About Patrons Lectures: Patrons Lectures are hosted by ASAL with funding from the Copyright Agency. These lectures – of which there will be at least two per year – support emerging and distinguished Australian writers to travel to locations around Australia to present a public talk...
Event: ASAL Patrons Lecture: Brian Castro6:30pm 14 March 2019, Io Myers Studio, UNSWPlease see the mini conference website for details: https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/featured/new-australian-modernities-2019-mini-conference/ ...
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...
Extension: Submission of Abstracts: 2019 ASAL Conference: Dirt The organisers of the 2019 ASAL Annual Conference in Perth would like to announce an extension of the deadline for the submission of abstracts to 1 March 2019. Please send your abstracts to Tony Hughes-d’Aeth ([email protected]) by 1 March...
Dirt: Call for Papers: ASAL conference 2019 The 2019 ASAL Annual Conference will be hosted by the Westerly Centre at The University of Western Australia in Perth from 2-5 July 2019. http://www.asal2019.com.au/ After 13 years, the annual ASAL Conference heads west again from 2-5 July 2019 and our theme is ‘Dirt’. The...
2018 Sri Lanka ASAL Tour: 12 November - 2 December 2018 Australia has had a close relationship with Sri Lanka since both were established as British colonies at the end of the eighteenth century. Ceylon was the nearest British colony to the Australian colonies, a source...
Call for Papers: The Australasian Modernist Studies Network presents AMSN4: Modernist Comedy & Humour 26-28 October 2018, University of Melbourne Is modernism funny? During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Sigmund Freud theorized jokes and their relation to the unconscious, while Henri Bergson argued...
Call for Papers: Frankenstein 2018: two hundred years of monsters 12-15 September 2018, The Australian National University, and National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra Nearly two centuries after its anonymous publication on 1 January 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus remains as topical as ever. Its...
6-8pm, Friday 13 July 2018, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Baylis Street, Wagga Wagga, NSWEllen van Neerven is Mununjali from the Yugambeh language group of South East Queensland on her mother’s side. Her first book, Heat and Light (UQP, 2014), was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award,...
Call for Papers: SHARP 2018: 'From First to Last Texts, Creators, Readers, Agents' the 26th annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) Monday 9 July to Thursday 12 July, with an optional excursion (details TBC) on Friday 13 July, 2018....
