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Now Hiring: Associate Lecturer in French, Australian National University
Now Hiring: Associate Lecturer in French, Education-focused, Full-time Continuing, Australian National University The ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics seeks to appoint an education-focused Associate Lecturer in French to broaden and further strengthen the teaching profile of its French Program. This is a full-time continuing role at Level A, AU$82,936 – $104,099 per annum…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series: Reading / Translating Proust
When: Friday, 23 August, 2–3pm Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Emeritus Professor Brian Nelson, Monash University “Reading / Translating Proust“ In this seminar, Brian Nelson will offer reflections on his experience as co-editor and contributing translator of the new, seven-volume Oxford edition / translation of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost…
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Deadline extended to 29 July: Australian Society for French Studies 2024 Conference (Global French Studies, 11-13 December)
We are pleased to extend the deadline for proposals for the Australian Society for French Studies 2024 Conference until Monday 29 July 2024. We will advise successful applicants shortly after this date. Please find the call for papers below. ASFS Conference 2024 Australian Society for French Studies 32nd Annual Conference 2024 11-13 December 2024 Global French…
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FATFA-TOFA conference 2024
Every 2 years a National Conference for French Teachers is organised by the FATFA (Federation of French Teacher Assoc. in Australia). This year, the conference will be held on Nov 22-23 in beautiful Perth, WA! Come meet your WA colleagues for 2 days of professional development, networking and fun! The Conference theme is ‘Embarquement immédiat: vers…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series: Julie Delpy’s cinephilia and cinécriture
When: Friday, 17 May, 2–3pm Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Dr Felicity Chaplin, Monash University “Tiny details: Julie Delpy’s cinephilia and cinécriture“ Julie Delpy once remarked: “We are everything and we are nothing. It is just the big paradox of being alive. We’re tiny details, yet we are details.” Perhaps…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series: Victor Hugo, Theopoet
When: Friday, 19 April, 2–3pm Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Dr Patrick Kennedy, The University of Melbourne “Victor Hugo, Theopoet: Re-reading the divine in Les Contemplations, Dieu, and La Fin de Satan“ Though well-known as a prolific nineteenth-century author and écrivain engagé, Victor Hugo is less remembered for his idiosyncratic view of the…
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2026 Australian Society for French Studies School Liaison and Community Outreach Fund
Rationale: The aim of the School Liaison and Community Outreach Fund is to support the learning of the French language and francophone cultures and to contribute to the growth and vitality of French-speaking communities across Australia. The Australian Society for French Studies, with support from the Embassy of France in Australia, will make up to…
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AALITRA Translation Awards 2024 (French)
The Australian Association for Literary Translation (AALITRA) now invites entries for the 2024 AALITRA Translation Awards. The AALITRA Translation Awards aim to acknowledge the wealth of literary translation skills present in the Australian community. Prizes are awarded for a translation of a selected prose text and for a translation of a selected poem. The focus…
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President’s Welcome 2024
Dear Australian Society for French Studies members, As I write this annual welcome, I reflect on our Society’s many achievements over the past year. In December, our Sydney University colleagues hosted an excellent conference, ‘Body, Motion, Space’. It featured keynote addresses from French scholar David Le Breton and the Australian Journal of French Studies’ editor,…
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DRAFT Research Seminar: Music, Memory and Migration: Commemorating the BUMIDOM in Contemporary Music
ALL WELCOME! Join us on Friday 24 November, 2-3pm (Sydney time) for the next DRAFT seminar on research in progress in French and Francophone Studies in Australia! Zoom Link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83924176810?pwd=NWNzWjJkZHFId2RYMEJGdHp1QUtnUT09 Password: 841616 In person: Babel Building, room 407, The University of Melbourne Music, Memory and Migration: Commemorating the BUMIDOM in Contemporary Music In the past fifteen years, there has been a plethora of…
