The Australian Association of Writing Programs

Dear members and friends of ASAL, especially postgrads, There will be impressive numbers of postgraduates presenting at this year‚s ASAL conference in Canberra. To take advantage of this gathering of Aust lit postgrads, we will be running a postgrad workshop on Wednesday 8 July from 11am to 1.30pm (including lunch). This will be an opportunity for postgrads to discuss their research projects with others working in the field and with participating academics including Leigh Dale and Ian Henderson. Leigh (editor of Australian Literary Studies) and Ian (editor of Studies in Australasian Cinema) will provide some advice on getting your work published, and on Life After Thesis. The cost for the workshop is $20 which you can pay when you register for the conference. If you have already registered, you can pay for the workshop on the day. If you would like to attend, please fill in the attached form and return it to me by email so we can make sure the workshop is useful and pertinent to you. Please feel free to contact me with any questions, and I look forward to seeing you at ASAL, Julieanne. ph. 6247 0991 e. julieanne.lamond@anu.edu.au

Dear members and friuends of ASAL, The May 2009 issue of Australian Humanities Review is now online at www.australianhumanitiesreview.org <http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/> . The new issue leads with Paul Genoni and Gaby Haddow’s analysis of the contentious ERA journal rankings and Peter Otto on Romanticism and Virtual Reality. A special section on ‘Naturecultures’, inspired by the work of Bruno Latour and Actor-Network Theory, features essays by Gay Hawkins, Michael Dieter, Emily Potter and Zoë Sofoulis. The Ecological Humanities features Val Plumwood’s ‘Nature in the Active Voice’, the essay she was working on before her untimely death in February 2008, and responses to Plumwood’s work from Thom van Dooren, Kate Rigby, Gerda Roelvink and J.K. Gibson-Graham. And there is the usual range of book reviews, from Simon Robb’s review of Ross Gibson’s Summer Exercises to Ed Wright’s appreciation of the new edition of G.A. Wilkes’ Stunned Mullets and Two-pot Screamers.   The editors are seeking submissions for the 2010 issues of AHR. We welcome proposals in the form of 250 word abstracts in the first instance, from across the range of humanities disciplines, including literary and film studies, cultural and media studies, gender studies, history, politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and of course ecological humanities. Please note that we do not publish poetry or creative writing, though we do welcome fictocritical approaches to academic writing. Initial submissions for the May 2010 issue should reach us no later than 30 September 2009, and for the November 2010 issue no later than 31 March 2010. Please consult our submission guidelines at: http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/about.html#submission   AHR is now co-published in PDF and Print-on-Demand format by ANU E Press <http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/ahr.html> .   Happy reading, Monique Rooney and Russell Smith   ---- Dr Russell Smith Co-Editor, Australian Humanities Review <http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/>   Lecturer in English School of Humanities (Bldg 14) Australian National University Canberra  ACT  0200 Australia Ph: +61 2 6125 2660 Fax: +61 2 6125 4490