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Patrick White Centenary Registration International Conference International Conference Australian $200 (AUD) Hyderabad, India Indian Rs 1500/- PATRICK WHITE CENTENARY Sri Lankan 3500/- SL Rs. 5-7 November 2012 Payment (Bank Cheque/Draft or Money Order) to be Hyderabad, India made out to “The Association for the Study of Australa- The Association for the Study of Australasia in sia in Asia (ASAA)”. Asia (ASAA), in collaboration with the University Call for Papers of Hyderabad, invite the submission of Abstracts Fee to be paid by 15 August 2012. for papers to be presented at the above Mail payments to: conference. University Credit Society 80 Broadway, Nedlands, WA 6009

Call for Papers Payments should be made out to: The Association for the Study of Australasia in Abstracts not exceeding 200 words should reach Asia (ASAA) the Conference Chairs by 15th June 2012: Account No: 34086 BSB: 806036  Dr Cynthia vanden Driesen Overseas payments will need the Swift Code: [email protected] CUSCAU2SXXX  Professor Mohan G. Ramanan Accommodation - $50 (AUD) per night [email protected] Please email bookings to Dr K. Suneetha Rani ([email protected]) Please note: 1. In keeping with the multi-disciplinary focus of Payments to be made by individual guests direct to hotel. ASAA, papers on broader issues relating to the Australia/Asia dialogue will also be considered. About Hyderabad 2. Papers on Aboriginal issues, a particular interest of Patrick White in his later years, will The city of Hyderabad is the capital of the state of Andhra be welcomed. Pradesh in South India, popularly known as the “City of Pearls”. Hyderabad is also known for its palaces and historic monuments, including the Golconda Fort, Charminar and Supported By: Chowmahalla Palace. It is also a hub of Business and nformation Technology in contemporary India.  Australia India Council. Organized by:  Westerly Centre, University of University of Hyderabad The Association for the Study of Western Australia. Australasia in Asia (ASAA)  University of Hyderabad, India www.asaa.net.au  The Association for the Study of Australian Literature in collaboration with  The National Library of Australia The Department of English Charminar  The AustralAsian Centre of the Asia University of Hyderabad Society www.uohyd.ac.in  The International Centre for Chowmahalla Palace Landscape and Language, Edith Cowan University 5th - 7th November 2012 Conference Committee : Association for the Patrick White Centenary International Conference International Committee Dr Nathanael O'Reilly Study of Australasia in Hyderabad, India President - American Association of Dr Cynthia vanden Driesen Australasian Literary Studies Asia (ASAA) 5-7 November 2012 (Chair) (AAALS) Editor - Postcolonial Issues in The Association was originally established under President - ASAA (Aus) The Australian Nobel Prize winning writer, Patrick White, has University of Western Australia Australian Literature the name of the Asian Association for the for long been a formidable presence in the Australian literary [email protected] Texas Christian University Study of Australia in August 1995 as one of [email protected] context. This was attested by the first ever national Professor Greg Battye the outcomes of the meeting in Sri Lanka of a conference on a living Australian writer, held in Adelaide in Vice-President - ASAA (Aus) University of Hyderabad group of academics from India, Sri Lanka, 1978. His significance on the world scene was also evidenced University of Canberra Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. early through the organization of an international conference [email protected] Professor Mohan G. Ramanan at the University of Stirling, Scotland (1991). Books and theses (Chair) on White’s work have been generated world-wide even Dean, School of Humanities The Association was expanded into the Asian- Professor Kirpal Singh before he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1973, Singapore Management University [email protected] Australasian Association for the study of [email protected] Australasia in October 1998 at a meeting in "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has Professor Syed Mujeebuddin Dhvanyaloka, Mysore, India, when New Zealand introduced a new continent into literature”. After his death in Professor Satendra Nandan Head, Department of English 1990, the ‘Patrick White Modernist Futures Conference’, held University of Fiji [email protected] was admitted into the membership of the in 2011 at the University of London, attested a resurgence of [email protected] Association. interest in White and an emphasis on his contemporary Dr K. Suneetha Rani relevance. Staging a conference in Asia, specifically in India, Dr Bernadette Brennan (Executive Committee) The name of the Association was changed again which has been a centre for White studies for decades, to President - Association for the [email protected] mark the centenary of White’s birth, seems entirely Study of Australian Literature in 1999 to its present name of The Association University of Sydney Professor M. Sridhar for the Study of Australasia in Asia appropriate in 2012. [email protected] (Executive Committee) (ASAA). [email protected] White’s massive oeuvre - novels, plays, short fiction, poetry, Dr Susan Ballyn Aims: To bring together individuals, institutions biography - the voluminous critical commentary these have Director - Centre for Australian ASAA - India generated and the personal odyssey of his own life, provide a Studies and associations concerned with the study and field for literary, critical and socio-political probing that University of Barcelona Professor Anjali Roy the teaching of Australasian studies in Asia and to remains enormously rich in possibilities. While older motifs [email protected] President ASAA (Asia) foster interest and promote research in all may be still resurgent, this conference hopes to encourage IIT Kharagpur aspects of Australasian life. new and innovative explorations of White’s work. The scope Professor Janet Wilson [email protected] University of Northampton for these remains enormous: Editor - Journal of Postcolonial Dr R.K Dhawan The inaugural conference of the Association was  The evolution of White’s political sympathies and Writing University of New Delhi held in Kerala, January 1997. Four more have socio-cultural ethos from that of a scion of a Committee - New Zealand Studies [email protected] been held since that date: Mysore in 2000; Kerala conservative affluent squattocracy to radical activist for Assn. (NZSA), UK and Ireland Aboriginal rights, republicanism and nuclear [email protected] again in 2003, Kandy Sri Lanka in 2008, and Dr Suman Bala disarmament remains largely uncharted; University of New Delhi Hyderabad India in 2011. Professor Helga Ramsey-Kurz [email protected]  Feminist approaches to White’s works are scarce, yet University of Innsbruck Four substantial publications have emerged from his work opens up radical interrogation of feminist Board - European Association for Dr V. Sangeetha issues which are directly relevant to contemporary the Study of Commonwealth Periyar University Tamil Nadu these conferences: New Directions in Australian times; Literature and Language Studies Studies (1998), Austral-Asian Connections (2001), [email protected]  Post-colonial re-readings of the texts offer particularly (EACLALS) Diaspora (2004), and Change, Conflict and challenging possibilities; [email protected] Asst Professor Arindam Das Convergence: Austral-Asian Scenarios (2010). Heritage Institute of Technology  Literary cross-fertilization: White’s influence on Dr Julie Mehta Kolkata Australian and other writers and vice-versa, has University of Toronto [email protected] inexhaustible potential as White studies expand [email protected] internationally and nationally.