<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><p class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">South Pacific Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Transnational</span> Commonwealths: the 2021 SPACLALS Speaker series<o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">The theme of this year’s series is transnational commonwealths: from cross-Tasman passages between New Zealand and Australia to parallel trans-Indigenous connections between Wiradjuri Country and the Pacific from Samoa to Aotearoa; we also aim to traverse the shifting meridians of the global surprisingly synchronizing Australia and the Caribbean.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">In lieu of SPACLALS’s biennial conference, the organization presents a video conference speaker series.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Full details are to be announced but speakers who have agreed to participate include Associate Professor Selina Tusitala Marsh, Dr Jeanine Leane (Melbourne University), Associate Professor Maria Bargh (Te Kawa a M</span>ā<span lang="EN-US" class="">ui at Victoria University, Wellington), Professor Lydia Wevers (Victoria University, Wellington), and Chair of Australian Literature Tony Hughes D’Aeth (University of Western Australia).</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">We may have some gaps in the program and particularly encourage submissions with a title and 350 word abstract for a presentation by Zoom from First Nations scholars or Feminist scholars as well as areas of the Commonwealth/former-Commonwealth that we have yet to engage such as Africa and South Asia with a connection to the theme and we would like to include excellent postgraduate and early career scholars. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Proposals for two person panels to Dr. Michael R. Griffiths </span><a href="mailto:mickg@uow.edu.au" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">mickg@uow.edu.au</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">South Pacific Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">Dr. Michael R. Griffiths<br class="">Senior Lecturer, English Literatures<br class="">School of The Arts, English and Media<br class="">Room No. G31 | Building 25<br class="">University of Wollongong NSW 2522<br class="">T + 61 2 4221 5269<br class="">F + 61 2 4221 3301<br class="">W: <a href="http://lha.uow.edu.au/taem/contacts/UOW179276.html" class="">http://lha.uow.edu.au/taem/contacts/UOW179276.html</a><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br class="">I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the Land I work on as the first people of this country.</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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