2010 – Centre for Australian Studies

Australian Studies Lecture Series (Winter Term 2010/11)

Australian Studies Lecture Series (Winter Term 2010/11)

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Australian Studies Lecture Series (Summer Term 2010)

Australian Studies Lecture Series (Summer Term 2010)

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New edited volume published by CAS co-director Beate Neumeier and Helen Tiffin: Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent.

Prof. Paul Arthur, Edith Cowan University, Perth, visits CAS in December 2019 and gives a lecture on “Immersed in Data: The Impacts of Big Data in Society and for Research”. See here for more information.

Earlier this month Prof. Paul Pickering, director of the Australian Studies Institute at the Australian National University, visited CAS, met with the Dean of our Humanities Faculty and explored forms of closer cooperation. He also gave inspiring lectures in the English Department and the Global South Studies Center. We are excited about future collaborations between our two institutions. See more.

The 17th biennial conference of the Association for Australian Studies (GASt) on “Australian Seascapes” takes place at Trier University, 1-3 October 2020. Click here for the CfP.

The New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA), together with Aix-Marseille University’s Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l’Océanie (CREDO), is hosting the 26th annual conference of NZSA in Marseille, France, 7-10 July 2020 titled “From the Centre to the Rim: Oceania and the Pacific Lake”. See here for more information and the CfP.

CAS is invited to attend the opening of the The Art of Healing: Australian Indigenous Bush Medicine exhibition and the guest lecture by Prof. Marcia Langton at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin on Thursday 24 October. Please see here for more information on the opening event.

CAS was present at the second Biennial International Conference on ‘Redefining Australia and New Zealand: Changes, Innovations, Reversals’ in Warsaw, 16-17 September 2019, where Prof. Beate Neumeier delivered a keynote lecture. Please click here for more information on the conference.

Congratulations to our colleague and partner Anna Haebich! “Dancing in Shadows: Histories of Nyungar Performance” (2018) was shortlisted for the prestigious Prime Ministers 2019 Literary Awards in the History section! Please click here to see the book and here to read the judge’s comments.

“Australian Studies in Conversation” now online! We are pleased to announce the launch of new features within our AS-Online Section. Marking the UNESCO Year of Indigenous Languages and celebrating productive collaboration across disciplines, our first set of short interviews is now available. Please navigate to the “AS-Online” button in the header to view the different available categories.

Exhibition “Nach der Natur – Dem Gefährdeten und Verschwindenden” now open to the public at Forschungsmuseum König in Bonn. This exhibition features artwork by Australian artist Janet Laurence. Please click here for more information on the exhibition, and here for a profile of the artist.

International Workshop on “Digitising Heritage”, 29 September – 1 October 2019 at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. Please click here for the event section and more information on the workshop.

On Thursday, 8th August, Prof. Dany Adone and Dr. Melanie Brück presented a guest seminar entitled “Reclaiming Indigenous Signs: Insights from Sign languages in Australia and the Pacific” at the Northern Institute of Charles Darwin University. Click here for further information.