Society for Australian Studies
The Gesellschaft für Australienstudien eV (GASt) ( English German Association for Australian Studies ), which has existed since 1989 and is based in Berlin, is an interdisciplinary scientific association of German, Austrian and Swiss members, for whom the field of Australian studies is an overarching research focus. According to the statutes, the purpose of the association is to advance Australian studies in German-speaking countries in research and teaching, but at the same time to further develop relations between German-speaking countries and Australia on a scientific and cultural level. It is also recognized outside of the scientific community.
Members and committees
In July 2014, the society had around 100 members from a wide variety of disciplines who are employed at universities or other research institutions, study or are publicly involved in Australian research. The Australian embassies in Berlin and Vienna are also members. The research areas of the members range from ethnology, geography, history, art, literature and language studies, media studies to law and social sciences. The annual membership fees and donations largely support the financial framework of the company, which operates as a non-profit association.
Board
As a registered association, the society has a board of directors, which is elected from four members. Each term of office is three years. In 2020 the board of directors included:
- Chair: Beate Neumeier , Cologne
- First deputy chairman: Carsten Wergin, Heidelberg
- Second deputy chairwoman (treasurer): Katrin Althans, Düsseldorf
- Public Relations: Henriette von Holleuffer, Hamburg
Former chair:
- 1989–1993 Horst Prießnitz, Wuppertal
- 1993–1996 Gerhard Stilz, Tübingen
- 1996–1999 Manfred Brusten, Wuppertal
- 1999–2002 Norbert Platz, Trier
- 2002–2005 Rudolf Bader, Wil (Aargau)
- 2005–2008 Gerd Dose , Hamburg
- 2008–2012 Adi Wimmer, Klagenfurt
- 2012–2013 Renate Brosch, Stuttgart
- 2013–2014 Therese-Marie Meyer, Halle-Wittenberg
- 2014–2017 Amelie Bernzen, Cologne
Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board is made up of three professors from various specialist groups and advises and assesses the Society's scientific publications and the work submitted for the awards. The Scientific Advisory Board is currently composed of
- Boris Braun, geography, Cologne
- Liesel Hermes, English studies, literary didactics, Karlsruhe
- Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, English studies, Bonn
activities
The activities of the GASt include three publication formats, the two-year conferences, workshops, teacher training courses and the sponsorship awards for outstanding achievements in theses and dissertations related to Australia.
Publications
KOALAS
The KOALAS series (concepts, orientations, treatises, readings, Australian studies) thematizes and documents the interpretation of European perspectives on Australia in the field of tension between popular clichés and scientific knowledge across topics and disciplines in German and English.
There are currently 11 volumes: a monograph and ten interdisciplinary anthologies that were conceived as conference volumes. Tape editors are i. d. Usually the organizers of the respective conference. The articles are checked by the series and volume editors as well as the scientific advisory board (peer review process). Series editor: Kylie Crane (Mainz), Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp (Bonn), Gerhard Stilz (Tübingen) and, managing director, Boris Braun (Cologne).
Zeitschrift für Australienstudien (ZfA) / Australian Studies Journal
The peer- reviewed journal for Australian studies ( ISSN 1617-9900 ) sees itself as a scientific journal and publishes a. a. Articles, reviews, and essays. Contributions come from both members and non-members. Henriette von Holleuffer and Oliver Haag are currently the editors. The ZfA emerged in 2006 from the company's newsletter, which had existed since 1987 and which in turn replaced the newsletter of the Australian Working Group.
E-newsletter
The company's e-newsletter has been published every 6 months since 2009. The editor is Henriette von Holleuffer. The online publication is a multimedia information and discussion forum that provides up-to-date knowledge about Australia.
Symposia
Since 1988, members of the GASt have alternately organized the two-year interdisciplinary specialist conferences of the GASt every two years at their home institutes. The conference usually lasts three days and is open to members and non-members. About ten peer-reviewed contributions will then be published as articles in a volume of the KOALAS series (see above). The next conference was planned for 2020 in Trier.
- 1988 Australian studies in Germany in Blaubeuren
- 1990 Man and nature in Australia in Oberjoch
- 1992 Australia between Europe and Asia in Marienheide-Roth
- 1994 Travel to Australia - From expedition to tourism in Blaubeuren
- 1996 Gold - Money - Validity: Resources and goals of the Australian society in Tübingen
- 1998 Australia on the way into the 21st century: balance sheets, position assessments, visions in Moosegg, Switzerland
- 2000 Australia's future in the light of its past in Klagenfurt, Austria
- 2002 Between Asia and the West: On the political, economic and cultural orientation of Australia in Trier
- 2004 Australia - Space and Meaning / Australia - Making Space Meaningful in Hamburg
- 2006 Australia in the Process of Globalization / Australia in the Process of Globalization in Bamberg
- 2008 Understanding Australia - Facets of a Continent / Understanding Australia - Aspects of a Continent in Karlsruhe
- 2010 Australia - Reality, Cliché, Vision / Australia - Reality, Stereotype, Vision in Klagenfurt, Austria
- 2012 Visualizing Australia: Images, Icons, and Imaginations - Representing the Continent at Home and Abroad in Stuttgart
- 2014 Postcolonial Justice: Reassessing the Fair Go in Potsdam and Berlin
- 2016 Nature and Environment in Australia in Cologne
- 2018 Australian Perspectives on Migration in Düsseldorf
Sponsorship awards
Every two years the Society for Australian Studies awards two prizes for outstanding scientific studies on the subject of Australia from German-speaking countries. One sponsorship award is given for an excellent dissertation, the second for an excellent final thesis (diploma, master’s). The theses can also have been created at universities outside Germany, Switzerland or Austria, provided that the author is domiciled in one of the three countries or has the relevant citizenship. The dissertations, diploma or master's theses should not be older than three years. The award winners will be determined in a separate call for proposals. Incoming work is assessed by the Society's Scientific Advisory Board and proposed to the Board of Directors for the award of the prize.
