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AALITRA Translation Awards 2024 (French)
The French Embassy in Australia has added two extra prizes to the competition – for the two MOST OUTSTANDING STUDENT ENTRIES (University students included) 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…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series: Céline Sciamma and the Queer Forest
When: Friday, 22 March, 2–3pm Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Louise Cain, The University of Melbourne “Where the Wild Kids Are: Céline Sciamma and the Queer Forest” Combining Martin Heidegger’s concept of Holzwege – the tangled forest paths that serve as metaphors for being, knowledge, and truth – with the…
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Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Essay Prize
The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies is inviting submissions for the newly established annual SFPS Essay Prize from PhD students and early-career academics (not in permanent employment). The author of the winning essay will receive a prize of £100. The winning essay and the runner-up will be published in the Autumn 2024 issue of the Society’s b-annual journal,…
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ASFS Postgraduate / ECR Writing and Peer Support Group
The postgraduate and early career researcher Writing and Peer Support Group is a writing group and discussion space for postgraduate and early career members of the ASFS. The group will be running quarterly throughout 2024. Each ‘cycle’ consists of one writing day (all day), a writing exchange (via email), and a feedback session (1-hour or…
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Call for submissions: AJFS / ASFS Postgraduate Essay Prize
The AJFS and ASFS committees are pleased to announce that the prize money for the annual AJFS/ASFS Postgraduate Essay Prize has been increased to $800. Please see the below reminder to all eligible postgraduates to consider submitting an essay for the prize before Monday 16 October 2023. The Australian Society for French Studies and the Australian Journal of…
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President’s Welcome 2023
Dear ASFS colleagues, As I write this letter in January 2023, I can’t help but feel caught in a paradox: a moment of change and a moment of return. As a Society and a community, we are both turning a new leaf since the acute pandemic pressures of 2020-2022, and holding on to the great…
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Postgraduate / ECR Writing and Peer Support Group
The postgraduate and early career researcher Writing and Peer Support Group, initiated by former ASFS Postgraduate Officer, Clara Sitbon, is a writing group and discussion space for French studies postgraduates across Australia. Throughout 2023, the ASFS will be running this group again. There will be three ‘cycles’, with each consisting of a writing day (all…
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CFP: ASFS/AJFS Postgraduate Essay Prize
The Australian Society for French Studies and the Australian Journal of French Studies are pleased to announce the eighth annual co-sponsored ASFS/AJFS Postgraduate Essay Prize. A prize of AU$500 will be awarded to the best article (5,000 to 6,500 words including notes) on any aspect of French Studies (except French language Studies) by a postgraduate student. The…
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ASFS Conference 2022
Australian Society for French Studies Conference 2022 MOVEMENT(S)/MOUVEMENT(S) 13-14 December 2022 (12 December: Postgraduate Day) Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand After two years of restricted movement, we have the pleasure to announce that the annual conference of the Australian Society for French Studies will take place, for the first time,…
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Call for Papers – Inaugural ASFS / WiF:Oz Research and Networking Event
The Australian Society of French Studies, in collaboration with Women in French: Australia, is delighted to announce its first mid-year Australian French Studies symposium. For this inaugural one-day event (split over two half days on account of time differences) we would like to invite colleagues in French Studies from around the world to present any…
