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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">With apologies for cross-postings:<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">CALL FOR PAPERS: AN IABA ASIA PACIFIC AFFILIATED CONFERENCE</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Transnationalism, Life Writing and Migration
</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">in Australia and the Asia Pacific
</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">September 20-23, 2020</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Confirmed Keynote Speaker:
</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Ricia Chansky, University of Puerto Rico</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">in collaboration with the University of Adelaide and Flinders University</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">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.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Proposed papers may consider themes such as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Narrating and imagining the migrant experience in Australia and/or the Asia Pacific region,
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Refugee and asylum seeker narratives <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Narratives in languages other than English<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Translation and translingual narratives<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Coming of Age narratives in Australia and/or the Asia Pacific region<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Childhood life writing<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ethics of storytelling<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Activist narratives<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Cultural memory of this region<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Autobiographies, letters and diaries of the Australia and/or the Asia Pacific experience<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Life narratives in popular culture (music, film, theatre, games)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Visual life narratives (photography, graphics, social and digital media, visual arts etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">The histories and futures of life writing studies across disciplinary boundaries<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Methods, genres, and definitions in life-writing/autobiographical/life story/ego-document research<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Submissions:</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We invite both <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">20 minute individual presentations</span></strong> and
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">90 minute full panel, roundtable, or workshop sessions</span></strong>. 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">All presenters must submit a max. 300 word abstract and a 150 word bio to Dr. Christopher Hogarth at
<a href="mailto:iabaadelaide2020@gmail.com">iabaadelaide2020@gmail.com</a> by <strong>
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1 April</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Organising Committee:
</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Associate Professor Natalie Edwards, Dr. Christopher Hogarth, Dr. Kylie Cardell, Professor Kate Douglas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Dr. Christopher Hogarth,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Lecturer of Comparative Literary Studies/French,<br>
School of Creative Industries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Co-Chief Investigator: "Transnational Selves: French Narratives of Migration to Australia" (ARC DP190102863)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Vice-President, Australian Society for French Studies
<a href="https://australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/">https://australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><br>
<br>
University of South Australia,<br>
<br>
Magill Campus<br>
Office: B1-12<br>
ex 24354<br>
Recently published:<br>
Chapter in Volume on Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France <a href="https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/108138">
https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/108138</a><br>
Chapter in Volume on Rethinking the French Classroom <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Rethinking-the-French-Classroom-New-Approaches-to-Teaching-Contemporary/Meyer-Johnston/p/book/9781138369931">
https://www.routledge.com/Rethinking-the-French-Classroom-New-Approaches-to-Teaching-Contemporary/Meyer-Johnston/p/book/9781138369931</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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