Prize winners of the sponsorship award
| 2020 | Victoria Herche . The Adolescent Country: Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film . Dissertation, English seminar, University of Cologne, 2018 Louise Thatcher . Policing the Border in Early White Australia . Master's thesis, Global History course, Free University of Berlin, 2020 |
| 2018 | Geoff Rodoreda . The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction . Dissertation, University of Stuttgart, 2017 Danielle Norberg . The Remains of Decency: Footwear in the Early Australian Settlement . Bachelor thesis, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 2016. |
| 2016 | Stefanie Affeldt . Consuming Whiteness: Australian Racism and the 'White Sugar' Campaign . Dissertation, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg, 2013 Roxana Leithold . Sustainable settlement development as a densification process: Small-scale analyzes in the growth region of Brisbane, Australia . Master's thesis in geography, University of Cologne, 2014 Daniel Rothenburg . Australian High Modernism: Features of the Hydro-Electric Engineering Discourse Using the Hume Dam . Admission thesis for the state examination in history, University of Tübingen, 2015 |
| 2014 | Chrischona Schmidt . 'I paint for everyone' - the making of Utopia art . Dissertation, Australian National University, Canberra, 2012 |
| 2012 | Fabian Sonnenburg , The Effects of Airport Development on Local Real Estate Markets: Quantitative and Qualitative Analyzes for Brisbane, Australia . Diploma thesis, University of Cologne, 2012 Mandy Kretzschmar , Narrating the Other: Cultural Constructions of the European in the Australian Press. A Qualitative Analysis of the 1920s and 1960s . Dissertation, University of Leipzig and Macquarie University, Sydney, 2012 |
| 2010 | Sibylle Kästner , Hunting Gatherers and Gathering Hunters in the Present and Past: A Study of the Acquisition of Animal Prey by Australian Aboriginal Women on the basis of ethnological and ethnohistorical sources . Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2008 Maike Koschorrek , A Long Way to Reconciliation: Developments in Australian Dealing with the Past and Reconciliation Policy under the Howard Government 1996-2007 - A Discourse Analysis of Topically Relevant Articles in the Bulletin . Master's thesis, University of Bremen, 2009 |
| 2008 | Ulrike Abend , Australia Talks Back - the Phenomenon of Talkback Radio . Diploma thesis, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, 2008 |
| 2006 | Andreas Gaile , Rewriting History: Peter Cary's Fictional Biography of Australia . Dissertation, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 2006 Melanie Fasche , glocalization, gentrification and Creative Business Services: a Case Study of Newtown Sydney . Thesis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn, 2004 Claudio Kullmann , the settings for the monarchy in Australia and New Zealand compared [The Attitudes Towards the Monarchy in Australia and New Zealand Compared]. Master's thesis, Philipps University of Marburg, 2006 |
| 2004 | Christof Pforr , Tourism Public Policy in the Northern Territory of Australia - A Process Facilitating Sustainability? A Case Study of the Northern Territory Tourism Development Master Plan. Dissertation, Northern Territory University, Darwin, 2003 |
| 2002 | Anke Schüttemeyer , Compact Urban Form - Aspects of Sustainable Urban Development in Sydney - Solution Approaches for Sustainable Urban Development. Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2002 |
| 2000 | Margret Carstens , Indigenous Land and Self-Determination Rights in Australia and Canada with Special Consideration of International Law [From Native Title to Self-Determination? Indigenous Rights in Australia and Canada. A Legal Comparison]. Dissertation, University of Bremen, 1999 |
Web links
Individual evidence
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- ↑ E-Fellows.Net; http://www.e-fellows.net/wiki/index.php/Studieren_in_Australien
- ↑ http://www.germanaustralia.com/e/othersites.htm
- ^ Australian Embassy in Berlin; http://www.germany.embassy.gov.au/belngerman/Events2008.html
- ^ Australian Embassy in Berlin; http://www.germany.embassy.gov.au/belngerman/Events2008.html
- ↑ http://www.australienstudien.org/index.php/de/ueber-uns/forschungsgebiete
- ^ Society for Australian Studies: Board of Directors . Retrieved January 29, 2020.
- ^ Stauffenburg Verlag; http://stauffenburg.de/asp/reihe.asp?id=32
- ↑ Wissenschaftsverlag Trier; http://www.wvttrier.de/
- ↑ natureandenvironmentinaustralia.jimdo.com
- ↑ https://australianperspectivesonmigration.wordpress.com/
