA Conference 2008, 2-5 Dec 2008
The Association for the Study of Australasia in Asia will hold its Fourth conference, Australasia - Asia: Change, Conflict and Convergence in Kandy, Sri Lanka at the Hotel Suisse, Kandy From 2 – 5 December 2008.
The call for papers in relation to the motifs of Change, Conflict and Convergence closes on 20 August 2008. For more information, refer to the conference flyer.
CFP, Landscapes and Rivers, IASA Eastern Region Conference, 22-23 January 2009
Indian Association for the Study of Australia (IASA), Eastern Region International Conference, Kolkata, 22-23 January 2009
Landscapes and Rivers: Symbolising Cultural Linkages Between Australia and India
Conference organized in collaboration with AIC and UNSW
IASA, Eastern Region is a regional chapter of the central body IASA based in New Delhi.
Comprehensive information about this inaugural international conference organised by IASA, Eastern Region in collaboration with AIC and the University of New South Wales, is available for download here, or via Email:
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, Web: http://iasa2007.er.googlepages.com
CFP, Legacies 09 Public Memory Research Centre, 13-14 Feb 2009
The Legacies '09 Conference will be held over two days from the 13-14 February 2009 at the Downs Club, in Toowoomba, Queensland. The conference will be hosted by the Public Memory Research Centre, University of Southern Queensland.
Under the general theme of 'Legacies', the conference invites submissions for individual papers and proposals for panel sessions or group presentations in the areas of:
Culture, retrieval and revival
Memory and the practice of everyday life
History, ideology and refashioning the past
Colonialism and its aftermaths
Indigenous, ethnic and multicultural memories
Public memory and national identities
Memory and myth
Public memory as false consciousness
Abstracts of 300 words, or conference enquiries, can be sent to
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Submissions close 30 September 2008. For more information visit the Legacies 09 conference website.
CFP, ANZSANA 2009 Annual Conference, 26 - 28 Feb 2009
The Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North America will hold its annual conference in Calgary, Alberta from 26 February through 1 March 2009. ANZSANA is a multidisciplinary organization and welcomes papers on any aspect of Australian or New Zealand studies and comparative studies involving Australia, New Zealand, and North America.
ANZSANA will meet simultaneously with the annual meeting of the American Association of Australian Literary Studies (AAALS). Shared events will include an evening reception on 26 February and a formal banquet on 27 February. More information on ANZSANA and the conference, including a registration form, will soon be made available at www.anzsana.net.
The DEADLINE for submission of paper proposals is 5 DECEMBER 2008.
Conference organizers will send notices of acceptance no later than 1 January 2008. Proposals should include the author's name and institutional affiliation, the title of the paper, and an abstract of no more than 500 words attached as either a Word or PDF document.
The Call for Papers for the 10th Biennial European Australian Studies Conference is now open, with a deadline of 1 April 2009.
Dis/solutions: the future of the past in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific will be held from 22-25 September, 2009 at the University of Balearic Islands, Spain.
A one day event preceding the conference will be devoted to a Postgraduate Seminar, where postgraduate and advanced students will be able to discuss their work with experts in their field in a lecture and workshop format.
Symposium, Reading Across the Pacific, University of Sydney, 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) will host a symposium on Reading Across the Pacific: Australian-United States Intellectual Histories.
Plenary speaker: Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University.
Limited funding to assist early career researchers may be available on application to the convenors.
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