CFP – Celebration for Dennis Haskell: Creative Writing and Its Contexts 17-18 February, 2011
University of Western Australia, Perth
In anticipation of AASRN member Dennis Haskell’s retirement from UWA, which he’s planning mid-2011, the Westerly Centre together with the Association for the Study of Australian Literature is planning a one-and-a-half day symposium to recognise the major contribution Dennis has made to the many areas in which he has worked and to which he continues to make a difference. Preliminary details are below.
We are hoping that many of Dennis’s friends, colleagues, fellow writers and many of those he’s had contact with over the years will be able to join us for readings, lively discussion and general celebration at a symposium.
If you wish to register your interest in this event, please let us know, and we will keep you in touch as our planning progresses.
With best wishes
Delys Bird, Kieran Dolin and Philip Mead at the Westerly Centre, UWA.
Please reply to:
Megan O'Connor at the Westerly Centre megan.oconnor@ uwa.edu.au
Research/Administra tive Officer (Mon to Thurs)
Westerly Centre
Phone 6488 2063
Fax 6488 1030
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) and the Westerly Centre are to honour the work of Winthrop Professor Dennis Haskell with a symposium entitled Creative Writing and its Contexts.
Professor Haskell is a distinguished poet, editor, scholar and administrator.
His work has been directed to the promotion of literature in The University and schools, and in a variety of public forums and media in Australia and overseas.
Creative writing and its contexts is an opportunity to discuss the place of literature in contemporary culture, the institutions that support creative writing and reading, the relationships between Australian literature and other national literatures, particularly Asian.
ASAL and the Westerly Centre anticipate a symposium of lively debate, creative energy and humour. If you would like to contribute or attend please let us know.
The contributions can cover any of the areas in which Professor Haskell has worked, including:
* Creative writing and the study of literature
* Australian and Asian literary interactions
* The role of institutional support for writers and writing
* Literary and scholarly publishing
* The place of the humanities in the modern university
* The writing and reading of poetry
* Teaching creative writing
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Journal of Chinese Cinemas (2012) Title: From Diasporic Cinemas to Sinophone Cinemas Guest Editors: Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo
Journal of Chinese Cinemas is the only refereed academic publication in English devoted to the study of Chinese film.
From the critical and popular acclaim of Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) to the Asian Australian success of Tony Ayres’s The Home Song Stories (2007), diasporic Chinese cinemas have created new filmic sites and visual practices that engage the complex relations between the constructs of ‘China’, ‘Chinese’ and ‘Chineseness’. While the notion of diaspora has broadened these concepts to new areas and new objects of inquiry, Chineseness remains largely a question of ethnicity, bound to nationality.
In Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific, Shu-mei Shih (2007) invokes the notion of the Sinophone to respond to the expiry date of the Chinese diaspora as second and third generations become more localized. As a critical concept, the Sinophone removes the emphasis on ethnicity and nationality, and instead highlights communities of Sinitic language cultures spoken and used ‘outside China and on the margins of China and Chineseness’. The Sinophone network connects new visualities and communities that have emerged as a result of global capitalism; it critiques home and host cultures, reflecting multi-accented, multilingual histories of transnational migration.
This special issue, edited by Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo, focuses on the new cinemas emanating from the Sinophone network, and is scheduled for publication in early 2012. The editors of the special issue now invite abstract submissions of 250-300 words on any of the following aspects:
the political economy of Sinophone film production, distribution, consumption and regulation;
cinematic practices of Sinophone resistance, complicity and transformation;
Sinophone communities as sites of cultural production;
new Sinophone visual economies and cultures;
examples of multilingual, multidialect or multi-accented Sinophone cinema in their historical, social or cultural contexts;
comparative Sinophone film studies;
papers ‘in defense’ of diasporic Chinese cinema frameworks and critiquing the Sinophone model.
Each abstract should:
include your name, email and postal address, and institution;
offer a summary of how your proposed essay engages the critical framework of Sinophone cinema.
Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 December 2010
Acceptance notice: 15 January 2011
Deadline for paper submission (6000-8000 words): 1 June 2011
Abstract submissions (as word documents by email attachment) to: Audrey Yue (University of Melbourne, Australia): aisy@unimelb.edu.au
Contact for journal information: Song Hwee Lim (Chief Editor, Journal of Chinese
Cinemas): S.H.Lim@exeter.ac.uk
Between 2014 and 2018 Australia will commemorate the Anzac Centenary, marking 100 years since our involvement in the First World War.
The Anzac Centenary provides us with an opportunity to remember those who have fought and served in all wars, conflicts and peace operations in the past hundred years and especially remember the more than 100,000 who have given their lives in service.
The National Commission on the Commemoration of the Anzac Centenary is seeking Australia’s ideas and suggestions on how to mark this important chapter in our history.
Have your say in how the Australian community can be a part of the Anzac Centenary.
