Fwd: FW: EASA news
Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay
From: Paul Sharrad <psha...@uow.edu.au>
Date: Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:31 AM
Subject: FW: EASA news
To: Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay <debna...@gmail.com>
Hi Deb,
Might be a few people interested in this conference at your end?
Cheers,
Paul
A/Prof Paul Sharrad,
English Literatures/Arts,
University of Wollongong,
Northfields Avenue,
Wollongong, NSW 2522
Australia
Phone (61-2) or (02) 42214757
Co-editor, Volume 12, The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Australia, Canada, New Zealand & South Pacific.
From: "M. Pilar Royo Grasa" <mproy...@gmail.com>
Date: Monday, 11 December 2017 9:21 pm
Subject: EASA news
Dear EASA members,
Please see below the CFP for the 2018 International Australian Studies Association Biennial Conference.
I hope you find it interesting.
Best wishes,
Mapi Royo Grasa
EASA Secretary
University of Zaragoza
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International Australian Studies Association Biennial Conference, 3-5 December 2018, The University of Queensland
Unsettling Australia
Australia, the oldest continental landmass on Earth, has had a relatively stable geographical history and, situated in the middle of a tectonic plate, it currently has no active volcanism. However the advent of colonisation led to massive upheavals in Australia’s extant cultures, history and environment. Prior to this, Indigenous peoples too dramatically impacted the environment.
Two hundred and thirty years later, these ruptures are being experienced more intensely than ever. Politics has seen the rise of populism; climate change is destabilising human and non-human populations; and discrimination remains entrenched despite feminism, social justice, and human rights movements and legislation. Technology has disrupted the traditional media landscape while creating new global networks. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have survived enormous hardship and displacement, yet respond strategically to assert a national voice, to call for agreement-making between governments and First Nations, and to insist on truth-telling about history.
These timely issues create a sense of urgency, a need to make sense of and to react in intelligent and creative ways. While this is a time of great unsettlement, it is also an opportunity: as scholars, we have the capacity to interrogate, contextualise and disseminate innovative responses to these issues. The 2018 InASA conference, Unsettling Australia, seeks to create an environment in which ideas and answers can be articulated, discussed and debated. We welcome papers which address any of the following eight streams:
- Unsettling the Transnational Turn
- Unsettling the Environment
- Unsettling Colonial Networks
- Unsettling Resource Extraction
- Unsettling Intimacies in the Pacific Rim
- Unsettling Gender, Sexualities, Bodies
- Unsettling Race and Sovereignty
- Unsettling Class
Please submit your abstract of no more than 250 words via the 2018 InASA Conference website at https://iash.uq.edu.au/inasa-18 Select the conference stream that best fits your proposed contribution, then use the “Submit” button to generate an email that will be directed to the relevant stream convenor. Abstracts are due by 1 March 2018. General inquiries can be sent to inas...@uq.edu.au.
Dr Jessica White
ARC DECRA Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Communication and Arts |
The University of Queensland | Brisbane Queensland 4072 | Australia
Phone +61 7 336 52982 | Fax +61 7 336 52799 | Email jessic...@uq.edu.au | Web www.communication-arts.uq.edu.au
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