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 →
Curtin University PhD project and scholarship in creative writing/literary studies Into the New World: Diaspora in Australian and Scottish Writing As part of Curtin’s collaboration with the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, a PhD project with scholarship is available for 2019 start. Students undertaking a collaborative PhD under the alliance are offered a seamless international... Continue Reading →
Over the past eight years, ANU historian Martin Thomas has been working on Etched in Bone, a feature-length documentary made in collaboration with Béatrice Bijon from ANU’s School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. The film examines the theft of Aboriginal human remains by the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948, their removal... Continue Reading →
Outsiders and Insiders: Histories of educational access, success and failure individuals and groups experiencing educational institutions and practices the problem of hierarchies in educational institutions and practices the experience of Indigenous: Māori, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders making, reforming and overturning dominant ideologies, discourses and practices in education great, and not so great: leaders who... Continue Reading →
***This text is taken from a DFAT media release available here.*** Professor Pookong Kee has been appointed the next BHP Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University. The BHP Chair initiative, now in its sixth year, has raised the profile of Australian studies within Chinese academic circles. Through its activities, the BHP Chair has given... Continue Reading →
The John Barrett Award for Australian Studies Background Dr John Barrett (1931-1997) established this award by way of a bequest to La Trobe University in 1987. Dr John Barrett was a lecturer and reader at La Trobe University from 1969 until his retirement in 1990. His research specialisation was 20th century Australian history, particularly national... Continue Reading →
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