International Australian Studies Association (InASA)
The InASA Executive wishes to appoint a new editor or editorial team to the Journal of Australian Studies (JAS) to take over the leadership of the journal from Maggie Nolan (ACU) and Julie Kimber (Swinburne) who will be stepping down at the end of 2019. JAS is the journal of the International Australian Studies Association […]
Adopting a political and legal perspective, Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand undertakes a transnational study that examines the demise of Britishness as a defining feature of the conceptualisation of citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand and the impact that this historic shift has had on Indigenous and other ethnic […]
UNSW Canberra and the Society of Military History are offering a bursary for PhD students and ECRs to attend the conference ‘Towards a New History of the Interwar Period’, on 3 – 4 September 2019. Among those speaking will be Dr Carolyn Holbrook, Professor James Cotton, Professor Joan Beaumont and Professor Frank Bongiorno. The conference website can […]
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 […]
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 […]