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Annual Conference
The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies holds an annual conference where members present their academic work in Australasian 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 Calgary, 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, John Kinsella, Nicholas Jose and Alan Wearne.
The 2011 AAALS Conference will be held in Fort Worth, Texas, from February 17-19, 2011. The conference will begin with an evening reception on February 17, and the conference sessions will take place on Friday, February 18 and Saturday, February 19. The conference will be held at The Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel, located at 200 Main St., Fort Worth, TX, 76102-3011. The hotel's phone number is (817) 870-1000. The room rate for conference attendees is US$139 per night plus taxes. Reservations must be made by Friday, January 21, 2011. A banquet will be held on the evening of Friday, February 18. Details TBA. NB: Conference participants will be able to use PayPal to pay membership fees, conference registration fees, and for the banquet. The PayPal buttons will be added to this page once the registration and banquet fees are finalized. 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.
The 2010 Conference Program is available for download as a Word document. The 2009 Conference Program, 2008 Conference Program and 2007 Conference Program are available online in Microsoft Word format. Recent winners of The Wertheim Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper: 2010 - Sarah Otto Marxhausen - University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Michael R. Griffiths, Rice University 2009 - Esther Prokopienko - College of Saint Rose 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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