International Australian Studies Association (InASA)
Deadline for applications extended to the 1st November, 2019. Visiting Professor in Australian Studies 2020-21 or 2021-22 (two terms). Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Centre for Pacific and American Studies, The University of Tokyo. The Visiting Professorship in Australian Studies was created in 1999 by the Centre for Pacific and American Studies, The University […]
In 2015, the Australian federal government proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis. Despite widespread social and economic advances in the status of women since the 1970s, including growing awareness and action around gender violence, its prevalence remains alarming. A third of all women in Australia have been assaulted physically; a fifth […]
Anne Brewster and Sue Kossew. This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on the international field […]
Kate Darian-Smith, James Waghorne Australia’s extraordinary contribution to World War I extended well beyond its military forces to the expertise of its universities and professional men and women. Scientists and engineers oversaw the manufacture of munitions and the development of chemical weapons. Doctors sustained soldiers in the trenches, and treated the physically and psychologically damaged. […]
For well over a century Australia’s place in Asia has been at the forefront of public discussion and controversy. Stranded Nation is a searching examination of how a ‘white’ nation, harbouring deep anxieties about rising Asia, sought to convince both itself and its neighbours that it belonged within the Asian region. This is the strange […]
Buying Britishness: Consumption and the construction of settler colonial identities in Australia, New Zealand and Canada By Dr. Felicity Barnes (University of Auckland) Thursday 30 May 6.00-7.30 Mrs Padma Harilela Lecture Theatre (WLB104), Lam Woo International Conference Centre Hong Kong Baptist University, Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong the lecture will be followed by a reception. All […]