Conferences

Call for Papers and Panels The 2020 ASAL Annual Conference will be hosted by James Cook University at the Cairns Institute, Smithfield, from 29 June – 2 July. For more than forty years, ASAL annual conferences have offered a venue where creative writers and academic critics have...

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....

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...

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...