Conferences and Symposia 2013
21-22 February 2013
Confirmed keynote speakers include Associate Professor Alison Ravenscroft (La Trobe University), Alice Pung (author of Unpolished Gem and My Father’s Daughter) and Dr Adele D’Arcangelo (University of Bologna, translator of Unpolished Gem).
The call for papers is available at http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/dislocated-readings/call-for-papers/.
Abstracts are due by 31 October 2012.
Selling Yarns III
28 February - 3 March
Convenor: Dr Louise Hamby, ANU.
E: louise.hamby@anu.edu.au
Venue: ANU
March
University of Western Sydney Writing and Society Research Centre and Philosophy@UWS present:
Vanessa Lemm, Professor of Philosophy (UNSW)
TITLE: A Biopolitical Reading of the Philosophical Life in Michel Foucault’s Le courage de la vérité?
DATE/TIME: Wednesday 20 March, 3.30-5pm
PLACE: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.54
http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2013
CFP for special issue of Sexualities onChallenging Hetero-doxies
A 300 word abstract is to be sent by 15 March 2013. Decisions about accepted abstracts will be sent on the 2nd April 2013. Full articles to be sent by 31 May 2013
Editors: Christine Beasley, Heather Brook, Mary Holmes and Monique Mulholland
Contact Details: monique.mulholland@flinders.edu.au
May
TOUCH: Sculpture and Land
17- 20 May
Convenor: Em/Professor David Williams, ANU.
E: david.wiillaims@anu.edu.au
Venue: National Gallery of Australia
David Malouf Symposium
31 May
Australian Catholic University, North Sydney campus
250 word abstracts are invited and should be forwarded to Dr Elaine Lindsay at MaloufSymposium@acu.edu.au by 15 February 2013
June
Call for articles: Who is He Now? The Unearthly David Bowie
A Special Edition of the Forum Section of the journal Celebrity Studies invites short papers that explore the stardom and celebrity of David Bowie.
Full papers, or expression of interest enquiries, should be made to guest editors Toija Cinque at toija.cinque@deakin.edu.au and Sean Redmond at s.redmond@deakin.edu.au
Symbiotica presents: Agency in Movement Symposium
Friday 21st June 2013
The University of Western Australia
G06 Moot Court, 9am-5pm
Free, (Please RSVP christopher.cobilis@uwa.edu.au for catering purpoes)
July
University of Wollongong
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Keynote Speaker, Professor Francisca de Haan, Central European University
The Australian Women’s History Network Symposium this year will focus on ‘Women in Motion’, in association with the Australian Historical Association (AHA) conference theme of ‘Mobilities and Mobilisations’, and with the support of the Institute for Social Transformation Research at the University of Wollongong. We invite paper and panel proposals which consider the theme of ‘mobility’ from a gendered perspective.
Please submit abstracts of 200 words by 15 March 2013 via the AHA conference website, selecting the ‘Women in Motion’ stream: <www.theaha.org.au/Mobilities>
September
The University of Melbourne, Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2013
Extended deadline for CFPs: 18 March 201
Shaping Canberra: The Lived Experience of Place, Home and Capital
17-20 September 2013
Convenors: Dr Mary Hutchison, ANU. E: mary.hutchison@anu.edu.au
Dr Sarah Scott, ANU. E: sarah.scott@anu.edu.au
Venue: ANU
December
December 5-6
The Sebel, Mandurah, Western Australia
This conference aims to once again bring together scholars who share an interest in the study of critical whiteness and race to showcase and present their work.
The theme of the 2013 conference considers the law and lore used and maps developed, exposed, highlighted or cultivated in the eleven years since the founding of ACRAWSA.
Please submit abstracts and biographies no later than July 5, 2013 to acrawsa2013@bigpond.com
There will be an opportunity to publish in a special issues of the ejournal Critical Race and Whiteness Studies.
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Conferences and Symposia 2014
Global Events Congress
9-11 July 2014, Adelaide South Australia
GEC VI is a significant international meeting for event and experience design, management and marketing researchers and practitioners.
Contact the organisers: gec@flinders.edu.au
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Conferences and Symposia 2012
February 2012
Literary Adelaide
ASAL Mini-Conference
University of Adelaide, 10 February 2012
Website
March 2012
Digital Humanities Australasia 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting
The inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities
Australian National University, 28-30 March
Website
April 2012
Land and Sea in the Early Middle Ages
Eighth AEMA Conference
University of Queensland, 27-28 April
Website
June
ACHRC Annual General Meeting
University of Technology, Sydney
June 11-12
website
CHCI Annual Meeting
"Anthropocene Humanities"
ANU, Canberra
June 13-16
Website
July 2012
South Italy, Sicily and the Mediterranean: Cultural Interactions
La Trobe University, 17-21 July
Website
CFPs close 6 February 2012
International Aut/Biographical Assoication conference
"Framing Lives"
ANU July 17-20
Website
Law and Food Cultural and Religious Perspectives Symposium
University of Wollongong
18 July 2012
Website
August 2012
27-28 August 2012
Convenor: Dr Tom Ford, HRC.
E: tom.ford@anu.edu.au
Venue: ANU, Canberra
September 2012
When: 24 September 2012
Where: University of Wollongong, New South Wales
Host: Institute for Social Transformation Research, in cooperation with the School of History and Politics, Faculty of Arts
Keynote: Ilan Pappé, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, and political activist
October 2012
Desire and Destination
Arts Activated National Conference
The Concourse, Sydney, 30 – 31 October 2012
Website
November 2012
Challenging (the) Humanities is the 43rd annual symposium of the Academy
15-16 November 2012 at the University of Western Sydney, Parramatta.
