4.30- 6pm, Thursday 16th June, in person or online Keen to witness the amazing things that can happen when art meets science here in Tropical North Queensland? Please join us in person or online at 4:30pm on Thursday June 16 to hear from the 6 writers who’ve...
It’s Time…Again30 November – 2 December 2022. The ANU Australian Studies Institute is delighted to host the International Australian Studies Association (InASA) biennial conference this year at ANU and Old Parliament House, Canberra. Extended Deadline: 31 July 2022 The Conference committee is calling for abstracts of 150...
Focus on Fiction: Literary Imaginings for Change In its 45th year of continuous publication Social Alternatives seeks to again focus on fiction. Literary fiction’s power to speak to the journal’s objective to advocate for principles of social justice and alternatives to current conditions has always been...
Latent Geographic Associations; Theorising Mapping in Journalistic and Fictional Accounts of 19th Century Bushfires3:30 PM – 4:30 PM AEST, Thu, 19 May 2022, Online eventRecent advances in Natural Language Processing software as well as the accessibility of digital mapping software have dramatically expanded the possibilities for...
4pm, Thursday April 21, UQ Fryer Library You are invited to celebrate the publication of 'The Life of Such is Life' A Cultural History of an Australian Classic, by Roger Osborne. To be launched by Professor Paul Eggert, with an introduction by Professor Robert Dixon....
The Australian University Heads of English (AUHE) are looking for someone to manage their website and liaise with the AUHE Executive for about 4 hours per month. Please contact Ann Vickery at [email protected] and Deborah Pike at [email protected] by 1 May 2022 if you are interested in this paid position. ...
The six successful applicants for the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies’ (FALS) writing residency have been announced as Claire Corbett, Stacy Gougoulis, Eliza Henry-Jones, Jock Serong, Maria Takolander and Jessica White. The ‘Writing at the Reef’ Residency, sponsored by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, will be...
A Biography of Katharine Susannah PrichardTuesday, 17 May 8:00pm AEST (6:00pm AWST)Please join Nathan Hobby to celebrate the publication of The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard (Miegunyah Press).If possible, wear something red! You may wish to drink a glass of dry sherry (Katharine's favourite drink)...
The 2022 Independent Publishing Conference24-26 November, 2022 as a hybrid conference at the Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, and on Zoom.Book publishing is a forward-thinking cultural sector. There is no shortage of articles, Twitter posts, and think pieces discussing emerging publishing trends and speculating about the future...
Bursaries for honours and postgraduate students: The organising committee for the ASAL2022 Conference is pleased to announce that it will provide up to nine (9) bursaries to support current honours and postgraduate students undertaking projects in Australian literary studies. Each bursary is worth $750 and is intended...
