[csaa-forum] Call for Papers (September 2020 IABA/ARC-affiliated conference) for possible circulation?

[Susan Luckman]

With apologies for cross-postings:



CALL FOR PAPERS: AN IABA ASIA PACIFIC AFFILIATED CONFERENCE

Transnationalism, Life Writing and Migration

in Australia and the Asia Pacific



September 20-23, 2020



Confirmed Keynote Speaker:

Ricia Chansky, University of Puerto Rico



The University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

in collaboration with the University of Adelaide and Flinders University



This conference forms part of an Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project on Transnational Narratives of Migration to Australia (Natalie Edwards and Christopher Hogarth, DP190102863). It will explore the literature of migration and otherness in the wide contexts of Australia and the Asia Pacific region.

Transnationalism is an increasingly popular scholarly phenomenon, reflecting and responding to the heightened interconnectivity between people and the receding economic and social significance of boundaries among nation states. In "Australian Literature-International Contexts," Robert Dixon calls "a transnational practice of Australian literary criticism" (Dixon 2007, 19). Dixon encourages biographical research into transnational Australian writers and research into the influence of multicultural backgrounds on literature. He finds that it is now time to move beyond cultural nationalism to "explore and elaborate the many ways in which the national literature has always been connected to the world" (20). Two years later, Michael Jacklin, discerning a "transnational turn" in Australian literary studies, commented "I wonder why, in this transnational turn, multicultural literatures have not been accorded more significance" (Jacklin 2009, 1). As scholars have responded to this line of enquiry, new approaches to examining Australian literature have appeared, including studies of literature written in Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese and Italian, for example (Jacklin, Huang and Omundsen; Yuanfang; Gatt-Rutter).



This conference aims to build upon this scholarship by rethinking transnational writing in the context of Australia and the Asia Pacific region. We seek papers that explore how these themes are represented specifically in life narratives. By discussing writers' visions of the surrounding Asia Pacific region, including in a variety of languages, it aims to expand the boundaries of Australasian literary studies.



Proposed papers may consider themes such as:

  *   Narrating and imagining the migrant experience in Australia and/or the Asia Pacific region,
  *   Refugee and asylum seeker narratives
  *   Narratives in languages other than English
  *   Translation and translingual narratives
  *   Coming of Age narratives in Australia and/or the Asia Pacific region
  *   Childhood life writing
  *   Ethics of storytelling
  *   Activist narratives
  *   Cultural memory of this region
  *   Autobiographies, letters and diaries of the Australia and/or the Asia Pacific experience
  *   Life narratives in popular culture (music, film, theatre, games)
  *   Visual life narratives (photography, graphics, social and digital media, visual arts etc.)
  *   The histories and futures of life writing studies across disciplinary boundaries
  *   Methods, genres, and definitions in life-writing/autobiographical/life story/ego-document research

Submissions:

We invite both 20 minute individual presentations and 90 minute full panel, roundtable, or workshop sessions. We encourage interdisciplinary submissions that foster dialogues across theory, methodology, genre, place, and time. We invite not only traditional conference papers and panels, but also innovative presentation formats and creative sessions.

All presenters must submit a max. 300 word abstract and a 150 word bio to Dr. Christopher Hogarth at iabaadelaide2020 at gmail.com<mailto:iabaadelaide2020 at gmail.com> by 1 April.



Organising Committee: Associate Professor Natalie Edwards, Dr. Christopher Hogarth, Dr. Kylie Cardell, Professor Kate Douglas.


Dr. Christopher Hogarth,
Lecturer of Comparative Literary Studies/French,
School of Creative Industries
Co-Chief Investigator: "Transnational Selves: French Narratives of Migration to Australia" (ARC DP190102863)
Vice-President, Australian Society for French Studies  https://australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/


University of South Australia,

Magill Campus
Office: B1-12
 ex 24354
Recently published:
Chapter in Volume on Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/108138
Chapter in Volume on Rethinking the French Classroom https://www.routledge.com/Rethinking-the-French-Classroom-New-Approaches-to-Teaching-Contemporary/Meyer-Johnston/p/book/9781138369931

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