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Annual Conference The American Association of Australian Literary Studies holds an annual conference where members present their academic work in Australian literary and cultural studies. The meeting affords an opportunity for intellectual and social interaction with fellow scholars from around the world. The Wertheim Prize is awarded each year for the best paper by a graduate student. In addition to the presentation of academic work, the conference features readings by Australian writers and a conference dinner with a keynote speaker. Recent conference locations include Austin, Washington, Montreal, Boston, New York, Richmond and Kansas City, with readings by Peter Carey, Janette Turner Hospital, Kevin Hart, Jonathan Bennett, Andrew Sant, Lesley Stern and John Kinsella. 2009 AAALS Conference AAALS will again meet jointly with ANZSANA in 2009. The dates are February 26-28; the location is Calgary. The conference will begin with an evening reception at the Best Western Inn on the 26th. Sessions will occur throughout the days on the 27th and 28th, with continental breakfast and luncheons each day. The conference banquet will be held on the evening of the 27th. All events, except for the opening reception, will be at the Canadian Olympic Park, which is adjacent to the University of Calgary campus. A post-conference excursion to Banff is being planned for March 1, so keep that possibility in mind when making your plans. The two conference hotels are the Best Western Inn (888-774-7716) at CA$109 per night and the Hampton Inn and Suites (888-432-6777) at CA$135.15 for a single and CA$143.65 for a double. The hotels are next to each other, and both are across the street from the Canadian Olympic Park. The theme for the AAALS portion of the program will be "Australian Classics: Old and New." Papers that reassess older works of literature and film, particularly those with a degree of canonical status, and film are invited, as are papers that focus on more contemporary work thought to have enduring worth. As always, papers on other topics are most welcome: view the theme as providing one focal point for our discussions, not as defining the meeting in its entirely. Paper proposals (250 words) should be submitted by 15 January, 2009, to AAALS President Theodore F. Sheckels at tsheckel@rmc.edu. Membership in AAALS is required for presenters of papers.
The 2008 Conference Program and the 2007 Conference Program are available online in Microsoft Word format.
Recent winners of The Wertheim Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper: 2008 - Terra Walston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2007 - Hilary Emmett, Cornell University 2006 - Sean Scarisbrick, University of Buffalo 2005 - Kevin Birmingham, Harvard University, and Nathanael O'Reilly, Western Michigan University
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