Thomas Batchelor – Centre for Australian Studies

CAS expresses deepest concerns in regards to the disastrous bushfire events currently unfolding in Australia and encourages donations. See here for the full statement.

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.

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.

“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.