17th Biennial Conference of the Gesellschaft für Australienstudien | German Association for Australian StudiesTrier University, 27 September – 2 October 2021Australia’s past and present are closely connected to the sea: In coastal regions, maritime areas are an integral part of Country and thus play a...
The 2022 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature4–8 July 2022nipaluna /Hobart, lutruwita /Tasmania conference website: asal2022.org Deadline: 31 January 2022 The 2022 ASAL Annual Conference will be hosted by the College of Arts, Law, and Education Centre at The University of Tasmania in nipaluna/Hobart from 4–8 July...
AMANDA LOHREY, ‘GRAND DESIGNS: WRITING THE DOMESTIC DWELLING IN THE NOVEL.’ The Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Copyright Australia Cultural Fund, and ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics present the 2021 ASAL Patrons Lecture by Miles Franklin award-winning writer, Amanda...
CARPENTARIA BY ALEXIS WRIGHT: “A SELF-GOVERNING LITERATURE THAT BELONGS TO PLACE” https://www.univ-brest.fr/hcti/menu/Actualites/Appels___Communication/Carpentaria In-person and virtual conference. “The imaginative literary mind is as boundless as it is borderless and bountiful in its way, finding ways of powerfully creating anew the already imagined with the unimagined or unimaginable.”Alexis Wright [1]This international...
Life Writing: Transnationalism, Translingualism, TransculturalismNovember 20-23, 2021, The University of Adelaide, in collaboration with the University of South Australia and Flinders University.Website: https://arts.adelaide.edu.au/french-narratives/conferenceDeadline for submissions: 1 July 2021 Confirmed Keynote Speakers:Prof. Ricia Chansky, University of Puerto Rico,Prof. Anne Pender, University of AdelaideProf. Liu Jialin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Transnationalism...
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIAN LITERARY STUDIES: The AAALS 2021 Conference will be held virtually from April 6-10, 2020 (US). The schedule has not been finalized, but the conference will run for 3-4 hours each day, during the period 6:00-10:30 pm US-EST (8:00a-12:30p Sydney 7-11 April). Check your time zone here:https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html In...
AUSTRALIA’S TRIENNIAL LITERARY STUDIES CONVENTION July 20-24, 2021 (Please submit proposals to [email protected] by April 12, 2021)What is the nature of text – and how do we define where it begins and where it ends? How might such definitions influence the ways in which we...
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...
The organisers of Texts and Their Limits, Australia’s triennial literary studies convention, are delighted to make the first keynote announcement for our 2021 event. https://sites.google.com/view/textsandtheirlimits/home/keynote-speakers It is with deep gratitude and significant excitement that we welcome confirmed keynote speakers: Behrouz Boochani – writer, journalist, and refugee activist – delivering the Barry...
JULY 20-24, 2021 1st Call for proposals What is the nature of text – and how do we define where it begins and where it ends? How might such definitions influence the ways in which we read and accord significance to different kinds...
