[csaa-forum] CFP: Australians Abroad: An interdisciplinary conference (UQ, Feb 2011)

[Juliana De Nooy]

Australians Abroad: An interdisciplinary conference
University of Queensland, 10-11 February 2011

Hosted by the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, UQ

Keynote speakers: Emeritus Professor Ros Pesman, author of Duty Free:
Australian Women Abroad and co-editor of Australians in Italy:
Contemporary lives and impressions and The Oxford book of Australian
travel writing. 

Associate Professor Martin Thomas, ARC Future Fellow, author of The Many
Worlds of R.H. Matthews: In Search of the Australian Anthropologist (in
press) and The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue Mountains.
Award-winning writer/producer of radio documentaries. Martin will speak
on the export of images of Aboriginal culture by non-Aboriginal people,
focussing on Charles Mountford's US lecture tours (1944-45) and their
enduring impacts.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

If myths of national identity have focused on travel to Australia
('discovery', invasion/settlement, transportation, migration), it is
worth noting that travel from Australia has been a significant
phenomenon for just as long. From Yolngu people accompanying Macassan
fisherman to the islands of Indonesia, from those First Fleeters who
made the return journey 'home' to Europe, to today's travellers,
tourists and expatriates, residents of Australia have left its shores
for a multitude of destinations and reasons and in very different roles.
Descendants of migrants and refugees, soldiers, nurses, artists,
authors, brides, chaperones, utopians, sportspeople, students, teachers,
backpackers, cruise-ship travellers, journalists, IT professionals: some
have sought to rejoin family, others to escape it; some have sought
renown, others have been head-hunted. 

We invite papers that explore the conference theme from a variety of
disciplinary perspectives including: auto/biography, travel writing,
history, language learning, intercultural communication, sociology,
tourism, literary/cultural studies. 

 

Possible topics might include: 

*       analyses of fiction, memoirs, letters, diaries, interviews
relating to travel by Australians

*       patterns of travel/writing, configurations of gender and desire
at different times, in different places

*       Aboriginal travel to various destinations and its purposes

*       the search for Utopia and its construction by Australians 

*       contemporary discourses displacing the 'cultural cringe' of the
1960s as the motivation for travel

*       reflections on Australia from an overseas vantage point

*       Australian experiences in non-English speaking territory,
language-learning memoirs, the relation between language and cultural
identity

*       the extent to which belonging is sought in the destination
culture, accommodation to local cultures

*       representations of particular cultures by Australians

*       New Zealand travel/expatriate experiences (this might form a
panel broadening the conference theme to Australasians Abroad)

 

Abstracts of 250 words or panel proposals (3 x 20 minute papers on a
common theme with an abstract for each) with full contact details should
be sent by 31 August 2010 to Dr Juliana de Nooy at: j.denooy at uq.edu.au  

 

Conference registration will open in October 2010 and will include
earlybird registration fees. Participation by postgraduate students is
particularly welcome. 

 

Further details will be posted, as they become available, on the
conference website:
http://www.slccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=134821&pid=70702 

 

 

 

Dr Juliana de Nooy
Senior Lecturer in French

Honours coordinator
School of Languages & Comparative Cultural Studies
University of Queensland, Q 4072, Australia



Tel: (+617) 3365 2278
Fax: (+617) 3365 6799
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Australians Abroad: An interdisciplinary conference
University of Queensland, 10-11 February 2011

http://www.slccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=134821&pid=70702
<http://www.slccs.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=134821&pid=70702> 

 

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