ASAL2020 Virtual Conference
Event Information
Description
The 2020 ASAL Annual Conference was to be hosted by James Cook University at the Cairns Institute from 29 June – 2 July. Due to restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cairns program has been cancelled, and presentations will now be delivered virtually between 29 June and 10 July. Please register your interest to receive details about the program when they become available. Registration for the virtual conference is free to financial ASAL members. To pay your membership, please visit https://www.asal.org.au/membership/. To check your membership status, please email ASAL Secretary, Dr Demelza Hall: d.hall@federation.edu.au.
For more than forty years, ASAL annual conferences have offered a venue where creative writers and academic critics have come together in a convivial atmosphere, but the rise of university-based creative writing programs in Australia has sometimes called into question the relationship between creative writing and literary studies. This conference aims to address such questions and to extend the dialogue between these two disciplines in Australian literary studies.
Organiser Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Organiser of ASAL2020 Virtual Conference
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) was formed in 1977 to encourage and stimulate the writing and reading of Australian literature and the study of and research into Australian literature and Australian literary culture.
The annual ASAL Conference brings together leading scholars and students of Australian literature from across Australia and internationally. It also incorporates writers and practitioners within its program and awards the Australian Literary Society (ALS) Gold Medal, Australia’s oldest literary prize, which has been awarded annually since 1927.
The conference hosts a number of keynotes, including the Barry Andrews Address, the Dorothy Green Lecture, and an annual ASAL ECR Keynote. This year, thanks to the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, the conference will also host the 2020 Colin Roderick Lecture.
