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Call for Applications: 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 two…
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Call for Submissions: Bypassing Paris? / “Se passer” de Paris?
Please consider submitting to this innovative online discussion forum organized by ASFS members Valentina Gosetti and Heather Williams. Designed to engage scholars in new ways through podcasts, videos, and short written statements, this digital event will also feature presentations and discussions on various platforms to combat “Zoom fatigue” and be accessible to all. Please see…
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Women in French Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher International Symposium
Please consider attending Women in French’s postgraduate and early career researcher international symposium. Organised by several ASFS members, this virtual symposium focuses on immersion in women’s literature and hybrid media (including photo-texts, bande dessinée, cinema, journals, and other media), with a particular emphasis on immersivity as both a pleasurable and productive feature. It will include presentations from…
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New publication: Nicolas Baudin’s voyage to Australia and the pursuit of science
We wish to draw attention to this new publication of a volume of essays, ‘Roaming Freely Throughout the Universe’: Nicolas Baudin’s Voyage to Australia and the Pursuit of Science, co-edited by former ASFS President Professor Jean Fornasiero and long-time ASFS member Professor John West-Sooby. The Age of Exploration not only paved the way for European…
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Maisons de Poètes / Homes of Poets – Entretiens (in) situ
Suite au récent lancement de leur Carnet Hypothèses Maisons de Poètes / Homes of Poets (https://maphopes.hypotheses.org/), Marie-Clémence Régnier (Université d’Artois) et Bertrand Bourgeois (The University of Melbourne) sont heureux de vous annoncer la création d’une rubrique “entretiens (in) situ”. La première série d’entretiens podcastés « Maisons de poètes hors les murs » porte sur les…
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Conference, Nov 20-23: ‘Life Writing: Transnationalism, Translingualism, Transculturalism’
Colleagues are invited to attend the fourth IABA – Asia Pacific conference, which focuses on the theme of life narratives, encompassing a variety of languages, nations, and media forms. Transnationalism is an increasingly popular phenomenon, reflecting and responding to the heightened interconnectivity between people and the receding economic and social significance of boundaries among nation…
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Winner of the 2021 ASFS-AJFS Postgraduate Essay Prize
The Australian Society for French Studies and the Australian Journal of French Studies are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2021 ASFS-AJFS Postgraduate Essay Prize, Emma McNicol of Monash University. Emma’s essay entitled “The Pessimism Problem in Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe et La vieillesse » will receive a $500 cash prize and publication…
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CFP: Women in French Postgraduate/ECR International Symposium
Call for Papers The Immersive Potential of Literature and Hybrid Media in the 20th and 21st Centuries Women in French Postgraduate/ECR International Symposium Symposium: Wednesday, January 12 to Friday, January 14, 2022 Proposals due: 17 September 2021. Keynote Speaker: Professor Diana Holmes (Leeds). Women in French invites papers for a virtual international symposium focusing on…
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New French Studies Seminar Series: DRAFT
DRAFT is a new research seminar series organised by the departments of French and francophone studies at the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne and the University of New England. As part of this initiative, Australia’s researchers from various disciplines are invited to participate and share their current research activities relating to French and…
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Postgraduate Research Scholarship on Multilingual Australia
ASFS members and future postgraduates may be interested in the following postgraduate research scholarship on multilingual Australia offered by the University of Sydney as part of the Australian Research Council’s Discovery project “Opening Australia’s Multilingual Archive”. This scholarship provides financial assistance for a PhD student undertaking research in multilingual Australia. Highlights Value Eligibility Open date…
