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First Call For Papers:
Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference University
of Sydney 4-7th July 2008

The Department of History at the University of Sydney is delighted to
announce that it is hosting the Australia and New Zealand Association for
American Studies Conference in 2008. ANZASA brings together scholars from
Australia and New Zealand with colleagues who specialise in American Studies
from around the world for a major conference held every two years.

Proposals for panels and individual (20-minute) papers are now invited.
We welcome proposals from across the broad spectrum of American Studies
topics. We also plan special themed sessions on the research areas of each
of our keynote speakers. Panels and papers addressing those topics are
particularly welcome. At present, our confirmed keynote speakers are:

George Chauncey: is Professor of History at Yale University. He is best
known for his book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of
the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic, 1994), which won the Organization of
American Historians' Merle Curti Prize for the best book in social history
and Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for the best first book in history, as
well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Lambda Literary Award. He is
also the author of Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate over Gay
Equality (Basic, 2004), and was the organizer and lead author of the
Historians' Amicus Brief in Lawrence v.

Texas (2003), which was cited extensively in the Supreme Court's landmark
decision overturning American sodomy laws. He is currently nearing
completion of the sequel to Gay New York, to be titled, The Strange Career
of the Closet: Gay Culture, Consciousness, and Politics from the Second
World War to the Gay Liberation Era.

Ian Tyrrell: is Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South
Wales, Sydney. Best known for his studies of the history of women and
temperance in the United States, his most recent books are True Gardens of
the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930 (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1999); Deadly

Enemies: Tobacco and its Opponents in Australia (Sydney: University of New
South Wales Press, 1999); and Historians in Public: American Historical
Practice, 1890-1970 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). A fellow
of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he was awarded a Commonwealth
of Australia Centenary Medal in 2003, and appointed a Scientia Professor in
2007. He is presently engaged on an Australian Research Council Discovery
Project (2005-08) on American Cultural Expansion and American Empire,
covering the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Proposals for full panels are preferred, but individual paper proposals are
also most welcome. Panel proposals should include a panel title, 200-word
abstracts of three papers and a brief CV for each person delivering a paper.
Individual proposals should include an abstract and brief CV. Postgraduate
students, as well as more senior scholars, are warmly encouraged to submit
proposals by 30 November 2007.

Information on registration will be available shortly; full and concession
rates will be available. The Conference will be at the Womens College,
University of Sydney, where there is also catered accommodation for a
limited number of conference delegates. Discounted rates at several local
hotels will also be available; participants should make bookings directly
with the hotels.

Deadline for proposals: November 30, 2007. Early submission is welcome.

Please send your abstracts via email to one of the conference convenors:
? Frances Clarke: [log in to unmask] ? Clare Corbould:
[log in to unmask] ? Michael McDonnell:
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? Stephen Robertson: [log in to unmask]

Or send to:
Department of History, SOPHI (A14)
University of Sydney NSW 2006, Australia Ph. 02 9351 6733 Within Australia
61 02 9351 6733 International
Fax + 61 (0)2 9351 3918

For updated details, including information about accommodation as it is
released, see http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/conference/docs/index.htm

Beautiful Sydney serves as the host for the 2008 Australia and New Zealand
American Studies Conference that marks the 44th year of ANZASA.

Gloriously situated on one of the most beautiful harbours in the world,
Sydney is the leading city in New South Wales, and the largest in Australia.
It possesses a wealth of stunning natural and heritage sites including the
Harbour Bridge, the Opera House, and extensive collections of early examples
of Australian art and architecture, along with stunning bush walks around
the city and in the numerous nearby National Parks, including the World
Heritage listed Blue Mountains. For those who might wish to stay beyond the
period of the conference, Sydney is the perfect base from which many short
excursions as well as national trips can be undertaken to Australias other
major tourist attractions.

Sydneys winter climate is temperate with high temperatures in July averaging
around 18 degrees celsius, with lows of 9 to 12 degrees celsius. For more
information about the city, see:

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/



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