4th Triennial Australian Literary Studies Convention: ‘Chaos and Order’ July 2-5, 2024, Western Sydney University Parramatta South Campus www.australianliteraryconvention.com This triennial event brings together major associations for the study of literature in Australia and welcomes scholars and postgraduate students working on any aspect or field of literary studies. We seek papers on the...
Call for papers: Mini-ASAL conference: “A Window of Life:” The Writing of Ruth Park Australian National University, February 14-16, 2024 In a 1942 letter to her penfriend and fellow writer D’Arcy Niland, Ruth Park wrote:“I feel, and I know you do too, that I'm a window of...
4th Triennial Australian Literary Studies Convention: ‘Chaos and Order’ July 2-5, 2024, Western Sydney University Parramatta South Campus www.australianliteraryconvention.com This triennial event brings together major associations for the study of literature in Australia and welcomes scholars and postgraduate students working on any aspect or field of literary studies. We seek papers on the...
Call for Submissions: Recentring the Region JASAL Special Conference Issue The 2023 ‘Recentring the Region’ conference was a collaboration between the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) and the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia (ASLEC-ANZ). Submissions are now invited...
Call for Papers: JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, The University of Adelaide Political Lives: Political Biography, Memoir and Australian Democracy Date: Monday and Tuesday, 4-5 December 2023 Confirmed Speakers Include Judith Brett Frank Bongiorno Jennifer Hocking Jacqueline Kent Stuart Ward The JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice is pleased to call for papers...
This Special Issue aims to explore forms of, and approaches to, creativecritical writing: writing which performs scholarly and creative functions simultaneously. Such blended approaches are no longer new—indeed, they are tracking distinct paths and uses in various contexts inside academia and beyond. As such, this...
Conference hosted by South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies & Challenging Precarity: A Global Network29 November – 1 December 2023University of Wollongong Sydney Campus, AustraliaSubmission of abstracts: 1 July 2023 In the wake of rising neoliberal extractive processes, contemporary society has reached a crisis point...
July 4-7, co-hosted by RMIT University and Deakin University, Melbourne Registration now open. Early bird registration rates end on June 10. See the conference website: https://www.regionsconference2023.org/ A partnership between ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature) and ASLEC-ANZ (Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture (Australia...
ASAL2022 Conference Issue for the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL).“COMING TO TERMS, 30 YEARS ON: THE MABO LEGACY IN AUSTRALIAN WRITING” ya pulingina!Many thanks to everyone who presented a paper at this year's ASAL2022 Conference, “Coming to Terms, 30 Years On: the...
ASAL mini-conference April 20-21 2023 at UNSW Sydney “Who Travels?” The Writing of Michelle de Kretser ASAL – “Who Travels?” The Writing of Michelle de Kretser (miniasal2023.org) https://www.miniasal2023.org/ “I don’t sit down to write a cosmopolitan book or say to myself that I’m going to write beyond...
