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The ASAL AGM will be held at the ASAL/IABA conference at Flinders University, Adelaide. Wednesday 2 July, 1.30- 2.30pm; in Rm 1407. All ASAL members are invited to attend. link to minutes of 2024 AGM: https://www.asal.org.au/download/asal-agm-minutes-2024-2/...

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,...

Scholarship on Emerging Writers or Filmmakers Ongoing Call Dec/Jan submissions will be fast-tracked Antipodes invites articles for a new special feature in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS), that provide a scholarly engagement with the work of an emerging writer or film maker from Australia, the Torres...

CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature Australia And . . . Priority Deadline 1 Jan 2025 Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work...

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...

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...