Australia as a Risk Society: Hope and Fears of the Past, the Present and the Future 13-16 October 2020 Conference venue: University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy Australia may be defined as a society increasingly preoccupied yet also gambling with the future, a worry or denial which is closely connected to the notion of risk as... Continue Reading →
17th Biennial Conference Gesellschaft für Australienstudien|Association for Australian Studies Trier University, 1-3 October 2020 Australia’s past and present are closely connected to the sea: In coastal regions, maritime areas are an integral part of Country and thus play a vital role for Aboriginal communities. The sea also looms large in Australian cultural memory and imagination... Continue Reading →
Announcing the 7th Foundation for Australian Studies in China (FASIC) Conference 21 – 24 November 2019, University of Sydney Centre in China, Suzhou Convened by Professor Pookong Kee, BHP Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University Co-organised by School of International Studies (SIS) at Peking University Sponsored by The Foundation for Australian Studies in China (FASIC)... Continue Reading →
As the United States’ titular position in the international system retreats, questions regarding the value of the post-World War II liberal order have surfaced. In this emerging multipolar world, two distinct constellations of power are forming. One camp is composed of states largely supportive of the current global governance structure; the other finds states wishing... Continue Reading →
Call for papers EASA (European Association for Studies of Australia) Biennial Conference Alter/Native Spaces 18-20th September 2019 Conference venue : Université de Toulon, France Recent events in Australia remind us that Australia is still caught in discourses on “nation”, “belonging” and “identity” in an environment that fails to produce new alternatives in this so called... Continue Reading →
The 2019 Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Annual Conference will be hosted by the Westerly Centre at The University of Western Australia in Perth from 2-5 July 2019. The conference theme of ‘Dirt’ is meant to evoke a number of dimensions of material and cultural life that inflect Australian literary and narrative... Continue Reading →
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