Voices of the Australian Migrant and Minority Press: Intercultural, Transnational and Diasporic Contexts
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
22-23 November, 2017

This Conference is timed to mark developments in Australia’s migrant and minority printed press since 1967. It has been fifty years since Miriam Gilson and Jerzy Zubrzycki’s ground-breaking study on the foreign-language press in Australia. Australia’s cultural landscape has transformed significantly as a result of increasing understanding of, and services in support of, the diverse multilingual and multicultural communities across Australian society. Analysis of the printed press of such communities has also advanced through multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research from several substantial historiographical influences, including discourses of postcolonialism and methodological developments in cultural history and world history approaches.

The Conference brings together the latest research on Australia’s migrant and minority press from the colonial era to the present day, with an emphasis on themes of belonging, community and conflict. The convenors welcome papers exploring any aspects concerning Indigenous, migrant and/or minority community newspapers (print or digitalised) in Australia, as well as their intercultural, transnational and diasporic contexts. Papers speaking to multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches are also of interest.

Keynote Speakers:

• Doctor Simon Potter, Reader in Modern History, University of Bristol
• Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley, Professor of Media and Director of the Centre for Media Studies, Macquarie University

Call for Abstracts:

We invite abstracts for individual papers and panel sessions. Each presenter will have 20 minutes to present, followed by 10 minutes’ discussion time. The convenors intend to publish a selection of the best papers from the Conference as a special edition of a high quality, peer-reviewed journal.

Anticipated Streams:

• Colonial and early Federation newspapers
• Interwar migrant newspapers
• Displaced Persons and post-war migrant newspapers
• More recent refugees and asylum seekers’ newspapers
• Newspapers of other minority groups (Indigenous, religious, commercial associations, gender, trade union, etc.)
• National Library of Australia’s current and future digitisation of newspapers (Trove)

Please submit abstracts (250 words) and a short biography (100 words) by the revised deadline of Monday 10 July, 2017 via https://artsworx.usq.edu.au/learn/educational-learning/voices-of-the-australian-migrant-and-minority-press.

Please note that there will be a small registration fee for the Conference. Registrations will open in mid-August 2017.

Any questions regarding the conference can be directed to:
Catherine Dewhirst: catherine.dewhirst@usq.edu.au | Jayne Persian: jayne.persian@usq.edu.au | Mark Emmerson: mark.emmerson@usq.edu.au

Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference 2017
University of Tasmania, Hobart
November 28 – December 1, 2017

Conference Website

The 2017 annual conference of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) will take place at the University of Tasmania’s Sandy Bay Campus, 29 November – 1 December, with a dedicated day for postgraduate development and the opening reception on 28 November. The ASCP provides a broad intellectual forum for scholars working within, or in communication with, European philosophical traditions. Its annual conference is the largest event devoted to continental philosophy in Australasia. For the 2017 conference, we seek to challenge commonplace understandings of the boundaries of scholarship in continental philosophy, with a particular focus on the role of feminist, postcolonial and ecological thought in transforming the key questions that drive philosophical inquiry.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

• Lewis Gordon (University of Connecticut),
• Sigi Jöttkandt (University of New South Wales),
• Marguerite La Caze (University of Queensland), and
• Elaine Miller (Miami University)

There will be a plenary panel on the work of Moira Gatens (University of Sydney).

Abstract Submission
Please submit a 250 word abstract and 50 word bio at: www.utas.edu.au/humanities/events/australasian-society-for-continental-philosophy-conference-2017  by September 1. Please nominate in the abstract for your paper whether you would like a 45min timeslot (30min presentation, 15min Q&A) or 30min timeslot (20min presentation, 10min Q&A). If you wish to submit a 2 or 3 person Panel Proposal, simply upload a word document containing the 250 word abstracts, the details of presenters (names, email addresses, affiliations, bios) and a title for the panel.

ASCP welcomes all abstract submissions broadly in continental philosophy or associated fields. For those interested, you can also nominate a thematic stream for your submission (submissions outside streams are also welcome):

• Topographies and Ecologies | Convenors: Larelle Bossi and Jeff Malpas
• Dialogues | Convenors: Timothy Laurie and Hannah Stark
• Hegel and German Idealism | Convened by the Australian Hegel Society
• Precarity and Resilience | Convenors: Briohny Walker and Erin Hortle
• Rights, Oppression, Exploitation | Convenor: Louise Richardson-Self
• Art and Aesthetics | Convenor: tbc

More detailed descriptions of the streams are available on the website. For broad queries about abstract submissions, feel free to contact Hannah Stark (hannah.stark@utas.edu.au) and Timothy Laurie (timothy.laurie@uts.edu.au).

Bursaries
The ASCP awards a limited number of bursaries to assist postgraduate and under-employed academics to participate in the conference, in the case that they otherwise would not be able to attend. To be eligible for support, you will need to reside within Australasia (Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia). When assessing applications, the ASCP committee may also take into consideration a range of factors including applicants’ access to forums in which to present their work and stage of candidacy/career, as well as equity and diversity considerations.

Conference convenors: Hannah Stark and Timothy Laurie.

Conference organising committee: Louise Richardson-Self, Briohny Walker, Erin Hortle, Larelle Bossi and Jeff Malpas.