Final call for papers
 
'Changing Australia', the biennial conference of the British Australian Studies Association
2-5 September 2008, Royal Holloway, University of London
 
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/menzies/basa/conf2008.html
 
This conference will include a performing arts strand convened by Helen Gilbert
 
Confirmed speakers

Jacqueline Lo (Australian National University)
Gay McAuley  (University of Sydney)
Peta Tait (La Trobe University, Melbourne)
Michael Williams (University of Queensland)
 
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?
 
This call for papers invites responses to the broad conference theme in relation to a wide range of disciplines and subject areas across the humanities and social sciences. These might include: history, fine arts, ecology, politics, mythology, literature, film, media and performance studies, music, geography, anthropology, architecture, law, popular culture, political science, sociology, archaeology, biography, cultural studies, migration and settlement studies, gender and women's studies, war studies, sports studies, religion, education.
 
All abstracts must be submitted by 31 March 2008. Paper sessions are 20 minute slots with 10 minutes for questions/discussion.
Submission guidelines
Abstracts should not exceed 250 words and should also contain the following information: author name, affiliation, postal address and email address. The abstract must be in Microsoft Word or PDF file format and submitted as an email attachment to: e.schafer@rhul.ac.uk
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: 31st March 2008.
Deadline for early bird registration discount:  30th April
A selection of the papers will be published in a conference issue of Australian Studies.