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The University of Sydney will host a symposium entitled Republic of Letters: Literary Communities in Australia, on January 13th and 14th, 2011. Complete details and the CFP are available here in PDF format.


 

The Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia

Call for Submissions

The Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia invites submissions for its second issue. Submissions may be in any area of Australian Studies. Given the broad remit of such an area, the journal is especially open to submissions that cross disciplinary or discursive boundaries. At the same time, the most minutely-focused articles may also be submitted. In addition, articles that have a European connection are especially welcome.

 

Submissions should be sent to the editor electronically at callahan@ua.pt. Initial submissions of 5,000-8,500 word articles may be in any recognisable academic format, but articles accepted for publication will need to be formatted by authors according to the conventions outlined on the journal’s website. You should send the article as one document with no indication of name or anything which might identify you as author. In a separate document you should submit your name, institutional affiliation if appropriate, email address and a brief personal biography to be used if the article is accepted.

 

The Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia is a peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed, open-access online journal, whose first issue appeared in 2009. The journal’s website may be found at http://www.ub.edu/dpfilsa/jeasamainpage.html

 


 

CFP: The Indian Review of World Literature in English

THEMED ISSUE ON AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE – JULY 2010

The Indian Review of World Literature in English proposes to bring out its July 2010 issue as a themed number on Australian Literature with special focus on the works of major authors like James McAuley and Harold Stewart, Patrick White, Martin Boyd, Randolph Stow, A.D. Hope, Judith Wright, Douglas Stewart, Rosemary Dobson, Ray Lawler, Thomas Keneally, Thea Astley, David Malouf, Les Murray, David Williamson and Sally Morgan. Potential contributors are requested to send their article as Email attachments in MS Word format to the Editor at editor@worldlitonline.net and ganesanbalan@yahoo.com before 31st May, 2010. For more details about submissions click Call for Papers.


 AAALS Sessions at MLA 2011

Proposals are invited for the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies sessions at the 2011 MLA Convention, to be held January 6-9, 2011, in Los Angeles, CA. The “Indigenous Australian Literature” session seeks papers focusing on any aspect of Australian Indigenous literature in any genre. The “Transnational Approaches to Australian Literature” session seeks papers focusing on transnational approaches to literature in any genre from any period. Send 250-word proposals to Nathanael O’Reilly (nathanael_oreilly@uttyler.edu) by March 1, 2010. Presenters must be members of the MLA before April 1, 2010 in order for their names to appear on the program, and papers must not exceed twenty minutes in length.


 

Call for Special Issue of Antipodes, December 2010, on Connections
Between Australia/New Zealand and Latin America/The Caribbean

 

This issue will address cultural and, especially, literary relations between Latin America, the Caribbean, and Australia. Form the socialist New Australian colony in Paraguay in the 1890s to the influence of Borges and Garcia Marquez on Australian postmodernists from the 1980s onward, cultural cross-pollination has flourished across the South Pacific, despite  the restrictive effects of imperialism and protectionist trade policies which tried to  make the two regions utterly separate spheres. With the emergence of the idea of "the Global South" as well as the greater visibility of subaltern and indigenous identities in both Australia and Latin America, the time is ripe for a new engagement. Prospective topics to be covered in the open call for papers that will be issued are: literary influences; indigenous voices; sport as a cultural medium; resistances; oralities and literacies; whaling and nautical lore; continental drift; revising European paradigms of landscape; poetic form and the challenge of non-European landscapes; Asia in Latin America/Australia; Arab and Middle Eastern influences in Australia/Latin America; Anglophone crossovers between the Caribbean and Australia (from Governor Eyre to Ralph de Boissière and
Bev Braune); the South pacific as cultural connector; Antartica; ecocritical concerns in the Amazon, the Andes, and Australia; Australia in Latin American fiction; Australian diaspora communities in Latin America and vice versa; “the tyranny of distance”, the Internet, and globalization.

Please send an abstract to Nicholas Birns at birnsn@newschool.edu by January 2010. If the abstract receives encouragement, you will be asked to submit the final essay (which will be refereed) by July 2010. The project may also entail participation at the 2011 AAALS conference as well as, possibly, the 2011 Latin American Studies Association conference in Toronto.

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