Calls for Papers
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Here are the latest Australian Studies related calls for papers
Deadline 30 November 2025
8th International Conference on Public History: The Public History of Difficult Pasts
The 8th International Conference on Public History, organized by the International Federation for Public History, IFPH, will take place in Lisbon from September 7 to 11. It will be hosted by IN2PAST – the Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory, a transdisciplinary consortium of seven research centers – at Colégio Almada Negreiros on the Campolide campus of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. In a time of escalating attacks by right-wing movements on memory, diversity, human rights, democracy, and history itself, the IFPH reaffirms its commitment to fostering critical engagement with the ways societies confront, interpret, and relate to their difficult pasts and challenging presents. The IFPH strongly condemns book banning, the censorship of historical narratives, the surveillance of students and educators, the targeting of sites of remembrance, and the imposition of ideological agendas—particularly right-wing distortions—that not only threaten academic freedom but undermine the very principles upon which public history is built. Against this backdrop, the conference seeks to challenge historical revisionism and silencing, to amplify marginalized voices and memories, and to promote transnational dialogues on reconciliation, accountability, and restorative justice.
Deadline 8 December 2025
2nd International Emerging Research in Australian Studies Workshop
The Second International Emerging Research in Australian Studies Workshop, a one-day online event that will take place on 13 March 2026. The workshop invites proposals by early career researchers and emerging scholars (i.e., doctoral students and postdocs less than five years after completion of their PhD) working in and around Australian Studies. The workshop, which is hosted by the Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (University of Cologne), functions as intersessional event before the biennial German Association for Australian Studies Conference in 2027. Focussing on “Entangled Perspectives”, the workshop aims at exploring the connections and intersections that shape the study of Australia across disciplines. The workshop welcomes contributions from various fields including, but not limited to, linguistics, literary studies, cultural studies, history, environmental humanities, and Indigenous studies.