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Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle
11-12 October 2002
Kay Daniels, one of the authors of Windows onto Worlds (1987) the groundbreaking
report on Australian studies, died in July 2001 at the age of sixty.
In memory of the fine contribution Kay made to the development of
Australian Studies, the School of Humanities is hosting a conference
on the past and future of Australian Studies in the tertiary education
sector. It is planned to publish the papers in a special edition of
the Journal of Australian Studies.
The Ourimbah campus, also known as the Central Coast Campus of the University of Newcastle, is located at Ourimbah, midway between Sydney and Newcastle. It is about one and a half hour’s train ride north of Sydney and about one hour south of Newcastle. It is also close to the F3 that links Sydney and Newcastle. It is located in a termperate rainforest, about 10 kilometers from the Pacific Ocean and has excellent conference facilities.
Accommodation:
Accommodation ranges from local motels and resort hotels at The Entrance and Terrigal and Forresters Beach , other local motels at Narrara, to the YWCA Hostel and a Backbackers at Terrigal. All these locations are about 20 minutes drive from the campus.
Registration costs are still being worked out.
Proposed Conference Program
Section 1. How did Australian Studies begin?
- Professor Lyndall Ryan: Head, School of Humanities, University
of Newcastle, ‘Key texts in Australian Studies from 1986 to 2002’.
- Dr Stephen Alomes: Australian Studies Program, Deakin University. ‘The beginnings of Australian Studies in the 1970s and 1980s’.
Section 2 : The Daniels Report
- Professor Ann Curthoys will present a paper on the impact of the Daniels report.
- Susan Ryan, former federal minister for Education, will speak on the background
to the report and its purpose.
- Humphrey McQueen and Bruce Bennett have been invited to speak on working on the report.
Section 3: Taking Australian Studies Abroad
- David Carter: Australian Studies and Asia
- Australian Studies and Europe
- The relationship between Australian Studies and government.
- Richard Nile: Australian Studies journals in hard and electronic print.
Section 4: Australian Studies as whiteness studies
- Indigenous Studies and Australian Studies
- Ethnicity and Australian Studies
- Australian Studies as Boys Studies
- Australian Studies and Cultural Studies
Section 5: New directions: Australian Studies in the 21st century
- The State of the Profession: where programs are offered.
- Postgraduate experiences in Australian Studies
Expression of Interest are invited for conference presentations in Sections 3, 4 and 5.
For further information please email Lyndall Ryan
Tel. 02 43484241
FAX: 02 43484075
A conference website will be established on the School of Humanities Homepage at the University of Newcastle by Christmas 2001.
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