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Waterborne Method and the Inter-discipline’s Resource Frontiers  Day: Wednesday 29 October 2025 Time: 4–5:30pm AEST Where: Online, please register here: https://jcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/PcabwaeRReew3cQnmUms8w In the past decade, the Blue Humanities has enjoyed a theoretical purchase on an increasingly expansive geographical range, including a shift from the Anglo-American centre to...

You are warmly invited to attend an online Public Seminar by Dr Mykaela Saunders, Macquarie University, supported by the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. Stories Accumulate Like Time: First Nations Speculative Fiction Day: Wednesday 24 Sept 2025 Time: 4–5:30pm AEST Where: Online, please register here: https://jcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/kwWWz1UoTiimVxxad0laew This seminar...

Audiobooks and Australian Literary Studies 10-11 February 2026 ANU, Canberra Abstracts due by extended deadline: Friday 3 October 2025 Audiobooks have seen a recent and unexpected surge in popularity among Australian publishers and readers. AustLit began indexing audiobooks as distinct expressions in 2024 and has so far identified over...

Australian literature, literary history, and the environmental humanities: Current perspectives, future possibilities    4–5:30pm AEST, Wednesday 30 July 2025, Online, please register here: https://jcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/7fqNQsDhSJeEyMCDOYofNA You are warmly invited to attend an online Public Seminar by Dr Keyvan Allahyari (University of Jena) and Dr Meg Brayshaw and Dr Dashiell Moore (University of...

A reminder that conference registrations for ASAL + IABA-AP conference will close on 13 June. The Registration Page is available here: https://events.humanitix.com/international-auto-biography-association-asia-pacific-iaba-ap-association-for-the-study-of-australian-literature-asal-conference...

Event: You are invited to attend an online Public Seminar by Dr Robert Clarke, University of Tasmania, supported by the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. Wednesday 18 June 2025, 4–5:30pm AEST Where: Online From Book Clubs to BookToks: Old and new Ways of Engaging with Australian...

The Story and The Self:  Navigating Truth Genres in Literature 30 June -4 July 2025, Flinders University, Adelaide + Online To register follow the link below: Registration page Keynote speakers include: Associate Professor Julieanne Lamond (ANU) (Dorothy Green Lecture) Dr Eloise Faichney (U Melbourne) (ASAL Early Career Researcher Keynote) Dr Chloe Green (ANU) (IABA Asia-Pacific,...

conference: The Story and The Self:  Navigating Truth Genres in Literature 1-4 July 2025, Flinders University, Adelaide + Online To register follow the link below: Registration page Keynote speakers include: Associate Professor Julieanne Lamond (ANU) (Dorothy Green Lecture) Dr Eloise Faichney (U Melbourne) (ASAL Early Career Researcher Keynote) Dr Chloe Green (ANU) (IABA Asia-Pacific, Whitlock Early Career Researcher Keynote) Association...

4th Triennial Australian Literary Studies Convention: ‘Chaos and Order’  July 2-5, 2024, Western Sydney University Parramatta South Campus     www.australianliteraryconvention.com  This triennial event brings together major associations for the study of literature in Australia and welcomes  scholars and postgraduate students working on any aspect or field of literary studies. We seek papers on the...

Call for papers: Mini-ASAL conference: “A Window of Life:” The Writing of Ruth Park Australian National University, February 14-16, 2024 In a 1942 letter to her penfriend and fellow writer D’Arcy Niland, Ruth Park wrote:“I feel, and I know you do too, that I'm a window of...