http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=bulletin_events&webpage=default&menuID=homely&range=12&mfin= Recently added API Calendar items en-US Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:00:00 +1000 Custom 2008 http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?view=234&apply=bulletin_events&webpage=default University of New England Armidale 9-11 February 2009Our featured speakers include:Jane Goodall, Professor, Writing and Society Research Program, University of Western Sydney, and award-winning author of the international, bestselling novels, The Walker, The Visitor and The Calling Sophie Cunningham, Editor of Meanjin and award-winning author of Geography and BirdWendy James, award-winning author of Out of the Silence and The Steele DiariesWe warmly invite ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 University of New England Armidale 9-11 February 2009Our featured speakers include:Jane Goodall, Professor, Writing and Society Research Program, University of Western Sydney, and award-winning author of the international, bestselling novels, The Walker, The Visitor and The Calling Sophie Cunningham, Editor of Meanjin and award-winning author of Geography and BirdWendy James, award-winning author of Out of the Silence and The Steele DiariesWe warmly invite ... http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?view=233&apply=bulletin_events&webpage=default January 9 - 12, 2009 Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa Honolulu Hawaii, USAThe 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities will be held from January 9 (Friday) to January 12 (Monday), 2009 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.  Topic areas include:Anthropology ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 January 9 - 12, 2009 Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa Honolulu Hawaii, USAThe 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities will be held from January 9 (Friday) to January 12 (Monday), 2009 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.  Topic areas include:Anthropology ... http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?view=232&apply=bulletin_events&webpage=default A Symposium hosted by Australian literature at the University of Sydney January 2010   On 14-15 January 2010, Australian Literature at the University of Sydney in association with the American Association for Australian Literary Studies (AAALS) will host a symposium on Reading Across the Pacific: Australian-United Sates Intellectual Histories.   Plenary speaker: Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University.   Limited funding to assist early career researchers may be available on ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 A Symposium hosted by Australian literature at the University of Sydney January 2010   On 14-15 January 2010, Australian Literature at the University of Sydney in association with the American Association for Australian Literary Studies (AAALS) will host a symposium on Reading Across the Pacific: Australian-United Sates Intellectual Histories.   Plenary speaker: Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University.   Limited funding to assist early career researchers may be available on ... http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?view=231&apply=bulletin_events&webpage=default University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland 13-14 February 2009   Keynote Speakers:Sylvia Lawson, Writer, Historian, Cultural CriticProfessor Marilyn Lake, Historian, La Trobe UniversityAccording to John Bodnar, 'Public Memory is a body of beliefs and ideas about the past that help a public or society understand its past, present, and by implication, its future.' In distinction from conventional history, Public Memory research fashions a relation between past and present which, whether real ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland 13-14 February 2009   Keynote Speakers:Sylvia Lawson, Writer, Historian, Cultural CriticProfessor Marilyn Lake, Historian, La Trobe UniversityAccording to John Bodnar, 'Public Memory is a body of beliefs and ideas about the past that help a public or society understand its past, present, and by implication, its future.' In distinction from conventional history, Public Memory research fashions a relation between past and present which, whether real ... http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?view=230&apply=bulletin_events&webpage=default The Centre for Postcolonial Writing (CPW) is the Editor of the Postcolonial Literary Studies Section of Routledge’s On-line bibliography, the Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES), which commended in 1999 and has just been remodelled and relaunched for 2008.  The CPW is expanding its network of annotators in the area of Postcolonial Literature.  Our contributors write short annotated bibliographies of articles, monographs, edited collections and online products, that they consider to be valuable and necessary reading in the field.  We are seeking ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 The Centre for Postcolonial Writing (CPW) is the Editor of the Postcolonial Literary Studies Section of Routledge’s On-line bibliography, the Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES), which commended in 1999 and has just been remodelled and relaunched for 2008.  The CPW is expanding its network of annotators in the area of Postcolonial Literature.  Our contributors write short annotated bibliographies of articles, monographs, edited collections and online products, that they consider to be valuable and necessary reading in the field.  We are seeking ... http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?view=229&apply=bulletin_events&webpage=default The Journal of Media Practice is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2009!  To mark this anniversary, the Journal is looking for contributions from colleagues involved in media practice around the world, whether as teachers or practitioners.The current decade is witnessing vast changes in the production, consumption and forms of media. With digital technology, video art, documentary, film and other visual media are all going through interesting changes at the institutional, artistic and audience levels. Web 2.0 is blurring the lines between the production and ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 The Journal of Media Practice is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2009!  