Location: UNSW Canberra City, Reid, ACT Thursday, August 20 – Friday, August 21 Eventbrite Link: Polar Imaginaries and Combative Poetics: Australia’s Literary Cold War Tickets A Symposium examining mid-twentieth-century Australian literary cultures, especially realism and its political, social, and aesthetic stakes. The postwar decades saw a flourishing of small magazines, journals, writers’ groups, and publishing […]
The Cringing Continent 2027 InASA Conference Tuesday 9—Friday 12 February Flinders University, Adelaide In February 2027, we invite you to join us on Kaurna Country to reconsider one of the foundational epigrams of Australian Studies: A. A. Phillips’s much-cited ‘cultural cringe.’ Detached from its original context in the pages of Meanjin, the phrase has been […]
A reminder that applications for the Australia-Korea Foundation Visiting Professorship at Seoul National University for 2027 close on Monday the 13 of April. For those planning to apply, please be sure to send through the required application documents by close of business on Monday to InASA President, Professor Anna Johnston (anna.johnston@uq.edu.au), copying in our administrator […]
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(Journal of) Australian Studies at 50
In 2026, the Journal of Australian Studies publishes its 50th volume. To mark this occasion we propose a special issue for release in late 2026. For this volume, we would like to invite scholars to revisit its back issues – perhaps with nostalgia, perhaps with criticism, but always with the purpose of evaluating what Australian […]
InASA is pleased to announce applications are now open for the Australia-Korea Foundation Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at Seoul National University (SNU) for 2027. Supported by Woodside Energy and developed in partnership with SNU and the Australia-Korea Foundation, the Visiting Professor position is a funded 11-month visiting academic position commencing in February 2027 at […]
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InASA ECR Publication Subsidy Scheme 2026
InASA ECR Publication Subsidy Scheme Guidelines Purpose: This publishing subsidy is designed to assist early career researchers working in Australian Studies. Eligibility / Selection Criteria: Applications are assessed by a sub-committee established by the InASA executive. The committee will rate applications according to academic merit and demonstrated financial need for a subsidy. Applications should be accompanied by evidence of publication plans such […]