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GASt e.V. – Gesellschaft für Australienstudien
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We are a politically independent, interdisciplinary organisation devoted to furthering research and scholarship concerned with Australia.
CFP: ›Entangled Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Australian
Studies‹ at the Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPSt,
University of Cologne) – online 13 March 2026 | Submission Deadline: 8 December
2025 buff.ly/vCUkxiC
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
CFP: ›Entangled Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Australian
Studies‹ at the Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPSt,
University of Cologne) – online 13 March 2026 | Submission Deadline: 8 December
2025 buff.ly/vCUkxiC
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
CFP: ›Entangled Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Australian Studies‹ at the Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPSt, University of Cologne) – online 13 March 2026 | Submission Deadline: 8 December 2025 buff.ly/vCUkxiC
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Coming soon: ZfA|ASJ 44/2025 ›Histories of Northern and Regional Australia‹, guest ed. by Lyndon Megarrity, Benjamin T. Jones, Joe Collins buff.ly/UgIzJRb
October 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
»The Australian National University (#ANU) is proud to announce the fulfilment of a $50 million Kambri Scholars Program endowment to provide life-changing support for Indigenous students, thanks to a landmark donation to the University.« buff.ly/7XGGZdq
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
»On a remote Australian island renowned for its natural beauty, researchers have made a grisly discovery: Seabirds have ingested so much plastic they crunch when touched« buff.ly/xUiDXhT
September 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
»Australia has recently rolled out some of the world’s toughest laws aimed at curbing the youth vaping epidemic. But new research demonstrates these crucial public health measures could be vulnerable unless policymakers prepare to defend them on the world stage.« buff.ly/CVEcsyP
September 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
»Australia's first formal truth-telling inquiry has found crimes against humanity and a genocide were committed against Aboriginal people in Victoria, and has recommended that Victorian First Peoples be compensated through treaties with interest.«
July 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The German Association for Australian Studies | Gesellschaft für Australienstudien warmly congratulates Duane W. Hamacher on receiving the (first ever) Publication Award of the Australian Studies Journal | Zeitschrift für Australienstudien! Read his article here: https://buff.ly/3Qp0hfx
February 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The German Association for Australian Studies | Gesellschaft für Australienstudien wishes everyone a Happy New Year & ein Freues Neues Jahr! https://buff.ly/3Zzwm8E
January 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
»We worked together on ›Paperbark‹. | He might have suggested the name, since it was his, | and Oodgeroo’s too. | A tradename for Aboriginal writers.« Stephen Muecke ›Shuffle‹ #Mudrooroo | Read at https://buff.ly/4dVrTm1
November 13, 2024 at 8:00 AM
»We Australians are littoralists, | people of the coast, the shoreline, | the space between hills and water« Alomes, Confessions of a Littoralist | Read more at https://buff.ly/4eFuaT3
October 30, 2024 at 8:00 AM
»The Joint Justice Initiative has welcomed the final History Syllabus for Years 7 to 10, released by the NSW Education Standards Authority, which includes the mandatory study of ›Australia’s civic action and humanitarian response during World War I‹.« https://buff.ly/404JSTM
October 24, 2024 at 7:00 AM
»McAuley’s portrait of ‘Ocean’ and its crossing conjures the sphere of the in-between between continent and islands, known and unknown places and peoples, past and future, faith and the abyss.« Page, Vast Crystal Globe | # Seascapes | Read more at australienstudien.org/australian-s...
October 16, 2024 at 10:56 AM
»A planetary configuration – two-thirds water, one-third land – changes the relationship between human constructions and natural entities« Giles, Negative Antipodes | #Seascapes | Read more at https://buff.ly/4eFuaT3
October 9, 2024 at 7:00 AM
CALL FOR ISSUES | The open-access Zeitschrift für Australienstudien | Australian Studies Journal (ZfA|ASJ, ISSN 1864-3957) invites proposals for special issues focussing on specific themes or topics related to Australia. #AustralianStudies #CfP #Journal #Australia #Migration https://buff.ly/3MhIRQ4
October 3, 2024 at 7:00 AM
»222 years ago this month, a dramatic encounter transpired on Australia's east coast.« https://buff.ly/3X2f6HU
August 30, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Call for Reviews | New addition to our list: Daniel Rothenburg's ›Irrigation, Salinity, and Rural Communities in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, 1945–2020‹ | Have a look https://buff.ly/3Omyiwe
August 28, 2024 at 7:00 AM
CALL FOR ISSUES | The open-access Zeitschrift für Australienstudien | Australian Studies Journal (ZfA|ASJ, ISSN 1864-3957) invites proposals for special issues focussing on specific themes or topics related to Australia. https://buff.ly/3MhIRQ4
August 27, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Out Now: ZfA 39/2024 – INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA IN THE ANTHROPOCENE, ed. by Dany Adone, Bentley James, Anna Gosebrink – Glenn James, Anne Pattel-Gray, Doris Yethun Burarrwaŋa, Duane W. Hamacher, Gareth Knapman, Michael Pickering, Elizabeth McNiven, Ghil’ad Zuckermann buff.ly/3tUrhfk
May 2, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Dr. Katrin Althans
World literature and the appeal of the national: The case of black noir
14 Dec | 12.15 pm | Audimax Uni Münster!
December 10, 2023 at 5:28 PM