The European Association for Studies of Australia, founded in 1989, seeks to promote the teaching of and research in Australian Studies at European tertiary institutions, as well as to increase an awareness of Australian culture throughout Europe. EASA promotes the study and discussion of a wide variety of aspects of Australian culture: Aboriginality, literature, film, the media, popular culture, history, political discourses, the arts. EASA's area of interest also includes New Zealand Studies.

Southerly is available online!

The entire Southerly backlist, from the first
issue in 1939, is available through the Informit Literature and Culture
Collection. Informit is available through the National Library of Australia and
many university library catalogues. You can download every piece ever published
by Southerly through your library membership.
For more information, or to subscribe, please go to www.southerlyjournal.com.au
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JEASA 4.1 current issue: Indigenous marriage, family and kinship in Australia

The latest issue of the Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia has been put online.  Guest edited by Vicki Grieves and co-edited by Martina Horáková, it is themed around: "Indigenous marriage, family and kinship in Australia: the persistence of life and hope in colonial and neo-colonial contexts".

The issue features academic articles, interviews, reviews, reminiscences and the original 1984 text of the play “We are Survivors” by Jim Everett.

It can be freely viewed at

InASA Agreement

As part of a reciprocal agreement between EASA and InASA (International Australian Studies Association), it has been decided that a panel would be opened at the associations' respective conferences for members of the partner association and that registration fees would be waivered for that panel.

 

CFP: EASA - Monash, Prato Conference, "Encountering Australia"

24/09/2014 - 12:49
26/09/2014 - 12:49
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Encountering Australia: Transcultural Conversations

 

24 - 26 September 2014, Monash Prato Centre, Prato, Italy

 

Monash University’s Faculty of Arts is delighted to be hosting the 2014 international conference of the European Association for Studies on Australia (EASA) at the Monash Prato Centre in Italy.

 

InASA 2014, Tasmania

03/12/2014 - 13:00
05/12/2014 - 13:00
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CFP: InASA 2014, Tasmania InASA’s coming interdisciplinary conference “Friends, Foes and Other Intimacies” seeks to explore the multiple relationships that have influenced Australian society and culture, both historically and contemporaneously, and in both formal and informal settings, and both within and without Australia. For more info, please read the attached cfp. Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2014 Contact:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS JEASA 4

Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia

Call for Submissions

 

The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia invites ongoing submissions. Submissions may be in any area of Australian Studies, but contributors may like to consider the areas of Australia and the Internet, comparative Australian studies, or Australian humanitarianism for the next general issue. In addition, articles that have a European connection are particularly welcome.

 

ASAL-CRITIC Mini-Conference on Keneally, 2014 Sept, Wollongong

29/09/2014 - 00:00
29/09/2014 - 23:59
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50 Years of Keneally as Writer, Activist, Celebrity
CALL FOR PAPERS/ PANELS (see attached)
Monday, 29, September, 2014, University of Wollongong

Deadline for abstracts — April 30, 2014.

EASA General Meeting Minutes, Bordeaux 2013

EASA members, please find the Minutes of EASA's General Meeting (Bordeaux, 5 Sept. 2013) and the Treasurer's report attached.

14th Australian Studies Conference in China

11/07/2014 - 12:41
14/07/2014 - 12:41
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Scholars are invited to participate in the 14th International Conference of Australian Studies in China, which will be hosted by Mudanjiang Normal University from July 11 to July 14, 2014. The Conference is to be sponsored by the Australia China Council under Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and supported by the National Association of Australian Studies in China. The theme of the conference is Creativity and Development. For more info please read the attached call for papers.

Deadlines: reg. forms by 30 Nov. 2013; abstracts by 20 Feb. 2014.

Australian Studies Association of Japan (ASAJ) Conference

26/07/2014 - 13:40
27/07/2014 - 13:40
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"Transformation of Australian Studies in a Globalising Age" is the title of ASAJ's first international conference, to be organised in Tokyo, 26-27 Sept. 2014.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 Sept. 2013.

Please see the CFP attached.