3-5 July 2013
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga

The draft programme for ASAL’s ‘Country’ conference is now available here.

Registration:    Please note that Early Bird registration closes this Wednesday 1^st May.

The best way to use the registration form here is to either:

1)      Fill it in on the screen (the form is ‘dynamic’ and will tally up the costs); save it to your desktop somewhere as a pdf then attach it to an email addressed to humgen@csu.edu.au  or

2)      Print off the form, fill it in, scan it to your computer and attach it to an email addressed to humgen@csu.edu.au.

N.B. Before you complete the Registration form you should, separately, join ASAL: http://asaliterature.com/?page_id=5  If you are joining ASAL for the first time or after an absence, please attach pdf of payment evidence to your registration.  If you are a current member your membership dues fall on or before June 30.

Postgraduate masterclass:      If you wish to be part of the postgrad masterclass on Tuesday 2^nd July, with Nicholas Birns and Alison Ravenscroft, please contact ASAL’s postgrad rep. Katie Hansord at katiehansord@yahoo.com.au

 

Friday 31 May 2013
Ryan Auditorium, Australian Catholic University, North Sydney.

Registrations are now open for this one day Symposium in honour of
David Malouf, which is presented by ACU in conjunction with ASAL.

Contributors on aspects of Malouf’s writing include Damien Barlow,
Nicholas Jose, Stephen Mansfield, James Marland, Kate Matthew, Brigid
Rooney, Yvonne Smith and James Tulip.  Ihab Hassan will be represented
and Colm Toibin will contribute via Skype.  The day will conclude with
a conversation between Ivor Indyk and David Malouf.

Registrations can be made via the website
http://www.acu.edu.au/maloufsymposium

Inquiries to elaine.lindsay@acu.edu.au or Michael.griffith@acu.edu.au

PDF flyer available here.

ASAL 2013 Vets Conference: Writing and Writers of Port Phillip Bay

21-24 October

Queenscliff, Victoria

ASALvets will be convening at Queenscliff, Victoria, from 21-24 October (Monday-Thursday) 2013, to discuss writing about Port Phillip Bay and the writers who’ve lived part of their lives in sight of its waters such as Henry Handel Richardson, Ada Cambridge, Martin Boyd, Alfred Deakin, Helen Garner, Beverley Farmer, Barry Hill, Don Charlwood. We welcome offers of papers on any aspect of Port Phillip Bay writing and culture.

Papers should be no longer than 30 minutes for 45 minute sessions. Please send offers of papers with brief abstracts to Judith Brett by 31 July, though earlier would be appreciated (j.brett@latrobe.edu.au).

 

We have a block booking at Athelstane House, Queenscliff’s oldest operating guesthouse. Contact – Richard.  Rooms, including breakfast, are $150-200 per night. If we book all 10 rooms, it will be a flat rate of $150. People are to make their own arrangements with the hotel. Prompt booking would be appreciated, as it is a small hotel. If we fill it up, we will need to find some spill over accommodation.

Athelstane House, 4 Hobson  Street, Queenscliff, 3225. (03) 5258 1024

Email: relax@athelstane.com.au   Website:  www.athelstane.com.au

 

We will hold some sessions at the hotel. Wednesday we will spend in Point Lonsdale at Ballara, the holiday house of Alfred Deakin, a federation house still owned by the family.

 

Draft program:

Mon 21 October: Arrive Queenscliff; informal dinner at local pub.

Tues 22 Oct: 9-1, papers at Athelstane House.

Afternoon, historic walk around Queenscliff, organized through Queenscliff Historical Society: Henry Handel Richardson’s house, pier, lighthouses, Fort.

Evening: Conference Dinner, Queenscliff Hotel.

Wed 23: 9.30-1.00, papers at Ballara, Point Lonsdale.

Afternoon, walk round Point Lonsdale, Buckley’s Cave, the Rip lookout, lighthouse.

Lunch and dinner at Ballara.

Thursday: 9.00-11.30 Papers.

12.00 Ferry across the Bay to Sorrento for lunch. 3.00 Ferry back to Queenscliff. Conference finishes.  The return fare for a foot passenger is $20.00.

 

General Enquiries: Judith Brett  (j.brett@latrobe.edu.au).

