ISFAR Colloquium  In collaboration with the Australian Society for French Studies University of South Australia, Adelaide December 6th 2016  CALL FOR PAPERS French-Australian Relations – the field today The role of the study of French-Australian relations, as a branch of French Studies in Australia, has been growing steadily over recent years. The 2016 ISFAR colloquium…

ASFS/AJFS Postgraduate Prize The Australian Society for French Studies and the Australian Journal of French Studies are pleased to announce the second annual co-sponsored ASFS/AJFS Postgraduate Prize. A prize of $500 will be awarded for the best article (4,000-6,000 words inc. notes) by a postgraduate student on any aspect of French Studies (except French language studies). The…

ISFAR Colloquium  In collaboration with the Australian Society for French Studies University of South Australia, Adelaide December 6th 2016  CALL FOR PAPERS French-Australian Relations – the field today The role of the study of French-Australian relations, as a branch of French Studies in Australia, has been growing steadily over recent years. The 2016 ISFAR colloquium…

Athènes, du 20 au 23 octobre 2016 Enseigner la langue et la culture françaises : construire des ponts socio-humanistes Appel à communications L’Association hellénique des Professeurs de Français de Formation Universitaire (A.P.F.-F.U., Grèce), en partenariat avec le Département de Langue et Littérature françaises de l’Université Nationale et Capodistrienne d’Athènes, le Service de Coopération et d’Action culturelle de…

The next conference of maritime archaeology, IKUWA6 (http://www.aima-underwater.org.au/about-ikuwa6/) will be held in Fremantle, WA, from the 28th of November to the 2nd of December 2016, and the theme for this year has been kept very open, looking at « Shared Heritage » in the Southern Hemisphere. In this view, a particular session is organised on the cultural…

Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby, French Designs on Colonial New South Wales: François Péron’s Memoir on the English Settlements in New Holland, Van Diemen’s Land and the Archipelagos of the Great Pacific Ocean, Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2014. $35 (paperback); $65 (hardback) Order on-line: http://www.australianapublications.org.au/store/p1/French_Designs_on_Colonial_New_South_Wales.html   François Péron’s Memoir was…

The University of Melbourne, 25-27 August 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS In his essay De auditu (On Listening to Lectures), Plutarch warned that “the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting – no more – and then it motivates one towards originality and instills the desire for truth”. Once…