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Upcoming Events

Conferences/Workshops

Digitising Heritage Workshop, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg 29 September – 1 October 2019

Digitising Heritage Workshop, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg 29 September – 1 October 2019

For recent information on ongoing events at Trier University please check the website of the section for International History : https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=36604&L=2

Talks/Lectures

Current Events

Conferences/Workshops

Migration and Social Cultural Change Workshop at Australian National University, Canberra

Migration and Social Cultural Change Workshop at Australian National University, Canberra

Talks/Lectures

Centre for Australian Studies is part of the Australia-Germany Research Network

Centre for Australian Studies is part of the Australia-Germany Research Network

eLearning Lecture: Introduction to Australian Studies – (Trans-)Disciplinary Perspectives, Winter 2018/2019

eLearning Lecture: Introduction to Australian Studies – (Trans-)Disciplinary Perspectives, Winter 2018/2019

Previous Events

Conferences/Workshops

Australian Studies Network Meeting

Interdisciplinary DAAD-Workshop “Immersion, Heritage & Site-Responsive Performance”

Interdisciplinary DAAD-Workshop “Immersion, Heritage & Site-Responsive Performance”

Human Journeys in the Global Era III – Border Crossings, ECU Perth, 22 August 2018

Human Journeys in the Global Era III – Border Crossings, ECU Perth, 22 August 2018

CAS Cologne Meets Australian Studies Institute at ANU, 17 August 2018

Human Journeys in the Global Era II – Roundtable on International Engagement, ANU Canberra, 16 August 2018

Human Journeys in the Global Era II – Roundtable on International Engagement, ANU Canberra, 16 August 2018

Human Journeys in the Global Era: Migrant Cultural Heritage, Sydney, 13-14 August 2018

Human Journeys in the Global Era: Migrant Cultural Heritage, Sydney, 13-14 August 2018

Kriol Workshop, 29-31 August 2018 at Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre, Kununurra

Kriol Workshop, 29-31 August 2018 at Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre, Kununurra

Book launch: “The Miriwoong Sign Language Dictionary”

Book launch: “The Miriwoong Sign Language Dictionary”

“Australian Studies and the Global South” – Workshop in conjunction with the Global South Studies Centre (GSSC), Cologne: 09 October 2018

“Australian Studies and the Global South” – Workshop in conjunction with the Global South Studies Centre (GSSC), Cologne: 09 October 2018

Association for Australian Studies (GASt) Biennial Conference: “Australian Perspectives on Migration”, 4-6 October 2018

Association for Australian Studies (GASt) Biennial Conference: “Australian Perspectives on Migration”, 4-6 October 2018

Mabo’s Cultural Legacy: The Mabo Decision, 25 Years On

Mabo’s Cultural Legacy: The Mabo Decision, 25 Years On

Curtin Indigenous Research Network Lecture Series – Heritage, Transculturality and Collections: New Research from Germany and the Kimberley, WA

Curtin Indigenous Research Network Lecture Series – Heritage, Transculturality and Collections: New Research from Germany and the Kimberley, WA

International Conference on “Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World”

International Conference on “Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World”

Conference: Nature and Environment in Australia

Conference: Nature and Environment in Australia

Student Conference “Nature and Environment in Australia”

International Conference “The ‘Intervention’ and its Consequences”

International Conference “The ‘Intervention’ and its Consequences”

Network Meeting Australian Studies Online

Workshop “German-Australian Theatre and Performance Art: Influences, Synergies and Tensions”

Workshop “Digital Humanities World Wide”

Workshop “Digital Humanities World Wide”

Workshop: “Australia and the Pacific Triangle”

Workshop “Reading Australia: Transcultural Encounters”

Workshop “Reading Australia: Transcultural Encounters”

Workshop “Decolonising Social Sciences in Remote Australia”

Workshop “Decolonising Social Sciences in Remote Australia”

Workshop “Performance, Place and Memory. A Transnational Dialogue”

Workshop “Performance, Place and Memory. A Transnational Dialogue”

Workshop “Country – from a geographical, sociocultural and linguistic angle”

Workshop “Country – from a geographical, sociocultural and linguistic angle”

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

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

Talks/Lectures

Reclaiming Indigenous Signs: Insights from Sign languages in Australia and the Pacific

Reclaiming Indigenous Signs: Insights from Sign languages in Australia and the Pacific

Guest Lecture Series by Associate Professor Anne Lowell

Guest Lecture by Prof. Jan Alber (RWTH Aachen) – “The Negotiation of Aboriginality in Non-Indigenous Australian Prose Narratives”

Guest Lecture by Prof. Jan Alber (RWTH Aachen) – “The Negotiation of Aboriginality in Non-Indigenous Australian Prose Narratives”

Message Sticks: A Long-Distance Communication Practice in Indigenous Australia – Guest Lecture by Dr. Piers Kelly, 15th November 2018

Message Sticks: A Long-Distance Communication Practice in Indigenous Australia – Guest Lecture by Dr. Piers Kelly, 15th November 2018

Postcolonial Futures: The Utility of Hope – Public Guest Lecture at the University of Bonn

Postcolonial Futures: The Utility of Hope – Public Guest Lecture at the University of Bonn

A Signed Lingua Franca in Bimodal Bilingual Arnhem Land

A Signed Lingua Franca in Bimodal Bilingual Arnhem Land

Guest Lecture with Miriam Meyerhoff – The Aesthetics of Variation 17 May, Cologne

Guest Lecture with Miriam Meyerhoff – The Aesthetics of Variation 17 May, Cologne

Guest Lecture by Noah Riseman: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service: Challenging National Narratives?

