Call for Papers: Reconsidering Norman Lindsay: new perspectives, new understandings 29 July 2019, Swinburne University of Technology, MelbourneNorman Lindsay was well-known in Australia as an artist, sculptor, writer, philosopher and cultural commentator, but in the fifty years since his death his most enduring work has been...
About Patrons Lectures: Patrons Lectures are hosted by ASAL with funding from the Copyright Agency. These lectures – of which there will be at least two per year – support emerging and distinguished Australian writers to travel to locations around Australia to present a public talk...
Call For Papers: Re-Orientating E.M. Forster 2 – 4 April 2020, University of CambridgePaper proposals are invited for “Re-Orientating E.M. Forster”, an international conference to be held at the University of Cambridge. Confirmed speakers include Paul Armstrong (Brown), Stefan Collini (Cambridge), Santanu Das (Oxford), Leela Gandhi (Brown),...
Call for Papers: ‘wandering’: Edited by Kate Cantrell, Ariella Van Luyn, Emma Doolan: M/C Journal The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ‘wandering’ as ‘going about from place to place; an aimless, slow, or pointless movement; and a shift away from the proper, normal, or usual course’. Wandering, as...
Event: ASAL Patrons Lecture: Brian Castro6:30pm 14 March 2019, Io Myers Studio, UNSWPlease see the mini conference website for details: https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/featured/new-australian-modernities-2019-mini-conference/ ...
New Australian Modernities: Antigone Kefala and Australian Migrant Aesthetics ASAL 2019 mini-conference UNSW March 15 2019 Website: https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/featured/new-australian-modernities-2019-mini-conference/ Convenors Brigitta Olubas and Elizabeth McMahon Keynote Speaker: Sneja Gunew This symposium works from the premise that a key Australian literary and aesthetic modernity begins at the mid-twentieth century with the arrival of...
Extension: Submission of Abstracts: 2019 ASAL Conference: Dirt The organisers of the 2019 ASAL Annual Conference in Perth would like to announce an extension of the deadline for the submission of abstracts to 1 March 2019. Please send your abstracts to Tony Hughes-d’Aeth ([email protected]) by 1 March...
Call for Papers: Being Human in the (post)colonial: Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: MLA 2020 Seattle, WA The situation of colonized and settled lands poses pointed questions about “being human,” starting from who gets to decide who is human, and continuing through questions of what qualifies as...
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)...
Extension: Submission of Abstracts: 2019 ASAL Conference: Dirt The organisers of the 2019 ASAL Annual Conference in Perth would like to announce an extension of the deadline for the submission of abstracts to 1 March 2019. Please send your abstracts to Tony Hughes-d’Aeth ([email protected]) by 1 March...
