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Ever wondered what is necessary to be invited as keynote to #GAStConferences or become a board member of GASt? The answer is: Karaoke! @wergin.bsky.social

Keynote speaker Noah Riseman singing Rasputin

GASt treasurer Katrin Althans singing Like a Prayer

GASt chair Carsten Wergin singing Don't look back in anger

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To wrap up this wonderful concurrence #AustralianMobilities #GASt2023, we're taking our participants to @unesconow.bsky.social World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein

Fördergerüst / Hoist Frame Zeche Zollverein 12

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On day four of #AustralianMobilities #GASt2023, we're having a paper by Patricia Plummer on "Colonial Entanglements: Essen and Australasia"

Patricia Plummer presenting "Colonial Entanglements: Essen and Australasia"

As our last keynote speaker, we're delighted to welcome Noah Riseman with his paper "Transnational Influences on Transgender Australians"

Noah Riseman presenting "Transnational Influences on Transgender Australians"

Afterwards, we're having Marine Berthiot with "Girlhood Trauma-Telling in Rachael Romero's Series of Paintings and Visual Poem, 'The Magdalen Diaries' (2011)"

Marine Berthiot presenting "Girlhood Trauma-Telling in Rachael Romero’s Series of Paintings and Visual Poem, 'The Magdalen Diaries' (2011)"

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Following is David Kern with "Water Protectors, Land Defenders, and the Frame of Indigenous Crime Fiction: (Im-)Mobility and Resistance in Julie Janson’s Madukka the River Serpent"

David Kern presenting "Water Protectors, Land Defenders, and the Frame of Indigenous Crime Fiction: (Im-)Mobility and Resistance in Julie Janson’s Madukka the River Serpent"

In our parallel session, "Water and (Im-)Mobilities in Contemporary Indigenous Narratives", we start with Victoria Herche: "Water is Life: Mining, Water Flows and Indigenous (Im)Mobilities on Screen"

Victoria Herche presenting "Water is Life: Mining, Water Flows and Indigenous (Im)Mobilities on Screen"

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We start our panel on religious mobilities with Felicity Jensz: "Movement and German missionaries in 19th-Century Australia"

Felicity Jensz presenting "Movement and German missionaries in 19th-Century Australia"

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After lunch, we're continuing with Anne Pattel-Gray's keynote "Red Ochre Theology"

Anne Pattel-Gray presenting "Red Ochre Theology"

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And now for a very first: The very first public reading of Polina Bilinsky Mycak's poems "Beetroot Soup", "Childhood Ghosts", & "The Price of Survival"

Now for the first of today's keynotes: Ghassan Hage. He is talking about "Diasporic Lenticularity in Australian Culture".

Ghassan Hage presenting "Diasporic Lenticularity in Australian Culture"

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Our last speaker in this panel is Gianluca Calio with "'Sorry for the history, they say': Cultural Mobility, History, Trauma, and Reconciliation in Kim Scott's Taboo"

Gianluca Calio presenting "'Sorry for the history, they say': Cultural Mobility, History, Trauma, and Reconciliation in Kim Scott's Taboo"

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Next is Geoff Rodoreda with his talk "Footnotes in the Work of Kim Scott"

Geoff Rodoreda presenting "Footnotes in the Work of Kim Scott"

And our last talk today is by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell: "Cosmology in Motion: Aquatious Mobilisation of Multi-species Justice in Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip"

Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell presenting "Cosmology in Motion: Aquatious Mobilisation of Multi-species Justice in Melissa Lucashenko’s Too Much Lip"

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It's already the last panel for today #AustralianMobilities #GASt2023 - starting with Emily Zong's "Ecologies of Affective Im(mobility) in Australian Refugee Writing"

Emily Zong presenting "Ecologies of Affective Im(mobility) in Australian Refugee Writing"

Our last speaker in this panel is Friederike Zahn: "Linguistic Mobility: Performance and Attitudes of Heritage Language Speakers in Australia – The Role of Language Policies"

Friederike Zahn presenting "Linguistic Mobility: Performance and Attitudes of Heritage Language Speakers in Australia – The Role of Language Policies"

And now it's Leonie John's turn with "Nuclear Im/Mobilities: Stories of Maralinga"

Leonie John presenting "Nuclear Im/Mobilities: Stories of Maralinga"

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Our first parallel panels - and I can only attend one of them 😭! Here's @drtinaburger.bsky.social with "'No choice but to fly inhumanly well': The Future of Indigenous Mobilities in @clairegcoleman.bsky.social's Apocalyptic Narratives" #AustralianMobilities #GASt2023

Bettina C. Burger presenting "'No choice but to fly inhumanly well': The Future of Indigenous Mobilities in Claire G. Coleman’s Apocalyptic Narratives"

After lunch, we're continuing #GASt2023 #AustralianMobilities with Frances Steel's keynote on "Austral(as)ian Mobilities Across the Pacific: 'Blood brotherhood' & its Limits"

Frances Steel presenting "Austral(as)ian Mobilities Across the Pacific"

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Our first panel at #AustralianMobilities, Cultural Heritage, Networks, & Mobility, is up & running with Paul Arthur and Isabel Smith's "Slavery Biographies & Networks".

Paul Arthur presenting "Slavery Biographies and Networks"

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