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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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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…
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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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AFRAN Humanities and Social Sciences Community
The Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation (AFRAN) aims to actively promote the development of cooperation between France and Australia in the areas of research and innovation. AFRAN has recently created a Humanities and Social Sciences Community page to gather “outstanding actors dedicated to the promotion and sharing of Australian and French language, culture, education and research…
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ASFS Conference 2023
Australian Society for French Studies 31st Annual Conference 2023 6-8 December 2023 Body, Motion, Space Hosted by French and Francophone Studies, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney The conference will include a Zoom-only half day. The rest of the conference will be in-person. Details of international and domestic keynotes will follow. Call for Papers…
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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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DRAFT French and Francophone Seminar: A trio of trailblazers in early cinema: Bernhardt, Gabrielle Réjane and Mistinguett
Friday 9 September 2022 1-2 pm (Melbourne/Sydney time) Zoom Link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83924176810?pwd=NWNzWjJkZHFId2RYMEJGdHp1QUtnUT09 Password: 841616 A trio of trailblazers in early cinema: Bernhardt, Gabrielle Réjane and Mistinguett More than a century after the French actresses Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), Réjane (Gabrielle Charlotte Réju, 1856-1920) and Mistinguett (Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois, 1875-1956) consolidated their international fame on film, attention is newly focusing on…
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CFP: “Cultural Expressions of Climate Change across the French-speaking Islands in the South Pacific”
Symposium to be held at the University of Sydney on 15, 16 and 17 February 2023 We invite abstracts for a 3-day interdisciplinary symposium devoted to cultural expressions of climate change across Oceania. Crucially, our symposium will act as a platform for exchanging ideas, showcasing artistic voices, and facilitating new connections between French-speaking Oceania and…
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WiF Oz/ASFS Research and Networking Event 2022
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) colleagues in French Studies from around the world will present any aspect of their research –…
