From Australia and New Zealand to Palma for university conference

PALMA
A Conference of Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies is set to take place in Palma later this month.
The Future of the Past in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific will take place 22nd to 25th September at the University of the Balearic Islands.
The Conference is set to host speakers specialising in Australian, New Zealand and Pacific literature and culture from universities across the world including from the University of Leeds and the University of Hawaii. Other academics from Edith Cowan University and the University of Western Sydney in Australia will also be speaking at the three day event.

The Conference is being hosted by the European Association for Studies of Australia. The Association states in its website that it “seeks to promote the teaching of, and research in, Australian Studies at European tertiary institutions” and that it promotes the study of Australian culture from a wide variety of aspects including “Aboriginality, literature, film, the media, popular culture, history, political discourses, the arts”.

The Association holds biennial conferences across Europe, the previous conference in 2007 was held at the University of Roskilde and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Organisers have stated that their decision to host the conference in Palma was in part due to “the legacy left by all the civilisations that have inhabited it” as well as the cooperation of its sponsors which include the Council of Majorca and the Government of the Balearic Islands.