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.

EASA12 Conference, Bordeaux, 2013

EXTENDED deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2013

Please find attached the Call for Papers for the next biennial EASA conference, "On the Margins", to be held between 4-7 September 2013 in Bordeaux.

Office

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.

16th Triennial ACLALS Conference, St. Lucia, West Indies

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“‘The current unbroken/ the circuits kept open’: Connecting Cultures and the Commonwealth”

The 16th Triennial ACLALS Conference, St. Lucia, West Indies, August 5 –9, 2013

InASA (International Australian Studies Association)

Website: 

inasa.org

The next InASA conference is to be held at Monash University, 5-7 December 2012.

See: http://inasa.org/?page_id=74

CFP: Creative Word conference, Lecce

EASA12 Conference, Bordeaux, 2013

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The European Association for Studies of Australia will hold its 12th biennial conference, "On the Margins" at Bordeaux 3 University, France.

Attached is the Call for Papers (1st circular).

Deadline for submitting 200-wd abstracts: 28 February 2013.

Obituary

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

In Memoriam Bruce Bennett

Dear Members of EASA,

The Australian Studies Centre at Barcelona University is bringing out a
volume of  its electronic journal Coolabah in memory of Bruce Bennett.

Bruce was part of the steering committee that set up EASA and was always
hugely supportive of any Australian Studies initiative in Europe.

This is a call for papers in his honor. The papers may take the form of:

Personal Memoirs
Academic Articles in Bruce's area of expertise which was massive
Creative Writing

CFP-JEASA 3.2. Indigenous marriage, family and kinship...

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

CFP: JAS issue on Australia and the Mediterranean

Australia’s Mediterranean Isolario: Writers’ and Artists’ Perceptions of the Mediterranean Islands