2018 Sri Lanka ASAL Tour: 12 November - 2 December 2018 Australia has had a close relationship with Sri Lanka since both were established as British colonies at the end of the eighteenth century. Ceylon was the nearest British colony to the Australian colonies, a source...
Call For Papers: Special issue: Tropical Gothic Submission deadline: 30 December 2018 The Gothic is undergoing a pronounced resurgence in academic and popular cultures. Propelled by fears associated with massive social transformations produced by globalization, the neoliberal order, networked technologies, post-truth and environmental uncertainty – tropes of ‘the...
Teaching Australian literature?: Help keep Aust Lit up to date AustLit collects information about the teaching of Australian literature texts at universities and tertiary institutions around Australia and internationally, and links to this information from the work and author records. At a glance, AustLit tells you: how, where,...
Event: Launch of Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays edited by Robert Dixon 6pm for 6.30pm, Thursday 1 November 2018, Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, GlebeYou are invited to the launch of Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays edited by Robert Dixon. The book will be launched by Stephen Romei,...
Call for Papers: The Australasian Modernist Studies Network presents AMSN4: Modernist Comedy & Humour 26-28 October 2018, University of Melbourne Is modernism funny? During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Sigmund Freud theorized jokes and their relation to the unconscious, while Henri Bergson argued...
Call For Papers: Conversations Across the Creek 12 October 2018, National Museum of AustraliaConversations Across the Creek is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Research School of Chemistry (RSC) to provide a space for continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are...
Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University Harvard University is seeking to appoint a distinguished scholar to the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies for the 2020–2021 academic year. The Chair was established through a gift of the...
Call for Papers: Frankenstein 2018: two hundred years of monsters 12-15 September 2018, The Australian National University, and National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra Nearly two centuries after its anonymous publication on 1 January 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus remains as topical as ever. Its...
Event: The 7th annual Francis Webb Reading 2-4pm, Saturday 25 August, Willoughby Library Chatswood, NSW This is a free event, all welcome. It's a five minute walk from Chatswood train station. The library asks that you RSVP for numbers, so please use the following link for this and to...
6-8pm, Friday 13 July 2018, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Baylis Street, Wagga Wagga, NSWEllen van Neerven is Mununjali from the Yugambeh language group of South East Queensland on her mother’s side. Her first book, Heat and Light (UQP, 2014), was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award,...
