International Australian Studies Association (InASA)
History Compass is looking for new members of the editorial team. History Compass is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing articles based on original research in established and emerging fields of historical inquiry, review essays and articles reporting on innovations in history teaching and learning. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14780542 Originally launched by Wiley – Blackwell in association with the Institute of […]
We are embarking on a project to produce approximately 190 new biographies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for the Australian Dictionary of Biography. We are now seeking nominations of Indigenous Australian individuals to be included. We are especially interested in nominations of people who lived up until the 1940s. Please send this nomination form to shino.konishi@uwa.edu.au if you […]
Reimagining Australia, Part 1 & 2. Guest Editors: Baden Offord, Thor Kerr, Rob Garbutt, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Elfie Shiosaki, Misty Farquhar and Dean Chan http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/index This special double issue of Coolabah, numbers 24 & 25, was developed from selected presentations at Reimagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility, the International Australian Studies Association (InASA) Conference 2016, hosted by the Centre for Human […]
CALL FOR PAPERS German Association for Australian Studies / Gesellschaft für Australienstudien (GASt) Biennial Conference, 4 October 2018 – 6 October 2018 Australian Perspectives on Migration The 2018 biennial GASt conference will address cultural, social, historical, legal, and (geo)political issues related to the contemporary global challenge of migration and displacement – with more than 60 […]
Call for abstracts: ‘Speculating upon Biography’: An International Symposium dedicated to exploring the boundaries of biography 25-26 October 2018, Noosa Queensland Australia The etymology of biography comes from the Greek βίος(bíos, “life”) plus γράφω (gráphō, “write”), which explains why most definitions describe this genre as a narrative of a life, that is written by […]
Colonialism and its Narratives: rethinking the colonial archive in Australia conference 10-11 December 2018 Australian Centre, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne Call for papers Keynote speakers: Tim Bonyhady, Australian National University Penny Edmonds, University of Tasmania Bruce Pascoe, Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative Lynette Russell, Monash University Call for papers This conference aims to bring […]