To mark this anniversary, the Journal is looking for contributions from colleagues involved in media practice around the world, whether as teachers or practitioners.The current decade is witnessing vast changes in the production, consumption and forms of media. With digital technology, video art, documentary, film and other visual media are all going through interesting changes at the institutional, artistic and audience levels. Web 2.0 is blurring the lines between the production and ... http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?view=228&apply=bulletin_events&webpage=default 2008 Annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 6-9 December 2008Cultural studies has historically concerned itself with the cultural practices of the everyday and the now. However, as a politically motivated discipline, cultural studies has an ongoing preoccupation with cultural, economic, and political change, and thus with futures. The 2008 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia National Conference will interrogate possible and impossible local, national, regional, and global futures.Our ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 2008 Annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 6-9 December 2008Cultural studies has historically concerned itself with the cultural practices of the everyday and the now. However, as a politically motivated discipline, cultural studies has an ongoing preoccupation with cultural, economic, and political change, and thus with futures. The 2008 Cultural Studies Association of Australasia National Conference will interrogate possible and impossible local, national, regional, and global futures.Our ... http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?view=227&apply=bulletin_events&webpage=default The Journal of Australian Writers and Writing is a new peer-reviewed, web-based journal. It forms a major component of The Australian Literary Compendium, a project funded by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) to provide new ways of studying, reading, and reviewing Australian writing and creative practice. The journal will be published on-line twice a year and will feature essays, fiction, book reviews and articles. The first edition, which will be posted on-line in late 2008, has as its theme "Rethinking Contemporary Australian Fiction".  Articles of up to 7,500 words ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 The Journal of Australian Writers and Writing is a new peer-reviewed, web-based journal. It forms a major component of The Australian Literary Compendium, a project funded by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) to provide new ways of studying, reading, and reviewing Australian writing and creative practice. The journal will be published on-line twice a year and will feature essays, fiction, book reviews and articles. The first edition, which will be posted on-line in late 2008, has as its theme "Rethinking Contemporary Australian Fiction".  Articles of up to 7,500 words ... http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?view=222&apply=bulletin_events&webpage=default AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM TO CELEBRATE THE 60TH ANNIVERSITY OF THIS HISTORIC EXPEDITION 25 to 27 May 2009 (dates to be confirmed) National Museum of Australia, CanberraThe 60th anniversary of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land is a fitting time for celebration, re-evaluation, and renewed collaboration between the individuals, institutions, and countries touched by this formative research venture. In 2009 the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia will commemorate this anniversary by hosting 'Barks ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM TO CELEBRATE THE 60TH ANNIVERSITY OF THIS HISTORIC EXPEDITION 25 to 27 May 2009 (dates to be confirmed) National Museum of Australia, CanberraThe 60th anniversary of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land is a fitting time for celebration, re-evaluation, and renewed collaboration between the individuals, institutions, and countries touched by this formative research venture. In 2009 the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia will commemorate this anniversary by hosting 'Barks ... http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?view=219&apply=bulletin_events&webpage=default Melbourne, 3-5 December 2008Keynote Speakers:ANN LAURA STOLER, New School for Social Research AILEEN MORETON-ROBINSON, Queensland University of Technology LYNETTE RUSSELL, Monash University PATRICK WOLFE, La Trobe University MATT WRAY, Harvard UniversityFollowing the success of the Historicising Whiteness conference of 2006, Re-Orienting Whiteness continues the critical engagement with whiteness studies. In conjunction with the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 Melbourne, 3-5 December 2008Keynote Speakers:ANN LAURA STOLER, New School for Social Research AILEEN MORETON-ROBINSON, Queensland University of Technology LYNETTE RUSSELL, Monash University PATRICK WOLFE, La Trobe University MATT WRAY, Harvard UniversityFollowing the success of the Historicising Whiteness conference of 2006, Re-Orienting Whiteness continues the critical engagement with whiteness studies. In conjunction with the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, ... http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?view=218&apply=bulletin_events&webpage=default International Conference Perth, Western Australia 2-4 December 2008 In association with the National Academy of Screen & Sound, Murdoch University and the Faculty of Media, Society and Culture, Curtin UniversityKeynote Speakers:Felicity Collins, Humanities & Social Sciences, La Trobe UniversitySuvendrini Perera, Media, Society and Culture, Curtin UniversitySusannah Radstone, Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East LondonJanet Walker, Film and Media Studies, ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 International Conference Perth, Western Australia 2-4 December 2008 In association with the National Academy of Screen & Sound, Murdoch University and the Faculty of Media, Society and Culture, Curtin UniversityKeynote Speakers:Felicity Collins, Humanities & Social Sciences, La Trobe UniversitySuvendrini Perera, Media, Society and Culture, Curtin UniversitySusannah Radstone, Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East LondonJanet Walker, Film and Media Studies, ... http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?view=211&apply=bulletin_events&webpage=default The Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies and SEFTMS are organising a conference to be held on 11 and 12 December, 2008, at Victoria University of Wellington.   Cultural nationalism has been at the centre of literary history in New Zealand, as in other literatures. In New Zealand the intense period of literary activity of the 1930s and 40s produced a body of work that sharply influenced thinking about national identity. The 1890s shaped thinking about the defining characteristics of an assertively nationalistic Australian literature, while Canada after World War II ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000 The Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies and SEFTMS are organising a conference to be held on 11 and 12 December, 2008, at Victoria University of Wellington.   Cultural nationalism has been at the centre of literary history in New Zealand, as in other literatures. In New Zealand the intense period of literary activity of the 1930s and 40s produced a body of work that sharply influenced thinking about national identity. The 1890s shaped thinking about the defining characteristics of an assertively nationalistic Australian literature, while Canada after World War II ...