Southern Cross University and the Australasian Association of Writing Programs are pleased to announce the Australasian Association of Writing Programs’ 16th annual conference.
ETHICAL IMAGINATIONS: WRITING WORLDS
Ethical concerns and their implications in literature and writing
23 – 25 November 2011
BYRON BAY AUSTRALIA
This conference will explore the multitude of ways in which ethical considerations are intrinsically connected to the practices of writing and reading. An ethical engagement in literature from both a writer’s and a reader’s perspective has important resonances for the 21st century scholar. In this conference we will examine ways in which writing is intrinsically linked to an ethical engagement with the world.
Welcome and Keynote from the Australasian Association of Writing Programs Conference
BACKGROUND
Ethics is a branch of philosophy that focuses on the cultural principles or rules that guide us in the way we live. Ethical questions imply a certain moral obligation to care about the responsibilities we have to others and seek to resolve the nature of these responsibilities and obligations. Over the past few decades, writers, social activists and academics have developed particular notions of ethical practices in relation to literature and the way it’s written and read. How might we define these practices and what is the history of their development? Ethical writing and reading practices offer a range of interpretations both culturally and linguistically but, in the world of writing, ethics is in itself a translatory space, not a given. How does the contemporary writer and reader engage with such interpretations and spaces? The idea that a set of universal values can guide humanity seems antithetical to the role contemporary writers and readers play in posing and responding to ethical questions. How has literature dealt with contemporary debates about universal values and moral relativism?
Under a range of different frameworks this conference will ask these and other questions about the ways in which ethical imaginations might seek to represent worlds which offer some alternative solutions to contemporary dilemmas.
Please see the 2nd Call for Papers for a full list of themes.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Dr Arnold Zable – Award winning writer, storyteller, educator, and human rights advocate.
Melissa Lucashenko – Australian author of mixed European and Murri (Aboriginal) heritage.
Professor Andrew Melrose – Professor of Children's Writing at the University of Winchester
Professor Stephen Muecke Professor of Writing at the University of New South Wales.
John Danalis – writer, illustrator and designer.
WEBSITE
The conference website can be found here.
ABSTRACTS
Papers will be divided into a Refereed Presentation Stream and a Non-Refereed Presentation Stream. A 500-word abstract submission is required by 27 June 2011. Details of the
submission process have been posted on the website. When submitting your abstract please choose one of the major categories in the list above and submit under that heading.
Please note: All presenters must be current members of the AAWP. To join or renew membership go here.
PUBLICATION
Publication of conference proceedings (Refereed Articles) will be on the Publications section of the AAWP Website
Due dates for Refereed Papers Stream: Please note that acceptance into refereed stream of the conference for presentation does not guarantee acceptance into conference proceedings publication.
For presentation
o For Refereed Stream abstracts accepted, full papers (max. of 3,500 words), formatted according to style guidelines (see website for details), must be submitted by 29 August 2011
o Double blind refereeing of full papers plus referees' comments returned to authors by September 26, 2011o Presentation November 23rd – 25
For publication
o The revised refereed papers, with copies of referee reports and a short statement addressing the ways the referees’ comments have been responded to can be resubmitted for consideration for publication in the refereed conference proceedings. To be submitted by December 9, 2011 Please note, at this time, all papers from the refereed stream will be reviewed by the editors and/or other blind reviewers in order to be accepted, or not, into conference proceedings.
o Notification of publication by December 2011 for publication in refereed proceedings end of February 2012,
o Selected papers from the Refereed Stream will be invited to be developed for a Special Issue of TEXT edited by Janie Conway-Herron and Donna Lee Brien.
REGISTRATION
A registration facility has been set up on the website.
Registration Fees
Early Bird $395 (registration before Monday October 10)
Full Conference $445
Student Rate $280
Student Day Rate $80
Daily Rate $150
All enquiries to janie.conway@scu.edu.au