Australian Studies in Conversation

Australian Studies in ConversationDavid2021-03-10T12:34:11+01:00

Take a look at our first Research Report for the 2017-2020 period here.

Registration is now open for participants to join the Australian Studies online symposium, “(Un)belonging: In Search of New Representations, Negotiations, Entanglements,” to be held on 19-20 November 2021. Participation is free but registration is required. For further information, including details of keynote speakers, the program, and registration, see here.

The Centre for Australian Studies is deeply saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Dr. Cathy Bow.

Just Published: Geoff Rodreda and Eva Bischoff’s edited volume Mabo’s Cultural Legacy: History, Literature, Film and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Australia, Anthem Press, 2021

In celebration of NAIDOC Week 2021, a series of interviews have been released on the theme of Heal Country!, available here.

Just Published: Victoria Herche’s The Adolescent Nation: Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, 2021.

Call for Papers extended: We are inviting contributions to a Special Issue of Gender Forum on “Gender and Queer Identities in Australian Speculative Fiction”, edited by Bettina Burger, David Kern and Lucas Mattila. To download the call, please click here.

Now open for submissions: Call for Papers for the International Conference on “Indigenous Resistance in the Digital Age: the Politics of Language, Media and Culture” – convened by Anna Mongibello, University of Naples “L’Orientale”): 27-30 October 2021. Please click here for more information and here for the CfP.

Now open for submissions: Call for Papers for a special issue in the Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) “Australia as a Risk Society: Hopes and Fears of the Past, the Present and the Future” – Please click here to download the CfP.

Now available as open access: The German Australian Studies Journal vol. 33-34 (2019-2020), on “Race and Racism in Australian-German Relations”. Click here to access the journal.