Author: InAsa

  This special issue of the Journal of Australian Colonial History explores the relationship between love and law in late-eighteenth and nineteenth century Australia. We solicit contributions that examine aspects of the history of the legal regulation and production of intimacy, with special attention to how love and law came together, or more typically collided, […]

Open Category Winner Nathan Garvey, ‘“Folkalising” Convicts: a “Botany Bay” Ballad and its Cultural Contexts’, Journal of Australian Studies, Vol.38 No.1 (March) (2014): 32–51. This article examines the transnational history of the iconic Australian song ‘Botany Bay’, tracking its purported origins as a convict ballad and its evolution through British print culture to its contemporary […]

Please be aware of InASA Executive Associate Professor Anne Brewster’s exciting new book concerned with contemporary Indigenous writing.

Australian Catholic University is offering one full-time PhD scholarship to undertake research related to the Australian Research Council-funded project ‘Serving in Silence? Australian LGBTI Military Service since 1945’. This project aims to investigate how the Australian armed forces have grappled with changing social attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people from the […]

Since its founding in 1988, the National Association of Australian Studies in China has been committed to promote Australian Studies and strengthen the mutual understanding between Australia and China. One of its major functions is to organize biennial international conferences of Australian Studies in China. Under the leadership of the National Association of Australian Studies […]

Barcelona is one of the most exciting cosmopolitan hubs in the Mediterranean and indeed in Europe. Well known for its architecture, from the Roman to the Contemporary, its food and culture, Barcelona has a long history in hosting major international conferences in all areas of study and work. Barcelona is the place to be for […]