International Australian Studies Association (InASA)
Leading Australian scholars Professor David Carter and Professor Helen Gilbert have been appointed to the annual Visiting Professor in Australian Studies position at the Centre for Pacific and American Studies (CPAS), University of Tokyo, for 2016–17 and 2017–18 respectively. The University of Melbourne’s Professor Kate Darian-Smith, Chair of the Selection Committee, has commented on how “important it is that […]
This literary and cultural studies conference, to be held at the University of Liège under the auspices of the European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) and the local post-colonial studies centre CEREP, will seek to draw attention to the multifarious encounters which have occurred between South Asia and Australia from the nineteenth century to […]
Edited by Anne Brewster, University of New South Wales ISSN: 2297-8194 Link to Peter Lang Link to book on Peter Lang This interdisciplinary book series showcases dynamic, innovative research on contemporary and historical Australian culture. It aims to foster interventions in established debates on Australia as well as opening up new areas of enquiry […]
6-9 July 2016, UNSW Canberra and the National Library of Australia ABSTRACTS DUE by Friday 26 February WEBSITE NOW LIVE HERE: https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/conferences/ASAL2016 Capital-Empire-Print-Dissent will seek to articulate the ways in which the institutions of government, the arts, the universities and the heritage sectors have forged what we now call ‘Australian’ literature; and the relationship between, on […]
Australian Literary Studies new website has gone online. For the first time our entire archive of more than 1000 essays is available online. The website is: www.australianliterarystudies.com.au. It includes essays of literary scholarship (on Australian and international topics) from 1963 to the present. New essays are open access for 4-6 weeks. Access to the archive […]
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship on indigenous maps within the collections of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). This award is made by the Science Museums & Archives Consortium under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. The project, due to begin in September 2016, will be supervised by […]