International Australian Studies Association (InASA)
Transnational Migratory Spaces and Cultural Exchange between Australia and India Indian Association for the Study of Australia, Eastern Region 09-10 February, 2018 Astor Hotel, Kolkata Transnationalism may be regarded as a distinct phase of global modernity in terms of re-structuring the postcolonial thesis. With the rise of globalization, Edward Said, in his Culture and Imperialism, […]
CALL FOR PAPERS Language in Times of War and Conflict An Interdisciplinary Symposium to be held at the Australian National University, 13-14 November 2017 This interdisciplinary symposium aims to bring together scholars and researchers working on diverse aspects of the topic of language in times of war and conflict. Language – from the language deployed […]
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 […]
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 […]