Thinking Beyond Australia/Beyond Australian Literature
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (A.S.A.L.)
University of Melbourne/La Trobe University
To be held at the Trades Hall, Melbourne.
5 ? 8 July 2001
Papers are especially welcome for this conference on the following
topics:
- Nationalism/Postnationalism/Transnationalism and Australian Literature
- Australian writing and the Asia-Pacific rim
- Asia-in-Australia and new literary formations
- Multiculturalism, Diasporas and Australian writing
- Australian and New Zealand literatures
- Australian writing and Postcolonialism
- The Antarctic
- Australian writing and the media
- Expatriate Australian writers; relations to Europe and the United
States
- Western perceptions and assessments of Australian Literature
- Globalised indigenous cultural production
- Cultural tourism and Australian writing
- Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Cosmopolitanism and Australian Literature
- The end of Australian Literature?
- Australian Literature, Cinema and Television
- Australian Literary Studies and Cultural Studies
- Australian Literary Studies, Literary Theory and "Post-Theory"
- Local/Regional/Global literary geographies
- Transnational politics and Australian writing
Abstracts of around 250 words should be sent to the convenors no later
than 2nd February 2001.
Contact addresses are:
Ken Gelder, Department of English, University of Melbourne, Parkville
3010, Victoria: email k.gelder@english.unimelb.edu.au
Lyn McCredden, School of Literary Studies, Deakin University, Burwood
3125, Victoria: email lynmcr@deakin.edu.au
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