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Deadline extended to 29 July: Australian Society for French Studies 2024 Conference (Global French Studies, 11-13 December)
We are pleased to extend the deadline for proposals for the Australian Society for French Studies 2024 Conference until Monday 29 July 2024. We will advise successful applicants shortly after this date. Please find the call for papers below. ASFS Conference 2024 Australian Society for French Studies 32nd Annual Conference 2024 11-13 December 2024 Global French…
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New Collection of Essays: What have the French ever done for us? French contributions to Australia’s cultural life
A new collection of essays entitled What have the French ever done for us? French contributions to Australia’s cultural life (Wakefield Press, edited by John West-Sooby) has just been published! What have the French done for the cultural life of Australia, but also more globally? That is the question addressed by the essays in this volume, penned…
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Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum (DDFC) 2024 Conference
Call for PapersPooling Open-Access Resources: Designing for Justice and AccessDiversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum (DDFC)A Two-day Virtual Conference (Zoom)November 8-9, 2024 Increasingly inclusive, representative, and accessible teaching resources are essential to a socially and pedagogically just learning environment. From traditional tools (textbooks, learning management systems) to new media, AI, and creative assessment design, the…
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FATFA-TOFA conference 2024
Every 2 years a National Conference for French Teachers is organised by the FATFA (Federation of French Teacher Assoc. in Australia). This year, the conference will be held on Nov 22-23 in beautiful Perth, WA! Come meet your WA colleagues for 2 days of professional development, networking and fun! The Conference theme is ‘Embarquement immédiat: vers…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series: Julie Delpy’s cinephilia and cinécriture
When: Friday, 17 May, 2–3pm Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Dr Felicity Chaplin, Monash University “Tiny details: Julie Delpy’s cinephilia and cinécriture“ Julie Delpy once remarked: “We are everything and we are nothing. It is just the big paradox of being alive. We’re tiny details, yet we are details.” Perhaps…
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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: Victor Hugo, Theopoet
When: Friday, 19 April, 2–3pm Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Dr Patrick Kennedy, The University of Melbourne “Victor Hugo, Theopoet: Re-reading the divine in Les Contemplations, Dieu, and La Fin de Satan“ Though well-known as a prolific nineteenth-century author and écrivain engagé, Victor Hugo is less remembered for his idiosyncratic view of the…
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2026 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…
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AALITRA Translation Awards 2024 (French)
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 the Australian community. Prizes are awarded for a translation of a selected prose text and for a translation of a selected poem. The focus…
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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…
