The AHA congratulates @amandanettelbec on her appointment as 24-25 Visiting Prof InASA University of Tokyo! Amanda will strengthen connections between Japanese and Australian scholars in History. See more information about the role and Amanda's appointment below!

Want to hear more about tech gimmicks? ANU English's own Tyne Daile Sumner will deliver the 7th CRISP online seminar on Wed 6 November from 14.00 - 15.30 GMT. The seminar is entitled 'Gimmick Surveillance: Espionage, Exposure, Entertainment'. More details here: crisp-surveillance.com/event/294/gimm…

Three Giramondo authors and our company’s co-director and publisher will be at the Blue Mountains Writers Festival this weekend. Find which sessions they'll be appearing at here: giramondopublishing.com/author-events/

Submissions are now open for the A.D. Hope Prize! The prize is awarded annually for the paper judged to be the best paper delivered by a postgraduate student at the ASAL conference, and the author will receive $500. For more detail and how to submit see: asal.org.au/awards/ad-hope…

Thrilled that Tyne Daile Sumner is on board as the new Co-Director with monique rooney of ANU Centre for Australian Literary Cultures! With her expertise in Australian literary studies and digital humanities, we’re excited for the insights and innovations she’ll bring to CALC.

Registrations are open for our collaborative event: 'Commons, Platforms and Emerging Knowledge Frameworks' 📚⭐️🖥️ 2nd & 3rd December Flinders Uni, Adelaide City Campus Program coming very soon! eventbrite.ca/e/commons-plat… #digitalhumanities #openscholarship #collaboration

Registrations are open for our capstone conference for the ARC project 'Literature and the Face: A Critical History' Figurements: A Symposium on Literature and the Face 👁️⭐️📚🖋️ 27th - 29th November University of Melbourne University of Melbourne Literature and the Face: A Critical History eventbrite.com.au/e/figurements-…

This is a fantastic, detailed, rich essay on the Jamie Oliver issue, containing five very useful tips from Jeanine Leane for non-Indigenous authors (including checking out AustLit's BlackWords).

Read Storying the Archive (ed. Professor Tracey Bunda & Dr Laura Deane): Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander academics, researchers, & professional staff, & non-Indigenous colleagues respond to items in the Fryer Library Indigenous Collection UQ Library . uq.pressbooks.pub/storying-the-a…

Retweeting this CfP for a special issue of AJPH on the 49th anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government/appointment of Malcolm Fraser as PM. Proposals due 13 November! Feel free to DM if you want any further details 😊

#NEWonSRB: On its fiftieth anniversary, Matthew Lamb argues for the significance of Frank Moorhouse’s The Electrical Experience, a work of fiction that showcased its author’s experimental technique as well as his intellectual engagement with media theory.buff.ly/3YXMQbB

Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziel’s article on the TV doco So Long Marianne, which argues that the show misleads viewers by depicting a relationship between Leonard Cohen and Charmian Clift. They think about what it means to fabricate stories about the lives of those who are no

Incredible news from the Creative Australia awards last night, we're thrilled that Gail Jones was recognised for the Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award! Congratulations to Gail Jones, and to the winners of the other categories as well 🥳👏🎉

All welcome this Thursday (November 21) for a Zoom seminar featuring Mark McGurl (Stanford University) in conversation with Joseph Steinberg (University of Western Australia). Contact [email protected] for zoom link. Full details: slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc/e…

Reminder, there's only ONE more week to submit your essay for the A.D. Hope Prize!

For those frustrated and hurt by Australian Research Council processes, I'll remind of this: This paper was the cover of Nature Chemistry. ARC DP reviews rejected funding the underlying research FOUR TIMES IN A ROW. ARC Tracker nature.com/articles/s4155…

Noel Rowe Poetry Award. Submissions now open vagabondpress.net/pages/noel-row…

AustLit's last newsletter for 2024 is out, and it recaps a bumper year! comms.uq.edu.au/v/39308/423518…

We are now inviting abstracts for our annual conference for 2025! The conference will be held in partnership with the International Auto/Biography Association Asia-Pacific, on the theme of: The Story and The Self: Navigating Truth Genres in Literature. asal.org.au/conferences/ca…

My poem, 'Thylacine Song', in Rabbit Poetry Journal 40: Extinction: