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 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...
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....
2018 Literary Studies Convention: The Literary Interface The deadline for panel and paper submissions for the 2018 Literary Studies Convention has been extended to 25 August, 2017. The Convention will be held at Australian National University, Canberra, from 4-7 July 2018. This convention will bring together scholars working...
ASAL ECR Breakfast event at The Literary Interface: Literary Studies Convention 2018 7.30am, Thursday 5 July, The Cupping Room, 1/1-13 University Ave. CanberraAll early career researchers who are members of ASAL are invited to attend an informal breakfast get together, taking placing on Thursday 5 July,...
2018 Literary Studies Convention: The Literary Interface The Convention will be held at Australian National University, Canberra, from 4-7 July 2018. This convention will bring together scholars working across the broad field of literary studies to discuss the literary as an interface between different forms of knowledge...
Call For Papers: Risk Anything!: Modernist Women Between Centre and Periphery Friday 6 April 2018, UNSW Sydney, Australia A symposium presented by the Australasian Modernist Studies NetworkKeynote: A/Prof Natalya Lusty (The University of Sydney) “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those...
2018 ASAL Vets: Writing and writers of Gippsland, Gippsland 2018 19-23 March 2018, Paynesville, GippslandGippsland, in Eastern Victoria, has inspired many writers to rhapsodise about its mountains and fern forests, its coastal reaches and lakes. Patrick Morgan characterises it as the ‘writing of the urban dweller...
