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.
Important MEMBERSHIP info! All delegates at the Bordeaux conference (EASA12) must be paid-up members of EASA. The membership fee of 40,00 EUR ought to be transferred ahead of the event by means of a bank transfer to Dominique Seve, EASA Acting Treasurer, 1 Chemin du Haut de St-Pierre, F-14250 Tilly sur Seulles. Account number: 00020453701 IBAN: FR7610278021380002045370135 BIC: CMCIFR2A Bank address: Crédit mutuel Bayeux 8 rue Saint-Patrice F-14400 Bayeux. Discounts available for post-graduate students.
It is our sad duty to inform you that Sue Ryan-Fazilleau, a long-standing member of EASA whom many will remember for her remarkable humane qualities, died of lung cancer earlier this month at the untimely age of 57.
Sue had been teaching Australian and New Zealand studies at the University of La Rochelle, France, where she was a well-loved teacher and a very active academic, specializing in the work of Peter Carey and contemporary Australian (crime) fiction. She was the author of Peter Carey et la quête postcoloniale d'une
Submitted by martina horakova on Fri, 27/01/2012 - 07:30.
Dear colleagues and friends,
we would like to invite you to contribute to a special issue of JEASA - Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia. The issue 3.2., "Indigenous Marriage, Family and Kinship in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific" will be co-edited by Dr. Vicki Grieves (The University of Sydney) and Dr. Martina Horakova (Masaryk University).
The deadline for submitting articles is April 30, 2012. Please email your