Public submissions will be accepted until 17 September 2010.
Call for Papers Popular Culture Association of America
San Antonio, Texas, USA April 20 – April 23 2011
The Australia and New Zealand Popular Culture Area invites papers for the 2011 conference.
This is an exciting new area that supplements the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (Popcaanz).
We seek papers which focus on popular culture ‘down under’. This encompasses a broad range of topics, not the least being: sports, graphic novels/comics, popular fiction/print cultures, popular science, media/journalism, movies/film/television, food/beverage, design/art, fashion, queer, indigenous, history, celebrity—in fact anything that has an Australasian bent.
Email abstracts (up to 200 words) or panel suggestions (title, presenters and brief description) by 1 December 2010 to:
Dr Toni Johnson-Woods
English Media Studies and Art History
University of Queensland
Brisbane 4072
Phone: +61 + 7 336 53201
Email: t.johnsonwoods@uq.edu.au
Vietnamese Propaganda Art is the first of MiFA’s POP UP ART series. These exhibitions will be held for short periods of time at MiFA and allow the gallery to spontaneously react to issues concerning the Asia-Pacific region and hold non-commercial exhibitions.
For our first installment of POP UP ART MiFA has teamed up with Deborah Salter Fine Art. Over the past few years Salter’s interest in Vietnamese art has led her to collect a range of original gouache Vietnamese propaganda posters from the 1950s to the 1980s.The works are varied depictions of Vietnam during this period with many created to encourage farming techniques while some call upon the North Vietnamese to support the war effort. Together the posters reflect four decades in the development of modern Vietnam. From emerging nationalism under Ho Chi Minh, interpretations of the American-Vietnam War of the 60s and 70s to the promotion of the reunification and renovation from 1975 to the mid 1980s these images delve into a view of Vietnam that Australians have yet to see.
The posters in the exhibition reflect a variety of naïve painterly techniques. Some display the influence of the French colonial aesthetics where a softer colour palette was used to appeal to the peasant population to work harder to increase food production. Others are strongly influenced by the Soviet Block propaganda graphics, in which bright, bold colours were employed to evoke emotion and encourage patriotism and urge young people to enlist in the forces. The artistic techniques employed throughout the collection allow the viewer to see how each artist presented their own unique and direct approach to propaganda art.
For four days MiFA invites you to engage with these works as major pieces of art from a historic period in our region. With a panel discussion of art professionals and historians and lunchtime tours MiFA and Deborah Salter Fine Art welcome you to explore these works that illustrate a snapshot of such an important historical period for both Vietnam and the Asia-Pacific region.
WHEN
Tuesday July 27 – Friday July 30, 2010.
WHERE
MiFA
Level 1, 278 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000.
Join Ms Deborah Salter, Assoc. Prof. Robyn Sloggett, Dr Colin Long, Dr Thu-Huong Nguyen and Mr. Phong Nguyen for a discussion on the artistic and historical significance of these remarkable works of art. Each member will speak independently for a short period, followed by a panel discussion, chaired by Mr Roger Peacock. Questions will then be taken from the audience.
Speakers:
Ms Deborah Salter (Director, Deborah Salter Fine Art-specialist in Vietnamese art)
Assoc. Prof. Robyn Sloggett (Director of the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation)
Dr Colin Long (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Deakin University, School of Social and International Studies)
Dr Thu-Huong Nguyen (Lecturer, Victoria University, Business and Law Faculty)
Mr Phong Nguyen (Federal President, Vietnamese Community in Australia)
Chair: Mr Roger Peacock (Former Executive Director of the Asian Studies Council, Head of the International Division of the Commonwealth Department of Employment, and Vice-Principal (University Development) at The University of Melbourne)
Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association
Future Stories/Intimate Histories Symposium
Adelaide, 10 December 2010
Call for Papers and Save the Date
The meanings of race and whiteness are constantly under re/construction in the stories we tell about the past and the future, all the more so in times of flux where economies, national borders and political leadership are under redefinition every day. As yesterday becomes history and tomorrow ever more volatile, story becomes a means of understanding where we are in terms of both where we have come from and where we might be going. Story has also long been a means of understanding relations between history and personal experience, and hence a site where the inextricability of racialised structures and lived experience can be explored, albeit often in the context of racialised struggles over knowledge and speaking positions. In this symposium we seek to talk about what such times of change mean for the critical race and whiteness studies project of transforming the racialised structures within which we live, and what role stories can play in our imaginings. What potentials can we find in our stories of the past and the future? What is old or new about current stories of race? What stories are heard and what should be heard? What still can’t be told?