Guest Lecture by Noah Riseman: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service: Challenging National Narratives?

Guest Lecture by Paul Arthur: “The Story of a Nation: Migrant Identities and Multiculturalism”

Guest Lecture by Paul Arthur: “The Story of a Nation: Migrant Identities and Multiculturalism”

Yan-nhangu Atlas Project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences of Humanities / Society for Endangered Language

Yan-nhangu Atlas Project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences of Humanities / Society for Endangered Language

Lecture Series “‘How Now! What News?’ – Current (Political) Developments and/of Anglophone Studies“

Lecture Series “‘How Now! What News?’ – Current (Political) Developments and/of Anglophone Studies“

Seminars with Prof. Dr. Dany Adone: “Bimodal Bilingualism” at Charles-Darwin-University

Seminars with Prof. Dr. Dany Adone: “Bimodal Bilingualism” at Charles-Darwin-University

Radio Interviews with Prof. Dr. Dany Adone on Indigenous Sign Languages of Australia

Prof. Stephen Muecke (University of Adelaide) – Totemism and Indigenous Science, 12 September 2017, Heidelberg

Prof. Stephen Muecke (University of Adelaide) – Totemism and Indigenous Science, 12 September 2017, Heidelberg

Lecture with Dr. Bentley James at the Oorala Aboriginal Centre, University of New England

Lecture with Dr. Bentley James at the Oorala Aboriginal Centre, University of New England

Lecture with Dr. Bentley James “Yan-nhangu: People of the Crocodile Islands and the Language of Spiritual Attachment”

Lecture with Dr. Bentley James “Yan-nhangu: People of the Crocodile Islands and the Language of Spiritual Attachment”

Lecture with Dr. Bentley James “Maypal – Yolngu tales from the tidal zone”

Lecture with Dr. Bentley James “Maypal – Yolngu tales from the tidal zone”

Guest Lecture “Aboriginal Theatre and Performance” with Prof. Helen Gilbert

Guest Lecture “Aboriginal Theatre and Performance” with Prof. Helen Gilbert

Guest Lecture with Dr. Carol Dowling “Melbin & the power of Aboriginal stories: Experiences, Challenges and Methodologies”

Guest Lecture with Dr. Carol Dowling “Melbin & the power of Aboriginal stories: Experiences, Challenges and Methodologies”

Guest Lecture with Prof. William B. McGregor “Fr. Hermann Nekes’ contribution to Australian Aboriginal Linguistics

Guest Lecture with Prof. William B. McGregor “Fr. Hermann Nekes’ contribution to Australian Aboriginal Linguistics

Lecture Series “Introduction to Australian Studies: (Trans-)Disciplinary Perspectives”

Lecture Series “Introduction to Australian Studies: (Trans-)Disciplinary Perspectives”

Guest Lecture with Prof. Ghil’ad Zuckermann “Language Reclamation and Social Wellbeing: Revivalistics – A New Trans-Disciplinary Field of Enquiry”

Guest Lecture with Prof. Ghil’ad Zuckermann “Language Reclamation and Social Wellbeing: Revivalistics – A New Trans-Disciplinary Field of Enquiry”

Guest Lecture with Keyvan Allahyari “Reading beyond Jack Maggs; Configuring a world”

Guest Lecture with Dr. Bentley James and Laurie Baymarrwanga “Ancestral Voices in the Wind: Strategies for the Intergenerational Transmission of Yan-nhangu”

Guest Lecture with Dr. Bentley James and Laurie Baymarrwanga “Ancestral Voices in the Wind: Strategies for the Intergenerational Transmission of Yan-nhangu”

Guest Lecture “Transcultural Studies in Australian Identity”

Guest Lecture Prof. Doug Marmion “Language revival in Australia: bringing back Ngunawal”

Guest Lecture Prof. Doug Marmion “Language revival in Australia: bringing back Ngunawal”

Guest Lecture “Indigenous Studies”

Australian Studies Lecture Series (Summer Term 2012)

Australian Studies Lecture Series (Summer Term 2012)

Australian Studies Lecture Series (Winter Term 2010/11)

Australian Studies Lecture Series (Winter Term 2010/11)

Australian Studies Lecture Series (Summer Term 2010)

Australian Studies Lecture Series (Summer Term 2010)

Special Events

Decoding Aboriginal sign languages: Interview with Prof. Adone

Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Book Launch

Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Book Launch

Centre for Australian Studies Cologne visits the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University, 20 August 2018

Centre for Australian Studies Cologne visits the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University, 20 August 2018

Prof. Bill Ashcroft at the 90 Years Anniversary of the University of Cologne’s International Office

Prof. Bill Ashcroft at the 90 Years Anniversary of the University of Cologne’s International Office

Launch Event Centre for Australian Studies

Launch Event Centre for Australian Studies

Student Theatre Excursion Melbourne “Australian Performances”

Visit from Australian Delegation