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Calls for Papers
The AAALS calls for papers for its 27th Annual conference to be held in conjunction with ANSZANA in Forth Worth, TX from February 17 to 19, 2011. As always, the conference will be collegial and open-minded, welcoming papers from many different approaches and contexts. Since this will be our first official conference as the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies, we particularly invite material on New Zealand literature and film and its international connections. We also are especially interested in papers on Indigenous Australian literature and Maori literature in New Zealand. Welcome as well will be papers dealing with the two giants of Australian literature we have recently lost, Peter Porter and Randolph Stow, and writers whose centennials are in or near 2011 such as Elizabeth Riddell, Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, William Hart-Smith, and Patrick White. As always, submissions on any other aspect of Australian, New Zealand, or South Pacific literature, culture, or film is welcomed: local, regional, national, international, transnational, as well as comparative après on Australian literature with respect to other traditions. Please send 200 word abstracts to Nicholas Birns at birnsn@newschool.edu by December 1, 2010. Call for Papers — Inaugural issue of New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences. Please click here for a PDF file containing complete details. Call for Papers Popular Culture Association of America San Antonio, Texas, USA April 20 - April 23 2011 The Australia and New Zealand Popular Culture Area invites papers for the 2011 conference. This is an exciting new area that supplements the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (Popcaanz). We seek papers which focus on popular culture “down under”. This encompasses a broad range of topics, not the least being: sports, graphic novels/comics, popular fiction/print cultures, popular science, media/journalism, movies/film/television, food/beverage, design/art, fashion, queer, indigenous, history, celebrity—in fact anything that has an Australasian bent. Email abstracts (up to 200 words) or panel suggestions (title, presenters and brief description) by 1 December 2010 to Dr Toni Johnson-Woods English Media Studies and Art History University of Queensland Brisbane 4072 Phone: +61 + 7 336 53201 Email: t.johnsonwoods@uq.edu.au
Australians Abroad: An interdisciplinary conference Hosted by the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, UQ Keynote speaker: Emeritus Professor Ros Pesman, author of Duty Free: Australian Women Abroad and co-editor of Australians in Italy: Contemporary lives and impressions and The Oxford book of Australian travel writing. CALL FOR PAPERS: If myths of national identity have focused on travel to Australia (‘discovery’, invasion/settlement, transportation, migration), it is worth noting that travel from Australia has been a significant phenomenon for just as long. From Yolngu people accompanying Macassan fisherman to the islands of Indonesia, from those First Fleeters who made the return journey ‘home’ to Europe, to today’s travellers, tourists and expatriates, residents of Australia have left its shores for a multitude of destinations and reasons and in very different roles. Descendants of migrants and refugees, soldiers, nurses, artists, authors, brides, chaperones, utopians, sportspeople, students, teachers, backpackers, cruise-ship travellers, journalists, IT professionals: some have sought to rejoin family, others to escape it; some have sought renown, others have been head-hunted. We invite papers that explore the conference theme from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including: auto/biography, travel writing, history, language learning, intercultural communication, sociology, tourism, literary/cultural studies. Possible topics might include: · analyses of fiction, memoirs, letters, diaries, interviews relating to travel by Australians · patterns of travel/writing, configurations of gender and desire at different times, in different places · Aboriginal travel to various destinations and its purposes · the search for Utopia and its construction by Australians · contemporary discourses displacing the ‘cultural cringe’ of the 1960s as the motivation for travel · reflections on Australia from an overseas vantage point · Australian experiences in non-English speaking territory, language-learning memoirs, the relation between language and cultural identity · the extent to which belonging is sought in the destination culture, accommodation to local cultures · representations of particular cultures by Australians · New Zealand travel/expatriate experiences (this might form a panel broadening the conference theme to Australasians Abroad) Abstracts of 250 words or panel proposals (3 x 20 minute papers on a common theme with an abstract for each) with full contact details should be sent by 31 August 2010 to Dr Juliana de Nooy at: j.denooy@uq.edu.au Other keynote speakers will be confirmed shortly. Conference registration will open in October 2010 and will include earlybird registration fees. Participation by postgraduate students is particularly welcome. Further details will be posted, as they become available, on the conference website: http://www.slccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=134821&pid=70702 CFP: Edited Collection – A Critical Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature Contributors are sought for a collection of original essays examining Australian Aboriginal Literature. Previously, Australian Aboriginal literature was relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, but with recent anthologies like the Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2008) and The Literature of Australia (Norton, 2009), which contains a significant selection of Australian Aboriginal literature, it is clear that Australian Aboriginal literature is making its mark on a national and international stage. Though Australian Aboriginal literature is being recognized there is currently no comprehensive critical companion available that can contextualize the canon for scholars, researchers, and general readers. A Critical Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature seeks to fill this void by providing an international collection of over a dozen essays that focus on various aspects of Australian Aboriginal literature. The editor seeks essays that focus on areas including Aboriginal - short stories - myths and legends - poetry - plays - novels (various areas of specialization could include historical fiction, murder/ mystery, romance, etc) - autobiography - biography - political works, letters, journalism - film - music Send 500-word abstracts to Belinda Wheeler via bwheeler@siu.edu
