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David Carter As in the final number for last year, in this issue we feature the work of current postgraduate students from one of Australia's 'Australian studies' universities. This year, with the help of Tim Rowse, we present a selection of essays by students based at the Australian National University in Canberra. The range of topics as well as the quality of the essays suggests that Australian studies has a healthily diverse future. The essays cover comparative immigration, governmentality, visual art, race and gender, colonialism and exploration, and mission life, race and food. This issue of Crossings also introduces a new section on the teaching of Australian studies. We open this department in order to collect the wealth of experience that we have collectively about teaching Australian studies both in Australia and overseas — what works and what doesn't work. Stephen Alomes, who proposed this new feature, kicks it off with some ideas about using drama as part of teaching about Australia. We welcome any new contributions short or long to this forum. We are also delighted to be able to publish another of Christine Nicholls's insightful essays on contemporary Aboriginal art, on Violet Petyarre, accompanied by some superb images. |
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I've noted, too, the appearance of a new journal from France, Les Cahiers du CiClaS (Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Interactions Culturelles at Université Paris-Dauphine). Ouvertures collects papers delivered at Australian studies and postcolonial studies seminars. As usual we list forthcoming conferences of interest to Australianists. Let me draw attention in particular to the annual conference of the Australian New Zealand Studies Association of North America at Arcadia University (Philadelphia), 20-22 February, 2003, and the European Association for the Study of Australia conference, University of Aveiro, Portugal, 23-27 September 2003. The Chinese Association has recently held its biennial conference in Hefei, and the Australian Embassy in Tokyo hosted a very successful two-day workshop for Japanese Australian studies scholars and teachers. A two day conference was also hosted by the Australian Studies committee at Harvard University in late October. We hope to present reports on all these events in the next issue of Crossings. The annual printed edition of Crossings is now available and will be received by all InASA members soon. To become a member please go to the InASA web site. < < < enter > > >
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