Special Events

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

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

August 2019

Decoding Aboriginal sign languages: Interview with Prof. Adone

Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Book Launch

Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Book Launch

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.