Deadline for abstracts is Friday, 30 July, 2010. Potential
contributors will be notified by Tuesday, 10 August, 2010 if their
proposal has been accepted. They will be invited to write an essay
to be considered for the volume. The essays will be due early
January 2011 (exact date to be announced by 10 August, 2010.) An interested publisher has requested a table of contents and outline of each chapter’s content. Completed essays will be approximately 5,000 words in length and conform to the latest MLA documentation style. Belinda Wheeler is a PhD candidate at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. An Australian native, Wheeler is passionate about Australian Aboriginal literature and she has published essays in edited collections and presented her research at academic conferences including the Modern Language Association Annual Convention. 3rd Biannual Conference of ASLEC-ANZ The Association for the Study of Literature, Environment, Culture– Australia and New Zealand (An affiliate of ASLE) University of Tasmania Launceston 20, 21, 22 October 2010 Sounding the Earth: Music, Language, Acoustic Ecology ‘All of the sound we hear is only a fraction of all the vibrating going on in our universe’ (ecologist and composer David Dunn, Nature Sound). ‘Since each thing is made differently, each form of life hears a slightly different multiverse’. ASLEC-ANZ invites papers, performances, panels, photo/phonographics—on music, language, sound, the earth—that reflect the multiversity of human and non-human worlds; that investigate music’s power as intrinsic language to ‘transcend social and cultural barriers’; that examine the process of remixing, recycling, renewing in sound and the environment. The proposed theme, Sound and the Environment. actively engages with the aural (human and non-human), and thus seeks to bring into encounter human and non-human aural expressions and aesthetics; literature and music; conservatory and architecture; drama and legislation; arts and industry sustainability. Among the topics that presenters will take up are: soundscapes and environmental awareness; music modeled on nature; music performed collaboratively with nature; the power of song (human and non-human) to change the way humans think and act; Indigenous 'singing up' as a mode of resilience and joy. Topic suggestions include but are not limited to: * Literature, music, other arts and media engaged with sounds and silences of the Earth * Soundscapes and environmental awareness * noise pollution and environmental injustice * silence as extinction * nature writing / nature singing * popular / classical / sacred music and ecology * Music as environmental ‘bandaid’ * auditory perception, biosemiotics and extra-human acoustic ecologies * capturing sound / unsound practices The conference is to be held at the School of Architecture at Inveresk. This is the site of the Academy for the Arts, and the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, and it is situated on the North Esk, in Launceston, a registered ‘City for Climate Protection’. Accommodation in town is within Zimmer frame walking distance from the venue. Submission deadline is 15 July 2010. Abstracts (for a 20-minute paper) should be no more than 250 words and should state IT requirements. Registration information, venue and accommodation details will be posted to the ASLEC-ANZ website at the end of May. In the meantime questions and abstracts should be directed to CA.Cranston@utas.edu.au ASLE-ANZ http://www.asle-anz.asn.au/ Biopolitics and Postcolonial Literature: a Special Issue of Australian Literary Studies In The History of Sexuality Michel Foucault describes the emergence of a modern form of power-knowledge, built around the administration of bodies and the management of life, and distinguishes it from an older form of sovereign power: “the ancient right to take life or let live was replaced by a power to foster life or disallow it to the point of death.” It is a formula that has subsequently informed work on everything from health care to genocide. Partly through the influence of Giorgio Agamben’s work on “bare life” and Achille Mbembe’s work on “necropolitics,” it also plays an increasingly important role in redescriptions of colonialism and its legacies, even as the relationship between sovereignty and biopolitics has been sharply debated. What is the historical relationship between literary discourse and biopolitical practice? How useful is the notion of biopolitics for a general sense of literary history, and for work in specific colonial and postcolonial contexts? How might it change our sense of the archive, or question prevailing modes of periodization? How might it help us connect the colonial past to the global present? Topics might include (but certainly aren’t limited to) narratives of invasion and extinction, regimes of protection and assimilation, fictions of hybridity and miscegenation, the relationship between sexuality and sovereignty, the nation as a biopolitical category, and broader discourses on race, citizenship, public health, immigration, security and border control. Final submissions would be due by February 1, 2011. Please send papers and enquiries to Andrew McCann at Andrew.McCann@Dartmouth.edu
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
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