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Latent Geographic Associations; Theorising Mapping in Journalistic and Fictional Accounts of 19th Century Bushfires3:30 PM – 4:30 PM AEST, Thu, 19 May 2022, Online eventRecent advances in Natural Language Processing software as well as the accessibility of digital mapping software have dramatically expanded the possibilities for...

4pm, Thursday April 21, UQ Fryer Library You are invited to celebrate the publication of 'The Life of Such is Life' A Cultural History of an Australian Classic, by Roger Osborne. To be launched by Professor Paul Eggert, with an introduction by Professor Robert Dixon....

A Biography of Katharine Susannah PrichardTuesday, 17 May 8:00pm AEST (6:00pm AWST)Please join Nathan Hobby to celebrate the publication of The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard (Miegunyah Press).If possible, wear something red! You may wish to drink a glass of dry sherry (Katharine's favourite drink)...

The 2022 Independent Publishing Conference24-26 November, 2022 as a hybrid conference at the Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, and on Zoom.Book publishing is a forward-thinking cultural sector. There is no shortage of articles, Twitter posts, and think pieces discussing emerging publishing trends and speculating about the future...

Extended CfP: Coming to Terms, 30 Years On:The Mabo Legacy in Australian Writing: The 2022 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature4–8 July 2022 nipaluna, lutruwita (Hobart, Tasmania)asal2022.org Registrations are now open for the ASAL2022 Conference, "Coming to Terms, 30 Years On: The Mabo Legacy in Australian...

A University of Canberra Conference, December 5-7, 2022 C.D. Wright was described in the New York Times as a poet who “belongs to a school of exactly one.” For Randall Jarrell, “The good in poetry is always a white blackbird, an unusual and unlikely excellence.” Poetry seems to...

A University of Canberra Conference, December 5-7, 2022 C.D. Wright was described in the New York Times as a poet who “belongs to a school of exactly one.” For Randall Jarrell, “The good in poetry is always a white blackbird, an unusual and unlikely excellence.” Poetry seems to...

The Mabo Legacy in Australian Writing: The 2022 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature4–8 July 2022 nipaluna, lutruwita (Hobart, Tasmania) Registrations are now open for the ASAL2022 Conference, "Coming to Terms, 30 Years On: The Mabo Legacy in Australian Writing." Register soon and catch the Early...