01 Oct From Colony to Transnation: An ASAL Conference in Honour of Robert Dixon
5-6 December 2019, the University of Sydney
final program and registration: 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. Over a long and productive career Robert has worked in institutions right across the country, from New South Wales and Queensland to Western Australia. His research encompasses Australian literary and visual cultures along with contemporary writing, and his many publications include The Course of Empire: Neo-Classical Culture in New South Wales, 1788-1860 (1986), Writing the Colonial Adventure: Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914 (1995),Prosthetic Gods: Travel, Representation and Colonial Governance (2001), Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity: Frank Hurley’s Synchronized Lecture Entertainments (2013), and Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time (2014), as well as several co-edited works on topics as diverse as Australian vernacular modernities, the digital humanities, Frank Hurley’s diaries, the works of Richard Flanagan, and the transnational turn in literary studies. Though broad in scope, as befits Robert’s research interests, the conference will take up some particular focuses that have marked his career, including:
• Early colonial Australian writing and literary cultures.
• Colonial popular fiction and travel writing
• Australian literature, photography and early cinema
• Vernacular modernities/modernisms
• Australian literature and the world republic of letters
• Reading the nation via the transnation: questions of
scale and/or perspective
Full fee: $250
Student/unwaged: $150
Single day full fee: $130
Single day student/unwaged: $80