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Call for Papers: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections: 2020 MLA conference in Seattle This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS)...

Call for Papers: Special Edition Desert Lines: Interventions in the Borderlands of Australian Literature Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social ContextsThe Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts aims to publish articles which advance our knowledge and understanding of social contexts in...

Call for Abstracts: Evolving Minds: Integrating Philosophy, Science and the Arts. 17-19 September, 2018, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT. Professor of Philosophy, Daniel Dennett, has been selected as the 2018 Charles Darwin Scholar, and he is visiting Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Australia from September...

AustLit Database Reminder ASAL members with publications in the AustLit Database are strongly encouraged to check that your profile and entries are up-to-date. Providing biographical details, photos and updated records will help elevate AustLit in google rankings and consequently drive more traffic to your scholarship....

Dirt: Call for Papers: ASAL conference 2019 The 2019 ASAL Annual Conference will be hosted by the Westerly Centre at The University of Western Australia in Perth from 2-5 July 2019. http://www.asal2019.com.au/ After 13 years, the annual ASAL Conference heads west again from 2-5 July 2019 and our theme is ‘Dirt’. The...

The Grattan Street Press is a university teaching press at the University of Melbourne.  Its Colonial Australian Popular Fiction series has now published two novels, John Lang’s The Forger’s Wife (1853, 1855) and Ellen Davitt’s Force and Fraud (1865):  https://grattanstreetpress.com/titles/ Ken Gelder is general editor of the series, which aims to publish...

The Grattan Street Press The Grattan Street Press is a university teaching press at the University of Melbourne.  Its Colonial Australian Popular Fiction series has now published two novels, John Lang’s The Forger’s Wife (1853, 1855) and Ellen Davitt’s Force and Fraud (1865):  https://grattanstreetpress.com/titles/ Ken Gelder is general editor of the series, which...

Unsettling Australia: International Australian Studies Association Biennial Conference 3-5 December 2018, The University of Queensland  Australia, the oldest continental landmass on Earth, has had a relatively stable geographical history and, situated in the middle of a tectonic plate, it currently has no active volcanism. However the advent...