Special Events

Special EventsThomas Batchelor2021-03-11T15:25:24+01:00

January 2023

Guest Lecture in Australian Studies: Duane Hamacher (Melbourne) on “Australian Indigenous Astronomy: from Science to Apocalypse and Beyond” 17 January 2023

December 2022

Launching the Australian Studies Online Project, 18 November 2022

Launching the Australian Studies Online Project, 18 November 2022

November 2020

Book Launch: The Illustrated Handbook of Yolŋu Sign Language

July 2020

From the Archives: Miriwoong Sign Language Book Launch in Kununurra, September 2018

March 2020

Thementag Australian&Ozeanien – Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Köln: 19. April 2020

Thementag Australian&Ozeanien – Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Köln: 19. April 2020

January 2020

CAS at the Australian Embassy 23 January 2020

CAS at the Australian Embassy 23 January 2020

The biannual conference of German Association for Australian Studies (GASt) will take place from 19-22 October 2023 at the Universiy of Duisburg-Essen (Campus Essen). Please find further information on GASt’s website and please click here for the Call for Papers.

The European Association for Australian Studies (EASA) Conference 2023 will be hosted, in hybrid mode, be the University of the Balearic Island (Palma, Spain). Please find the Call for Papers here.

Please save the date for WRITING EXTINCTIONS: A Hybrid Workshop with
James Bradley, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Richard Kerridge, Chair: Greg Garrard. This event is organized and hosted by Centre for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH). Please click here for event details and information on how to sign up.

Until 17th October if you are in France or Germany, you can watch a recent arte documentary about Australia online here.

In celebration of NAIDOC Week 2022, take a look at our interview series on the theme of Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!

New exhibition: Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters will be showing at the Humboldt Forum, Berlin, from 17 June 2022.

First research seminar organised jointly by MESH and the GSSC takes place June 13th, 2022, 12-2pm, here: “A World in a Shell: A Research Seminar on Multispecies Studies with Prof. Thom van Dooren”.

Submissions for the Interdisciplinary Workshop for Early Career Researchers in Australian Studies, 16th-17th September, 2022 are now closed, but it is still possible to register to attend!

The ANU Australian Studies Institute is hosting the International Australian Studies Association (InASA) biennial conference this year at ANU and Old Parliament House, Canberra, from 30th November-2nd December, 2022.

Fresh from the press: Australian Studies Journal | Zeitschrift für Australienstudien 35/2021: ›Narrating Lives – Telling (Hi)stories. Transcultural Readings. Essays in Memory of Kay Schaffer‹, guest edited by Beate Neumeier & Victoria Herche https://australienstudien.org/australian-studies-journal-35-2021/

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