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Deadline 30 March 2023
Symposium: Nineteenth-century worlds of vision, 1820s-1870s
The symposium is hosted in-person by the Centre for Art History and Art Theory and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra between 16-18 July 2023. This symposium will be of interest to curators, scholars and arts practitioners working on nineteenth-century visual culture: cartography; draughtsmanship; etching; engraving; lithography; mark-making; photography; painting; printing; modes of illustrated publishing, scrapbooking and album assemblage and, related documentation of visual culture in journalism and literature. The symposium intends to bring together research which interrogates nineteenth-century visual worlds to include perspectives from The Global South and the colonial and ex-colonial world. It encourages papers which challenge traditional art historical understandings and genre/medium silos. Prospective participants are asked to pitch a 250-word abstract for a 20-minute paper. Please submit this along with a 150-word biography.
Deadline 31 March 2023
2023 ‘Recentring the Region’ conference, RMIT University and Deakin University, Melbourne
A partnership between ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature) and ASLEC-ANZ (Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture (Australia and New Zealand)), the 2023 ‘Recentring the Region’ conference turns attention to ‘the region’ in Australian literary studies and environmentally-oriented critical and creative practice. The Conference invites broad and inclusive approaches to ‘the region’ in Australian literary and other creative practices and scholarship from Australia, Aotearoa and beyond, and call for 20-minute paper/presentation proposals (diverse formats also welcome) that trouble the nation-state as the primary regional frame.
Deadline 31 March 2023
Animals Histories: Perspectives from Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
This workshop therefore aims to provide a space for discussion around the variety of approaches to animal histories practised by historians of this region, broadly conceived. Do historians working on animals across disparate periods and places within this region share common questions, agendas, challenges, or methodologies? Are these approaches part of a shared historical project? How do some of the distinctive features of this region – their deep histories, oceanic nature, distinct biota, and experiences of settler and extractive colonialism – inform the writing of animal histories? And what do perspectives from this region have to offer national historiographies on the one hand and animal history scholarship globally on the other? They invite abstract submissions for papers that explore or engage with animal histories in any time or place within the broadly defined region of Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the wider Pacific and Indian Ocean Worlds. They welcome proposals from scholars at all career levels. Postgraduate and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to apply. Proposals should be submitted via email to Dr Rohan Howitt (rohan.howitt@monash.edu) by 31 March 2023.
Deadline 15 April 2023
2023 biennial conference of the German Association for Australian Studies
The 2023 biennial conference of the German Association for Australian Studies (GASt) will focus on Australian Mobilities, on the mobility of people, species, things and ideas across and beyond the Australian continent. We welcome proposals from a variety of disciplines and subject areas, including Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, Cultural Studies, Film and Media Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Museum Studies, Musicology, Political Science, Queer Studies, Religious Studies and Sociology as well as creative contributions from the Visual and Performing Arts. The conference will include a work-in-progress session and a panel on teaching Australian Studies outside Australia. The organisers specifically wish to encourage and include emerging scholars as well as at-risk academics. Please submit a 250-word abstract and a short bio note (indicating name, institutional affiliation and contact details, max. 200 words) by 15 April 2023.
Deadline 30 April 2023
13th Australian Media Traditions Conference: Beyond Boundaries
The conference theme is media 'beyond boundaries'. Many media move beyond boundaries, whether national or international. Media has been a driving force of globalisation. Print may be distributed widely, cable services connect nations, broadcasts do not stop at borders, and the Internet connects world-wide. As Ashforth, Kreiner, and Fugate remarked in 2000, “the concept of boundaries has been used in numerous disciplines to refer to the physical, temporal, emotional, cognitive and/or relational limits that define entities as separate from one another”. Boundaries can include nation state borders, cultural, political, legal, regulatory, personal, social and temporal boundaries, and boundaries between media platforms themselves. Australian Media Traditions 2023 invites scholars to share research perspectives on media’s historical movements beyond boundaries, both within Australia and internationally. Conference to cover areas including media institutions (newspaper, magazine, radio, television, and cinema), advertising, audiences, book publishing, digital gaming, journalism, libraries, media preservation and archiving, policy and regulation, publishers and printers, convergence and technological developments. Although offers connected to the theme of “beyond boundaries” are encouraged, all proposals for papers and panels will be considered.
