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UNAUSTRALIA on-line GALLERY

If things are 'un-Australian' it must be because they come from UNAUSTRALIA.
Where is it?
Who lives there?
How does it come to be?
What is its past and what is its future?

While raising some very local questions of critique and desire, the theme is open to international perspectives and interpretations.
Do other places have their own unplaces? What goes on there?

submissions closed 30th June 2006

Professor Jacques Rancière, author of Disagreement, will deliver the international keynote address in the Great Hall of the Australian Parliament House, on December 7, 2006. Professor Rancière’s address will be followed by a cocktail party in the marble foyer of Parliament House. Our Australasian keynote presenters are

• Professor Larissa Behrendt, who will deliver the conference's keynote opening address at the University of Canberra,
• Doctor Klaus Neumann, author of Not the Way it Really Was
• Associate Professor Catharine Lumby, author of Bad Girls: The Media, Sex and Feminism in the 90s
• Professor John Frow, who will close the conference with the 2006 Don Aitkin public lecture, which is being co-programmed with the UNAUSTRALIA conference.
• Professor Roger Dean, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra, who will introduce Professor Frow's lecture with a live sound art performance.

For further details on our keynote speakers please press here.

For those who cannot make it to Canberra, please feel welcome to follow the conference by reading any of the downloadable refereed papers on our electronic proceedings page, or visiting our on-line gallery of creative works on the theme of UNAUSTRALIA.

For details of UNAUSTRALIA media coverage, including downloadable ABC Tripple J and Radio National audio files, please press here.

There is also a fully searchable database of conference abstracts.

The UNAUSTRALIA conference committee gratefully acknowledges the support of: