<div dir="ltr">Dear cultural studies colleagues, <br><br>The below is posted on behalf of Dr Shawna Tang (Gender and Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney), as the CSAA and the wider international cultural studies community mourns the heartbreaking loss this week of Professor Elspeth Probyn, a key foundational scholar in our fields and a much-loved colleague and friend to many. We will miss her enormously but, with gratitude, we acknowledge her critical insights and generosity have shaped Australian cultural studies and will never be forgotten.<br><br>_________________________________________________________________<br><br><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">We are mourning the loss of </span><span style="color:black;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Emeritus Professor Elspeth Probyn</b></span><span style="color:black;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> who passed away in the early hours of 8 April. Her passing leaves a deep ache in our hearts.</span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Elspeth shaped Gender and Cultural Studies in Australia and internationally with a fierce intellect and a generosity of spirit — all with a kind of party discipline. She was always present at faculty seminars and postgrad presentations, often the first to ask an intellectually generous question or express her appreciation. She exemplified, par excellence, what it means to take academic practice seriously. Whether it was a draft article, a grant application, a promotion document, or even an abstract, she could always be relied upon to offer the most incisive and helpful feedback — the kind that didn’t leave you in despair, but made the path forward feel possible, even easy.</span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Elspeth’s </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">contribution<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> to the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, and the wider world of cultural studies, gender and queer studies internationally was profound</span>. She took<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> an intense, critical and engaged interest in the work of </span>others, especially <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">the nascent ideas of </span>early careers and <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">postgraduates</span>. Scholarly conversations with her often continued outside of formal sessions, unfolding in post-conference social activities<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span>where she tirelessly fostered intellectual exchange that blurred the lines between academic labour and pleasure. For Elspeth, cultural studies is ordinary practice - a means of creating connections and a sense of belonging.<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Generations of scholars have been touched by her critical brilliance and her unwavering care. </span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Vale, Elspeth — lodestar to generations of scholars in gender and cultural studies, and far beyond. We are all bereft.</span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> -- Dr Shawna Tang, </span><a href="https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/schools/school-of-humanities/gender-and-cultural-studies.html" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(5,99,193)">Department
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</span></b><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Queer Youth Suicide,
Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives?</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> - <u><a href="http://bit.ly/qys2012" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">http://bit.ly/qys2012</a></u> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Vulnerability
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Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> - <u><a href="http://bit.ly/DigIdentities" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">http://bit.ly/DigIdentities</a></u> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Emergent
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and Storytelling: Gender and Sexually-Diverse Identities and Trans-Media
Narrative</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> (with R
Prosser) - <u><a href="https://bit.ly/QueerMem24" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://bit.ly/QueerMem24</a></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(5,99,193)"></span></p><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:9.75pt;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><br></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:9.75pt;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)">____________________________________________</div></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><br></div><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><br></div></div></div>