URL: http://www.humanities.org.au/Events/AnnualSymposium.aspx
CODE - A Media, Games and Art Conference
21-23 November
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
website
CFP closes 22 June
Re-Reading Christina Stead
22 November 2012, 6 pm
Hosted by the Institute of Advanced Studies,
University of Western Australia
Webb Lecture Theatre
A public lecture by Louise Adler, CEO and Publisher-in-Chief, Melbourne University Publishing
Free, but registration required
Christina Stead and Literary Ownership
23 November 2012
9.30 - 5.00 pm
Hosted by the Institute of Advanced Studies,
Univeristy of Western Australia
UniversUniversity Club Seminar Room 1
For more information see the website
December 2012
Telling Truths: Crime Fiction and National Allegory
Presented by: The Institute for Social Transformation Research and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong.
Convened by: Professor Ian Buchanan, Professor Catherine Cole and Professor Sue Turnbull
When: 6 - 8 December 2012
Where: University of Wollongong (Australia)
Keynote speaker: Fredric Jameson
website
Border Crossings Conference
Presented by: Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities
Where: Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
When: December 10- 2012 2012
website
Visible Evidence XIX Conference
19-21 December 2012 Convenor: Dr Catherine Summerhayes, ANU.
E: catherine.summerhayes@anu.edu.au
Venue: ANU
Conferences and Symposia 2011
July
Fear and Safety in Children’s Literature
The 20th Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature
QUT City Campus, 4-8 July 2011
Website
The 14th Australasian David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies
La Trobe University (State Library of Victoria), 4-8 July 2011
Website
ASAL 2011
Australian Literature: Field, Curriculum, Emotion
Melbourne University, 5-8 July 2011
Website
18th Biennial Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations National Conference
Darwin Convention Centre, 6-8 July 2011
Website
Australasian Association for Literature (AAL)
Literature and Translation
Monash University (Caulfield), 11-12 July 2011
Website
Australasian Association for Early European History XXII Biennial Conference
War and Peace, Barbarism and Civilisation in Modern Europe and its Empires
UWA and Murdoch University, Institute of Advanced Studies, 11-14 July 2011
Website
ACIS Sixth Biennial Conference: Italian Studies – New Directions
Melbourne University, 13 – 16 July 2011
Website
The Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) Sixth Biennial Conference
The University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus, 13-16 July 2011
Website
Opening the World: Literature in a Global Age
Australian National University, Canberra, 15 – 16 July 2011
Website
Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism
Adelaide, 21-23 July 2011
Website
Hearts and Stones: A Collaboratory on Emotion, Stone and Temporality
ARC Centre for Excellence in the History of Emotions
University of Melbourne, 28-30 July 2011
Website
Postgraduate Advanced Training Seminar
'Medievalism, Historicism, Temporalities'
ARC Centre for Excellence in the History of Emotions
University of Melbourne, 31 July 2011
Website
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August
Subaltern Studies: Historical world-making thirty years on
Australian National University, Canberra, 3 – 5 August 2011
Website
Historiography and Antiquarianism
University of Sydney, 12 – 14 August 2011
Website
A Sense for Humanity: The Ethical Thought of Raimond Gaita
Flinders University, Adelaide 18 – 19 August 2011
Website
Media, Communication and Democracy: Global and National Environments
RMIT University, 31 August –2 September 2011
Register for the conference at events@rmit.edu.au.
Special guest: Professor Paulo Mancini
The opening event on Wednesday 31st August, featuring Paolo Mancini, at the State Library of Victoria Theaterette is free but please register your interest. The two following days require registration via the conference website.
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September
Cases and their Publics: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives on the Case Study Genre
University of Melbourne, 26-28 September 2011
Website
Survival Skills for the Humanities Symposium
UWA, Institute of Advanced Studies, 28 September 2011
Website
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October
Communities of Memory
Biennial Conference of the Oral History Association of Australia
State Library of Victoria Conference Centre, 7-9 October 2011
Website
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November
Textual Manipulation
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference 2011
University of Adelaide, 3-4 November
Website
Knowledge / Culture / Social Change International Conference
Centre for Cultural Research
University of Western Sydney, 7-9 November 2011
Website
The Poetry and Poetics of Popular Culture
Poetry and Poetics Centre
UniSA, 11-12 November
Website
Educating the Nation: The Humanities in the New Australian Curriculum
Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium
University of Melbourne, 17-19 November 2011
Website
Doctoral writing in the visual and performing arts: Challenges and diversities
Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 17 and 18 November 2011
Website
The Power of Music
34th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Music and Emotion
UWA, 30 November – 3 December 2011
Website
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December
Medievalism and Youth Culture
ARC Postgraduate/Early Career Researcher Masterclass
UWA, 6 December 2011
Applications should be sent by Friday 14 October: andrew.lynch@uwa.edu.au
Sustainable data from digital research: Humanities perspectives on digital scholarship
A PARADISEC conference
University of Melbourne, 12-14 December 2011
Website
Symposium: Emotions and Historical Change in Pre-modern Europe
A symposium for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
University of Melbourne, 14 December
Full details are at http://www.amems.unimelb..edu.au/change/
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