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The AAALS calls for papers for its 28th Annual conference to be held in conjunction with ANSZANA in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from February 16 to 18, 2012. As always, the conference will be collegial and open-minded, welcoming papers from many different approaches and contexts. Connections involving any combination of Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the US will be welcomed. We also are especially interested in papers on Indigenous Australian literature and Maori literature. Welcome as well will be papers dealing with Patrick White, whose centennial is in 2012 and who is in the midst of an exciting reconsideration. 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 papers on Australian literature with respect to other traditions. Please send 200 word abstracts to Nicholas Birns at birnsn@newschool.edu by December 1, 2011.

 


Call for Papers:  Australian Writing of the 1960s


Papers are sought for an anticipated special issue of Antipodes devoted to Australian writing from 1960 to 1973.  The collection will focus on the tension between continuity and change during that period.  Some possible topics include:  reception of Alan Seymour’s play The One Day of the Year;  the emergence of published Indigenous writing, such as Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s We Are Going;  the early work of Mudrooroo;  novels leading up to Patrick White’s 1973 Nobel Prize, including Riders in the Chariot, The Solid Mandala and The Vivisector; Xavier Hebert;  Hal Porter;  Miles Franklin Prize-winners of the 1960s such as Elizabeth O’Connor, Randolph Stow, Thea Astley, George Turner, Sumner Locke Elliott, Peter Mathers, George Johnston and Dal Stivens;  the poetry of Rosemary Dobson, David Campbell, Judith Wright, Gwen Harwood, James McAuley, A. D. Hope, Peter Porter and others;  early Thomas Keneally works;  migrant writers such as Dimitris Tsaloumas and Manfred Jurgensen;  Barry Humphries;  children’s writing from Ruth Park and Colin Thiele;  the impact and influence of Williamson’s Don’s Party;  Michael Dransfield;  and the early work of Wilding and Moorhouse.  Memoirs of the 1960s, such as Richard Neville’s Hippie Hippie Shake and Sally Morgan’s My Place are also appropriate topics for discussion.  The growth of Australian literature as an academic discipline during the 1960s may also be explored, as well as the rise of literary periodicals such as Quadrant and Australian Literary Studies.  All Antipodes articles are refereed by multiple readers and the final submission of the article should be in MLA style.  Please submit abstracts to Mark Klemens at mklemens2@gmail.com by April 15.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Australians Abroad

Special issue of PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies (ISSN: 1449-2490)

Although Australia is often seen as an immigrant country, it has also been shaped importantly by the travel of its people and culture. In the wake of the February 2011  “Australians Abroad” conference at the University of Queensland (http://www.slccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=134821&pid=70702), the special number proposes a multidisciplinary analysis of Australian travellers and expatriates past and present: the reasons for and destinations of their travel, the roles they play, their writings and reflections, their negotiation of identity, the meanings they invest in an “elsewhere” and the way they reinterpret the Australia they left behind.  

Rationale: 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 theme of Australians Abroad 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, the relation between language and cultural identity

·        negotiation of belonging and identity in destination cultures

Deadline for submissions: 25 November 2011 (Publication early 2013).

Submission: Articles should be both

(a) submitted electronically via the Portal website http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal/about/submissions#authorGuidelines and

(b) emailed to the guest editor Juliana de Nooy: j.denooy@uq.edu.au

Submissions should be in English or French, between 4,000 and 8,000 words in length including footnotes (preferably no longer than 6,000), and should comply with the modified Harvard referencing style outlined on the web page. 

Dr Juliana de Nooy
Senior Lecturer in French

Honours coordinator
School of Languages & Comparative Cultural Studies
University of Queensland, Q 4072, Australia

Tel: (+617) 3365 2278
Fax: (+617) 3365 6799
http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/index.html?page=56218&pid=31368
CRICOS provider no: 00025B


 

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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