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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>REMINDER: Deadline
for proposals 27 February<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ASAL – the annual conference of the Association
for the Study of Australian Literature<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>ASAL 2009: Common
Readers and Cultural Critics<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>8-11 July 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>University House, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Australian</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">National</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Canberra</st1:City></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>12 July 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Public symposium: 'Writers, Readers and Critics',
National Library of Australia, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Canberra</st1:City></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>CONFERENCE WEBSITE:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="http://asal2009.anu.edu.au/" title="blocked::http://asal2009.anu.edu.au/">http://asal2009.anu.edu.au/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>:
Leigh Dale, Ken Gelder, Philip Mead <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>GUEST WRITERS
INCLUDE</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>: Marion Halligan, Christopher Koch,
Shane Maloney, Kim Scott<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>CALL FOR PAPERS: <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Australian literature is not just a collection of
texts: it is a diverse set of formal and informal cultures—from school
curricula to bestseller lists, from university courses to writers'
festivals—that all have their own ways of talking about texts and their
own forms of cultural expertise. This conference seeks to explore the diversity
of readers and modes of reading that make up Australian literary culture. How
do ‘everyday' readers form judgements about what they read and what they
like? What are the relationships between everyday readers and
‘specialist' readers in industries such as publishing and marketing,
print and electronic media, and in institutions such as schools and
universities, libraries and archives? How much influence do critics, reviewers
and cultural commentators have on readers' tastes and habits—and vice
versa? Who ultimately decides what books get published, what books win prizes,
what books are taught in schools, and what books make up the Australian
literary canon? Literary cultures are characterised by tensions between
tradition and innovation, reading privately and reading professionally, reading
for knowledge and reading for pleasure. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We invite proposals for 20-minute papers and for
90-minute panel discussions (3 or 4 speakers) that address any aspect of
literary cultures, such as the following:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
Everyday readers and the history of the popular / literary cultural divide <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
The role of reviewers and critics in influencing tastes and making careers <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
The roles of publishers, marketers, booksellers and bestseller lists <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
Literary festivals and writers as performers and promoters of their own work <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
The role and influence of literary prizes <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
Reading communities such as book clubs, blogs, community education <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
Histories and analyses of Australian literary criticism <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
School and university curricula and the Australian literary canon <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
Revisions and re-evaluations of canonical and non-canonical Australian writers
and texts <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
Adaptations of Australian literary texts for film and other media <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
The transnational boundaries of Australian literature <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
Australian children's and young adult literature: publishing and readerships <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
Libraries, archives and cultural heritage <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
Creative writing programs <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
Little magazines, grassroots publishing, zines <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
Reading facebook and other social networking programs <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
The new empiricism, distant reading, resourceful reading <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>•
The ongoing impact of the 'culture wars' <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Please send 200-word abstracts of papers or panel
proposals, with a brief biographical note, to <a
href="mailto:Russell.Smith@anu.edu.au"
title="blocked::mailto:Russell.Smith@anu.edu.au">Russell.Smith@anu.edu.au</a>
by Friday 27 February 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We welcome proposals from postgraduate students.
Copyright Agency Limited (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">CAL</st1:State></st1:place>)
has generously provided ten postgraduate scholarships, covering costs of travel
and accommodation, available to postgraduate students whose own institutions
are unable to support their attendance. To enquire about postgraduate
scholarships, please contact <a href="mailto:Julieanne.Lamond@anu.edu.au"
title="blocked::mailto:Julieanne.Lamond@anu.edu.au">Julieanne.Lamond@anu.edu.au</a>
by 27 February 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ASAL 2009 organising committee: <a
href="mailto:Julieanne.Lamond@anu.edu.au"
title="blocked::mailto:Julieanne.Lamond@anu.edu.au">Julieanne.Lamond@anu.edu.au</a>
, <a href="mailto:Lucy.Neave@anu.edu.au"
title="blocked::mailto:Lucy.Neave@anu.edu.au">Lucy.Neave@anu.edu.au</a> , <a
href="mailto:Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au"
title="blocked::mailto:Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au">Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au</a>
and <a href="mailto:Russell.Smith@anu.edu.au"
title="blocked::mailto:Russell.Smith@anu.edu.au">Russell.Smith@anu.edu.au</a>
<br>
(<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Humanities</st1:PlaceName>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Australian</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">National</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>ASAL 2009 is
generously supported by the Copyright Agency Limited’s Cultural Fund,
Arts ACT, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Australian</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">National</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
and ASAL.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Dr <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Russell Smith</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Co-Editor, <a
href="http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/">Australian Humanities Review</a></span></font><span
lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:
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