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<div class="">Please find below and attached a call directed at postgrads, postdocs and early career researchers to present work-in-progress at a landmark gathering of writers and thinkers from the global south and/or southern hemisphere in Adelaide next year.
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<div class="">Please help us spread the word by forwarding to HDRs and ECRs in your networks and institutions. </div>
<div class="">Many thanks!</div>
<div class="">Meg </div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="5" class="">Call for HDR & ECR presenters: applications due by 29 January 2024</font></span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:28pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Speaking from the South</span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The University of Adelaide</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">31 May – 5 June 2024</span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><i class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Featuring</span></i></b><i class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></i><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">JM
Coetzee & Abdulrazak Gurnah <i class="">with</i> Patricia Grace, Kathy Jet<span class="" style="background-color:white">n̄</span>il-Kijiner, Achille Mbembe & Alexis Wright <i class="">and </i>Gabeba Baderoon, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Sarah Nuttall & Kim Scott
— <i class="">among other leading and emerging writers and thinkers of the southern hemisphere and the Global South</i></span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Speaking from the South aims to reflect on, demonstrate and activate the value and vitality of southern perspectives and of the arts in addressing the most pressing issues
of our times, including global inequality and the ongoing effects of colonialism, the climate catastrophe, the mass displacement of humans and other beings, and the technologization of life.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(30,30,30); letter-spacing:0.2pt">The program will include an unprecedented schedule of high-level public readings, lectures, panel discussions, exhibitions,
and masterclasses along with a symposium of roundtable discussions, HDR/ECR presentation panels and a postgraduate workshop.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Researchers working with critical theory and/or in cultural studies, literary studies and across the arts, humanities and the social sciences – along with activists,
public intellectuals, writers and other creative practitioners and thinkers – are invited to participate in this unique gathering. Among the contributions sought are those that present critical and/or creative standpoints and interventions as well as those
that offer <span class="" style="color:rgb(30,30,30); letter-spacing:0.2pt">visions for rebuilding community and sustaining life on earth, those that reflect on the world from various locations in the South and those that engage with specific southern situations
or southern knowledges, practices and ways of being in the world. <u class=""> </u></span></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Convenors:</span></b><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Matthew Hooton, Nicholas Jose, Meg Samuelson, Maggie Tonkin, Mandy
Treagus</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Email: </span></b><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:storiesfromthesouth.adelaide@gmail.com" class="">storiesfromthesouth.adelaide@gmail.com</a></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Second Round Call:</span></b><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <b class="">HDR/ECR presentation panels and workshop</b></span><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:16pt"> </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Postgraduate, Postdoctoral and Early Career Researchers are invited to submit abstracts for 15-minute presentations of work-in-progress in panels scheduled for 5 June
2024, and with the opportunity to participate in a blended workshop in the evening with counterparts based in South Africa.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Invited topics and approaches:</span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.25in; text-indent:-0.25in"><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Presentations
might engage with a wide range of texts, contexts, practices, debates, topics and concerns —and may include analytic arguments, theoretical positions, practice-led research and/or reflections on creative process or critical interventions.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.25in; text-indent:-0.25in"><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Presenters
are encouraged to frame their enquiries with reference to southern knowledges and theories and/or to relate them to southern situations and/or position them as perspectives from the South.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Second round deadline (HDR/ECR presenters only): 29 January 2024</span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.25in; text-indent:-0.25in"><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please
submit short abstracts (150 words) and biographical notes (50-100 words) by email before 29 January 2024.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.25in; text-indent:-0.25in"><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Applicants
will be advised of outcomes by 19 February 2024.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The HDR/ECR presentation panels and workshop are co-convened with:</span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.25in; text-indent:-0.25in"><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Tina
Steiner and Lauren van der Rede of Stellenbosch University as part of a University of Adelaide Global Partnership project on <i class="">Writing from the South: Emergent Epistemologies and the Literary Humanities in Africa and Australia</i></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.25in; text-indent:-0.25in"><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Stories
from the South HDR/ECR committee members: Clare Charlesworth, Samuel Cox, Freya Davies-Ardill, Theodora Galanis, Morgan Nunan, Céline Zerna</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Further information:</span></b></p>
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<span class="" style="font-size:16pt; line-height:24.533334732055664px; font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; line-height:24.533334732055664px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
conference will be based at the North Terrace Campus of The University of Adelaide. </span></p>
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<span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
conference will be in-person only (with the exception of the concluding blended workshop for HDR/ECR participants.)</span></p>
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<span class="" style="font-size:16pt; line-height:24.533334732055664px; font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; line-height:24.533334732055664px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
conference is regrettably unable to provide funding support to applicants. </span></p>
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<span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Symbol">·<span class="" style="font-stretch:normal; font-size:7pt; line-height:normal; font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">All
presenters will have free access to <u class="">all</u> components of the program with <u class="">no</u> conference registration fees or ticketing costs for the public events and masterclasses.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Email: </span></b><span class="" style="font-size:16pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:storiesfromthesouth.adelaide@gmail.com" class="">storiesfromthesouth.adelaide@gmail.com</a></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size:9pt">Meg Samuelson, PhD (Cape Town) </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size:9pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Associate Professor </span><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:12px">|</span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size:9pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:9pt">Department
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