ASALvets 2021: Finding the Port The ASALvets plan to meet in Port Macquarie from the 10 - 14 May 2021. Port Macquarie was an early penal settlement with an interesting convict history, and has been important in the lives of many Australian writers. Convict writers James...
1-2 May, 2020, UNSW, Kensington Given Eleanor Dark's signature experiment with temporality in the mid-century Australian novel, it is tempting to cite the timeliness of this call to address her rich body of work. However, this invitation is not merely timely, it is overdue. Overtime,...
CFP: FROM COLONY TO TRANSNATION: AN ASAL CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF ROBERT DIXON 5-6 December 2019, the University of Sydney Draft program and registration now open. Please go to: https://slam-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/from-colony-to-transnation/ This conference marks the retirement of Robert Dixon as Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney....
New Australian Modernities: Antigone Kefala and Australian Migrant Aesthetics ASAL 2019 mini-conference UNSW March 15 2019 Website: https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/featured/new-australian-modernities-2019-mini-conference/ Convenors Brigitta Olubas and Elizabeth McMahon Keynote Speaker: Sneja Gunew This symposium works from the premise that a key Australian literary and aesthetic modernity begins at the mid-twentieth century with the arrival of...
2018 ASAL Mini Conference (Darwin) 8 – 9 February 2018, Hosted by Charles Darwin University. The ASAL mini conference webpage is now live and can be accessed here: http://conference-desert-lines.cdu.edu.au/ The Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference will be held in Darwin, Australia. The conference theme focuses on creative writing...
