Australian Studies Symposium “Indigenous Knowledge: Issues of Cultural Transfer and Transformation”

organised by Prof. Bill Ashcroft and Prof. Beate Neumeier

July 2011

University of Cologne

Invited speakers:

Dr. Katrin Althans
Prof. Heinz Antor
Prof. Anne Brewster
Prof. Anna Haebich
Prof. Jacqueline Lo
Prof. Philip Mead
Prof. Stephen Muecke
Prof. Patricia Plummer
Prof. Kay Schaffer
Prof. Kim Scott
Prof. Eleonore Wildburger

Meral2017-02-12T18:05:01+01:00Conferences/Workshops, Previous Events|

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.