Category: News

  • Society of French Studies 2020 Visiting International Fellowship

    Applications are currently open for our UK partner organisation the Society of French Studies’ 2020 Visiting International Fellowship Program. Applications are due April 1 2020. From the SFS: In the light of its commitment to international mobility within French Studies, the Society offers funding for a grant to support an annual Visiting International Fellowship, tenable…

  • Funding Opportunities from the Embassy of France

    Funding opportunities from the French Embassy of Australia

  • CFP George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation

    Joint 66th Society for French Historical Studies Conference and 22nd George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation 7-10 July 2020, Auckland, NZ ‘France and Beyond: the Global World of ‘Ngāti Wīwī’. [Tribe ‘Oui Oui’ was the local name for the French in nineteenth-century NZ.] In July 2020 to a theme of ‘France and Beyond’, the first…

  • Émission radio dédiée à Christchurch (en français)

    Chers collègues, chers amis,    Afin de commémorer les événements tragiques à Christchurch du 15 mars dernier, nous avons dédié notre émission radio de « Paris s’éveille » (sur la radio communautaire de Plains FM) à notre ville et à la Journée internationale de la poésie. Vous trouverez ci-dessous le message publicitaire qui circule sur les réseaux…

  • Nick Hewitt, in memorium

    from Alistair Rolls and Greg Hainge Greg and I started our journeys at Nottingham University as undergraduates in October 1990. They were days when the university experience was rather different, and I for one, as a first-in-family student from a working-class family was entirely out of my comfort zone. And I couldn’t have been happier.…

  • CFP: 5th Biennial Colloquium of Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU)

    CALL FOR PAPERS 5th Biennial Colloquium of LCNAU Deadline: 30 April 2019 Conference: 27-29 November 2019, University of Western Australia The Fifth Biennial Colloquium of the Languages & Cultures Network of Australian Universities will be held at the University of Western Australia on 27-29 November 2019. Confirmed keynote speakers are: Charles Forsdick (Liverpool), Joseph Lo…

  • CFP: ASFS 2019 Making and Breaking Rules in Sydney

    Australian Society for French Studies Annual Conference 2019 Making and Breaking Rules University of New England – Western Sydney University Location: UNE Sydney 10-12 December 2019 When we speak, write and act, when we produce and interpret culture, we are consciously or unconsciously following rules of various kinds. But what does it mean to follow…

  • Nicolas Baudin Program 2019 Applications Now Open

    Applications for the 2019 Nicolas Baudin program are now open! The program consists of two application streams: General Stream – Nicolas Baudin Travel Grant Students enrolled at an Australian university and taking part in an exchange program /study abroad at a French establishment or hoping to pursue a full degree (including double degrees) may apply…

  • Congratulations ASFS Honorary Life Members Brian Nelson and Colin Nettelbeck

    At the ASFS 2018 annual meeting at University of Western Australia (Perth) this year, two long time members of our organisation received honorary life memberships to mark our twenty-fifth anniversary. Congratulations to Professor Brian Nelson (Monash) and Professor Colin Nettelbeck (Melbourne)! Professor Nelson was instrumental in founding ASFS in 1993, and both he and Professor…

  • Teaching Assistants in France – now open

    Applications for the 2019 round of the English Language Teaching Assistants programs in Metropolitan France and overseas departments are now open!   This program is designed to give students the opportunity to discover a new region and culture by working alongside an English teacher in a French school environment. It is not aimed at experienced…