International Australian Studies Association (InASA)
Visiting Professor of Australian Studies 2018-19 AND/OR 2019-20 Centre for Pacific and American Studies Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo Position: Visiting Professor Open to: Australian citizens and permanent residents Location: Centre for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus Salary: Starting Salary ¥600,000 per month (before tax). See also […]
QUEER The 17th Australia’s Homosexual Histories Conference Adelaide University, 10 -11 November 2017 This annual conference brings together members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex Queer+ communities, academics, researchers, students, community members and arts workers to explore and discuss histories of LGBTIQ+ life, politics, arts and culture in Australia. The term ‘queer’ is commonly […]
MENZIES CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN STUDIES KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 2017-18 SEMINAR SERIES SCALING AUSTRALIA In recent years, Australian Studies has been challenged and enriched by two different paradigms that place ‘Australia’ as concept, space and place into contact with questions of scale: in terms of both ‘deep time’ and planetary space. Drawing on […]
Call for Papers Mabo’s Cultural Legacy: The Mabo Decision, 25 Years On An Interdisciplinary Workshop University of Stuttgart, Germany November 16-18, 2017 A quarter of a century ago, the High Court of Australia ruled in favour of a claim by a group of Indigenous Australians, led by Eddie Koiki Mabo, to customary, legal title (“native […]
Violence in the Postcolonial and Neocolonial World: An Interdisciplinary Conference University of Liège, Belgium, 15-16 February 2018 Confirmed keynote speakers so far: Dyab Abou Jahjah, Bryan Cheyette, Merle Collins In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon describes the colonial world as a divided world in which absolute violence and physical force function to uphold […]
Voices of the Australian Migrant and Minority Press: Intercultural, transnational and diasporic contexts Conference University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 22-23 November, 2017 This Conference is timed to mark developments in Australia’s migrant and minority printed press since 1967. It has been fifty years since Miriam Gilson and Jerzy Zubrzycki’s ground-breaking study on the […]