2008 conference 'Changing Australia'
Print version
2-5 September 2008, Royal Holloway, University of London
Australia is ever changing - culturally, politically, economically, artistically, historically, and geographically - and this conference seeks to investigate, and interrogate, some of those changes. How and why has Australia, and Australian culture, changed? What changes are in process now? And what changes are anticipated in the future? How has the international image of Australia changed, as well as the clichés and stereotypes? How have the lives of Australians changed, and how do they continue to change. How is the definition of what it is to be ‘an Australian’ changing?
Australia is ever changing - culturally, politically, economically, artistically, historically, and geographically - and this conference seeks to investigate, and interrogate, some of those changes. How and why has Australia, and Australian culture, changed? What changes are in process now? And what changes are anticipated in the future? How has the international image of Australia changed, as well as the clichés and stereotypes? How have the lives of Australians changed, and how do they continue to change. How is the definition of what it is to be ‘an Australian’ changing?
Michael Williams (University of Queensland)
Other keynote speakers:
Jacqueline Lo (Australian National University)
Gay McAuley (University of Sydney)
Peta Tait (La Trobe University)
The conference included a performance of the award-winning Adelaide Festival Fringe production A Dollop of Trollope, by Heather Nimmo (based on Anthony Trollope's records of his visit to Australia) at the Australian High Commission on 4 September.
It is expected that a selection of the papers will be published in a conference issue of the BASA journal, Australian Studies.
Contact
Professor Elizabeth Schafer
Drama Department,
Royal Holloway, University of London,
Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey, TW20 OEX, UK
Tel: (+44) (0)1784 443922
E.Schafer@rhul.ac.uk
Programme
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