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Sylvia Martin has won the 2008 Magarey Prize for Biography Sylvia Martin for Ida Leeson: A Life. Not a Blue-Stocking Lady (Allen & Unwin, 2006). Click here for more information.
Christchurch, New Zealand: 4 - 6 September, 2008
Gateway Antarctica and the English programme at the University of Canterbury, together with the School of English, Journalism and European Languages at the University of Tasmania, will host a conference examining Antarctica from a cultural perspective. Drawing on the arts, social sciences and humanities, the conference will focus attention on the ways in which we perceive and represent the southernmost continent. This will be followed by a second conference in Hobart, Tasmania, in 2010. Click here for more information.
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.), 7th Biennial International Conference will be convened at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. This year the conference has an open theme. Twenty-minute papers on all aspects of medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies (all broadly defined) are most welcome. Panel proposals of 3 papers are also welcome. Click here for more information.
Mar Ivanios College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 20-22 January 2009.
Recipes for Empire provides the opportunity to explore the multiple ways in which food, cookbooks, and recipes reveal the dense and complex relationships established under the aegis of empire, particularly, but not exclusively, the nineteenth-century British Empire. This interdisciplinary conference is jointly convened by the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Colonialism and Its Aftermath, the School of English, Journalism and European Languages at the University of Tasmania; and the Department of English, Mar Ivanios College, Kerala. Click here for more information.
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