[New-Poetry] Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference University of Sydney 4-7th July 2008

[Anny Ballardini]

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First Call For Papers: 
Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference University of Sydney 4-7th July 2008 

The Department of History at the University of Sydney is delighted to announce that it is hosting the Australia and New Zealand Association for American Studies Conference in 2008. ANZASA brings together scholars from Australia and New Zealand with colleagues who specialise in American Studies from around the world for a major conference held every two years.

Proposals for panels and individual (20-minute) papers are now invited. 
We welcome proposals from across the broad spectrum of American Studies topics. We also plan special themed sessions on the research areas of each of our keynote speakers. Panels and papers addressing those topics are particularly welcome. At present, our confirmed keynote speakers are:

George Chauncey: is Professor of History at Yale University. He is best known for his book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic, 1994), which won the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Prize for the best book in social history and Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for the best first book in history, as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Lambda Literary Award. He is also the author of Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate over Gay Equality (Basic, 2004), and was the organizer and lead author of the Historians' Amicus Brief in Lawrence v. 

Texas (2003), which was cited extensively in the Supreme Court's landmark decision overturning American sodomy laws. He is currently nearing completion of the sequel to Gay New York, to be titled, The Strange Career of the Closet: Gay Culture, Consciousness, and Politics from the Second World War to the Gay Liberation Era.

Ian Tyrrell: is Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Best known for his studies of the history of women and temperance in the United States, his most recent books are True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999); Deadly

Enemies: Tobacco and its Opponents in Australia (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999); and Historians in Public: American Historical Practice, 1890-1970 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). A fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he was awarded a Commonwealth of Australia Centenary Medal in 2003, and appointed a Scientia Professor in 2007. He is presently engaged on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2005-08) on American Cultural Expansion and American Empire, covering the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Proposals for full panels are preferred, but individual paper proposals are also most welcome. Panel proposals should include a panel title, 200-word abstracts of three papers and a brief CV for each person delivering a paper. Individual proposals should include an abstract and brief CV. Postgraduate students, as well as more senior scholars, are warmly encouraged to submit proposals by 30 November 2007.

Information on registration will be available shortly; full and concession rates will be available. The Conference will be at the Womens College, University of Sydney, where there is also catered accommodation for a limited number of conference delegates. Discounted rates at several local hotels will also be available; participants should make bookings directly with the hotels.

Deadline for proposals: November 30, 2007. Early submission is welcome. 

Please send your abstracts via email to one of the conference convenors: 
? Frances Clarke: frances.clarke at arts.usyd.edu.au ? Clare Corbould: clare.corbould at arts.usyd.edu.au ? Michael McDonnell: michael.mcdonnell at arts.usyd.edu.au

? Stephen Robertson: stephen.robertson at arts.usyd.edu.au 

Or send to: 
Department of History, SOPHI (A14) 
University of Sydney NSW 2006, Australia Ph. 02 9351 6733 Within Australia 
61 02 9351 6733 International 
Fax + 61 (0)2 9351 3918 

For updated details, including information about accommodation as it is released, see http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/conference/docs/index.htm

Beautiful Sydney serves as the host for the 2008 Australia and New Zealand American Studies Conference that marks the 44th year of ANZASA. 

Gloriously situated on one of the most beautiful harbours in the world, Sydney is the leading city in New South Wales, and the largest in Australia. It possesses a wealth of stunning natural and heritage sites including the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House, and extensive collections of early examples of Australian art and architecture, along with stunning bush walks around the city and in the numerous nearby National Parks, including the World Heritage listed Blue Mountains. For those who might wish to stay beyond the period of the conference, Sydney is the perfect base from which many short excursions as well as national trips can be undertaken to Australias other major tourist attractions. 

Sydneys winter climate is temperate with high temperatures in July averaging around 18 degrees celsius, with lows of 9 to 12 degrees celsius. For more information about the city, see: 

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/ 




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