Elizabeth Morrison, a member of ASAL and great contributor to Australian cultural history, died in her sleep early on Sunday morning, 1 March. Liz became an expert on the journals and newspapers of nineteenth-century Australia, working on new editions of lost novels and writing biographies...
Publishing Research Quarterly Volume 43, Issue 1, March 2027 Environmental Sustainability and Book Publishing Edited by Angela Meyer (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia) We invite submissions for a special issue of Publishing Research Quarterly focused on “Environmental Sustainability and Book Publishing”. This issue aims to bring together research, tools and practices relevant...
Association for the Study of Australian Literature Annual Conference Australian Literature in the Digital Age 29 June -3 July, 2026 The University of Queensland In 2026, ASAL celebrates AustLit. It will be 25 years since AustLit went online, becoming a fully digital research platform and strong partner in contemporary...
The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites proposals for a Virtual Seminar Series held during the month of June 2026 over Zoom. This seminar series will take place in lieu of the 2026 AAALS conference. Seminars can be of two types: A) panel or B)...
Waterborne Method and the Inter-discipline’s Resource Frontiers Day: Wednesday 29 October 2025 Time: 4–5:30pm AEST Where: Online, please register here: https://jcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/PcabwaeRReew3cQnmUms8w In the past decade, the Blue Humanities has enjoyed a theoretical purchase on an increasingly expansive geographical range, including a shift from the Anglo-American centre to...
You are warmly invited to attend an online Public Seminar by Dr Mykaela Saunders, Macquarie University, supported by the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. Stories Accumulate Like Time: First Nations Speculative Fiction Day: Wednesday 24 Sept 2025 Time: 4–5:30pm AEST Where: Online, please register here: https://jcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/kwWWz1UoTiimVxxad0laew This seminar...
Audiobooks and Australian Literary Studies 10-11 February 2026 ANU, Canberra Abstracts due by extended deadline: Friday 3 October 2025 Audiobooks have seen a recent and unexpected surge in popularity among Australian publishers and readers. AustLit began indexing audiobooks as distinct expressions in 2024 and has so far identified over...
Australian literature, literary history, and the environmental humanities: Current perspectives, future possibilities 4–5:30pm AEST, Wednesday 30 July 2025, Online, please register here: https://jcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/7fqNQsDhSJeEyMCDOYofNA You are warmly invited to attend an online Public Seminar by Dr Keyvan Allahyari (University of Jena) and Dr Meg Brayshaw and Dr Dashiell Moore (University of...
Some ASAL events, the keynotes + the ASAL fellowship session, that are a part of the conference will be streamed here and can be accessed by those who would like to see them. These ASAL events will be streamed here: https://video.flinders.edu.au/events20/25/IABA-APxASAL-2025Conference.cfm...
The ASAL AGM will be held at the ASAL/IABA conference at Flinders University, Adelaide. Wednesday 2 July, 1.30- 2.30pm; in Rm 1407. All ASAL members are invited to attend. link to minutes of 2024 AGM: https://www.asal.org.au/download/asal-agm-minutes-2024-2/...
