The French Australian Review – No 73 Australian Summer 2022-2023

ISSN 2981-894X (Online), ISSN 2203-5362 (Print)     JANE GILMOUR & ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword Vale Colin Nettelbeck Colin Nettelbeck was a co-founder of ISFAR and its journal Explorations (now The French Australian Review). He served in various roles (including president) in ISFAR from 1985 to 2000 and returned as president from 2011 to 2018. A […]

The French Australian Review – No 72 Australian Winter 2022

ISSN 2981-894X (Online), ISSN 2203-5362 (Print) Foreword   KERRY MULLAN, Preface   IVAN BARKO, Tribute to Colin Nettelbeck   ALEXIS BERGANTZ AND ELIZABETH RECHNIEWSKI, ISFAR@35: Australia and France in a Regional Global Context: Past Engagements and Future Research Directions The authors review the work of ISFAR, The French Australian Review and The ISFAR Research Committee […]

Explorations – No 45 Dec 2008

IVAN BARKO, Foreword ADRIAN MITCHELL, ‘A Bit of a Froggie’: George Collingridge de Tourcey in a Different Light This is a study of George Collingridge, a Sydney author and artist of English birth and French upbringing, and his role in the cultural life of Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century and the […]

Explorations – No 40 Jun 2006

(issued June 2008) WALLACE KIRSOP, Foreword COLIN NETTELBECK, What is This Thing Called France? In his valedictory lecture delivered on his retirement in 2005 from the A.R. Chisholm Chair of French at the University of Melbourne, Colin Nettelbeck reflects on various aspects of French culture, history and geography and how they have determined France’s destiny […]