Indigenous Voices

Indigenous VoicesThomas Batchelor2019-08-04T07:29:37+01:00

Miriwoong: The Australian language barely anybody speaks – BBC News

On the 16th June, 2019, the BBC published a short segment on the Miriwoong language revitalisation efforts, featuring our partner there, Dr. Knut Olawsky.

The German Association for Australian Studies is happy to announce the new date for its biennial conference on “Australian Seascapes”, which had to be postponed due to the Corona Virus Pandemic. The Conference will be hosted at Trier University 30 September – 02 October 2021. Please see here for more and updated information on the event.

Vale Kay Schaffer: CAS is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Prof. Kay Schaffer, a wonderful colleague and friend and one of the most significant figures in Australian literary and feminist scholarship. See more.

New open access edited volume Fire, Water and Land in Indigenous Australia, in conjunction with the UNESCO Year of Indigenous Languages, edited by Marie Carla D. Adone and Melanie A. Brück, now available here.

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

Find here new available PhD Scholarships 2020/21.

In 2020 the German Association of Australian Studies (GASt) will promote excelling graduate (B.A, M.A. or comparable) and Ph.D theses related to Australian Studies. Click here for the graduate announcement, and here for the Ph.D announcement.

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.