With these questions in mind, ACRAWSA, now in its seventh year, is calling for abstract submissions for two roundtables to be held as part of its 2010 Symposium on the theme of Future Stories/Intimate Histories. This one day event, to be convened in the beautiful State Library building on North Terrace, Adelaide, will include
Keynote speaker: Associate Professor Jennifer Rutherford author of The Gauche Intruder: Freud, Lacan, and the White Australia Fantasy
Key Thinkers panel featuring Professor Margaret Allen, Dylan Coleman, and Jared Thomas
The symposium will also include two roundtable discussions, where 4 presenters in each roundtable will be allocated a maximum of 10 minutes to very briefly outline their current research project or interests, and then all attendees will join in a discussion of the ideas presented. Abstract submissions that relate to the symposium focus outlined above are invited
for inclusion in one of these two roundtables.
Topics might include:
Futures of race and whiteness
The future of whiteness studies
Changing definitions of race and racism
Borders and the future
Personal experience and race
Family history and race
Race and relationships
Race, whiteness and life narrative
Relations between ‘story’ and ‘theory’
The positioning of Indigenous and/or white stories &storytellers
We also welcome abstracts on topics from within critical race and whiteness studies more broadly, though preference will be given to abstracts that in some way relate to the symposium theme. Abstracts (200 words max) should be emailed to Damien Riggs along with a 50 word bionote by August 15th 2010 to damien.riggs@flinders.edu.au
Where: Institute Room, State Library, Corner of Kintore Avenue and North Terrace, Adelaide.
When: Friday December 10, 9.30-5pm
Cost: Free for ACRAWSA members, $25 for non-members (or sign up on the day) and $15 concession.
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (http://asiancha.com/) is now accepting submissions for “The China Issue”, an edition of the journal devoted exclusively to work from and about contemporary China.
The issue, which will be published in June 2011, will feature poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, scholarly works and visual art exploring the modern Middle Kingdom. We are looking for submissions from a wide range of Chinese and international voices on the social, political and cultural forces which are shaping the country. If you have something interesting, opinionated or fresh to say about China today, we would like to hear from you. Please note that we can only accept submissions in English.
We are pleased to announce that distinguished Chinese scholar and poet Yibing Huang will be joining Cha as guest editor for the issue. Huang has graciously agreed to lend us his extensive knowledge of Chinese literature and keen critical eye to help us select the pieces and shape the issue.
The Reviews section will be devoted exclusively to books related to China. If you have a recent book that you think would be right for review in “The China Issue”, we encourage you to contact our Reviews Editor Eddie Tay at eddie@asiancha.com. Books should be sent to Eddie before the end of March 2011.
If you would like to have work considered for “The China Issue”, please submit by email to submissions@asiancha.com by 15th April, 2011. Please include “The China Issue” in the subject line of the email or your work will automatically be considered for one of the regular issues. Submissions to the issue should conform to our guidelines available at: http://www.asiancha.com/guidelines.
9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities
The 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will be held from January 9 (Sunday) to January 12 (Wednesday), 2011 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village® Beach Resort & Spa in Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu is located on the island of Oahu. Oahu is often nicknamed “the gathering place”. The 2011 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will once again be the gathering place for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields from all over the world.
For full conference details, visit our website at:
(Submit well in advance of the above deadline to take advantage of our low early bird registration rate. Click here to see the
early bird registration deadline and details!)
Topic Areas (All Areas of Arts and Humanities are Invited):
Anthropology
American Studies
Archeology
Architecture
Art
Art History
Art Management
Dance
English
Ethnic Studies
Film
Folklore
Geography
Graphic Design
History
Landscape Architecture
Languages
Literature
Linguistics
Music
Performing Arts
Philosophy
Postcolonial Identities
Product Design
Religion
Second Language Studies
Speech/Communication
Theatre
Visual Arts
Other Areas of Arts and Humanities
Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas.
Submitting a Proposal/Paper:
You may submit your paper/proposal by using our online submission system! To use the system, and for detailed information about submitting see:
AASRN member Chi Vu has had her short story ‘Vietnam: a Psychic Guide’ published in The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (General Editor: Nicholas Jose).
The Anthology website includes video excerpts of the work, as well as a Teaching Guide.
Chi recently completed her Master of Arts (Creative Writing) through the University of Melbourne. Her dissertation, entitled ‘The 1.5 Generation Writer as Post-Colonial Translator and Traitor’, explores contemporary transnationalism through the creative texts written by the Vietnamese diaspora. It analyses works produced by Vietnamese-born 1.5 Generation authors residing in Australia and the USA, using post-colonial translation theory, in order to define the generational impact on this emerging literature. The creative component of the Masters, ‘Anguli Ma’, is a novella based on a traditional Buddhist tale. The eponymous character is a deranged killer who wears a garland of his victims' fingers around his neck. He meets the Buddha and eventually attains enlightenment. Chi Vu’s version is set in a newly-arrived refugee community living in Melbourne’s western suburbs in the early 1980s. The gory traditional tale is ‘translated’ (across the seas) to a post-colonial Australian setting, and transformed into a Buddhist-Gothic tale of meditation and murder.