 

Registration forms and information are available here. 

Another memorable Aust Lit milestone….
3-5 July 2013,
Charles Sturt University,
Wagga Wagga, NSW
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/news 
PDF poster available here

Awards: Presentation of the 2013 ALS Gold Medal (outstanding Australian literary work) and the 2013 Walter McCrae Russell Award (best Aust Lit scholarship)

Keynote Speakers:
Dr Jeanine Leane, Wiradjuri woman and author of Purple Threads and Dark Secrets: After Dreaming, Australian National University, Canberra
Associate Professor Alison Ravenscroft, author of The Postcolonial Eye, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Novelist and Professor of Creative Writing Brian Castro (Shanghai Dancing, The Garden Book, Street to Street)

Panels: Mark Macleod (Charles Sturt University) will head up a panel/section on children’s literature. Keri Glastonbury (University of Newcastle) will do the same for poetry/poetics/creative writing.

Plus:
Ivor Indyk on ‘The Provincial Imagination’
Vijay Mishra on Salman Rushdie’s Australia
Nicholas Birns on Australia, the Russian Pacific, and the Transnational Imaginary
Lachlan Brown on Nam Le and many more

…on Australian poetry, regionalism, 19th century writing, teaching Aust lit…

….and Parody Night will return to ASAL (will the Frank Moorhouse perpetual prize for postmodern ballroom dancing return to the conference dinner? Can we have a sneak preview of CSU’s new literary vintage wines???….).

Registration information:
The best way to use the registration form http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/news is to either:
1)      Fill it in on the screen (the form is ‘dynamic’ and will tally up the costs); save it to your desktop somewhere as a pdf then attach it to an email addressed to humgen@csu.edu.au  or
2)      Print off the form, fill it in, scan it to your computer and attach it to an email addressed to humgen@csu.edu.au. 

N.B. Before you complete the Registration form you should, separately, join ASAL: http://asaliterature.com/?page_id=5.  If you are joining ASAL for a first time or after an absence, please attach pdf of payment evidence to your registration.  If you are a current member your membership dues fall on or before June 30.  

There is some (limited) assistance for Australian postgrads (thanks to a grant from Copyright Agency) which can be requested as a reimbursement after you have presented your paper at ASAL 2013.  Documentary evidence of having tried and been unsuccessful in soliciting support from your university will be necessary.

Travel:
As the www.visitwagga.com website shows you can get to Wagga easily by car, train, plane and bus (for the ASAL 1991 conference it was said John Forbes brought his bicycle on the train…).  There are two trains from Sydney and Melbourne each day, three Rex flights from Melbourne and quite a few Qantas flights between Wagga and Sydney or Melbourne).  There are only a couple of buses through – Greyhound and McCaffertys. 

If you are coming from overseas or from places outside Sydney or Melbourne you’ll have to come through Sydney or Melbourne – this can sometimes have the advantage of adding price options.

Accommodation:
Information about accommodation options in Wagga can be found here.

In addition to the commercial details of hotels, motels, pubs, b&b, camping facilities on the Visitor Information brochure, there are 13 rooms (two of them are twin beds) at The Riverine Club, where the conference dinner will be on the evening of Friday 5 July.  This is an old (built in the 1880s) gentlemen’s club so the rooms are traditional (spartan, shared bathrooms along the corridor, but very much part of an era: ‘unique and comfortable’ is the publicity blurb). $90/room including cont. b/f.  They have been put aside for ASAL delegates. Ph +61269212031.

As well, there will be basic accommodation available on campus which is 10km from the city of Wagga.  Because it is residential school time, most accommodation, including the more recent is already allocated.  Rates will be something like:   |

Bed Only$45.00
Bed/Breakfast$50.00
Dinner/Bed/Breakfast$60.00

For further details please contact:

David Gilbey
Adjunct Senior Lecturer in English,
School of Humanities & Social Sciences,
Charles Sturt University,
Locked Bag 588,
Wagga Wagga, NSW, 2678,
Australia.
ph/fax +61 2 6933 2465
dgilbey@csu.edu.au

Alternate contact:
Dr Lachlan Brown,
Lecturer in English at CSU as above,
ph/fax +61 2 6933 2478
labrown@csu.edu.au