ASAL members and friends may be interested in the information about Nellie A. Evans available at the following link: http://www.middlemiss.org/matilda/2009/10/poem-the-lost-poet-by-nellie-a-evans.html#comment-480.

The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library has been acquired by King’s College London, where it is now housed in the Foyle Special Collections, Maughan Library, Chancery Lane, London. For more information, go to: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/spec/news.html.

The collection includes large quantities of Australian material, most of which has now been catalogued. King’s College London also houses the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies.

To see a sample of the Australian material in the FCO collection:

1.      go to http://library.kcl.ac.uk/ALEPH/-/start/kings

2.      Click on Advanced Search (left column)

3.      Put ‘Australia’ in Subject field

4.      In Subset drop-down box select ‘Special Collections’

5.      Press Submit

6.      Over 600 items should appear.

More information on the Collection can be found at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/spec/.

The 2010 Australian Association of Writing programs conference will be held at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 25 - 27 November 2010. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS or PERFECT PARTNERS: The role of literary studies in creative writing programs. Click here for more information and a pdf of the CFP.

Inquiries about the conference should be directed to Professor Catherine Cole with ‘2010 AAWP’ in the email’s subject line.

You may also be interested in another RMIT conference, the International Symposium on Katherine Mansfield, 4-5 June, 2010. KATHERINE MANSFIELD, THE ‘UNDERWORLD’ AND THE ‘BLOOMS BERRIES’. Click here to be directed to the conference website.

Inquiries about the Katherine Mansfield conference should be directed to Dr Melinda Harvey.

This topic of this year’s Blaiklock Memorial Lecture is ‘Remembering Barbara Hanrahan’. It will be presented by Lyn McCredden, Roger Butler and Annette Stewart at the University of Sydney on 20 May (5:30 for 6pm).

Click here for more information and a flyer.

The theme of Archive Madness aims to promote consideration of the limits of disciplinary borders and the revival of the archive in literary analysis. The conference asks how we think about the trace of word, text and object in the formation of literary cultures? How do we account for our increasing attachment to the archival trace? And how are these considerations inflected by questions of the national literature and the annals of nation-formation?

For more information and a copy of the ASAL 2010 conference flyer click here.